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Priority, Market-Ready Technologies and Innovations (T&I)

Technology deployment is one of our Agency's key business processes. The attached list continues to fulfill our commitment to "establish a priority list of market-ready technologies and innovations" (T&Is) made in the FHWA Corporate Master Plan for Research and Deployment of Technology and Innovation. Our initial list of priority T&Is came out in 2003. Today, I am introducing the Agency's updated list containing 24 Priority, Market-Ready, Technologies and Innovations. The 2006 list adopted five technologies selected by the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials Technology Implementation Group.

The Agency's R&T Leadership Team endorses the Priority, Market-Ready, Technologies and Innovations including 18 from the initial 2003 list and 6 newly selected technologies and innovations. This is a "living list" and in 2005, the R&T Leadership Team committed to establishing deployment goals for the Agency's list of "push" technologies and innovations. Establishing deployment goals and an impact statement is a crucial step in measuring our success and performance.

The coordination and communication of this list is a joint effort by the Office of Corporate Research and Technology and the Resource Center. The priority T&Is were submitted by a technology owner or champion and meet the market-ready criteria. The list summarizes all 24 technologies and innovations and provides current information on the topics and the experts to contact for technical assistance. Individual one-page marketing flyers containing a description, application of the technology or innovation, deployment goals and technical contact information will be distributed throughout FWHA in early 2006 and available at the TRB annual meeting in January.

I hope you find this information useful. Please contact Debra Elston at 202-493-3181 or Joyce Curtis at 410-962-0739 for further information.

Priority, Market-Ready T&I List

• Priority, Market-Ready Technologies and Innovations Summary List 
  
  
• 511 Traveler Information
• Accelerated Construction Technology Transfer (ACTT)*
• Adaptive Control Software Lite (ACS-Lite)
• Air Void Analyzer (AVA)*
• Asset Management Guide
• Bridge and Tunnel Security
• Cable Median Barriers*
• Construction Analysis for Pavement Rehabilitation Strategies (CA4PRS)
• Continuous Flight Auger (CFA) Piles
• DYNASMART-P
• Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) Geofoam
• Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP)*
• Highway Economic Requirements System, State Version (HERS-ST)
• Improved Decisionmaking Using Geographic Information Systems
• ITS Deployment Analysis System (IDAS)
• Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) and Rating of Structures
• Pavement Smoothness Methodologies
• PedSafe
• Prefabricated Bridge Elements and Systems (PFBES)*
• Road Safety Audits (RSA)*
• Roundabouts
• Rumble Strips
• Transportation, Economics, and Land Use System (TELUS)
• USLIMITS

Deployment Links

• FHWA Priority, Market-Ready, Technologies and Innovations
• Highways for Life
• FHWA Resource Center
• Local and Tribal Technical Assistance Program

Innovation Life Cycle Phases

• Agenda
• Ongoing Research
• Technologies
• Deployment
• Impacts

Other Links

• AASHTO 2006 Focus Technologies
• ASHTO Additionally Selected Technologies