CRP Special Release 5 presents an evaluation of FHWA’s Every Day Counts (EDC) Program. The report will be of interest to those responsible for identifying and deploying innovative technologies, systems, and processes in surface transportation. The report also addresses the broader topics of technology transfer, diffusion of innovation, and methods to quantify the value of research.

This report documents an evaluation of FHWA’s Every Day Counts (EDC) Program. FHWA started the EDC Program in 2009 as a state-centric initiative for identifying and deploying proven, but underutilized, innovations that can make U.S. surface transportation more adaptable, sustainable, equitable, and safer for all. By accelerating the adoption of the selected technologies and practices, the EDC Program seeks to promote an innovation-oriented culture in the surface transportation community that will ultimately facilitate and accelerate the diffusion of promising improvements in the future.

The EDC Program was assessed under the TRB-FHWA Program Evaluation (TFPE) effort. For Project TFPE-04, “Evaluation of FHWA’s Every Day Counts Program,” RTI International was tasked to evaluate the EDC Program’s strategic and operational management, the outcomes attributable to program activities, and the extent to which those outcomes supported progress on FHWA’s strategic goals. This report presents evidence regarding the efficiency, implementation, and effectiveness of the EDC Program in pursuing its goals. Also included are indicators of the outputs and outcomes generated by the program and the program’s contribution to broader impacts on the culture of innovation in the surface transportation community.

CRP Special Release 5 is available at https://doi.org/10.17226/28871.