This report was prepared under the direction of the oversight panel for National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 20-58, Interim Planning for a Future Strategic Highway Research Program. It contains six chapters and four appendices. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the future Strategic Highway Research Program (F-SHRP). Its content, as well as the background material in the Preface, is summarized from Transportation Research Board (TRB) Special Report 260. Chapters 2 through 5 describe each of F-SHRP's four strategic focus areas: renewal, safety, reliability, and capacity. These chapters were summarized by the F-SHRP contractors from the reports they prepared for the four F-SHRP technical panels responsible for guiding and reviewing the contractors' work. Chapter 6 was prepared by Ann M. Brach of TRB staff to frame some of the administrative and implementation issues to be addressed if F-SHRP is funded. The contents of Chapter 6 do not reflect decisions of the project panels involved in NCHRP Project 20-58. The final disposition of these matters will be left to whatever governing structure is put in place if F-SHRP is authorized. Appendices A through D provide brief descriptions of each research project taken from the contractor reports. The full texts of the research plans (which total more than 700 pages) are available on TRB's website at http://www.trb.org (Author/publisher) This report may be accessed by Internet users at http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_510.pdf
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