Strategic Highway Research Program II

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Strategic Highway Research Program II

• FHWA/UTC
• Mobility and Congestion Mitigation Workshop
• Ann M. Brach
• June 6, 2006

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SHRP II

• Authorized in SAFETEA-LU
• Administered by TRB in cooperation with AASHTO
  and FHWA
• Program initiated March 24, 2006
• SHRP II Director Neil Hawks
• Deputy Director Ann Brach
• Reliability Manager Walt Diewald acting till
  position is filled

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Strategic Focus Areas

• Accelerating the Renewal of Americas Highways
  (Renewal)
• Making a Significant Improvement in Highway
  Safety (Safety)
• Providing a Highway System with Reliable Travel
  Times (Reliability)
• Providing Highway Capacity in Support of the
  Nations Economic, Environmental, and Social
  Goals (Capacity)

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Stakeholder Governance

• Oversight Committee to guide whole program
  (established)
• Technical Coordinating Committees for each focus
  area (established)
• Expert Task Groups as needed for RFP preparation
  and proposal review (to be established as needed)

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Total Program Funding

• Proposed 450 million
• Authorized 205 million
• Expected 150 million
• Reduced funding requires significant re-scoping
  of focus areas

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Program Duration

• Proposed 6 years of funding to be spent over 9
  years
• Actual 4 years of funding to be spent over 7
  years
• Reduced duration impacts types of work and amount
  of implementation that can be done

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Program Re-Scoping

• 1st stage Oversight Committee, w/ in put from
  original NCHRP panels, reduced program to 250
  million retained all four focus areas
• 2nd stage TCCs currently prioritizing remaining
  projects Oversight Committee to review in July
• Reliability TCC meets June 8-9

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Reliability Focus Area

• Goal to reduce congestion through incident
  reduction, management, response, and mitigation.
• Integrated approach involving data, analysis,
  institutions, tools, and operational strategies.
• Original plan 80 million

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Reliability Re-Scoping

• Reduced to 40 million
• Removed weather, advanced technology
• Scaled back implementation, other
• Restructured to four topic areas
• Foundation and Institutional Setting
• Tools and Techniques
• Integrating Operations into Decision Making
• Developing Improved Operational Strategies

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Building a Foundation Institutional Setting for
Ops

• Scans of Best Practices
• National Outreach Program
• Institutional Architectures for Implementing Ops
  Strategies
• Public Official Senior Management Education on
  Benefits of Ops
• Personnel Requirements for Incident, WZ, Special
  Event Management

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Tools and Techniques for Advancing Operations

• Analytical Procedures for Impacts of Reliability
  Improvement Strategies
• Reliability Estimation in Planning and Ops
  Modeling Tools
• Highway Design Features
• Congestion Factors for HCM
• Congestion Factors for AASHTO Geometric Design

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Integrating Operations into Agency Decision Making

• National and Local Monitoring Programs for
  Mobility and Travel Time Reliability
• Incorporating Mobility and Reliability
  Performance Metrics into Transportation
  Programming Process

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Developing Improved Operational Strategies

• Causes and Effects of Inappropriate Driver
  Response
• Measures to Reduce Inappropriate Driver Response
• Real-Time Data Fusion for Traveler Information
  Systems
• Alternative Traffic Ops Strategies
• Advanced Queue Incident Mgt

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Short-Term Schedule

• By 6/27 TCCs develop Year 1 program
• On 7/19 OC approves Year 1 program
• By 9/1 ETGs meet, RFPs advertised
• By 11/1 Year 1 proposals due
• By 12/15 TCCs and OC develop and approve Year 2
  program
• January 2007-TRB announce year 1 awards and
  year 2 program

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Longer-Term Schedule

• Semi-annual committee meetings
• Semi-annual RFP advertisement and award of
  contracts
• Quarterly progress reports on SHRP II web site
• Implementation report due to Congress in 2009

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For More Information

• Web site www.TRB.org/SHRPII
• E-mail SHRPII_at_nas.edu
• Quarterly reports
• TRB e-newsletter