Evaluations of FHWA Research & Technology Program Projects. Evaluation of FHWA's Every Day Counts Program

CRP Special Release 5 presents an evaluation of FHWA’s Every Day Counts (EDC) Program. The report will be of interest to those responsible for identifying and deploying innovative technologies, systems, and processes in surface transportation. The report also addresses the broader topics of technology transfer, diffusion of innovation, and methods to quantify the value of research. This report documents an evaluation of FHWA’s Every Day Counts (EDC) Program. FHWA started the EDC Program in 2009 as a state-centric initiative for identifying and deploying proven, but underutilized, innovations that can make U.S. surface transportation more adaptable, sustainable, equitable, and safer for all. By accelerating the adoption of the selected technologies and practices, the EDC Program seeks to promote an innovation-oriented culture in the surface transportation community that will ultimately facilitate and accelerate the diffusion of promising improvements in the future. The EDC Program was assessed under the TRB-FHWA Program Evaluation (TFPE) effort. For Project TFPE-04, “Evaluation of FHWA’s Every Day Counts Program,” RTI International was tasked to evaluate the EDC Program’s strategic and operational management, the outcomes attributable to program activities, and the extent to which those outcomes supported progress on FHWA’s strategic goals. This report presents evidence regarding the efficiency, implementation, and effectiveness of the EDC Program in pursuing its goals. Also included are indicators of the outputs and outcomes generated by the program and the program’s contribution to broader impacts on the culture of innovation in the surface transportation community.

• Record URL:
  • http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4864
• Supplemental Notes:
  • CRP Special Release 5 is available at https://doi.org/10.17226/28871

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $350,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 04

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Cooperative Research Programs

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Zelinski, Patrick

• Performing Organizations:

  Research Triangle Institute

  3040 East Cornwallis Road
  P.O. Box 12194
  Research Triangle Park, NC  United States  27709
• Principal Investigators:

  Alexander, Jeffrey

• Start Date: 20221007
• Expected Completion Date: 20241231
• Actual Completion Date: 20241231

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Evaluation; Innovation; Lessons learned; Programming (Planning); Public private partnerships; State departments of transportation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01857113
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 04
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Sep 6 2022 11:46AM