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This pamphlet presents a brief overview of the new Strategic Highway Research Program, referred to as SHRP 2. The theme that guides SHRP 2 is "providing outstanding customer service." SHRP 2 aims at gaining insights that will have significant and innovative impacts on traffic congestion, highway fatalities and quality of life issues. There are four thematic research areas: Safety, Renewal, Reliability and Capacity. These areas have common objectives: look at the highway system from various customers' perspectives; find ways for people to work together more effectively in planning, designing, reconstructing, operating and expanding the nation's highway system; coordinate the efforts of experts as well as public and private workers involved in the highway system to help them apply more effectively the knowledge and technologies they already have; and go beyond traditional highway materials issues to exploit advances in human factors research, organizational theory, environmental science, data management, telecommunication technologies and many other sciences. SHRP 2 research projects will soon begin to yield results, which will require a focus on implementation efforts that, in the end, will determine if SHRP 2 delivers on the promise of bringing fundamental change to the way we plan, design, build, operate and use our nation's highways.

English

4p

2008

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Customer service; Highway capacity; Highway safety; Highway traffic control; Reconstruction; Research; Strategic planning

Strategic Highway Research Program 2

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Research; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB

Sep 3 2008 2:54PM