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NCHRP 20-123(09) [Final]
Feasibility Study for a Platform to Capture Innovations from State Departments of Transportation
[ NCHRP 20-123 (Support for AASHTO Committees and Councils) ]
| Project Data |
| Funds: |
$100,000 |
| Research Agency: |
Public Knowledge, LLC |
| Principal Investigator: |
Adam Brown |
| Effective Date: |
1/4/2021 |
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BACKGROUND
Innovations are woven throughout the everyday operations of state departments of transportation (DOTs) across the country. These innovations can range from simple, hand-made widgets to improve a product or a process, to large scale technologies developed and deployed as the result of formal research studies. State DOTs often see that innovations, some with minimal investments and resources, provide benefits that far outweigh the cost of their development and deployment into practice. Several state DOTs have undertaken efforts to capture, monitor, and publicize innovations developed within their organizations, and this has led to a proliferation of disparate and discrete tools, databases, and resources that contain information on those innovations.
A need exists for a single “platform” to search for and retrieve information on innovations from all state DOTs and make them available in a readily deployable format to help accelerate or streamline adoption by others. This need has been repeatedly expressed by members of state DOTs, AASHTO committees, FHWA, and other transportation professionals. Similar platforms, such as the Research Program and Project Management (RPPM), AASHTO Product Evaluation List (APEL), and Transport Research International Documentation (TRID) exist on the research and evaluation side, which have proven invaluable to the transportation community over the years.
STATUS
The final report for the project is available here. The report includes appendices that provide more information and background on the findings contained in the main part of the report.
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