 Technology Transfer
Vanguard Technology
The Vanguard Technology initiative is designed to greatly accelerate the widespread adoption of high-payoff innovations to benefit road users. In the past, it could take decades for innovations to become mainstream.
The Vanguard Technology process uses dedicated teams, proven marketing approaches and designated funding to deploy innovations much faster. For each innovation, technical and marketing experts identify needs, set implementation goals, develop a strategy and work to accelerate adoption across the country
Publications
"Managing Technology Transfer: A Strategy for the FHWA (Special Report 256, TRB):"
Your technology or innovation will benefit your target audiences--from their perspective.
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"Relationship Marketing: A Key to Success and Survival:"
Sept/Oct 2001
Your technology or innovation will benefit your target audiences--from their perspective.
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"Performance Contracting for Construction:"
April 2006
State and local Departments of Transportation (DOT) and the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) are facing two significant challenges: A large portion of the U.S. transportation infrastructure is reaching the end of its design life and needs to be reconstructed, and, at the same time, traffic levels and congestion levels are increasing steadily.
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Related Articles
- Concrete Blog
A recent UDOT showcase demonstrated a quick and effective way to repair concrete pavement using precast panels.
- Road Construction: Self-prescribed
Michigan DOT used performance contracting and reduced construction time from 127 days to 94 days, extended the expected service life of the pavement from 11 years to 20 years, and created a total savings of $1,651,675 over the now longer, 20-year service life of the roadway. (Roads & Bridges, March 2001)
- Performance Contracting
- Master State Participation in Highways for LIFE Program
- Prefabricated Bridge Elements and Systems Cost Study: Accelerated Bridge Construction Success Stories
- "Leap Not Creep" - article from Public Roads, Jan/Feb 2008
- "Accelerating Deployment of New Technologies" - article from May/June, 2009 Public Roads
- "A Primer on Consumer Marketing Research: Procedures, Methods, and Tools,"
Prepared for Office of Policy Development,FHWA - March, 1994.
Innovation Webinar Series
As part of the Highways for LIFE (HfL) effort to get more people using innovations, in cooperation with the National
Highway Institute, HfL initiated a series of monthly
web conferences. Each 90-minute web conference focuses on a different innovation and includes a panel of speakers
from throughout the highway community who are recognized experts in the particular innovation. We bring together users
of these innovations to share their experiences and the lessons they learned and then answer questions from the
participants.
Upcoming Webinars
- Bridge Preservation Webinar
March 15, 2012
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
Training in Technology Deployment
Want to learn more about how to go about successfully deploying an innovation? Highways for LIFE, working with the National Highway Institute, has developed a training course designed to provide you with the necessary tools get that new technology out there and in use. Called, "Leap not Creep, Accelerating Innovation Implementation," the course uses both in-class and web-based training. For more details, see http://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/training/course_detail.aspx?num=FHWA-NHI-134073&topicnum=134.
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Updated: 08/03/2011 |
