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Critical Issues in
Transportation
for 2024 and Beyond

Transportation Research Board Executive Committee

TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Critical Issues in Transportation for 2024 and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/27432.
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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD 2023 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

OFFICERS

CHAIR: Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Transportation

VICE CHAIR: Carol A. Lewis, Professor, Transportation Studies, Texas Southern University

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Victoria Sheehan, Executive Director, Transportation Research Board

MEMBERS

Michael F. Ableson, Chief Executive Officer, Arrival Automotive–North America

James (Jim) F. Albaugh, President and Chief Executive Officer, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, The Boeing Company (Retired)

Carlos M. Braceras, Executive Director, Utah Department of Transportation

Douglas (Doug) C. Ceva, Vice President, Customer Lead Solutions, Prologis, Inc.

Nancy T. Daubenberger, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Transportation

Marie Therese Dominguez, Commissioner, New York State Department of Transportation

Ginger Evans, President, Tower Consulting, LLC

Nathaniel P. Ford, Sr., Chief Executive Officer, Jacksonville Transportation Authority

Chris T. Hendrickson, Hamerschlag University Professor of Engineering (Emeritus), Carnegie Mellon University

Randell Iwasaki, President and Chief Executive Officer, Iwasaki Consulting Services

Ashby Johnson, Executive Director, Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization

Joel M. Jundt, Secretary of Transportation, South Dakota Department of Transportation

Hani S. Mahmassani, W.A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation, Northwestern University

Scott C. Marler, Director, Iowa Department of Transportation

Ricardo Martinez, Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine, Emory University

Michael R. McClellan, Vice President, Strategic Planning, Norfolk Southern Corporation

Russell McMurry, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Transportation

Craig E. Philip, Research Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University

Steward T.A. Pickett, Distinguished Senior Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Leslie S. Richards, General Manager and Chief Executive Officer, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

Susan A. Shaheen, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Co-Director, Transportation Sustainability Research Center, University of California, Berkeley

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Critical Issues in Transportation for 2024 and Beyond calls for reassessing the role of transportation in addressing major societal challenges and the research that informs the choices that society will need to make in 2024 and coming years. This reassessment is driven by large-scale environmental, public health, and socioeconomic forces, including:

  • a massive shift away from fossil fuels to clean energy that requires a complete turnover of hundreds of millions of motor vehicles by 2050 to help meet national decarbonization goals;
  • threats to public transportation caused by COVID-19’s enduring effects on commuting to work in urban areas;
  • reversal of the long-term downward trend in annual traffic fatalities that have resulted in 10,000 more motor vehicle deaths than a decade ago; and
  • society’s grappling with the nation’s history of racial discrimination and increasing disparities in wealth and incomes.

For the latest edition of Critical Issues in Transportation, the Transportation Research Board’s Executive Committee chose to focus on five societal goals to address these and other dynamic forces and the challenges in accentuating transportation’s role in achieving them.

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