1. Cost data

• Capital and operating costs of existing and future transportation     systems
• Door-to-door shipping costs (domestic, international, intermodal)
• User/operator costs

2. Data on emerging and critical population subgroups

• Aging population
• Handicapped
• Welfare-to-work
• Other specialized transportation service users

3. Improved data collection

• Reduce cost
• Increase timeliness, quality
• Apply new information technology (ITS, on-board transponders)

4. Linking of transportation and land use decision processes

5. Methods for assessing and incorporating public preferences in 
    transportation decision-making.

• Mobility, capacity expansion, vs. other public goals

6. Rural transportation needs and requirements.

7. Multistate transportation corridors

• Policy and planning issues (defining corridors, identifying projects)
• Finance, programming projects
• Follow-up assessments
• Institutional issues

• Competition vs. concentration in freight modes
• Just-in-time freight operations, implications for transport system

• use of performance measures
• lifecycle comparison of investments in alternative modes
• NHS intermodal connectors
• Other intermodal efficiency issues

11. The effectiveness of the current institutional arrangements--public, 
      private, and public-private--in fulfilling the emerging and new missions 
      that are being identified as important to society and the economy

12. Global trade policy

• Differences in regulatory policies
• Infrastructure barriers (e.g., border crossings)

• Role of transport in economic development
• Economic evaluation of projects

• Revenue forecasting
• Innovative finance, partnerships
• Value pricing
• Augmenting/replacing fuel taxes, taxing alternative fuels

• Monitoring and estimating environmental impacts
• Global warming, Kyoto accords

• System operations, response to incidents/accidents/disruptions
• Links to land use, socioeconomic data
• Performance audits and program assessments