VIEW LARGER COVER
TRB’s Committee for Review of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Research, Development, and Demonstration (RD&D) Programs has issued a letter report to Joseph Szabo, Administrator, FRA, as part of the committee’s annual review and evaluation of the FRA’s RD&D programs.
According to the report, the committee is impressed with the management team and believes that the senior staff and leadership of this program can facilitate the transition of rail research into the mainstream of U.S. transportation infrastructure development and strategy. The committee believes that projects should be organized and presented to research partners and stakeholders in a dozen or so groupings that correspond to key research objectives. More effort to engage private interests in the earliest phases of individual efforts and assessments of commercialization potential may help FRA in winnowing the long list of projects planned and under way. Finally, the committee believes that stakeholder outreach initiatives by FRA’s research arm should feature enhanced opportunities for dialogue and feedback on both past efforts and future directions to sustain support and proper targeting of scarce RD&D resources.
FRA may wish to respond to the committee's letter, and TRB will post a link to the response.
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