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... 5 such as NCHRP Report 382: Facilitating the Implementation of Research Findings: A Summary Report (1996) ; NCHRP Synthesis 355: Transportation Technology Transfer: Successes, Challenges, and Needs (2005)
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... 6 DEFINITIONS A number of terms commonly used within the transportation community deal with implementation. This report will use those terms in the course of discussion, and may also refer to terms in other industry domains that have equivalent or similar meanings.
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... 7 or group of users. "New to the user" means any improvement over existing technologies or processes and not only a recent invention or research result.
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... 8 topic of innovation implementation. This synthesis addresses opportunities that transportation practitioners and organizations have to accelerate the implementation processes, as shown in Table 1.
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... 9 instrument, which is the typical means of data gathering used for such synthesis studies. Early on in the planning for the information and data gathering it was also determined that those who possess the desired information were individuals within agencies that may not have similar titles or similarly defined responsibilities, making the distribution of a survey very difficult.

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