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The Conduct of Research Committee sponsored several sessions at the 2006 Annual Meeting. Links are to session PowerPoint files or presentation materials. The sessions were:
Session 224:Improving the Conduct of Research Through Peer Review and Peer Exchanges
Session 271: Accountability and Performance Measures: Economic Keys to Building a Robust Research Program,
Session 505: Advancing Future Transportation, and
A Workshop on Research Collaboration.
with Committee Member Barbara Thomas Harder, B T Harder Inc., presiding. This session was cosponsored with the Committee on Technology Transfer, and explored different approaches to peer review and peer exchange and the benefits of these approaches. The session featured:
Lawrence H Klepner, Delaware Department of Transportation,
Jeff Dowd of the U.S. Department of Energy, Craig Robinson of the National Science Foundation,
Donna McEnrue, Federal Highway Administration, and
COR Committee Member Leni Oman of Washington State Department of Transportation.
with Committee Member Gary A. Frederick, New York State Department of Transportation, presiding. This session continued the visibility and encouraged the use of theSeven Keys to Building a Robust Research Program, specifically to highlight the basic key, trust, within the agency and among participants and the key root in economics. The session featured:
Barbara Thomas Harder, B T Harder Inc. providing an overview of the concepts from the Seven Keys,
Paul Krugler of Texas A&M University System presenting on the Performance Measurement Tool Box and Reporting System for Research Programs and Projects (NCHRP Project 20-63),
with Breakthrough Innovations with Committee Member Debra S. Elston, Federal Highway Administration, presiding. This session will highlight the findings of 2005's FHWA-sponsored advanced research think tank forums. These forums presented some breakthrough innovations to provide a basis for developing an FHWA Advanced Research Agenda. As the advanced research agenda unfolds, leveraging resources through expanded partnerships is in order to achieve revolutionary transportation improvements. The session featured opening remarks from Dennis C. Judycki, Federal Highway Administration, forum facilitator Glen Hiemstra, Consultant, and RTCC Member Timothy R. Neuman of CH2M Hill.
The committee also sponsored a half-day Research Collaboration Workshop on Thursday morning.
Research Collaboration: How Can We Improve Our Partnerships? A Workshop
Organized federal transportation research efforts began in 1893 with the creation of the Office of Road Inquiry within the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate the best methods of road making. Since then, transportation research has evolved to include not only traditional infrastructure research but also transportation policy, traffic and congestion, multimodal topics and intermodal connectivity, human factors, and several environmental topics. Within these topics, methods to develop, manage, finance, implement, and assess the daily products of transportation agencies have all been studied. As transportation research topics have diversified, the opportunity and need to collaborate with other organizations have increased.
Partnerships in Research: What Are They and Why Do We Need Them? (P06-1088)
Joseph M. Sussman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How Identification of Research Focus Areas Has Affected the Ability to Partner with Other Organizations on Research Topics (P06-1089)
Edward Johnson, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Technology Transfer Partnerships Program at the National Cancer Institute (P06-1090)
Donna Bialozor, National Cancer Institute
Establishing Partnerships to Support the Center for Transportation Research and Education (P06-1092)
Stephen J. Andrle, Iowa State University
Transportation Research and Technology Collaboration Efforts Within U.S. Department of Transportation and Broader Research Community (P06-1093)
Eric C. Peterson, Research and Innovative Technology Administration