UTC Spotlight Conference Focuses on Livability
Organization:
Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA)
Description:
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 […]
Virtual Conference on Transportation Planning Research Needs: Final Report
Organization:
Transportation Research Board
Description:
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 […]
TRB E-circular 95: Operations Data for Planning Applications: Identifying Needs, Opportunities, and Best Practices
Organization:
Transportation Research Board
Description:
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 […]
Pedestrian Research Program Statements
Organization:
Transportation Research Board
Description:
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.
A Research Program for Improvement of the Highway Capacity Manual
Organization:
Transportation Research Board
Description:
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 […]
Multiyear Plan for Bridge and Tunnel Security Research, Development, and Deployment
Organization:
Federal Highway Administration
Description:
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 […]
The Caltrans Strategic Research Plan
Organization:
California Department of Transportation
Description:
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.
NCHRP Project 20-83(02): Expediting Future Technologies for Enhancing Transportation System Performance
Organization:
Transportation Research Board
Description:
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 […]
AASHTO Standing Committee on Highways Strategic Plan, 2010-2014
Organization:
AASHTO
Description:
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 […]
Corporate Master Plan for Research and Deployment of Technology and Innovation
Organization:
Federal Highway Administration
Description:
The purpose of the Plan is to continue to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of R&T, including the end goal of deploying and implementing technologies and innovations that improve the quality, cost-effectiveness, and timeliness of products, procedures, processes, and practices.