This document summarizes presentations at an international OECD seminar on strategic planning for road research programs that took place at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, Virgina and in Williamsburg, Virgina, in October 1993. The seminar sessions explored the current research environment, program development, and priority areas; research organization, management, budgeting, and finance; cooperative research, including public/private partnerships, at the regional, national and international scale; research program evaluation; and research customers and involvement. The output of the seminar was the Williamsburg Convenants, which are to be used as guidelines for strategic planning for road research programs. An agenda, a participant list, and copies of submitted papers are included as appendixes.
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