It’s a brave new world out there and the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has identified its six key research priorities for 2018. The ATRI created the following list of priorities in March, which only just recently got approved by its board of directors. Change in the trucking industry is upon us (think Big Data, city planning, and autonomous vehicles to name a few) and having additional research to formulate best practices on how to address these areas of concern is always a good thing.