Administration of Highway and Transportation Agencies. Collective and Individual Actions for State Departments of Transportation Envisioning and Realizing the Next Era of America’s Transportation Infrastructure – Phase I

The objectives of this project were to explore and articulate what state DOTs can do collectively and individually to establish and realize a transformative vision of the next era of America’s transportation infrastructure, a vision and infrastructure to support the nation’s continued prosperity and wellbeing, by: (1) Describing through scenarios or other means the social, technological, and economic trends and evolution of community values, problems, and priorities now and in coming years that are likely to influence the role of transportation in local, regional, and national prosperity and wellbeing; (2) Articulating a set of evocative state DOT ambitions and goals that, if pursued, would respond to evolutionary trends and shape an agency’s culture and mission to maintain and enhance transportation’s contribution to prosperity and wellbeing; (3) Presenting a visionary narrative and supporting insights, projections, and aspirational ideas to inform state DOT leadership; and (4) Providing resources and tools that state DOT leaders can use to tailor their own efforts to shape their agency’s culture and mission and craft meaningful and motivating targets, achievements, objectives, and narratives or vision statements to communicate with stakeholders. NCHRP Research Results Digest 404: Collective and Individual Actions to Envision and Realize the Next Era of America’s Transportation Infrastructure summarizes the findings and activities of the initial phase of NCHRP Project 20-24(138), “Collective and Individual Actions for State Departments of Transportation Envisioning and Realizing the Next Era of America’s Transportation Infrastructure—Phase 1.” In addition to NCHRP RRD 404, supplemental deliverables are available to download. These deliverables are: (1) The full vision framework, initial bold ideas, and potential levers of change identified to implement the ideas is available here: https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/docs/NCHRP20-24(138)_VisionFramework.pdf. (2) The vision framework was adopted by the AASHTO Board of Directors in October 2022; the policy resolution is available here: https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/docs/NCHRP20-24(138)A_AASHTOPollicyResolutionPR-1-22.pdf. (3) A white paper with material on the background and development of the vision framework is available here: https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/20-24(138)/WhitePaper.pdf

Language

  • English

Project

  • Status: Completed
  • Funding: $472894
  • Contract Numbers:

    Project 20-24(138)

  • Sponsor Organizations:

    National Cooperative Highway Research Program

    Transportation Research Board
    500 Fifth Street, NW
    Washington, DC  United States  20001

    Federal Highway Administration

    1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
    Washington, DC  United States  20590

    American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

    444 North Capitol Street, NW
    Washington, DC  United States  20001
  • Project Managers:

    Hartell, Ann

  • Performing Organizations:

    Cambridge Systematics, Incorporated

    150 Cambridge Park Drive, Suite 4000
    Cambridge, MA  United States  02140-2369
  • Principal Investigators:

    Steudle, Kirk

  • Start Date: 20211012
  • Expected Completion Date: 20221230
  • Actual Completion Date: 20221230

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01769375
  • Record Type: Research project
  • Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
  • Contract Numbers: Project 20-24(138)
  • Files: TRB, RIP
  • Created Date: Apr 12 2021 4:53PM