- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 2
- Latest action
- Feb 24, 2026
What it does
The Need for Speed Act would require the Secretary of Transportation to develop and maintain a national infrastructure intelligence tool in collaboration with a university-based transportation research institute to help mitigate traffic congestion. The tool would integrate publicly available data—including speed, origin-destination, crash, asset condition, commodity, and truck parking data—with existing federal performance monitoring systems to identify congestion locations, determine causes, quantify impacts, and support timely deployment of mitigation resources. It would be updated at least annually and involve consultation with state transportation departments and advocacy organizations,…
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