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91 Abbreviations Abbreviation Term ABC Accelerated Bridge Construction ACEC American Council of Engineering Companies ADOT Arizona Department of Transportation AID Accelerated Innovation Deployment CAI Center for Accelerating Innovation CFR Code of Federal Regulations CMAQ Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality CPCS Canadian Pacific Consulting Services CTA Chicago Transit Authority CUTC Council of University Transportation Centers DOT Department of Transportation DOTD Department of Transportation and Development EDC Every Day Counts FAST Act Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act FFY Federal Fiscal Year FTE Full-Time Equivalent HBRRP Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program HSIP Highway Safety Improvement Program ICT Illinois Center for Transportation IDIQ Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity IM Interstate Maintenance IT Information Technology ITRD International Transport Research Documentation Database LRP Long-Range Plan LTAP Local Technical Assistance Program MPO Metropolitan Planning Organization

92 Managing State Transportation Research Programs Abbreviation Term OST-R Office of Research and Technology PE Professional Engineer PI Principal Investigator QA Quality Assurance QC Quality Control R&I Research and Innovation RAC Research Advisory Council/Committee RFP Request for Proposals RFQ Request for Qualifications ROI Return on Investment RPO Regional Planning Organization RRC Research Review Committee RSP Research Strategic Plan SHRP Strategic Highway Research Program SPR State Planning and Research STIC State Transportation Innovation Council STP Surface Transportation Program TAC Technical Advisory Committee TAG Technical Advisory Group TIDP Technology and Innovation Deployment Program TPF Transportation Pooled Fund TRID Transportation Research International Database TRP Technical Review Panel TSP Technical Services Program UMA University Master Agreement USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers USGS U.S. Geological Survey UTC University Transportation Center WBS Work Breakdown Structure NHS National Highway System

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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 522: Managing State Transportation Research Programs identifies the current state of practice of managing state transportation research programs. The report highlights existing resources, desired individual skill sets, core competencies, and structures that are in place for departments of transportation (DOTs) to manage and conduct transportation research, especially federally funded research.

In essence, NCHRP Synthesis 522 addresses how transportation agencies organize and manage their research programs to strive for quality and positive impacts on the transportation system over time (value). The report includes a four-dimensional framework to analyze and shed light on how state DOT research programs with differences in agency needs, resources, and constraints are able to produce programs of high quality and value.

State transportation agencies conduct applied research with a goal of ultimately creating new knowledge to enhance the transportation system. Agency research as an activity requires special skills and capabilities—it convenes practitioners, scholars, and policy makers to identify and pursue the knowledge that is most needed.

These and other attributes of research make it unlike other DOT functions such as planning, programming, construction, maintenance, and operations, even though it eventually enables agencies to perform those functions. The payoffs and innovative outcomes of research can be significant and valuable, although they are rarely immediate.

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