The State of Transportation summarizes information gleaned from the TRB staff visits program during 2004. The summary also includes boxed reports on three areas of emphasis: performance measures, succession planning, and national parks and public lands.
Under the annual field visit program, TRB staff meets on site with representatives of each state department of transportation as well as with representatives of universities, transit and other modal agencies, and industry. The objectives of the field visit program are to identify problems and issues of importance to the department or organization visited, provide assistance and information to help the organization address the problems and issues, identify problems and issues that TRB should address to assist transportation organizations, and identify activities that TRB should continue or undertake to provide the best service to sponsors and other customers.