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provides a blueprint for how transportation information is to be efficiently and effectively collected, preserved, and disseminated to researchers, policy makers, and practitioners. The blueprint presents a vision of a group of independent TKNs with membership from state DOTs, universities, local and regional transportation agencies, private sector transportation providers, associations, and the engineering/ consulting community.
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This task force is supporting formation of TKNs, enhancing information exchange in the transportation community, and serving as an advocate for continued improvement to knowledge-sharing tools and practices. Its goal is to "support the rapid and efficient exchange of information resources through development of strategies and the innovative use of technology." Full implementation of the recommendations of TRB Special Report 284 will require that the following challenges be addressed: • Articulate and communicate value to key decision makers who do not have the "transportation information infrastructure" on their radar screens, let alone on their lists of priorities; • Determine appropriate models of governance and allocation of funds; • Meet needs of a diverse community: academia and practitioners; federal/state/local/private; multiple modes; • Forge cooperative relationships across institutions with distinct agendas and priorities and across institutions that, in some cases, compete with one another for funds or contracts; • Develop collaborative approaches involving institutions that are in very different stages of readiness for collaboration with respect to awareness of the need for and benefits of collaboration, level of understanding of the information resources they hold that might be shared, level of cataloging in place, and nature of existing services to the user community; • Achieve a balance between contributors to the TKNs and users of the TKNs; and • Motivate those institutions that have well-established and well-funded information management programs to participate.
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Phase I consisted of the following five tasks: • Task 1 -- Transportation Community Outreach. Elicit input from a variety of stakeholders to shape the content of the business plan.
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