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. (Author/publisher)
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