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Incorporating New and Emerging Technologies from the IDEA Programs into Your Everyday Practices

Incorporating New and Emerging Technologies from the IDEA Programs into Your Everyday Practices. Sandra Q. Larson, Iowa DOT Sandra.larson@dot.iowa.gov TRB, January 15 2013. IDEA Presentation Content. The IDEA (Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis) concept Origins/Eligibility/Funding

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Incorporating New and Emerging Technologies from the IDEA Programs into Your Everyday Practices

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  1. Incorporating New and Emerging Technologies from the IDEA Programs into Your Everyday Practices Sandra Q. Larson, Iowa DOT Sandra.larson@dot.iowa.gov TRB, January 15 2013

  2. IDEA Presentation Content • The IDEA (Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis) concept • Origins/Eligibility/Funding • IDEA Metrics • Product Development • Successful IDEA project examples • The Future • Opportunities for You

  3. IDEA Program Seed Funding for New Technology Development An effective and growing program that delivers innovative results leading to further research, development and commercialized products Resource for effective research programs to search for emerging technologies to investigate further

  4. Why look to IDEA Program for emerging technologies? Cutting edge research projects Vetted and selected by transportation experts for funding through the TRB Cooperative Research Programs Wealth of emerging technologies to be mined for innovative projects/ideas Proven program leading to commercialized products

  5. The IDEA Concept • Early-stage funding for promising but unproven innovations for highway systems • Useful for government research programs to have a place to send innovative, high risk proposals that otherwise could not be funded • Innovations that leap to next-generation technologies and methods • Investigator- driven, high risk- high pay-off research

  6. Origins of IDEA • First started 1988 by SHRP Exec Comm- need for high-risk, high pay-off innovation • Popular program- passed to TRB/NCHRP in 1992. Support by Dean Carlson and Frank Francois • Funded jointly by FHWA / AASHTO • Fully funded by AASHTO in 1999

  7. Current Program Three different IDEA programs that solicit proposals: NCHRP Highway TCRP Transit Safety for Railroads.

  8. Eligibility for IDEA Research Funding • Anyone is eligible • Investigators initiate proposals • Eligible projects are of two types- • Type 1: Explorations that demonstrate the validity of unproven concepts • Type 2: Development and testing of prototypes of proven concepts

  9. Available Funding • Seed money for innovative ideas • Up to $150k / project for highway IDEA • Up to $100k / project for transit and rail IDEA • Cost sharing is highly encouraged • Direct cash contributions • Indirect contributions and payment in kind

  10. ProductDevelopment IDEA #1 IDEA #2 Concept Prototype Evaluation Development Deployment Application TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

  11. IDEA Program Advantages • Partnership with potential users to test the innovation concept through IDEA committee members • Assistance and peer review by an expert IDEA committee • Assistance and peer review from IDEA project technical review panel • Wide exposure through TRB's home page and poster sessions at TRB’s Annual Meeting • Opportunity for further development through other research programs as EAR, SBIR,TIG

  12. Proven Performance of IDEA Programs

  13. IDEA Successes

  14. Drive Cam- Incident Recorder

  15. In 2010, DriveCam was listed as #30 on the Wall Street Journal’s List of Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies While working fulltime, I worked on DriveCam nights and weekends in my apartment, using my own credit cards to fund the prototypes. I even converted my bedroom to a lab and put the bed in the living room. It took about a year to develop a prototype that could be demonstrated.

  16. Hybrid Composite Beam Testing at the AAR Transportation Technology Center

  17. 70' HCB's being installed on Knickerbocker Bridge in Boothbay, ME for Maine DOT

  18. MMFX Steel RebarGundy County Iowa Bridge Deck

  19. Hycrete- Waterproof Concrete

  20. Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation for Transit Buses Bus Evaporator before Installation 120 Days after Installation

  21. Warning Device for Rail Transit Personnel for Approaching Trains ProTracker Personal Alert Device

  22. Automated Rail Wheel Inspection System

  23. Safety for Railroads IDEA Project on Rail Buckling – due to longitudinal stress in rails due to temperature-induced stresses, follow on private funding for field validation

  24. IDEA Program- Looking to the Future • Continue to look for ways to publicize the program and attract inventors to submit proposals • Continue to follow product development after project conclusion to document success stories • Continue to focus the program to meet the needs of the transportation industry • Continue to encourage opportunities

  25. Opportunities for You You and your agencies/companies can be part of the program – search for emerging technologies of interest to investigate Submit proposals Ignition Magazine: News from TRB’s IDEA Programs – Fall/Winter 2012 www.trb.org/IDEAProgram

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