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Strategic Highway Research Saving Lives, Reducing Congestion, Improving Quality of Life -- Special Report 260 (2001) / Chapter Skim
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3 A Future Strategic Highway Research Program: Overview
Pages 46-48

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... For example, the increasing number of highway facilities in need of major renewal, together with decreasing economic and social tolerance for disruptions resulting from renewal work, requires that highway agencies undertake such renewal in a manner that is more responsive to user concerns. Increases in vehicle-miles traveled, along with inadequately decreasing fatality and injury rates, necessitate entirely new approaches to highway safety to prevent the number of deaths and injuries from rising.
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From page 47...
... The proposed program should be problem-oriented rather than discipline-oriented; it should include close attention to implementation considerations from its initiation; and it should possess the characteristics and meet the criteria described in Chapter 1. In the remainder of this chapter, the vision guiding the development of the proposed research program is presented, and an overview is provided of the strategic focus areas resulting from the outreach process described in Chapter 1 and the overall goals of the four proposed research programs.
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From page 48...
... The descriptions of the four research programs in Chapter 4 through 7 are intended to keep such a planning effort focused on the identified strategic needs, without unduly constraining researchers and research managers in exploring and developing the most promising research tasks and technologies.
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  • outreach process
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  • stringent environmental

  • designing highways
  • nonrecurring incidents
  • social tolerance
  • decreasing economic
  • overall goals

  • planning effort
  • provide highway
  • reliable travel
  • highway agencies
  • interim planning

  • major renewal
  • highway facilities
  • integrating environmental
  • requirements calls
  • agencies undertake

  • sufficient resources
  • disruptions resulting
  • renewal work
  • traditional highway
  • user concerns


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