1. Short title; table of contents (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Smart Technologies Advancing Reliable Transportation Act or the START Act . (b) Table of contents The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Purpose. Sec. 3 Definitions. Sec. 4 Smart city and community transportation resource guide. Sec. 5. Smart Cities Challenge grant extension program. Sec. 6. GAO study. Sec. 7. Reports to Secretary of Transportation and Congress. 2. Purpose The purpose of this Act is to promote smart technologies and systems to reduce transportation costs, traffic congestion, air pollution, energy use, and carbon emissions, and enhance security resiliency for communities of all sizes by— (1) creating a smart city and community transportation resource guide; (2) promoting the quality and performance of smart city technologies while protecting— (A) the physical and cyber security of data and smart city technology systems; and (B) privacy; and (3) providing assistance to local governments interested in implementing smart city or community transportation technologies. 3 Definitions In this Act: (1) Appropriate committees of congress The term appropriate committees of Congress means— (A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate