Letter from Scott H. Amey, Project On Government Oversight General Counsel to Mary Peters, Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation, October 15, 2007: “Competition in contracting is essential to getting fair and reasonable costs and prices for goods and services. The Department of Transportation’s “Transportation Technology Innovation and Demonstration” (TTID) program, to provide real-time traffic information to travelers, highlights a contract that deserves more federal oversight…key real-time data from the [program] in most cases cannot be used by local agencies to provide travel times on their own 511 system without paying Traffic.com a fee.”