Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 3: Expediting Future Technologies for Enhancing Transportation System Performance (2013) / Chapter Skim
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3 Much work has been done to bring information about technology research and development to practitioners so that technologies can be implemented in support of transportation agencies' missions. These include • The Cooperative Research Programs' synthesis reports series on the state of practice in many areas, including transportation3; • NCHRP and AASHTO domestic and international scans of transportation innovations; and • AASHTO's Technology Implementation Group, which highlights valuable, application-ready but little-used innovations4; These and other efforts help to increase practitioners' awareness and understanding of available technologies and to facilitate adoption and implementation of these technologies.
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4The research team commissioned case studies of specific instances of technology assessment and adoption by transportation agencies to assess a wide range of barriers in greater depth, document lessons learned, and articulate strategies that agencies might consider to overcome barriers. The selected case studies focus on four technology applications: • ITS, • Pavement technology and infrastructure, • Context-sensitive solution (CSS)
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5 for agencies to secure or use the resources to successfully adopt technologies. Public agency contracting procedures (e.g., stringent bidding requirements, policies against sole-source supplier relationships, or inefficient bid/award rules)
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6surveys of practitioners and have a clear structure that permits easy identification of the objectives, scope, and other features of the report. Each study tailors this approach to the needs of its particular subject.
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7 Principles for Better Technology Assessment The key to gaining greater mastery over technology assessment and implementation decision making is to ask explicitly: What potential benefits to transportation agencies would come as a result of employing the technology being considered? Technology ultimately is a means to one or more ends.
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8• Designing • Financing • Constructing • Operating • Inspecting • Maintaining • Researching • Assessing Each function involves making decisions and it is rare when the decisions for any one of these functions do not have implications for at least one of the other functions. Put simply, the list implies more of a cycle than a unidirectional flow (although this oversimplifies the relationships among these functions)
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9 cation" in the figure and are necessary before it can be determined that a match can be made. Once a match is made, two important tasks remain before the technology can be implemented.
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10 sophisticated and easily updated perspective that will allow them to include and reflect the state of knowledge about individual technologies and to include this knowledge within a common field of information. Principle 6: Make the Assessment Process Less Disruptive to and More Integral with Regular Agency Functions Several issues make discussion of technological alternatives difficult within transportation agencies.
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