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Transportation agencies focus mainly on their core mission: providing safe and efficient mobility for people and goods. However, since the early to mid-1990s, water quality regulations have demanded increasing attention from transportation agency staff. As water quality regulations continue to expand, this trend is not likely to reverse. Phase II storm-water regulations are one of the significant emerging compliance challenges driving the trend. To deal with increasing compliance requirements, many transportation agencies are turning to computer and information technologies for assistance with required reporting, compliance tracking and field data collection. Technologies, such as hand-held computers, geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS) and relational databases, deployed in other sectors of the economy for data collection, data management and decision support, are finding their way into the transportation sector to help save time and streamline compliance.