BACKGROUND

Transportation agencies and public safety organizations frequently lack the subject-matter expertise to select appropriate technology, including communications systems. State, local, tribal, and territorial departments of transportation (DOTs) have invested heavily in land mobile radio (LMR) communications systems to support their field staff during daily activities and incident response or emergencies, and LMR communication continues to be essential to public safety practitioners, including for infrastructure protection, coordination, operations, and emergency response.

NCHRP Project 03-129, "Essential Communications: A Guide to Land Mobile Radio," produced a 483-page guide. Research is complete, but the guide needs to be revised to be suitable for AASHTO consideration.

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this research is to revise the NCHRP Project 03-129 guide and to prepare the final guide for publication under the proposed title Emerging Land Mobile Radio Communications Guide.