Summary Report: Interim Planning for a Future Strategic Highway Research Program (F-SHRP) (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Interim Planning for a Future Strategic Highway Research Program 5-1 CHAPTER 5 CAPACITY -- PROVIDING HIGHWAY CAPACITY IN SUPPORT OF THE NATION'S ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIAL GOALS8 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Growing population, economic activity, and incomes are expected to result in increasing demand for vehicle travel into the near future. Between 2000 and 2020, the U.S.
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5-2 Interim Planning for a Future Strategic Highway Research Program The Capacity focus area is designed to build on past successes and move the transportation community to a new paradigm for highway decision making that is efficient, equitable, and takes into account a systems approach for developing the best highway projects for communities and our nation. To meet this challenge, significant changes in the way that we currently make our transportation decisions are needed.
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Interim Planning for a Future Strategic Highway Research Program 5-3 tems planning and highway development process. The framework (see Figure 5–2)
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• Early consideration is given to safety, mobility, environmental, economic, community, and land use goals; and • A broad range of potential solutions, including operational improvements, transit, highway capacity, and demand management are fully considered.
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Interim Planning for a Future Strategic Highway Research Program 5-5 lists the projects under each topic area and their estimated budgets. (Appendix D contains brief descriptions of the F-SHRP Capacity projects.)
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standing of fundamental relationships between transportation systems, human behavior, the environment, the economy, land use, and our communities. Research on this topic addresses areas where we lack sufficient understanding to build tools, methods, or approaches that can predict the effects of transportation options on systemwide performance, and on environmental, social, and economic performance and goals.
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Interim Planning for a Future Strategic Highway Research Program 5-7 lems with institutional relationships, adequacy of tools and processes, and coordination with stakeholders. This research topic focuses on improving the transportation decision-making process with the result being selection and development of projects that meet social, economic, environmental and accessibility needs in a timely and equitable manner.
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The following two projects are the cornerstones of the strategic research plan: • Project 4-2.5: Developing and Applying a Decision-Support Tool for Integrated Systems Planning and Project Development ("The Virtual Workstation for Systems Planning and Project Development") • Project 4-3.6: Screening Transportation Solutions in an Integrated Systems Planning and Project Development Process Together these two projects are designed to significantly advance the state of the art by developing the institutional process and technical tools that will help enable the timely and efficient delivery of projects that meet customer expectations by balancing accessibility, economic, environmental, and social objectives.
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Interim Planning for a Future Strategic Highway Research Program 5-9 Space Administration (NASA)
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nized around disciplines and are driven by the scientific and technical needs of those disciplines.
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