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Strategic Planning Document -
Transportation R&D
Preface
This summary of Federal transportation research and development
priorities has been prepared for the National Science and Technology Council
(NSTC) by the NSTC Interagency Coordinating Committee on Transportation R&D
and the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The plan reflects the initial
efforts of the Committee to assess Federal research and to develop long-term
R&D programs integrated across agencies in specific transportation-related
areas of common interest. It is based primarily on materials developed by the
subcommittees and working groups, working within the framework established by
the full committee in its Strategic Budget Guidance report presented to NSTC
in April, 1994. The summary was compiled from subcommittee submissions by
staff of DOT's Volpe National Transportation Systems Center under the
direction of Noah Rifkin, Executive Secretary of the Committee and DOT
Director of Technology Deployment and by the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy. The subcommittee reports contain extensive additional
detail concerning agency programs, goals, issues and resources. Efforts of
the Committee in 1994, summarized in this document, focused on identification
of perceived R&D gaps and opportunities. They provide the foundation for
generation in 1995 of a detailed and comprehensive description of Federal
transportation R&D goals, plans, measures, budgets and priorities, including
active coordination with other NSTC Committees.
Subcommittees of the NSTC Transportation Committee are listed below. All
chairs and executive agents are from the Department of Transportation; each
subcommittee includes representatives from appropriate Federal agencies.
- INTERAGENCY COORDINATING COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
- CHAIR: Mortimer Downey, Deputy Secretary of Transportation
VICE-CHAIR: Wesley Harris, NASA
WHITE HOUSE CHAIR: Lionel Johns, OSTP
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY: Noah Rifkin, DOT, Chief of Technology Deployment
- TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM ASSESSMENT I: Measurement,
Monitoring, Characterization and Modeling of System Performance
- CHAIR: Tiruvarur R. Lakshmanan, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
EXECUTIVE AGENT: Robert B. Dial, RSPA/Volpe Center
- TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM ASSESSMENT II: Behavioral Sciences and
Human Performance in Transportation Systems
- CHAIR: Robert Clarke, NHTSA
EXECUTIVE AGENT: Don Sussman, RSPA/Volpe Center
- PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TRANSPORTATION (Infrastructure Renewal)
- CHAIR: Tom Pasko, FHWA
EXECUTIVE AGENT: Aviva Brecher, RSPA/Volpe Center
- INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TRANSPORTATION
(Intelligent Transportation Systems and Tele-presence)
- CHAIR: Ana Sol Gutiérrez, RSPA
EXECUTIVE AGENT: Gary Ritter, RSPA/Volpe Center
- Working Groups:
- -IVHS
-Rail
-Aviation
-Waterway
-Telecommuting
-Weather
- NEXT GENERATION VEHICLES
- CHAIR: Richard R. John, RSPA/Volpe Center
EXECUTIVE AGENT: Herbert H. Gould, RSPA/Volpe Center
- Working Groups:
- -Aeronautics
-Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles [Personal (Light-Duty) Motor Vehicles]
-Space Launch
-Ships and Shipbuilding
-Trucks and Buses [Medium- and Heavy-Duty Motor Vehicles]
-Rail Vehicles (Intercity and Transit)
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