FHWA Research

Research Portfolio

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is involved directly and indirectly in many research and technology (R&T) initiatives across the Nation, however, the concentration of this Web site is on the FHWA R&T program. To ensure a corporate approach to R&T, an R&T Leadership Team, as described in the Corporate Master Plan (CMP) for Research and Deployment of Technology & Innovation (FHWA-RD-03-077), oversees the R&T program. The R&T Leadership Team consists of members from FHWA field offices and the Office of Federal Lands Highway, and the following functional areas: safety, infrastructure, operations, environment, policy, and exploratory advanced research.

The managers and staff responsible for R&T in particular functional areas develop and set their own R&T agendas, which reflect FHWA's mission, support strategic goals, and engage internal and external stakeholders. The R&T Leadership Team agrees on functional area agendas. From there, an R&T network develops and deploys a portfolio of R&T innovations.

Ongoing Research

Click one of the following research areas for more information about ongoing research.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/research/fhwaresearch/ongoing.cfm

Exploratory Advanced Research
Federal Lands Highway Program
Planning, Environment, and Realty
Policy
Operations
Pavements, Materials, Assets, Structures, Bridges
Transportation Pooled Fund Projects
Safety
Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
Structures

Innovation Life Cycle Introduction

• Agenda
• Ongoing Research
• Technologies
• Deployment/Innovation Delivery
• Impacts

Roadmaps