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The Transportation Research Board's Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) programs offer early-stage funding for promising but unproven innovations for highways, transit, and railroad safety and performance. The goal is to promote innovations that can progress to next-generation technologies and methods. The authors review the IDEA programs' history and highlight several key inventions.

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pp 20-26

2012-11

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Highways; Public transit; Railroads; Research; Technological innovations

Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) (Program)

Highways; Public Transportation; Railroads; Research; I10: Economics and Administration

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 25 2013 10:55AM

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