A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPING A FUTURE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENDA

Clear thinking speaking, and writing about the future transportation research agenda is essential because this agenda, both basic and applied, along with a clear understanding of the processes linking it to successful application, must frame and facilitate new technological developments. These developments can, and must, make more effective the transportation systems on which the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of society increasingly depend. We must keep in mind, however, that (1) what transportation professionals look back on as great progress, many citizens look back on as "haunted" (a past filled with transportation-related injustices) and (2) there is a problem in gaining public support for change. So how are we to proceed? Can we do better? Can we reconnect with principles and posit a vision and processes to drive development of a transportation research agenda--an agenda that is (a) responsive to public concerns and expectations, (b) technically competent, and (c) future oriented and that produces innovative products? Finally, can we agree on performance assessment measures to enhance output from future transportation research? The remainder of this paper discusses these complex and necessary elements and describes several research programs worthy of emulation. Sub-headings are as follows: Reconnecting with Principles; A Principle-Based Vision for Transportation Research; Getting the Processes Right; Shaping Transportation Research Agendas; Recommended Framework for Future Transportation Research Agendas; Performance Measures; Programs Illustrative of Concepts; and Concluding Thoughts.

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• Authors:
  • Larson, T D
  • Albright, D
• Conference:
  • Forum on Future Directions in Transportation R&D
  • Location: Washington, D.C.
  • Date: 1995-3-6 to 1995-3-7
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 159-167
• Monograph Title: FORUM ON FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN TRANSPORTATION R&D, WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 6-7, 1995
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Conference Proceedings
  • Issue Number: 9
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 1073-1652

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Conferences; Performance evaluations; Research; Technology; Transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Principles
• Old TRIS Terms: Technological development; Transportation research
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00713063
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309061679
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Oct 20 1995 12:00AM