Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD seminar on strategic planning for road research programs, McLean, Virginia and in Williamsburg, Virgina, in October 1993.

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.