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Innovation in Transportation Proceedings of a Workshop, September 24-26, 1979, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. (1980) / Chapter Skim
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... The one thing all of them have in common is that after very carefully run studies, and very carefully worded reports and recommendations, nothing ever happens. That brings me back to one of the speakers today, Bob Charpie, who ran the first innovation study that I remember, when he was with the Commerce Technical Advisory Board.
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... This is the relationship between technical innovation and the educational process. Whether the problem gets fed into the problem of innovation in transportation, I do not know; however, it does appear to many of us that we have difficult problems in the engineering education field.
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