 The program was reintroduced in 1996, following the election of the Howard Government, and a 1995 evaluation of the program by the Bureau of Transport Economics.Administration of the program from 1996 to 1998 was the responsibility of the Department of Transport and Regional Development, which was succeeded by the Department of Transport and Regional Services (DOTARS) in October 1998, the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government in December 2007, the Department of Infrastructure and Transport in September 2010, the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development in September 2013, and the Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities in December 2017.The first evaluation of the Black Spot program was in 1995, by the Bureau of Transport Economics.