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International Outreach Overview TRB Annual Meeting, 2007
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International Outreach
Overview
TRB Annual Meeting, 2007
SHRP 2
• Targeted, short-term program of strategic highway research modeled on the first SHRP
• Authorized by Congress in 2005• Administered by TRB in cooperation
with AASHTO and FHWA• Integrates multiple fields of study to
address critical needs
Safety
• Goal: to prevent or reduce the severity of highway crashes by understanding driver behavior.
• Use of vehicle-based and site-based technologies to gather pre-crash, crash, and exposure data.
Renewal
• Goal: to renew aging infrastructure through rapid design and construction methods that cause minimal disruption and produce long-lived facilities.
• Integrated approach involving engineering, finance, contracting, planning, safety, maintenance, customer relations.
Reliability
• Goal: to reduce congestion through incident reduction, management, response, and mitigation.
• Integrated approach involving data, analysis, institutional architectures, tools, and operational strategies.
Capacity
• Goals: to integrate mobility, economic, environmental, and community needs into the planning and design of new highway capacity.
• Systems approach involving fundamental knowledge, data, tools, institutional issues.
Funding and Time Frame
• $150 million, expended over 7 years– April 2006 through March 2013
• $108 million of research contracts:– Safety: $43.2 million– Renewal: $28.8 million– Reliability: $18 million– Capacity: $18 million
Stakeholder Governance
• Oversight Committee (OC) to guide whole program
• Technical Coordinating Committees (TCCs) for each focus area
• Expert Task Groups (ETGs) prepare RFPs, review proposals, and provide technical advice on special tasks
International Outreach:Objectives
• Access an expanded research community
• Build on pre-existing or concurrent research
• Limit non-productive repetition
• Disseminate results more widely
Policy Resolutions
• Encourage International Participation on Contract Research Teams
• International “Loaned” Staff
• International Coordinators
• Collaborative and Cooperative Research
International Involvement To Date• Derek Sweet—provided by Canadian
Council of Transportation Deputy Ministers, first “loaned” staff
• International researchers on proposing teams
• Roundtable meeting with ECTRI• Exploratory meeting with FEHRL
(January 22)
Contact SHRP 2Derek Sweet, International Coordinator
• By email [email protected]
• By telephone at 202-334-1330
• Visit www.TRB.org/SHRP2