Research Partnership on Climate Change and Transportation

The Center for Efficiency, Resiliency, and Community Engagement in Transportation research and technology goals: (1) support the transportation sector with innovative approaches and solutions; (2) build and invest in resilient transportation infrastructure, networks, and operations; (3) identify innovative approaches transportation solutions; and (4) otherwise advance understanding transportation needs and solutions to support community engagement and public safety. Priority research and technology development topics with high potential to serve these goals include, but are not limited to, the following: • Data and tools to reduce trips and shift trips to climate-friendly vehicles and modes, including shift to electric vehicles, transit, micromobility services, and active transport, combined with integrated transportation and land-use planning, including transit-oriented development, such that people are less dependent on personal vehicles and more likely to walk, bike, or use transit. • Transformative approaches to understanding, predicting, and addressing via technology, design, behavior, and policy interventions. Methods for better incorporating induced demand into travel demand models. Evidence-based approaches and tools for decision makers for assessing transportation investments, policies, and practices. • Cutting-edge technologies that have the potential to leverage transportation technology to transform the United States to be a world class leader in transportation innovations in data-driven insights, automation, and integrated system-of-systems. • Innovative applications of social and behavioral sciences for transportation demand management and other policy interventions that support consumer transportation choices, mode shift, seamless modal connectivity. Research supporting state and local governments considering policy options to realign consumer incentives and disincentives to encourage lower-carbon consumer choices. • Innovative use of new and emerging sensor technology to support the assessment and early detection of pollutants, helping public agencies reduce climate and environmental impacts and transportation and respond to environmental emergencies, and integration of such analyses into climate and environmental justice policy decisions. • The development and deployment of methods to assess and reduce the risks to transportation system performance. • Innovative adaptation strategies and standards for the new resilient transportation networks system in rural and tribal areas elevated transportation corridors, alternate road surfaces improve connectivity and multimodal use. • Innovative research on policy solutions to tackle challenges around deployment of transportation technologies at the local level, such as research on balancing priorities the need for rapid deployment and adoption to prioritizing community engagement. • Other innovative approaches and solutions to propel the United States into the next generation of the transportation sector.