RESEARCH AGENDA FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

This paper describes a framework for a research agenda on refocusing transportation planning for the 21st century. This is truly a daunting task given the diversity of interests and needs that are represented by those who plan and by those who (we hope) use the results of this planning. The results of the Refocusing Transportation Planning for the 21st Century Conference I serve as the basic point-of-departure for this agenda, but the proposed research framework is designed to allow constant revisions to the agenda to reflect changing societal and technological contexts, many of which we cannot even imagine today. This flexibility, after all, is one of the important characteristics of a successful research program.