Building Momentum for Change: Creating a Strategic Forum for Innovation inHighway Infrastructure

摘要

This study follows a series of related Transportation Research Board (TRB)activities aimed at enhancing the environment for innovation in the highway field. More than 10 years ago, the TRB Committee for the Strategic Transportation Research Study (STRS) sought to accelerate innovation in the highway field by recommending a research and technology program focused on a few high-priority areas in which new approaches were chronically lacking. STRS led to the congressionally funded Strategic Highway Research Program (SHR), a source of numerous innovations that promise to enhance pavement designs and materials, bridge durability, and highway winter maintenance operations.