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Transformation: Research and innovation for a modernizing transportation system

Innovative and interconnected highway

Biden-Harris Administration’s goals around creating high quality jobs, achieving racial equity and increasing opportunity for all Americans, and tackling the climate crisis drive transformation in the U.S. Department of Transportation. Innovations should reduce deaths and serious injuries on our Nation’s transportation network, while committing to the highest standards of safety across technologies.

Design for the future. Invest in purpose-driven research and innovation to meet the challenges of the present and modernize a transportation system of the future that serves everyone today and in the decades to come. Achieving changes in the transportation system necessary to reach our goals will require fundamental transformations to our infrastructure, our technology, and our approaches to solving problems. Making our system safer and stronger, more resilient and sustainable, fairer and more equitable will require a renewed commitment to science, learning, and innovation. It will require collaboration across the public and private sectors to foster an innovation ecosystem based on open data, honest dialogue, and shared insights. Transformation means investing in education and training to empower workers with the skills they need to succeed in today’s economy and the economy of the future.

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Last updated: Tuesday, June 25, 2024