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National Cooperative Highway Research Program

The National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) conducts research in problem areas that affect highway planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance nationwide.

HIGHLIGHTS
  • In 2008, NCHRP surveyed panel members to learn what they knew about the implementation of their research findings and how they would rate the program using four performance factors.
  • FY 2011 NCHRP Annual Report (PDF). For summaries of NCHRP projects from 1962 through 1988, see NCHRP Web Document 7.
  • Unfunded CRP problem statements 
  • 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of NCHRP! Click on the image of our new brochure below to read about how NCHRP has been advancing transportation for the past five decades.

                                        NCHRP 50th Anniversary

Information about NCHRP and other TRB activities is available in the TRB E-Newsletter.  The NCHRP is managed by the Cooperative Research Programs of the Transportation Research Board.

Quick Response Research for AASHTO Committees

Standing Committee on Highways

Standing Committee on Planning
Standing Committee on the Environment

Standing Committee on Public Transportation 



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