Infrastructure

The "Infrastructure" thematic area is concerned with ensuring and improving the supply of transportation services delivered in metropolitan areas, with an emphasis on providing self-sustaining, environmentally compatible transportation infrastructure that is durable and efficient and that requires fewer human, economic, and environmental resources to produce, operate, and maintain. This area includes research on materials, infrastructure components, systems, and policies. Topics include monitoring, maintenance, rapid repair, rehabilitation, renewal, retrofit, and life extension of transportation infrastructure; including procedures, standards, technologies, and materials. They also include financing requirements and techniques, including new pricing options.