Develop a Next-Decade Strategic Research Agenda for Geometric Design of Highways and Streets

In the last 10 or more years, a significant portfolio of research related to the geometric design of highways and streets has been completed (and many other projects currently in process) through NCHRP that has had a direct, meaningful, and noteworthy impact on the geometric design practice in the United States. However, the determination of the research needs and topics were not done haphazardly; rather, there was a strategic agenda published by Transportation Research Circular E-C110: Geometric Design Strategic Research (2007) that served to prioritize and inform the research program. This strategic agenda was informed through previous NCHRP synthesis efforts – initially through NCHRP Synthesis 299: Recent Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations (2001) and then updated with NCHRP Synthesis 432: Recent Roadway Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations (2012) – and in a cooperative manner between the AASHTO and TRB committees. The objective of this project is to inform the long-range pipeline of research needed to maintain the AASHTO’s A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets (the Green Book) as the primary and authoritative source of guidance and information concerning the practice of highway, road, and street design in the United States.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5674
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract to a Performing Organization has not yet been awarded.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Proposed
• Funding: $350000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 15-83

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

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

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Deng, Zuxuan

• Start Date: 20240521
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Geometric design; Highway design; Research projects
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Research;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01919274
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 15-83
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: May 21 2024 8:14PM