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      <title>ACCEL-RT: Autonomous Cargo Carriers for Enhanced Logistics in Rural &amp; Tribal areas</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Autonomous Cargo Carrier for Enhanced Logistics in Rural and Tribal Areas (ACCEL-RT) seeks to turn a weakness to a strength, believing that rural and Tribal communities represent some of the best possible environments for large-scale deployment of freight automation. By creating a diverse team and highly prioritizing relationships between all critical stakeholders - governments, private sector, academia, and the communities themselves - ACCEL-RT proposes a pathway from research to demonstration to deployment that will identify the rural automated vehicle (RAV) technologies that will best help communities along the I-40 Corridor in the Southwest. The research team will evaluate three categories of RAV use-cases - last mile delivery, RAVs on rural roads, and RAVs in a logistics hub - part of an overall multimodal logistics chain. The research team will bring RAVs to rural and Tribal communities in New Mexico and Oklahoma, but first we must understand what these communities actually need and want. By explicitly linking automated vehicle technologies with community engagement, ACCEL-RT hopes to create viable deployment pathways for RAVs, finding solutions that are technically feasible, cost effective, supported by public and private stakeholders, and serve critical needs in the communities, both in the Southwest and nationwide.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 19:23:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>NICC’s CDL and Safe Driver Training Program Yr1-3</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Nebraska Indian Community College (NICC) is a minority serving land grant institution with four campuses: The college’s Macy Campus is on the Omaha Reservation; the Santee Campus is on the Santee Reservation while the unban campus is in South Sioux City (all situated in USDOT Region 7). NICC also operates a fourth campus in conjunction with the Pawnee Nation in Oklahoma. Transportation safety is a major concern on Native American reservations. NICC will create a safe driving institute, offering free driver education and training on safe operation of personal and commercial vehicles. The project will create safer travel conditions on reservations and alleviate the acute nationwide commercial motor vehicle driver shortage.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:45:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Legal Problems Arising out of Highway Programs. Topic 23-05. Update of Selected Studies in Transportation Law: Volume Eight, Section 3: Indian Transportation Law</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This Digest examines and updates legal issues arising out of federal, state, and local transportation agencies’ relations with Indian tribes. Government-to-government relations with Indian tribes touch a gamut of legal issues: contracting with tribes, Tribal Employment Rights Ordinances (TERO), funding issues,  legal issues arising out of rights-of-way through Indian reservations, regional planning issues, compliance with state environmental laws bumping up against Indian sovereign immunity, tort liability issues, etc. The federal government has a relationship with Indian tribes based upon unique trust obligations  derived from treaties (which are federal law) and the status of tribes as domestic dependent nations. States and local governments do not have the same relationship and yet interact with tribal governments in a number of ways that can involve legal issues. The authority conferred upon  state and local jurisdictions in Indian country, to the extent it exists, is patchwork  and varies depending upon the jurisdiction and unique factual situation. In some cases, there are huge gaps in the law relative to a state or local transportation agency’s ability to conduct business with a tribe. Moreover, there is an overlay of federal law that may affect the rights and obligations of state and local agencies.   Most of the case law examined in the original document published in 2007 continues to be good law today; where this is not the case the document has been updated    Since the original version of this Section, federal regulations concerning grants of right-of-way over Indian lands have changed significantly.  This section also contains new guidance concerning land acquisition, project development, construction, maintenance, and government-to government agreements related to Indian Transportation law. Sections on reservation boundary disputes, defining Indian country, and land ownership in Indian country have been added and the portions of the document addressing jurisdictional issues have been revised significantly.   This digest will be useful to transportation lawyers, engineers, and planners who who work on reservations and Indian country more broadly. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:42:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A Guidebook for Structuring a Tribal Transportation Planning Program for Meaningful Participation in the Federal Transportation Planning Process</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The objective of this project is to advance the practice and application of transportation planning among State,metropolitan, regional, local, and tribal transportation planning governments in response to significant changes in the planning process and to identify new tools, techniques, and approaches that respond to national priorities. This research meets the BAA objective through the introduction of an instructive Guidebook that presents tools, techniques and methodologies for the successful structuring, administration, management and implementation of tribal transportation planning programs based on surveyed and documented best practices. The intent of research is to increase the capacity of these programs to participate meaningfully in the Federal process.
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:52:54 GMT</pubDate>
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