STC synthesis of best practices for determining value of research results : final report.

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• Creators:
  Ashuri, Baabak ; Shahandashti, Mohsen ; Tavakolan, Mehdi
• Corporate Creators:
  Georgia Institute of Technology
• Corporate Contributors:
  Southeast Transportation Consortium
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Best Practices Cost Effectiveness Innovation Research Projects State Departments Of Transportation Value Engineering
• Publication/ Report Number:
  LTRC Project No. 12-3PF
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Louisiana Transportation Research Center
• Abstract:
  Transportation research projects are aimed at fostering innovation in different areas, such as
  
  safety, cost savings, quality, efficiency, project delivery, and policy. Transportation agencies and
  
  most notably State Departments of Transportation (State DOTs) sponsor various transportation
  
  research projects to improve transportation system features, such as safety and cost effectiveness.
  
  Determining the value of transportation research projects is one of the most important tasks
  
  towards improving various features of transportation systems, such as safety, quality, and cost
  
  effectiveness. However, for many State DOTs, the true impact of transportation research projects
  
  on the transportation systems is generally unclear. This is due to the lack of comprehensive and
  
  implementable quantitative and qualitative methods for determining the value of transportation
  
  research projects. These evaluation methods should go beyond considering the value of research
  
  projects in terms of operational costs saving and include value of the research on various impact
  
  areas, such as congestion reduction, and accident and fatalities prevention. There is a need for
  
  research that identifies the best practices in using proper methods and measures for
  
  demonstrating the true value of research projects in terms of various transportation system
  
  features, such as safety, quality, and cost effectiveness. The application of these methods and
  
  measures requires the identification and collection of relevant data on the benefits resulting from
  
  the implementation of research project findings and recommendations. Therefore, there is a need
  
  for a synthesis that identifies the best practices for determining value of research results. This
  
  synthesis presents the aggregation and summarization of what the State DOTs have done for
  
  quantifying the value of research.
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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