The Research, Development, & Technology Transfer (RDT) Program at the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) is in the process of setting a strategic direction to improve the effectiveness of its activities. The development of the RDT Strategic Plan, a research roadmap to achieve the agency?s vision, recognizes the vital contribution that research makes to the efficient and effective delivery of transportation services to the community.
The overarching vision is to leverage DDOT?s unique characteristics, location and relationships to transform the RDT program to a leader in applied urban transportation research.
This strategic plan lays out the blueprint for the research program for the next five years (2013-2018).
This publication documents the research and development processes at the Georgia Department of transportation.
This is a list of links for Research Report Guidelines, Templates & Publication Contacts for state DOTs, regional UTCs, FHWA and TRB.
The Research & Implementation Guidance Document for 2016(Guideline One) has been posted on the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) website.
Our Branch Engineer Ron Curb designed the excellent flowcharts and corresponding text so that it is easy for readers to understand the process that we use here at ODOT.
Research & Implementation Services publishes Guideline One for those who participate in research with ODOT.
Guideline One (for 2016) can be viewed here:
http://www.okladot.state.ok.us/research/2016_RI_Guideline_One.pdf
This document contains language that is included in all research project work plans.
Research problem statement form completed and submitted for consideration.
This document provides a definition of implementation. It also lists implementation status’ and defines each.
This report gathers the results of an e-mail survey and follow-up interviews on research results implementation tracking at state transportation agencies. The majority of the 26 participants identified his or her agency as either focused entirely on funding research studies that lead to implementation, or as agencies that fund a variety of research project types and focus on implementation for select projects only. Half of the participants reported using an implementation tracking system, and of those participants, most reported his or her tracking system to be underused or outdated. Other notable findings included that most participants reported that only about 20 percent of the studies funded through his or her agency’s research division is policy-specific research; most participants reported that the best research results champions are from the management level and possess both technical and communication expertise; and motivation and time were the two largest roadblocks to successful research results implementation championship. Results are presented and discussed within the context of transportation research results implementation literature, and recommendations are provided for each core category of interview responses. Two implementation planning initiatives were undertaken at the Illinois Department of Transportation following the completion of the study and are detailed in this report.