Research and Technology Coordinating Committee Letter Report: September 6, 2016 (2016) / Chapter Skim
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500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 Phone 202.334.2934 www.TRB.org September 6, 2016 Gregory G Nadeau Administrator Federal Highway Administration U.S.
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2 began the meeting with an overview of FHWA's R&T program. Five major programs are authorized in the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST)
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3 Acronyms: ATCMTD -- Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment Program; BTS -- Bureau of Transportation Statistics; FAST Act -- Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act; HRD -- Highway Research and Development Program; ITS -- Intelligent Transportation Systems Program; MAP-21 -- Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act; RITA -- Research and Innovative Technology Administration (note that RITA programs in the FAST Act are administered through the Office of the Secretary, Research, after RITA was dissolved in previous legislation) ; SAFETEA-LU -- Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users; SHRP 2 -- Strategic Highway Research Program 2; STRDD -- Surface Transportation Research Development and Demonstration Program; STSFA -- Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives Program; TIDP -- Transportation Innovation Deployment Program; UTC -- University Transportation Centers Program.
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4 RTCC members volunteered to assist in FHWA's development of annual modal research plans required under the FAST Act by providing input, discussing possible FHWA initiatives, and providing any other support that the agency would find constructive. Exploratory Advanced Research Program Overview David Kuehn, Team Director/Program Manager, Exploratory Advanced Research (EAR)
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5 only highway research activity seeking knowledge and advances through funding of longer-range, higher-risk research. By scanning developments in other fields and in basic research, the program identifies and funds promising areas of research that would otherwise be overlooked.
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6 Elston also described the 2016 Smart City Challenge, which provided $40 million in federal funds to a single city to show what is possible when communities find matching funds from private companies and use information and communication technologies to connect multimodal transportation assets into an interactive network. Discussion The transfer and adoption of new technologies are essential components of the R&T continuum, and FHWA has been building a strong program in this area for some time.
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7 and local governments. Nevertheless, it is but a short leap from assessing FHWA's influence over the number of roundabouts to the societal benefit of the increase in their use.
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8 wider appreciation of the valuable work done by FHWA's R&T team. In time, the results of the ongoing program evaluation, discussed in the previous section, should provide estimates of program benefits that can be shared widely.
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9 We hope that constraints on the R&D budget do not curtail FHWA's ongoing efforts to partner with and learn from highway research agencies in other nations. During a period of resource constraints, leveraging the work of others and avoiding unnecessary duplication are all the more important.
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10 two past strategic highway research programs. Building on the MPO visioning exercises or developing one might be a way to begin such an effort.
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