Highway Research: DOT's Actions to Implement Best Practices for Setting Research Agendas and Evaluating Outcomes: Statement of Katherine Siggerud, Acting Director, Physical Infrastructure Team

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States General Accounting Office
• Contributors:
  Siggerud, Katherine
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Research management
  • Best practices
  • Technology transfer
  • Evaluation and assessment
  • Highway transportation
  • Highways
  • Decision support systems
  • Federal Highway Administration (U.S. Department of Transportation)
  • Federal research programs
  • Highway research
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  GAO-03-640T
• Resource Type:
  Policy Statement
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. General Accounting Office
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION ; NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-Construction and Maintenance ; NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-Design ; NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-Materials ; NTL-HIGHWAY/ROAD TRANSPORTATION-Pavement Management and Performance ; NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-Technology Transfer
• Abstract:
  The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is the primary federal agency involved in highway research. Given the expectations of highway research and the level of resources dedicated to it, it is important to know that FHWA is conducting high quality research that is relevant and useful. In May 2002, GAO issued a report on these issues and made recommendations to FHWA, which the agency agreed with, aimed at improving its processes for setting research agendas and evaluating its research efforts. GAO was asked to testify on (1) best practices for developing research agendas and evaluating research outcomes for federal research programs; (2) how FHWA's processes for developing research agendas align with these best practices; and (3) how FHWA's processes for evaluating research outcomes align with these best practices.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/15151/dot_15151_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 164.62 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4b63b32f43dcf2a0dda53f44dbdf0e3c8134c71ab242e126f4c997be72b2e250