RITA's Strategic Goals

RITA's five strategic goals are to:

• Guide Investment to Maximize the Impact of U.S. DOT's RD&T Resources
• Enable and Expedite Innovation into the Transportation Enterprise
• Inform Transportation Decision Makers
• Expand a World-Class Transportation Knowledge Base
• Instill Organizational Health and Excellence

RITA’s strategic goals focus on the processes of conducting research and development, encouraging innovation, and providing data and training that cut across the outcome-based goals in the USDOT Strategic Plan. Each RITA goal thus contributes to the accomplishment of each of the USDOT goals.