Panel Members for FY 2026 Projects in the National Cooperative
Highway
Research Program (NCHRP)
27 May 2025
On April 9-11, 2025, the AASHTO Special Committee on Research and Innovation (R&I) formulated
the NCHRP's FY 2026 program. We are asking for your
help in identifying individuals with relevant expertise and
experience to volunteer to serve on each project’s oversight panel.
Nominations should be submitted online from the TRB website at MyTRB at this link. You will be asked to login to MyTRB. If you do not
already have an account, you will be asked
to quickly create one using your email and a password.
Although the FY 2026 projects are tentative (they have not yet been
approved by States' ballot), we are soliciting now for nominees to meet future deadlines. We
appreciate anything you can do to identify or nominate qualified individuals by June 30,
2025.
Note to FHWA employees: Assignment of FHWA liaisons is coordinated through Ms. Jean Landolt’s
office. As a reminder, FHWA employees may serve as
liaisons to NCHRP panels but not as members.
- Panels for the new projects are scheduled to meet in person, beginning in August through
November. Panel members are prohibited from submitting or participating in preparation
of
proposals on projects under their jurisdiction. They serve without compensation but are
paid
travel and subsistence expenses. Travel insurance is provided at no cost to the members.
In many
cases, three meetings are held in the life of a project, and these normally occur in
Washington,
D.C. The first meeting is to develop a request for proposals that is used to solicit
proposals;
the second meeting is to select a research agency from among those submitting proposals.
Typically, a third meeting will be held to review progress with the research team while
the
research is active.
- Membership on each panel will number approximately eight, and panels operate under the
guidance of a chair "Your Role as an NCHRP Panel Member". The
NCHRP staff
serves as the secretariat.
Before nominating yourself to serve as a panel member, please review our Conflict of Interest policy. Please be advised that if you are
selected to
serve on a panel and we receive a proposal for that project that presents a conflict of
interest
for you, we will reject the proposal. This also applies to liaisons.