1. Documenting Research Outputs and Outcomes Alasdair Cain Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research & Technology U.S. Department of Transportation June 2014 www.rita.dot.gov/researchhub

2. The Research Hub – Documenting the Research Lifecycle

3. UTC Program Representation in the Research Hub

4. Project Outputs Definition: – The direct, tangible products of your research work Examples: – Technologies or techniques: – Inventions, patent applications & licenses – Databases, models – Software/netware – Educational aids or curricula – Instruments, or equipment Does NOT include: – Information dissemination tools (reports, journal papers/publications, conference presentations, webinars, etc.) – Academic performance measures (courses offered, research projects funded, graduated students, etc.)

5. Project Outcomes Definition: – the impacts and influences of your research outside the academic world Examples: – Deployment of a new technology or technique – Adoption of a new or improved practice or procedure by the transportation industry – Quantifiable impacts on safety, economy, environment, infrastructure resilience, etc. – Cited/documented impacts on decision- making, policies, or legislation

6. Submitting Information on Project Outputs & Outcomes Provide specific, concise, written descriptions, including quantitative evidence if available (one sentence to a couple of paragraphs in length) Active UTC grants: – Submit outputs/outcomes in your PPPR reports, or to research.hub@dot.govresearch.hub@dot.gov Past UTC grants: – Submit outputs/outcomes to research.hub@dot.govresearch.hub@dot.gov Submission format: Project Title (as in Research Hub) Output/ Outcome DescriptionSource/ Reference Structural Design, Construction, and Evaluation of a Prestressed Concrete Bridge Using Ultra High Performance Concrete Pi Girders OutputThe result of this project was the pi-girder, a 33-inch-deep deckbulb-double-Tee girder that can span up to 87 feet. This component facilitates the accelerated construction of durable infrastructure systems. “Research Impacts: Better-Faster- Cheaper” (2010)], AASHTO Structural Design, Construction, and Evaluation of a Prestressed Concrete Bridge Using Ultra High Performance Concrete Pi Girders OutcomeThe Iowa Department of Transportation completed the first deployment of the pi- girder in a bridge near Aurora. The Jakway Park Bridge used three adjacent pi-girders in its main span. It opened to traffic in 2008. “Research Impacts: Better-Faster- Cheaper“(2010)], AASHTO

7. Other Examples

8. UTCs with Project Outputs or Outcomes currently in the Research Hub 8 Alaska University Transportation Center Carnegie Mellon University Center for Advanced Infrastructure & Transportation (CAIT) Center for Integrated Transportation Systems Management, UMD Center for Multimodal Solutions for Congestion Management, UF Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota Gulf Coast Research Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency Infrastructure Technology Institute, Northwestern University Iowa State University, Ames Kansas State University's Center for Transportation Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Mid-America Transportation Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Midwest Transportation Consortium, Iowa State University Mountain-Plains Consortium National Center for Intermodal Transportation National Center for Transit Research, University of South Florida National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology (NIATT) New England University Transportation Center Old Dominion University Oregon State University, Corvallis Portland State University Rahall Appalachian Transportation Institute San Jose State University, San Jose Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center (STRIDE) Technologies for Safe and Efficient Transportation Texas A&M University, College Station Texas Southern University, Houston University of Alaska, Fairbanks University of Iowa, Iowa City University of Memphis University of Minnesota, Minneapolis University of Oklahoma, Norman University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Volvo Technology of America University of Texas, Austin University of Washington, Seattle Center for Advanced Infrastructure & Transportation; Utah State University Transportation Center Western Transportation Institute Check your outputs/outcomes for accuracy and completeness. Any revisions or additions should be sent to research.hub@dot.govresearch.hub@dot.gov

9. Questions / Comments? Alasdair Cain (202) 366-0934; alasdair.cain@dot.gov Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research & Technologyalasdair.cain@dot.gov www.rita.dot.gov/researchhub

10. Project Records A project record is a summary description of a research project (project title, abstract, sponsor, performer, funding amount, etc.) A project record must be submitted to TRB’s RiP database for each UTC- funded project within one month of project selection Project records from RiP are used to populate the Research Hub UTC program managers must ensure that project information in RiP is complete, accurate and consistently represented: – Ensure all fields are populated – Ensure that RITA is included as a project sponsor – Check for (and delete) duplicate records – Ensure that project records are kept up to date – Change status from “active” to “completed” when project ends If a different organization enters your project records into RiP, you need to inform them of any necessary corrections or additions

11. Final Reports Within two months of project completion, UTCs must send the final report URL and the exact project title to research.hub@dot.govresearch.hub@dot.gov Submitted reports will then be: – Ingested into NTL Digital Library – Assigned an NTL-based URL – Attached to project records in the Research Hub Example URL in Research Hub……