The overall goal of the North Central Pavement Research Partnership is to improve the roads in the region by delivering thoughtful and timely research findings for implementation. This will be done by integrating and coordinating the research efforts of the member agencies in order to reduce research duplication, to engage the best research teams, to optimize the use of research dollars, to expedite research solutions, and to effectively communicate research results and issues.

In order to maximize the impact of available highway research monies, the partnership has the following objectives: 1. Share research problem statements from individual partner agencies. 2. Establish common short and long term research objectives in specific areas 3. Assess and prioritize common research objectives. 4. Identify means (including pooled funds) to initiate and monitor priority research projects of common interest. 5. Share and review the results from research projects of common interest. 6. Collaborate on the implementation of research results of common interest. 7. Transfer technology to improve highways 8. Share issues, research needs, data, and solutions on an on-going basis. 9. Fund and execute short-term research and technology transfer activities as needed and as able.

Proposed deliverables: - Meeting notes. - Organizational structure, by-laws, and procedures. - Partnership web site. - Short and long term research needs and objectives. - Collaborative research efforts. - Inventory of partnership pavement research resources. - Summaries of member research to support technology transfer. - Annual conference to facilitate sharing of research results. - Agreements to expedite research administration (i.e. overhead rates, intellectual property, etc.)

$5,000 per year requested from each state for two years.