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 DSweet@nas.edu

• By telephone at 202-334-1330

• Visit www.TRB.org/SHRP2