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DOT R&D Priorities - No Maritime?

By Luis Corzo posted 11-20-2009 03:44 PM

  
I was just reading notes from the Thursday, November 19 S&T House Committe Hearing on "The Research and Development Portfolio Required to Support the Priorities of the Department of Transportation".  Of the $600M budget for surface transportation research, development, and technology transfer activities I didn't see any mention for Maritime-Related activities.  I'm sure Maritime R&D is captured somewhere--I was just surprised to see no mention here.  If this hearing is strictly for "land" based transportation, I would think the title of the hearing would be more specific.

The link to the hearing is here:  http://science.house.gov/publications/hearings_markups_details.aspx?NewsID=2678

Additionally, I also pulled the MARAD 2010 budget estimate to search for "Research" and found the following relevant language from a "Presidential Initiative -

Secure and Efficient Intermodal Freight Infrastructure at Coastal and Inland Ports ($15 million)":

Strategies that hold promise for jointly advancing maritime transportation security and efficiency include new methodologies and technologies like agile port systems, innovations to port-to-transportation interfaces, short sea shipping, integration of National Defense Features, and other solutions.

The link to the budget estimate is here:
http://www.dot.gov/budget/2010/budgetestimates/index.htm

Any thoughts?

Luis
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