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

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  • Creators:
    Ashuri, Baabak ; Shahandashti, Mohsen ORCID ICON IMG ; Tavakolan, Mehdi
  • Corporate Creators:
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Corporate Contributors:
    Southeast Transportation Consortium
  • Subject/TRT Terms:
  • 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.
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    https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/26924/dot_26924_DS1.pdf
  • File Type:
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  • Collection(s):
    US Transportation Collection
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