摘要: |
Bringing together the many voices involved in highway research and technology (R&T) is what leaders at the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), and the Transportation Research Board (TRB) envisioned when planning a new framework for aligning R&T activities among research sponsors, practitioners, researchers, and other stakeholders. This new framework, called the National Research and Technology Partnership Initiative, has several main goals: make R&T investments more effective and efficient through broadbased stakeholder involvement and greater interaction among research programs and sponsors, foster a greater awareness and appreciation of existing research programs, stimulate the formation of productive R&T partnerships, and help demonstrate the needs and opportunities for research and the potential payoff from research investments. The Research and Technology Coordinating Committee (RTCC) promises one arena for nurturing and monitoring the framework. RTCC is a special TRB committee that provides formal consensus-based guidance to FHWA on highway R&T opportunities and priorities. The Committee for Study of a Future Strategic Highway Research Program, a separate TRB committee that shares some common members with RTCC, is currently evaluating long-term research priorities. |