Strategic Issues Facing Transportation-Final Research Plan Framework

(NCHRP 20-80 Task 2) 2008, Final research plan framework ?set the framework for a series of reports that examine global and domestic long-range, strategic issues and their implications for departments of transportation. Published as NCHRP Report 750: Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volumes 1-6, the reports address topics such as freight movement, climate change, technology, sustainability, energy, and socio-demographics.

Framing Surface Transportation Research for the Nation’s Future

TRB Special Report 313: Framing Surface Transportation Research for the Nation’s Future explores opportunities for improving the productivity of U.S. expenditures on surface transportation research by building on lessons learned from the strategic approach to developing priorities and investing in transportation research in other countries and non transportation sectors in the United States.

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