This site is the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) R&T Web site portal, which provides access to or information about the Agency’s R&T program, projects, partnerships, publications, and results.
The existing highway R&T environment is highly decentralized and is comprised of multiple individual programs, including the FHWA R&T program, State highway agency R&T programs, the National Highway Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), University Transportation Center (UTC) programs, Intelligent Transportation System Program, and many private sector programs. In addition, these programs involve ongoing collaboration with international organizations such as the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Federation of European Highway Research Laboratories (FEHRL).
FHWA is in a unique leadership position to identify and address issues of national significance that require high-risk, long-term, distinctive areas of research. In this role, FHWA plans to shape and execute a national research and innovation technology development, deployment, and training program that produces and delivers the solutions needed to meet current challenges; assesses future needs; and responds to those needs proactively and effectively.
FHWA’s leadership role does not exempt the Agency from working collaboratively with its partners. In today’s customer-driven atmosphere, it implies an even greater responsibility to work with partners in defining the direction of and developing the roadmaps needed to achieve results, especially because many partners will be implementing the technologies and innovations. FHWA’s leadership role includes conducting, sponsoring, sustaining, and guiding highway research; and working with partners and stakeholders in the highway community to develop long-term, high-risk innovative technologies that address issues of national significance; and coordinating with stakeholders to ensure that substantial research findings are put into practice nationally.
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Strategic Approach In 2003, FHWA leadership accepted the challenge to "raise the bar" on R&T and adopted a strategic management framework developed with input from stakeholders. See Corporate Master Plan (CMP) for Research and Deployment of Technology & Innovation (FHWA-RD-03-077) |
» | Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) |
» | Title 23 Chapter 5 USC |
» | 23 CFR Part 420 |
» | 49 CFR Part 18 |
» | 49 CFR Part 19 |
» | For complete information about Titles 23 & 49, visit the Government Printing Office (GPO) United States Code Web Page |
» | The GPO also provides complete information regarding the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). |