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U.S. Transportation Needs Innovative Technology

At the Transportation Research

Board's annual meeting, Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena cited the development and use of innovative technology as tools that will be critical to providing the trans- portation America needs.

The government's Interagency

Coordinating Committee on Trans- portation Research and Develop- ment has reportedly identified al- most $3 billion in transportation- related research in varied areas of the government. Secretary Pena also claims the Technology Rein- vestment Project (TRP), which pro- vides grants for the development of technologies applicable to both c fense and civilian uses, is a feder initiative important to transport, tion. The DOT sponsored a series < seminars held last year which ac dressed such dual-use technologies among the projects receiving granti are demonstrations of advancec composite materials in bridge con- struction and radar that can pro- vide simultaneous weather and air traffic information.

The DOT is also reportedly work- ing to enhance civilian use of Global

Positioning System (GPS), a satel- lite-based navigation system devel- oped by the military.

MarAd Studies Growing

Trade Within Americas

The Maritime Administration (MarAd) released the first of three studies being conducted to deter- mine how water transportation could be utilized for the growing trade among the nations of North

America, Central America, the Car- ibbean and the northern rim of South

America.

For the U.S., trade within the

Americas is the fastest growing of all its commerce.

The trade potential these nations could realize as a result of the North

American Free Trade Agreement prompted the research.

However, the study will extend beyond the three nations that are directly involved.

The study examines prospects for intermodal freight systems on the waterways and rivers which link the central portions of the U.S. and

Canada to Mexico, Central America,

Caribbean countries and the north- ern rim of South America. The transportation system, referred to as the "Maritime System of the

Americas," includes the Great

Lakes, the Mississippi River and its navigable tributaries, the Tennes- see Tombigbee Waterway and its tributaries, the Gulf Intracoastal

Waterway, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.

Because water transportation has generated a great deal of interest,

MarAd has requested that the sec- ond and third phases of the research be conducted concurrently.

The first report may be purchased from the National Technical Infor- mation Service, 5285 Port Royal Rd.,

Springfield, Va. 22161, tel:(703)487- 4650, order number PB94-721407.

SUNY Maritime Training

Ship To Become Troop Ship

The U.S. Maritime Administra- tion advised the president of the

State University of New York Mari- time College, RAdm. F.H. Miller, that the college's training ship,

Empire State, was being activated as a ready reserve force troopship to participate in a trooplift from Soma- lia. The vessel would be activated by the OMI Corp. of New York for the Military Sealift Command.

The Empire State is 565 feet long with a 76-foot breadth. She is pow- ered by a 17,500-hp steam turbine plant and has a cruising speed of 20 knots.

The vessel was originally built by

Newport News Shipbuilding and

Drydock Company and was con- verted to a training ship at the yard ofBay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay,

Wis.

Maritime College is hoping the ship will be back in the spring in time for the summer sea term.

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