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Back to Basics – Fostering and Nurturing a Research Agenda for TRB Standing Committees

Back to Basics – Fostering and Nurturing a Research Agenda for TRB Standing Committees. July 25, 2012 Michael DeCarmine Program Officer Transportation Research Board Technical Activities (Division A) mdecarmine@nas.edu. Research Needs Statements (RNS) database. rns.trb.org.

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Back to Basics – Fostering and Nurturing a Research Agenda for TRB Standing Committees

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  1. Back to Basics –Fostering and Nurturing a Research Agenda for TRB Standing Committees July 25, 2012 Michael DeCarmine Program Officer Transportation Research Board Technical Activities (Division A) mdecarmine@nas.edu

  2. Research Needs Statements (RNS) database rns.trb.org

  3. Research Needs Statements (RNS) Database: • Launched in 2007 • More than 1,100 RNS now posted • 80 RNS added in 2012

  4. General Information: • TRB Technical Activities standing committees • Only RNS that have been reviewed and approved by the sponsoring committee • More than 160 committees and subcommittees have RNS posted

  5. Subject Categories: • 37 subject categories • Cover broad range of transportation research

  6. Roles: • Authorized Editors • Committee Research Coordinator • Committee Chair • Committee Member • Other • TRB Staff

  7. Audience: • Site traffic is up from last year • Visitors from around 100 countries/territories in June

  8. www.trb.org

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  12. rns.trb.org

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  24. Please click here if you wish to share information or are aware of any research underway that addresses issues in this research needs statement. The information may be helpful to the sponsoring committee in keeping the statement up-to-date.

  25. Latest developments: • Archived status created • Email alerts to staff for recently archived records • Newly submitted statements will be reviewed by staff before posting • Reporting: Statement views by subject or sponsoring committee • Rewrite code for database

  26. Questions?

  27. Online Resources July 25, 2012 Michael DeCarmine Program Officer Transportation Research Board Technical Activities (Division A) mdecarmine@nas.edu

  28. TRB State Representatives: Guides and Resources • General Information • Finding People • TRB 101 • TRB State Partnership Visits • Resources for Researchers

  29. http://www.trb.org/AboutTRB/pages/264.aspx

  30. http://www.trb.org/AboutTRB/pages/264.aspx

  31. Resources for Researchers • Research Needs Statements (RNS) database • Research in Progress (RiP) • TRID – Transportation Research Database • Transportation Research Record Online • Practice-Ready Papers (PRP) database • AASHTO SCOR/RAC Website

  32. Research Needs Statements (RNS) database • An important function of the Transportation Research Board is to stimulate research that addresses concerns, issues, or problems facing the transportation community. In support of this function, TRB Technical Activities Division standing committees identify, develop, and disseminate research need statements for use by practitioners, researchers, and others.

  33. Research in Progress (RiP) database • The Research In Progress (RiP) database contains more than 8,400 transportation research projects. Most of the RiP records are projects funded by federal and state departments of transportation. University transportation research is also included.

  34. Research in Progress (RiP) database • Research in Progress is a searchable database of currently or recently completed research projects • Federal Transportation Agencies, State DOTs, University Transportation Centers and some international organizations contribute to RiP

  35. Research in Progress (RiP) database • Prevents duplication • Connects you to researchers working in your field from around the world • Promotes your research projects • Supply TRB information on your research projects

  36. TRID, the TRIS and ITRD database • TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database.

  37. TRID, the TRIS and ITRD database • Largest and most comprehensive database which focuses on published transportation research • Contains records of published transportation research • TRIS produced by TRB for over 40 years before integrating with ITRD in 2011 to produce TRID

  38. TRID, the TRIS and ITRD database • TRID includes over 940,000 records covering: • All TRB publications going back to 1923 • TRIS and ITRD records, in English, French, German or Spanish • Research in progress • Theses and EIS • Technical reports and university research • Journals and conference proceedings • Monographs • All modes and many disciplines • Enhancements –browsing, hot topics, downloads, emailing of results, sharing and bookmarking of results via social media

  39. Transportation Research Record Online • The Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR Journal) is one of the most cited and prolific transportation journals in the world. • TRR Journal publishes approximately 60 volumes annually of outstanding, peer-reviewed papers presenting research findings in policy, planning, administration, economics and financing, operations, construction, design, maintenance, safety, and more, for all modes of transportation. • The site provides electronic access to a full compilation of papers since the 1996 series.

  40. Practice-Ready Papers (PRP) database • Each year standing committees in the Technical Activities Division identify peer-reviewed papers that could be of potential interest to practitioners as practice-ready.

  41. Practice-Ready Papers (PRP) database • The standing committees in the Design and Construction Group have been identifying and cataloging practice-ready papers since 1998. • The PRP database contains full papers going back to 2006 • Abstracts are posted for the 2005 to 1998 Practice-Ready Papers

  42. Practice-Ready Papers (PRP) database • The standing committees in the Operations and Preservation Group joined the effort in 2009. • All Groups in the Technical Activities Division began to identify practice-ready papers in 2010. • This effort was designed, initiated, and expanded to help practitioners to more easily find those papers which may be of most immediate interest to them.

  43. Practice-Ready Papers (PRP) database • The committee chair is responsible for making the final decision on which papers are practice-ready, using the following guidelines: • The paper must be recommended for presentation at the Annual Meeting. (Publication in the Transportation Research Record is not a requirement.) • The research results presented and discussed in the paper should be ready for immediate implementation or with minimal additional research or implementation effort. • The paper should contain guidance on additional effort required for implementation. • The research should make a major contribution to the solution of current or future problems or issues.

  44. Practice-Ready Papers (PRP) database • What can you tell us about the PRP database? • Are you (or others at your organization) already using it? • What do you like about it? • Is there anything that would make it more useful to you?

  45. Questions?

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