Transit Research Analysis Committee Letter Report: March 14, 2023 (2023) / Chapter Skim
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500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 Phone 202.334.2934 Email mytrb@nas.edu www.TRB.org March 14, 2023 Mary Leary Acting Associate Administrator for Research, Demonstration, and Innovation Federal Transit Administration U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20590 Dear Dr.
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2 SUMMARY OF JOINT MEETING PRESENTATIONS USDOT Goals USDOT's five strategic goals are safety, economic strength and global competitiveness, equity, climate and sustainability, and transformation. Each strategic goal includes a set of research priorities and "grand challenges," both of which are shown in the table below (see Table 1)
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3 5. Connecting communities: increase and expand transit projects that provide competitive service, community development, and access to economic opportunities that encourage people to ride transit.
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4 Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) : assist small businesses to conduct product development research in areas focused within transit.
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5 Improving infrastructure integrity, sustainability, and practices: reduce fatalities related to infrastructure characteristics and work zones; improve safety and security of infrastructure; increase reliability of life-cycle performance predictions in infrastructure; reduce user delay due to infrastructure performance, maintenance, and construction; and improve the ability of transportation agencies to deliver projects that meet expectations of timeliness, quality, and cost. Strengthening transportation planning, equity, and environmental decision making: minimize cost of highway infrastructure and operations, reduce potential environmental impacts of highway infrastructure and operations, advance improvements in environmental analysis and processes, improve construction techniques, accelerate construction to reduce congestion and related emissions, improve understanding and modeling of factors contributing to demand, and improve planning decision making and coordination.
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6 FIGURE 2 A breakdown of FHWA's RD&T funding. HRD sets aside $15 million for Strategic Innovation for Revenue Collection, $10 million for the National Vehicle Miles Traveled Pilot, $20 million for Advanced Transportation Technologies and Innovative Mobility Deployment (ATTIMD)
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7 FIGURE 3 Comparative funding levels for major FHWA and FTA research programs. Shared Priorities of FTA and FHWA RD&T Programs Equity and Safety RD&T To address equity issues, FHWA staff told the committee they are finding ways to address the higher number of traffic safety incidents in underserved communities, including in populations adversely affected by poverty or other types of inequality.
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8 FTA is exploring alternative metrics for micromobility, as measuring ridership for these services can be difficult and traditional metrics are not working. FTA staff told the committee that developing new standards or metrics is necessary to successfully provide reliable transportation to an individual or community.
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9 reduced desire for passengers to use them, even for access to basic needs. To expand and improve these services, committee members observed that agencies could create more on-demand mobility services that are accessible to the entire community.
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10 summaries of the meeting discussions helpful, and I look forward to consulting with you about the timing and content of the next TRAC meeting in 2023. Sincerely, Leslie S
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