Roadway Digital Infrastructure Strategy Development and Implementation
FHWA, working collaboratively with public and private stakeholder partners, is championing the development of a national strategy for Roadway Digital Infrastructure. The strategy seeks to align to focus, align, and accelerate realization of a multi-stakeholder digital infrastructure framework that advances current and future national transportation goals.
What is Roadway Digital Infrastructure?
- Roadway Digital Infrastructure are the collective public and private technology assets that create, exchange, or use data or information to improve national transportation system outcomes by optimizing the provision of existing and new transportation services.
What is the National Strategy for Roadway Digital Infrastructure?
- The National Strategy for Roadway Digital Infrastructure is a document that describes the decisions, initiatives, and collaborative roles and responsibilities of different players around achievement of national priorities for roadway digital infrastructure.
The following overall steps and schedule for developing the National Strategy for Roadway Digital Infrastructure are as follows:
- The scope and structure of the National Strategy for Roadway Digital Infrastructure will be discussed and developed in early 2023;
- The National Strategy for Roadway Digital Infrastructure content will be developed in the summer of 2023; and
- Stakeholder engagement activities for the National Strategy for Roadway Digital Infrastructure will occur in the winter of 2023/24.
Information about strategy development and stakeholder engagement opportunities will be posted on this webpage.
Upcoming Engagement Activities
IN PERSON CONFERENCE: January 7-11, 2024 – Washington DC
2024 TRB Annual Meeting
The TRB Annual Meeting will feature several workshops related to RDI Strategy, including:
- Workshop 1003: Transportation Systems Management and Operations Data Exchanges: On-Ramps to the National Roadway Digital Infrastructure
- Workshop 1004: Preparing, Conducting, and Summarizing the Results: Assessing Traffic Management Systems
- Workshop 1042: Information Technology Will Not Let Me Work and Operations Technology Will Sink Our Network
- Workshop 5002: Roadway Digital Infrastructure Strategy
Focused engagement activities to support the RDI strategy development are happening throughout spring and summer 2023. Outputs from the activities will be posted when available.
Recent Engagement Activities
- WEBINAR: December 1, 2023 TRB Webinar: National Roadway Digital Infrastructure Strategy and ROD-X
- CONFERENCE: TRB ARTS 2023: Session 355-National and Continental Strategy for Digital Infrastructure to Integrate Automation into Transportation
- WEBINAR: June 8, 2023 Roadway Automated Driving Systems (ADS) Integration Concept of Operations for Transportation Agencies
- TRB Annual Meeting, Roadway Digital Infrastructure Workshop, January 12, 2023
- ITS World Congress, Digital Infrastructure Workshop, September 11, 2022