01690695

Monograph

http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/178402.aspx

Changes are coming at transportation from all directions, including potentially revolutionary technologies such as drones and automated vehicles, rapid innovations in urban transportation services, unreliable funding for infrastructure and operations, and possible changes in national policies affecting trade, climate, environmental protection, and sources of energy. The potential consequences of these changes could make future congestion, fuel consumption, and emissions either markedly better or markedly worse. Correspondingly, these potential changes could positively or adversely affect commercial truck, rail, aviation, and waterborne networks, with significant implications for the delivery of goods and services, personal travel, and the economy. In this edition of Critical Issues in Transportation, the TRB Executive Committee poses a series of challenging questions about potential critical issues that may arise 10 to 20 years into the future. These questions include interest in the implications of developing trends that might not fully manifest until beyond this period. The intent is to frame high-level questions that can be addressed during the next 5 to 10 years through research, policy analysis, and debate to help society prepare for the potentially unprecedented changes that lie ahead. The identified critical issues deserve attention because of transportation’s central and essential role in serving individuals and society and the many consequences it has, both favorable and not favorable, for the economy, safety, public health, and sustainability. Questions about critical issues are grouped under 12 interrelated topics: transformational technologies and services; serving a growing and shifting population; energy and sustainability; resilience and security; safety and public health; equity; governance; system performance and asset management; funding and finance; goods movement; institutional and workforce capacity; and research and innovation.

An addendum to this study, COVID-19 Addendum to Critical Issues in Transportation, was published in 2021. The accession number for the addendum is 01762534.

English

39p

2018

9780309486767

Digital/other

Photos

Asset management; Disaster resilience; Equity; Financing; Freight transportation; Future; Governance; Population; Research; Sustainable development; Technological innovations; Tolls; Transportation; Transportation safety; Workforce

Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Research; Transportation (General)

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 9 2019 8:57AM