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1 Summary Rapidly advancing technology, new mobility services, increased urbanization, and the growing frequency of severe weather events are changing highway transportation in fundamental ways. Coupled with rising travel demand, growing traffic congestion, more than 35,000 annual motor vehicle fatalities, and constrained highway funding, these developments are causing state and local governments to depend increasingly on innovations to maintain, repair, modernize, and operate their heavily used and aging highway assets.
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2 VITAL FEDERAL ROLE IN HIGHWAY INNOVATION of FHWA and ITS JPO to fully respond is constrained by available resources for RD&T investments. FOSTERING INNOVATION Because they move the dominant share of freight and passengers, highways affect almost all aspects of the economy, society, and daily lives of Americans.
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SUMMARY 3 latter two criteria, this report focuses on the first three criteria. In assessing whether FHWA and ITS JPO programs are meeting these congressional criteria, the committee does so in the context of the two other federally funded, highway-related RD&T programs because of their interrelationships and the similarity of topics addressed.
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4 VITAL FEDERAL ROLE IN HIGHWAY INNOVATION promote innovation in the public highway sector than to develop it, such emphasis on technology transfer appears appropriate. Fundamental Research Congress has also specified that FHWA's RD&T should include "fundamental, long-term research" to assist in the identification of promising future innovations.
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SUMMARY 5 strategic objectives and reporting and (b) FHWA could rely on independent evaluation of a sample of demonstration projects rather than relying on self-reports from all of them.
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6 VITAL FEDERAL ROLE IN HIGHWAY INNOVATION about ongoing and published transportation research from all sources to policy makers, practitioners, and researchers alike, and FHWA and ITS JPO websites provide extensive information about their RD&T activities.
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SUMMARY 7 Serving a Growing and Shifting Population -- by addressing how to ensure that megaregions responsible for a growing share of national prosperity are well connected internally and with the rest of the nation and the world; developing funding strategies for highways supporting Interstate passenger and freight travel in rural areas with declining populations; and improving the ability to estimate future Interstate highway travel at the network level, including accounting for the ability of passengers and freight to shift the time and routes of trips and to shift to other modes. Resilience2 -- by collaborating with other federal agencies conducting R&D addressing infrastructure vulnerability to natural and man-made d isasters and by developing risk-management tools; incorporating the results from climate research into standards for resilient design; and developing policies and funding strategies regarding the rebuilding of more resilient infrastructure after it is damaged or destroyed.
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8 VITAL FEDERAL ROLE IN HIGHWAY INNOVATION pavement foundations and the extent, condition, and performance of Interstate interchanges. Funding and Finance -- by supporting and managing a large-scale national pilot program to test (a)
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