Emerging Issues: Impact of New Disruptive Technologies on the Performance of DOTs

The objective of this research is to develop a guide for state DOTs and other transportation planning agencies to understand, predict, plan for, and adapt to the potential impacts of emerging disruptive technologies. In preparing this guide, the research should identify issues, effects, and opportunities at the intersection of disruptive transportation technologies and organizational performance for senior managers at state DOTs and other transportation planning agencies; and it should include but not be limited to the following components: (1) categories of technology disruptors, such as big data, expanding digitization, vehicle and infrastructure technologies, mobility as a service, the sharing economy, mobility of people and goods, alternative travel modes, and communication technologies; (2) new business opportunities or partnerships and collaboration models involving the private and public sectors, as well as impacts on how agencies execute planning and prioritize investments, implement, maintain, manage and operate the transportation system; (3) roles and responsibilities of federal, state, regional, and local agencies in evaluating, approving, regulating, enforcing, and managing new ways of moving people and goods; and (4) improving overall customer service, including effects on the transportation system’s ability to provide improved access and mobility for all users. The target audience for this research is practitioners as well as decision-makers at state DOTs and their transportation partner organizations.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4739

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $250000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 08-127

• 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:

  Weeks, Jennifer

• Performing Organizations:

  Cambridge Systematics, Incorporated

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

  Van Hecke, Sam

• Start Date: 20200901
• Expected Completion Date: 20220831
• Actual Completion Date: 20220831

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Impacts; Metropolitan planning organizations; Performance measurement; State departments of transportation; Technological innovations
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01707674
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 08-127
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Jun 7 2019 3:54PM