Coordination, Collaboration, and Outreach Subcommittee
Co-Chairs:
Curtis Bradley (NC DOT), cbradley8@ncdot.gov
Marwa Hassan (LSU), marwa@lsu.edu
Larry Rilett (Auburn), lrr0023@auburn.edu
Scope: This subcommittee actively supports, monitors, and develops methods, practices, and tools to enable coordination and collaboration, and provides outreach to the TRB and broader research communities to influence a coordinated national transportation research agenda.
Work Underway: Current activities include coordination with the National Transportation Knowledge Network, Council of University Transportation Centers; supporting collaboration through the Research Program and Project Management website and the TRB Research Funding guide; and engaging with the NCHRP 20-123(09) scoping study for an innovations platform. In addition, this subcommittee serves TRB technical committees by assisting with joint sessions, workshops, and panel discussions.
Subcommittee Updates
The National Transportation Library had two highlights: the USDOT History website is back as a libguide and they have a great collection highlighted on ROSA-P: back issues of FHWA’s magazine Public Roads from 1918-1994.
For those interested in knowledge management and libraries, consider joining the National Transportation Knowledge Network’s Community of Practice calls. They cover 508 accessibility, cooperative digitization, and library advocacy. You can also check out the NTKN Blog to get to know some of their members in their member spotlight stories.
The Council of University Transportation Centers is running a webinar series on the Indigenous People of America’s experience in transportation. The first webinar is posted and more will be announced soon. You can also find their prior webinar series on “Changing the TIDE in Transportation,” a webinar series on equity and the Black experience in transportation.
Subcommittee meeting: July 25, 3-4:30 pm ET, National RAC Meeting-Chattanooga, TN. Draft Meeting Minutes.
Research Through Deployment of Emerging Topics Subcommittee
Co-Chairs:
Brian Hirt, CTC & Associates, LLC, brian.hirt@ctcandassociates.com
Dr. Giri Venkiteela, New Jersey DOT, giri.venkiteela@dot.nj.gov
Members:
Jerry Spears, Maaza Mekuria, Bret Johnson, Stephanie Harrell, Derrick Grimes, John Karachepone, Skip Paul, and Stephanie Dock.
Scope: Connect RIIM committee products, services, and expertise to TRB committees that address selected emerging topics, and incorporate new ideas pertinent to RIIM on these emerging topics.
Meeting Minutes
June 12, 2024 – RIIM Emerging Topics Meeting Minutes
April 4, 2024 – RIIM Emerging Topics Meeting Minutes
Work Underway:
In June 2024 identified Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a focus area, with an emphasis on identifying and addressing knowledge gaps
Formed a small working group for next steps
Survey to TRB Standing Committee Chairs is in development
Planned TRB 2025 Annual meeting activities:
Survey results and follow-up presentation during the RIIM meeting
Support of AI research implementation sessions that RIIM is coordinating
Meeting every other month – next planned on August 7 at 12 p.m. Eastern
Email the co-chairs to join us
Transportation Innovation Lifecycle
Chair:
Harold Paul, captskippaul@gmail.com
Innovation was added to the committee scope of the combined Research and Technology Transfer Committees during the 2020 TRB realignment. Workshop 1030, Defining the Transportation Innovation Life Cycle, was conducted during the virtual 2021 TRB Annual Meeting. There were diverse presentations (e.g., university, private, USDOT, state DOTs) and a robust discussion in the breakout groups. That workshop was a beginning and we found both strong interest in the exploration of innovation as well as breadth of ways to consider it. Innovation is the newest and weakest aspect of our committee so we proposed this subcommittee to focus on building structure and competence. The work will include roadmaps, innovation lifecycle, integration, outreach, etc.
Scope: The scope of this subcommittee is to define the innovation lifecycle as well as methods and opportunities to support innovation within the transportation community. The work will include roadmaps, transportation innovation lifecycle, integration, outreach, etc. This work will be connected closely with RIIM research task group.
Work Underway: During the TRB 2023 Annual Meeting, the Subcommittee presented the following: Transportation Innovation Lifecycle Process and Transportation Innovation Lifecycle with Elements.
Short term goals:
Review workshop presentations and break-out discussion group comments.
Develop a strawman Transportation Innovation Lifecycle for RIIM committee consideration
Suggest sessions or workshops to develop the lifecycle
Review the RNS on Innovation developed in the Emerging Research subcommittee.
Long term goals:
Integrate the proposed transportation Innovation Lifecycle into the activities of RIIM.
Develop a Roadmap to explore the segments of the innovation lifecycle.
Develop an outreach program to other TRB committees
Next subcommittee meeting will be held Monday March 25, 2024, 11 am Central Time (calendar invite) and the following items will be discussed:
2025 Session or Workshop on Procurement for Innovation
Short term/long term goals
Continuance of subcommittee?