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| Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis |
Four separate -but integrated- IDEA programs encourage investigation of innovative concepts with potential for technological breakthroughs in transportation. Research contracts, averaging around $85,000, are awarded to individuals, companies, non-profit organizations, and universities that have submitted proposals for projects that IDEA committee members feel will demonstrate new technologies or methods for improving the safety and efficiency of surface transportation in the United States.x |
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| National Energy Technology Laboratory |
NETL is a unique entity within DOE - both our mission and approach to achieving that mission differ from those of other national laboratories. Our laboratory is federally operated - a mode of operation that is common in other agencies, but not the norm within DOE. More important, perhaps, is how we conduct our mission. While we perform important research within our laboratories, we also place great emphasis on partnering with industrial, academic, and other governmental stakeholders to create commercially viable technical solutions to energy and environmental problems.x |
NETL |
The Combustion Byproducts Recycling Consortium
(Formerly The Emissions Control By-Products Consortium) |
The Combustion Byproducts Recycling Consortium (CBRC) is a program of the National Mine Land Reclamation Center, headquartered at West Virginia University, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory.
The objective of the CBRC is to develop and demonstrate technologies for coal-burning utilities and their suppliers for solving problems related to the production and handling of by-products such as ash from coal combustion processes. The developed technologies will serve as by-product management technologies capable of increasing overall utilization of coal combustion by-products by 10 percent.x |
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| The National Highway Institute |
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| Transportation Research Board |
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is a unit of the National Research Council, a private, nonprofit institution that is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. The Board’s mission is to promote innovation and progress in transportation by stimulating and conducting research, facilitating the dissemination of information, and encouraging the implementation of research results.
TRB fulfills this mission through the work of its standing technical committees and task forces addressing all modes and aspects of transportation; publication and dissemination of reports and peer-reviewed technical papers on research findings; administration of two contract research programs; conduct of special studies on transportation policy issues at the request of the U.S. Congress and government agencies; operation of an on-line computerized file of transportation research information; and the hosting of an annual meeting that typically attracts 8,000 transportation professionals from throughout the United States and abroadx |
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| Transportation Research Board IDEAS |
Four separate but integrated IDEA programs that encourage investigation of innovative but untested concepts offering the potential for technological breakthroughs in transportation are administered by TRB's Division E. The investigations are pursued under small contracts designed to demonstrate the feasibility of the innovative concepts. Participating researchers are selected from those responding to announcements soliciting proposals in the areas of interest to the transportation community.
Highway-related research is conducted under the NCHRP-IDEA Project for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and is jointly supported by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and state agencies in cooperation with the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. ITS-IDEA, which supports innovations in intelligent transportation systems, is jointly sponsored by FHWA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the Federal Railroad Administration. HSR-IDEA, which supports innovations that facilitate implementation of high speed rail systems in the United States is sponsored by the Federal Railroad Administration.x |
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| Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) |
TRIS Online is a collaborative effort between the Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, National Academies, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U. S. Department of Transportation, to provide a public-domain, web-based version of the Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) bibliographic database as a component of the National Transportation Library, and to enhance transportation research, safety, and operations by sharing knowledge and informationx |
TRIS |
| Turner Fairbank Long Term Pavement Performance |
Understanding "why" some pavements perform better than others is key to building and maintaining a cost-effective highway system. That's why in 1987, the Long Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program--a comprehensive 20-year study of in-service pavements--began a series of rigorous long-term field experiments monitoring more than 2,400 asphalt and portland cement concrete pavement test sections across the United States and Canada.
Established as part of the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) and now managed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), LTPP was designed as a partnership with the States and Provinces. LTPP's goal is to help the States and Provinces make decisions that will lead to better performing and more cost-effective pavements.x |
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| U.S. EPA - Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPG) |
Web site for the Comprehensive Procurement Guidelines (CPG) a key component of the government's "buy-recycled" program. Today, more and more products are made from recycled materials from the carpeting and insulation used in office buildings, to the reams of office paper purchased each day. Buying recycled helps "close the recycling loop" by putting the materials we collect through recycling programs back to good use as products in the marketplace.
At this Web site, you'll find all you need to know about the CPG and about EPA's Recovered Materials Advisory Notices (RMANs), which recommend recycled-content levels for CPG items.x |
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| U.S. EPA procurement guidelines for using waste materials in highways |
U.S. EPA procurement guidelines for using waste materials in highways.x |
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| United States DOT |
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| US DOT Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) |
US DOT Small Business Innovation research
Congress established the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program to stimulate technological innovation, utilize small business to meet federal research and development needs, encourage participation by minority and disadvantaged businesses in technological innovation, and increase private sector commercialization of innovations derived from federal R&D. In November 1982, the Secretary of Transportation chose the Volpe Center to direct the Department's SBIR Program due to its extensive background in innovative programs such as technology transfer, cooperative R&D agreements, outreach projects involving a cross-section of the transportation community, and technical assistance to state and local governments, as well as private organizations. The SBIR Program Office, located at the Volpe Center, directs all activities required under the SBIR law and executes the policy established by the Small Business Administration.x |
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| US EPA - Environmentally Preferable Purchasing |
EPP is a federal-wide program that encourages and assists Executive agencies in the purchasing of environmentally preferable products and services.x |
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| US EPA - Jobs Through Recycling (JTR) |
The Web site for EPA's Jobs Through Recycling (JTR) program your connection to recycling market development efforts nationwide. The JTR program brings together the economic development and recycling communities through grants, networking, and information sharing. Through JTR, EPA supports projects designed to enhance business development, technical assistance, and financing efforts for recycling-related industries.
This Web site provides recycling market development information for state and local officials, sources of technical and financial assistance for recycling businesses, grant information for prospective JTR grantees, and general information for visitors interested in learning more about JTR.x |
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