Ongoing Research

FHWA is funding exploratory advanced research across the range of issues that are critical to the transportation industry. Research is listed under four broad functional areas. Functional areas describe traditionally-related areas of scientific and engineering inquiry Researchers who work within the functional areas frequently will have similar academic backgrounds in engineering, social sciences, or physical sciences, including:

• Predicting societal and complex natural systems

 

• Next generation solutions to build, maintain and manage future highways

 

• Next generation solutions for system operations and reducing congestion

 

• Next generation pedestrian and driver safety