Learning Agenda: FY 2024-2026

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)’s Learning Agenda: FY 2024-2026 is a systematic plan for building evidence to inform policy, regulatory, and operational decisions to make transportation safer, more reliable, sustainable, and affordable for travelers across the Nation. The Learning Agenda identifies priority evidence-building needs relevant to DOT programs, policies, and regulations and creates an action plan to address them. It was developed through a robust stakeholder engagement process. It updates and expands the Department’s first-ever evidence-building plan: Learning Agenda: FY 2022-2026, published in 2022 in accordance with 5 U.S.C. §312. These changes include: 

• Adding 17 new topic areas, each with a collection of priority questions that identify some of the Department’s most important emerging evidence-building needs in alignment with five of the FY 2022-2026 DOT Strategic Plan’s Strategic Goals. The new topic areas include distracted driving, railroad grade crossing safety, aviation surface safety, supply chain disruption, transportation cost burden, safe disposal and transportation of batteries, and EV adoption. 
• Sharing findings from the five topic areas that were introduced in the Learning Agenda: FY 2022-2026.