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Agenda Setting

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....

Technologies

Each year, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) spends much time, money, and energy toward developing and deploying innovations that are designed to meet critical highway needs. These efforts reach much farther when the benefits of promising technologies and innovations are marketed...

Research and Technology Innovation Life Cycle

Life Cycle 

The life cycle approach illustrates that research and technology development and delivery are not insular activities, but integrated processes that together constitute a system. For instance, the "give and take" of setting the national research agenda enables multiple...

Innovation Life Cycle Impacts

Impacts

A critical stage in the research and technology delivery process is the assessment of how deployed technologies are meeting the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) national mission and strategic goals. There is not one "size" or type of impact assessment process that is...

Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation Overview

Background

FHWA and its State and local agency partners have relied on analysis, modeling, and simulation (AMS) to support investment decisions for the transportation system. As the transportation system environment grows in complexity, increasing pressure is placed on agencies to...

AMS Contacts

Analysis Modeling and Simulation (AMS) Contact Information 

Connected Automation

Development of an Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation (AMS) Framework for V2I and Connected/Automated Vehicle Environment (Complete):
Rachel James
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