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OFFICE OF RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND TECHNOLOGY AT THE TURNER-FAIRBANK HIGHWAY RESEARCH CENTER

Planning, Environment, and Realty Overview

Research Areas

  • 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