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The bill creates a federally funded, centralized transportation data tool intended to help agencies target congestion relief and safety investments, but it draws Highway Trust Fund money and raises privacy and equity concerns for smaller or rural agencies.
State and local transportation agencies nationwide gain a centralized, annually updated National Infrastructure and Investment Tool (NIIT) that helps identify congestion and prioritize transportation investments.
State and local agencies and transportation planners can use NIIT's integrated crash, asset-condition, and performance measures to select projects that better target safety improvements and maintenance needs.
Federal support: Congress provides $50 million from the Highway Trust Fund over five years to build and maintain the NIIT, giving the project dedicated, predictable funding for implementation.
Smaller and rural state/local agencies may receive weaker insights if the NIIT relies on datasets skewed toward better-resourced or proprietary sources, leaving rural communities with less benefit without additional data-collection support.
Collecting and integrating federal, state, local, and private datasets for the NIIT could raise data privacy and commercial-sensitivity concerns for residents, agencies, and private data providers.
Taxpayers effectively fund the $50 million transfer from the Highway Trust Fund, which could reduce available funding for other highway or transit priorities.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Creates a federally funded National Infrastructure Intelligence Tool integrating highway, speed, crash, freight, and asset data for DOTs, state/local agencies, planners, and researchers, with $50M authorized.
Introduced February 24, 2026 by John Cornyn · Last progress February 24, 2026
Creates a federally supported National Infrastructure Intelligence Tool (NIIT) by directing DOT to hire a university-based transportation research institute to build and maintain a nationwide, HPMS-aligned data platform. The NIIT must combine publicly available federal, state, local, and private datasets (speed, origin-destination, crashes, asset condition, commodity flows, truck parking, etc.), incorporate safety and condition performance measures, be updated at least annually, and be made available to DOT, state and local transportation agencies, MPOs, and regional planners. The bill authorizes $50 million from the Highway Trust Fund (excluding the Mass Transit Account), available over five fiscal years, and adds a clerical table of contents entry to the U.S. Code.