Panel Reports

The Big Picture: Freight. International competitiveness, and the role of shippers, railroads, trucking, distribution centers, ports and airports in meeting national needs.
Highways, Travel, and Tourism. What the national highway system of the future will require to meet national needs; including a specific focus on long-distance travel, travel and tourism, and rural needs.
Freight and Passenger Rail. How improved rail service can help meet future needs for moving people and freight.
Transit and Intercity Bus. A vision of how these systems can better meet needs for the future.
Metropolitan Mobility. How to improve system capacity, performance, reliability, and better manage demand in urban areas.
Sustainable Transportation. This group will address a series of issues that are inseparable from meeting the Nation's future transportation needs.
Advanced Technology and Innovation. How ITS technologies, advanced materials, and innovation can better meet transportation needs.
Highway Safety. Behavioral as well as vehicle and roadway safety.
Funding. Estimates of what will be required to meet future highway, transit and rail system needs; Revenue options near-term and long-term; and the roles of the federal government, state and local governments and the private sector in funding what is needed.