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原文传递 Framing Surface Transportation Research for the Nation's Future.

题名：	Framing Surface Transportation Research for the Nation's Future.
关键词：	Advanced Public Transportation Systems(apts); Automated Traveler Information System(atis); Benefits; Costs; Electronic Fare Payment Systems; Forecasting; Freight Transportation; Program Evaluation; Pu
摘要：	Over the years, surface transportation in the United States has seen numerous major improvements and policy innovations informed by research: safer and more fuel-efficient automobiles; more durable and economical pavement designs; real-time tracking of cargo shipments; and a resurgence of freight rail following deregulation of the railroad industry, to cite but a few examples. Leaders within the transportation community have questioned, however, whether the current U.S. approach to surface transportation research will lead to the innovations in transportation services and policies needed to support national goals for economic development, safety, mobility, competitiveness, and sustainability in the 21st century. The issue is rendered all the more pressing by the policy stances of a number of the United States' competitors in Europe and Asia. These nations not only place greater emphasis on transportation research as a vital means of achieving economic, societal, and environmental goals; they also have effective frameworks for prioritizing, funding, assembling, and coordinating research activities . In 2008, U.S. transportation research experts undertook a scanning tour of European and Asian countries, and what they saw during the tour highlighted the potential of alternative research frameworks for improving the effectiveness of transportation research in the United States. Subsequently the state departments of transportation, through the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, asked the Transportation Research Board to convene an expert committee for a follow-up assignment: to describe and evaluate potential frameworks and institutional models for surface transportation research1 in the United States that would be based on experience in the transportation sector internationally and in nontransportation sectors domestically.
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