A Guide to Ensure Access to the Publications and Data of Federally Funded Transportation-Related Research

In February 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memo titled, “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research.” The goal of the policy is to ensure that, as stated in the memo, “to the greatest extent and with the fewest constraints possible and consistent with law and the objectives set out below, the direct results of federally funded scientific research are made available to and useful for the public, industry, and the scientific community. Such results include peer-reviewed publications and digital data.” The memo goes on to require that any research project utilizing federal funds must include open access research data management and publication plans and must provide for the long-term preservation and access of data and publications. The transportation sector has only recently begun to look at issues of long-term research data preservation and open access, although there are a number of transportation agencies and organizations that have experience with quite large research data sets. Some federal agencies and organizations that receive federal funding have had data management requirements in place for several years, creating a pool of knowledge and experience from which the transportation research community can draw. Research is needed to develop useful guidance and implementation activities to assist state departments of transportation (DOTs), other public agencies, and transportation research organizations to efficiently and effectively ensure access to the results of federally funded transportation-related research. The objective of this research is to develop guidance and activities to assist state DOTs, other public agencies, and transportation research organizations to efficiently and effectively ensure access to the results of federally funded transportation-related research. Such results include but are not limited to research-generated data and literature such as peer-reviewed publications and project final reports.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4062

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $249960
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 20-110

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 225
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Project Managers:

  Parker, Stephan

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

  2901 Baxter Road
  Ann Arbor, Michigan  United States  48109
• Principal Investigators:

  Flannagan, Carol

• Start Date: 20160805
• Expected Completion Date: 20180630
• Actual Completion Date: 20180630
• Source Data: RiP Project 40226

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Access; Best practices; Data files; Data management; Government funding; Information dissemination; Research management; State departments of transportation
• Subject Areas: Research; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01572343
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 20-110
• Files: TRB, RiP
• Created Date: Aug 6 2015 1:00AM