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From page 18... ... 18 Activities and Findings Chapter 2 outlined the overarching research approach, including the two phases of research and the corresponding tasks. The tasks led to eight primary activities for collecting the information that fed into the roadmap, RNS, and problem statements. Read the entire page →
From page 19... ... Activities and Findings 19 • Challenges and solutions for sub-topics under each theme • Available research • Potential research needs Among the fact sheets, only two (theme 6 and theme 10) did not apply to all community types (see Table 1) Read the entire page →
From page 20... ... 20 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap into full NCHRP problem statements using input from the workshop. Second, the RNS served as examples for workshop attendees to understand the next step for any research needs arising during the workshop. Read the entire page →
From page 21... ... Activities and Findings 21 Theme 1: Active transportation • Access to active transportation opportunities in rural communities • Health impact of active transportation in rural communities • Safety risks and countermeasures for active transportation users • Economic development opportunities for trail-based communities • Safe routes to school • Bikeshare programs Theme 2: Workforce development • Transportation agency workforce recruitment and retention Theme 3: Transportation access and mobility • Aging in place • Mobility choices of millennials • Shared-use mobility services • Coordinated transportation services Theme 4: Intersection of health and transportation • Transportation disadvantages and access to healthcare services • Emergency Medical Services (EMS) service area challenges and coordination of EMS • Communications technology • Incorporating public health into transportation planning Theme 5: Generational expectations, work, and lifestyle • Baby boomers • Generation X • Millennials • Post-millennial Theme 6: Transporting rural products to market • General trends affecting rural freight • Truck freight • Railroads • Maritime freight • Intermodal freight • Express delivery services Theme 7: Weather, climate, and resilience • Increasing prevalence of severe storms, floods, forest fires, and related events • Natural disasters • Climate impacts on rural bridges and culverts • Climate impacts on rural pavements and unpaved roads • Winter roadway maintenance Theme 8: Rural public and school transportation • Transit • Paratransit • School transportation • Passenger rail • Shared-use mobility • FTA regulation impacts • Feasibility and cost/benefit • Rural public transportation investments to stimulate economic development Theme 9: Law enforcement, crime, and drugs • Traffic enforcement in sparsely populated areas • Vandalism and theft on rural transportation infrastructure • Human trafficking • Illicit drugs • Marijuana/cannabis Theme 10: Aviation • Essential Air Service program • Air taxis • General aviation • Rural aviation, tourism, and economic development Theme 11: Connected and automated vehicles and emerging technologies • Technology infrastructure in rural areas • Road infrastructure considerations • AV/CV effects on vehicle ownership, freight, transit, and shared-use mobility Theme 12: Tourism and the natural environment • Context-sensitive solutions • First mile/last mile • Discrete congestion • Balance • Economic development opportunities • Environmental regulatory issues and impacts Theme 13: Roadway infrastructure and balancing capacity with demand • Effectiveness of rural highway investments in stimulating economic development • Sustaining rural infrastructure when economic activity declines • Rural and exurban development impacts on roadways • Energy projects and rural roadways • Agricultural vehicle impacts on rural roadways and bridges • Animal-drawn vehicles Theme 14: Rural transportation safety • Geometric design • Crash types and countermeasures • Safety culture • Speed management • Behavioral interventions • Teen drivers • Older drivers • Tribal transportation safety • Motorcycles • ATVs • Child passenger safety • Human factors • Enforcement laws and policies • Cross-jurisdictional planning • Retro-reflectivity and nighttime visibility • Safety performance measures and monitoring • Systemic safety • Safety data/Crash records • Incident management • Animal-vehicle collision countermeasures Table 3. Read the entire page →
From page 22... ... 22 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap (TRID) Read the entire page →
From page 23... ... Activities and Findings 23 TRB Committee Number1 TRB Committee Name RNS New RNS Team Present to Committee Attend Stakeholder Workshop2 Sponsor TRB 2020 Workshop ABE60 Accessible Transportation and Mobility X ABE80 Native American Transportation Issues X X ABJ20 Statewide Transportation Data and Information Systems X X ABJ30 Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems X ABJ50 Information Systems and Technology X ADA10 Statewide Multimodal Transportation Planning X ADA30 Transportation Planning for Small and Mediumsized Communities X X ADA40 Transportation Needs of National Parks and Public Lands X X X X X ADC20 Transportation and Air Quality X ADC50 Historic and Archeological Preservation in Transportation X ADC60 Resource Conservation and Recovery X ADD20 Social and Economic Factors of Transportation X ADD50 Environmental Justice in Transportation X AFB10 Geometric Design X AFB20 Roadside Safety Design X AFB30 Low Volume Roads X X X AFB40 Landscape and Environmental Design X AFD10 Pavement Management Systems X AFD60 Design and Rehabilitation of Asphalt Pavements X AFF50 Seismic Design and Performance of Bridges X AFH40 Construction of Bridges and Structures X AFK40 Surface Requirements of Asphalt Mixtures X AFP00 Geological and Geoenvironmental Engineering X AFP10 Engineering Geology X AFP70 Aggregates X AHB15 Intelligent Transportation Systems X AHB65 Operational Effects of Geometrics X AHD55 Signing and Marking Materials X ANB10 Transportation Safety Management X Table 4. TRB committee participation. Read the entire page →
From page 24... ... 24 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap Practitioner Needs The objective of the Colorado workshop was to gather rural issues, research needs, and feedback on RNS from a multi-disciplinary, multimodal group that included representation from multiple levels of government. The 8-hour workshop was held on Friday, September 28, 2018, in Denver, Colorado, just before the TRB Rural and Intercity Bus Conference. Read the entire page →
From page 25... ... Activities and Findings 25 funding was available for the workshop, the Research Team rst considered communities that are typically unable to participate in research needs gathering eorts due to diculty selffunding travel to relevant events. e participant list was then balanced in terms of government levels (municipal, county, region, state, tribal, national) Read the entire page →
From page 26... ... 26 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap To assist in these discussions, the Research Team created a set of talking points and provided them to participants 2 weeks in advance of the workshop. Team members asked participants to bring any background information to the workshop for use in the facilitated discussions. Read the entire page →
From page 27... ... Activities and Findings 27 Agenda The workshop agenda is presented in Figure 6 and Figure 7. To compensate for a longer-thanexpected time to complete the introductions, discussions were extended into the lunch period. Read the entire page →
From page 28... ... 28 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap NCHRP 20-122 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap Agenda September 28, 2018 8 AM – 3:45 PM Mountain 7 : 0 0 - 8 : 0 0 A M (60 min) B reak f ast 8 : 0 0 - 8 : 4 5 A M (45 min) Read the entire page →
From page 29... ... Activities and Findings 29 Methodology During the workshop, the Research Team spent the rst 20 minutes presenting the project background to the participants to ensure that everyone was on the same page. Each participant then received a hard copy of the dra safety research needs so they could add their ideas. Read the entire page →
From page 30... ... 30 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap bridging the gap Rural communities provide food, energy, resources and much more to keep America running. In 2016, attendees at the National Working Summit on Transportation in Rural by articulating the key transportation safety issues facing rural areas, culminating in a call to action of "On the Road to Zero, We Cannot Ignore Rural." The 2nd summit will continue to move the rural conversation forward and will focus more intently on safety solutions and "Bridging the Gap." for rural areas? Read the entire page →
From page 31... ... Activities and Findings 31 is activity resulted in one deliverable: 1. Roadmap Database Version 5. Read the entire page →
From page 32... ... 32 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap Executive Committee and its guests. Along with the TRB Executive Committee, this meeting included the project panel, the Research Team, and four invited speakers. Read the entire page →
From page 33... ... Activities and Findings 33 Page 1 of 3 January 2019 TRB Policy Session: Purpose and Agenda ti Role in the Wellbeing of Rural ti Identifying Research ti Marquis, Liberty L&M 901 Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. Purpose On Wednesday, January 16, 2019, the TRB Executiv Committee, with the help of experts, will explore and ti ti rural transportation research needs in the areas of economic v and social and health wellbeing. Read the entire page →
From page 34... ... 34 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap Page 2 of 3 3:10 p.m. Carrie Kissel, Associate Director National Association of Development Organization' Research Foundation Economic Wellbeing 3:25 p.m. Read the entire page →
From page 35... ... Activities and Findings 35 Page 3 of 3 Rapporteur Susan Shaheen, Adjunct Professor and Co-Director, TSRC, University of California, Berkeley 3. Economic Wellbeing (Liberty Room O) Read the entire page →
From page 36... ... 36 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap Methodology e meeting agenda is presented in Figure 13 and Figure 14. e workshop began with a 20-minute presentation on the project background. Read the entire page →
From page 37... ... Activities and Findings 37 NCHRP 20-122 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap Facilitated Roundtable Details • Attendees will divide into three groups for the roundtable sessions. • Each roundtable will have a facilitator who will discuss two themes with the group for approximately 25 minutes each. Read the entire page →
From page 38... ... 38 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap while circulating around printed posters (see Figure 17) that were set up around the room. Read the entire page →
From page 39... ... Activities and Findings 39 3. Some participants attended to provide comments on a single theme, so the posters allowed them to provide this information and then leave; and 4. Read the entire page →
From page 40... ... 40 Rural Transportation Issues: Research Roadmap Results This activity resulted in three deliverables: 1. Fifteen Themed Reports. Read the entire page →

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... 18 Activities and Findings Chapter 2 outlined the overarching research approach, including the two phases of research and the corresponding tasks. The tasks led to eight primary activities for collecting the information that fed into the roadmap, RNS, and problem statements.