Strategic
Highway Research Program
The Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) was established by Congress in 1987 as a 5-year, $150 million research program to improve the performance and durability of our Nation's
highways and to make them safer
for motorists and highway
workers. As a follow-on program to SHRP, Congress established in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 programs to
implement SHRP products and to
continue SHRP's long-term
pavement performance (LTPP) program. FHWA is taking the lead in this effort through its SHRP Product Implementation Program and its
adoption of SHRP's LTPP program.
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