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SYNTHESIS OF RESEARCH CATEGORIES
- Cost data
- Capital and operating costs of existing and future transportation systems
- Door-to-door shipping costs (domestic, international, intermodal)
- User/operator costs
- Data on emerging and critical population subgroups
- Aging population
- Handicapped
- Welfare-to-work
- Other specialized transportation service users
- Improved data collection
- Reduce cost
- Increase timeliness, quality
- Apply new information technology (ITS, on-board transponders)
- Linking of transportation and land use decision processes
- Methods for assessing and incorporating public preferences in transportation decision-making.
- Mobility, capacity expansion, vs. other public goals
- Rural transportation needs and requirements.
- Multistate transportation corridors
- Policy and planning issues (defining corridors, identifying projects)
- Finance, programming projects
- Follow-up assessments
- Institutional issues
- Freight transportation, including increased interaction with the private sector in the identification of needed improvements in freight movement/distribution
- Competition vs. concentration in freight modes
- Just-in-time freight operations, implications for transport system
- Multimodal and intermodal planning
- use of performance measures
- lifecycle comparison of investments in alternative modes
- NHS intermodal connectors
- Other intermodal efficiency issues
- Rehabilitation of existing highway and transit systems.
- 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
- Global trade policy
- Differences in regulatory policies
- Infrastructure barriers (e.g., border crossings)
- Transportation and the economy
- Role of transport in economic development
- Economic evaluation of projects
- System finance
- Revenue forecasting
- Innovative finance, partnerships
- Value pricing
- Augmenting/replacing fuel taxes, taxing alternative fuels
- Transportation and the environment
- Monitoring and estimating environmental impacts
- Global warming, Kyoto accords
- Data on extent, capacity, condition, use, and performance of the transportation system
- System operations, response to incidents/accidents/disruptions
- Links to land use, socioeconomic data
- Performance audits and program assessments
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