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          The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) plays a key leadership role in sponsoring, sustaining, and guiding highway research. As a leader in the transportation research and technology (R&T) field, FHWA is working to improve its R&T program and to deploy innovations and technologies.

Managers and staff at the FHWA are responsible for R&T, particularly in functional areas that develop and set the R&T Agenda for that subject, focus, or program area. These functional areas reflect FHWA's mission, support strategic goals, and engage internal and external stakeholders.

To view further information about FHWA programs, click on the links below or use the navigation menu to the left.

**Core Highway Programs and Topics**

**Cross-Topic Areas**

Automation
	Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Infrastructure
	Big Data
	Connected Vehicle Research Program
	Data Security
	National Security**Exploratory Advanced Research**

Breakthrough Concepts in Material Science
	Connected Highway and Vehicle System Concepts
	Focus Areas
	Human Behavior and Travel Choices
	New Technology and Advanced Policies for Energy and Resource Conservation
	Technology for Assessing PerformanceOffice of Federal Lands Highway

Defense Access Roads (DAR)
	Emergency Relief for Federally Owned Roads (ERFO)
	Federal Lands Access Program
	Federal Lands Planning Program (FLPP)
	Federal Lands Transportation Program
	Nationally Signification Federal Lands and Tribal Projects
	Program Evaluation
	Stewardship and Oversight
	Tribal Transportation
	Tribal Transportation Program**Infrastructure**

Asset Management, Preservation, and Maintenance
	Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Infrastructure
	Construction and Project Management
	Geotechnical Engineering
	Geotechnical Laboratory
		Geotechnology Research Program
	Hydraulics
	J. Sterling Jones Hydraulics Research Laboratory
	Long-Term Infrastructure Performance
	Long-Term Bridge Performance
		Long-Term Pavement Performance
	Pavement and Materials
	Aggregate and Petrographic Laboratory
		Asphalt Binder and Mixtures Laboratory
		Chemistry Laboratory
		Coatings and Corrosion Laboratory
		Concrete Laboratory
		Pavement Testing Facility
	Structures
	Nondestructive Evaluation Laboratory
		Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC)
		Structures Laboratory**Innovative Program Delivery**

Economic Recovery
	Federal-aid and Financing
	Federal and Indian Lands Funding
	Innovative Finance Program
	Public-Private Partnerships
	Status of the Highway Trust Fund
	Tolling and Pricing Program
	Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA)**Intelligent Transportation Systems**

**Operations**

Accessible Transportation Technologies Research Initiative
	Automated Vehicles
	Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation
		CARMASM
		CARMA Collaboration Opportunities SM
		CARMA Engagement/CollaborationSM
		CARMA ProductsSM
		CARMA Program Overview
		Integrating Advanced Technologies to Actively Manage Traffic
		Saxton Transportation Operations Laboratory
	Connected Vehicle Research
	Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office
	Freight/Goods Movement
	Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)
	Security
	Tolling and Pricing Program
	Transportation Systems Management and Operations
	Emergency Response
		National Traffic and Road Closure Information
		Real-Time Traveler Information
		Speed Management
		Transportation Management**Planning, Environment, and Realty**

Accelerating Project Delivery/Environmental Process
	Air Quality Analytical tools and methods/Mobile Source Ari Toxics (MSAT)
	Alternative Fuel Corridors/Electric Vehicles
	Bicycle and Pedestrian/Multimodal
	CMAQ (Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality)
	Conformity
	Connected/Autonomous Vehicles
	Context Sensitive Solutions/Livability
	Community Impacts (Public Involvement/Health/Environmental Justice/Civil Rights)
	Economic Development
	Fiscal Constraint and Financial Planning
	Freight Planning
	International and Border Planning
	Metropolitan Transportation Planning
	National Economic Networks
	National Highway System
	Noise
	Outdoor Advertising and Junkyard Control Programs
	Performance Based Planning and Programming
	Realty
	Resiliency and Adaptation
	Safety Planning
	Scenario Planning and Visualization
	Statewide/Non-Metropolitan (rural) Transportation Planning
	Sustainability
	Travel Model Improvement Program
	Tribal Lands
	Federal Lands**Policy**

Highway Data/System Performance
	Laws, Regulations, Policy and Directives
	National Household Travel SurveySafety

Human Factors Analytics
	Human Factors
		Traffic Control Device Pooled Fund
	Safety Data and Analysis
	Data and Analysis
		Evaluation of Low Cost Safety Improvements Pooled Fund Study
		Highway Safety Information System
		In-Service Performance Evaluation Resources (ISPE)
		Interactive Highway Safety Design Model
		Motorcycle Crash Causation Study
		Naturalistic Driving Study Pooled Fund
		Safety Training and Analysis Center
		Surrogate Safety Assessment Model (SSAM)
	Safety Design and Operations
	Intersections
		Roadway Departure
		Pedestrian / Bicycle
		Local and Rural Roads
	Safety Program Delivery
	Highway Safety Improvement Program
		Roadway Safety Capacity Building Program**Small Business Innovation Research**
      
    
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