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The National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) manages practical, applied research that addresses problems identified by practitioners and managers in state departments of transportation (DOTs). The transportation community has employed a variety of strategies, methods, and techniques to implement research products, but these approaches have been ad hoc. To address this situation, NCHRP has adopted a systematic approach called “active implementation," which builds on a solid implementation infrastructure, dedicated funding, expertise, and implementation teams. This article outlines the components of active implementation: (1) Effective products - A product must be teachable, learnable, doable, and readily assessible in practice; (2) Implementation stages - Implementation proceeds through four functional stages: exploration, product development, initial implementation, and full implementation; (3) Implementation drivers - Implementation drivers can be sorted into three types: competency, organization, and leadership; (4) Implementation teams - Members of the implementation team need special expertise in program processes, implementation science and practice, cycles of improvement, and methods of change for organizations and systems; and (5) Product feedback - The NCHRP implementation team uses feedback from users of the product to maintain the product’s quality and practical value and to incorporate improvements. In this way, product feedback supports the purposeful process of change.

English

pp 29-36

2017-7

TR News

Digital/other

Figures; Photos; References; Tables

Implementation; Research management; State departments of transportation; Technology transfer

National Cooperative Highway Research Program

Highways; Research

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

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