Transformational Technologies in Transportation: Impacts on Traditional Research Processes and Programs

Automated vehicles, shared mobility, and other transformational technologies in transportation provide a unique opportunity to make significant advances in meeting societal goals.

TRB's Transportation Research E-Circular 253: Transformational Technologies in Transportation: Impacts on Traditional Research Processes and Programs explores whether and how, in an era of rapidly evolving transformational technologies, research projects and processes can provide the needed answers in a timely manner while still protecting the credibility of research.

Collaboration among the public, private, and academic sectors is key to meeting the twin objectives of providing needed answers in a timely manner while still protecting the credibility of research. Much of the report examines the roles TRB specifically can play in convening these collaborations.