70 ILCS 3615/2.09: Research and development.

(a) The Authority shall study public transportation problems and developments; encourage experimentation in developing new public transportation technology, financing methods, and management procedures; conduct, in cooperation with other public and private agencies, studies, demonstrations, and development projects to test and develop methods for improving public transportation, for reducing its costs to users or for increasing public use; and conduct, sponsor, and participate in other studies and experiments, which may include fare demonstration programs, and transportation technology pilot programs, in conjunction with private parties and public agencies, including the United States Department of Transportation, the Department of Transportation, the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, and the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, as are useful in achieving the purposes of this Act.

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