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Strategic Highway Research Program 2 - International Outreach Overview

The Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP 2) focuses on safety, renewal, reliability, and capacity in highway infrastructure through targeted research programs. With a total funding of $150 million over seven years, SHRP 2 aims to address critical needs in highway safety, infrastructure renewal, congestion reduction, and mobility planning. International outreach efforts include engaging a wider research community, preventing duplication, and disseminating results globally. Key stakeholders govern the program through Oversight Committees and Technical Coordinating Committees. For international involvement, collaborations, research partnerships, and staff exchanges are encouraged.

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Strategic Highway Research Program 2 - International Outreach Overview

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  1. International Outreach Overview TRB Annual Meeting, 2007

  2. SHRP 2 • Targeted, short-term program of strategic highway research modeled on the first SHRP • Authorized by Congress in 2005 • Administered by TRB in cooperation with AASHTO and FHWA • Integrates multiple fields of study to address critical needs

  3. Safety • Goal: to prevent or reduce the severity of highway crashes by understanding driver behavior. • Use of vehicle-based and site-based technologies to gather pre-crash, crash, and exposure data.

  4. Renewal • Goal: to renew aging infrastructure through rapid design and construction methods that cause minimal disruption and produce long-lived facilities. • Integrated approach involving engineering, finance, contracting, planning, safety, maintenance, customer relations.

  5. Reliability • Goal: to reduce congestion through incident reduction, management, response, and mitigation. • Integrated approach involving data, analysis, institutional architectures, tools, and operational strategies.

  6. Capacity • Goals: to integrate mobility, economic, environmental, and community needs into the planning and design of new highway capacity. • Systems approach involving fundamental knowledge, data, tools, institutional issues.

  7. Funding and Time Frame • $150 million, expended over 7 years • April 2006 through March 2013 • $108 million of research contracts: • Safety: $43.2 million • Renewal: $28.8 million • Reliability: $18 million • Capacity: $18 million

  8. Stakeholder Governance • Oversight Committee (OC) to guide whole program • Technical Coordinating Committees (TCCs) for each focus area • Expert Task Groups (ETGs) prepare RFPs, review proposals, and provide technical advice on special tasks

  9. International Outreach:Objectives • Access an expanded research community • Build on pre-existing or concurrent research • Limit non-productive repetition • Disseminate results more widely

  10. Policy Resolutions • Encourage International Participation on Contract Research Teams • International “Loaned” Staff • International Coordinators • Collaborative and Cooperative Research

  11. International Involvement To Date • Derek Sweet—provided by Canadian Council of Transportation Deputy Ministers, first “loaned” staff • International researchers on proposing teams • Roundtable meeting with ECTRI • Exploratory meeting with FEHRL (January 22)

  12. Contact SHRP 2Derek Sweet, International Coordinator • By email DSweet@nas.edu • By telephone at 202-334-1330 • Visit www.TRB.org/SHRP2

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