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AASHTO Standing Committee on Highways Strategic Plan, 2010-2014

The committee members identified ten specific and two overarching objectives and 40 related action Items that are highlighted in this plan. The two overarching objectives
relate to Technical and Governance Issues. The ten specific Objectives outlined in the plan are:
? Cut Fatalities in Half by 2030
? Performance Management
? Congestion-Free America
? Workforce Planning and Development
? System Preservation
? Research and Emerging Technology
? Project Delivery
? Climate Change and
? Freight
? Communicating the Value of Transportation

NCHRP Project 20-83(02): Expediting Future Technologies for Enhancing Transportation System Performance

The objective of this project was to develop a process that transportation agencies can use to identify, assess, shape, and adopt new and emerging technologies to achieve long-term system performance objectives. The process should reflect relevant trends in technologies and their applications and help transportation agencies anticipate, adapt to, and shape the future.

Status: Strategic Issues Facing Transportation: Expediting Future Technologies for Enhancing Transportation System Performance (NCHRP Report 750, Volume 3) has been published.

Additional information on the report was presented in a TRB Webinar in December 2013.

The Caltrans Strategic Research Plan

This Strategic Research Plan provides guidance to California Department of Transportation (Department, Caltrans) and its partners on where Caltrans would like to ?get to? with transportation research. This document discusses the importance of transportation research, the methodology employed to create the Strategic Research Plan, and information about key, priority research questions Caltrans seeks to answer.

Multiyear Plan for Bridge and Tunnel Security Research, Development, and Deployment

The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) national security strategic goal is to improve highway security and support national defense mobility through collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and our State, local government, private sector, and other Federal Agency partners. FHWA has further developed four objectives to meet this security strategic goal:

1. Develop a close working relationship with DHS and collaborate on establishment and implementation of highway-related security standards, administration of financial assistance for security initiatives, and distribution of threat and other sensitive security information to the highway industry.
2. Support national disaster preparedness, and response and recovery efforts.
3. Coordinate with our Nation’s military and transportation owners/operators to ensure adequate transportation facilities and operation in support of military deployment.
4. Initiate and facilitate research and technology development in support of a more secure highway system

This report, developed by the Office of Infrastructure Research and Development (R&D), proposes a plan addressing objectives 2 and 4 above. The plan focuses on bridge and tunnel security. R&D associated with securing other parts of our national highway system is being addressed by other offices within FHWA.

A Research Program for Improvement of the Highway Capacity Manual

TRB Research Circular E-C081: A Research Program for Improvement of the Highway Capacity Manual describes a research program designed to improve the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM). The proposed program was developed by the members of the TRB Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee with the assistance of feedback from users of the HCM. The program includes 38 research studies that would provide a means to permit improvements to the present HCM and upgrade future editions to meet user needs.

Pedestrian Research Program Statements

TRB Research Circular E-C084 presents the top 16 pedestrian research problem statements, prioritized from a list of approximately 80 research problem statements by TRB?s Technical Activities Division Committee on Pedestrians.

TRB E-circular 95: Operations Data for Planning Applications: Identifying Needs, Opportunities, and Best Practices

TRBs Transportation Research Circular E-C095, Operations Data for Planning Applications: Identifying Needs, Opportunities, and Best Practices summarizes a May 4, 2005, Washington, DC, peer exchange that focused on opportunities to improve the linkages between transportation planning and operations. The report includes a summary of questions addressed by participants about the relationship between operations data and planning processes. The report also explores ideas on linking operations data and transportation planning.

Virtual Conference on Transportation Planning Research Needs: Final Report

This study was requested by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), and conducted as part of National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 08-36.

The objective of NCHRP 08-36, Task 95 was to plan and conduct a Virtual Conference on Transportation Planning Research Needs. This report documents the structure of the virtual conference, the resulting research needs statements, and lessons learned from the experience of utilizing a virtual conference format. The research needs and challenges identified through this effort may be a useful starting point for developing research statements for submission to TRB, FHWA, or other research funding entities.

UTC Spotlight Conference Focuses on Livability

Special Edition of UTC Spotlight: 2010 Spotlight Conference Follow Up. This document provides a summary of a conference held in October 2010. This fifth annual UTC Spotlight Conference was a testament to the wide-ranging nature of livability and the need for different solutions tailored to different communities?from the most rural to the most urban. The meeting was organized by the Transportation Research Board and supported by the USDOT Research and Innovative
Technology Administration (RITA).