Transit Cooperative Research Program Celebrates Two Decades of Service to Public Transportation

摘要

Two years after the formation of the Na-I tional Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), the Urban Mass Transit Act of 1964 authorized the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to undertake research in all facets of public transit. Studies on planning and system operations were the initial emphasis, but influenced by the burgeoning U.S. space program, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) began to focus in the 1970s on technology-based research.