When Research
Meets the Road
Capacity Focus Area
February 4, 2013
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Agenda
• SHRP2 Overview
– What is SHRP2?
– Focus Areas
– Implementation Assistance
• Technical Product Description
• Product Implementation
• Wrap-up: Implementation Timeline
• Questions?
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What is SHRP2?
Tools to save lives, save money, save time.
• Products developed from objective, credible research
• Solutions that respond to challenges of the
transportation community – safety, aging infrastructure,
congestion
• Collaborative effort of AASHTO, FHWA, and TRB
• Tested products, refined in the field
SHRP2 Solutions offer new technologies and processes to enhance the
efficiency of transportation agencies
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Focus Areas
Safety: fostering safer driving through analysis of
driver, roadway and vehicle factors in crashes,
near crashes, and ordinary driving
Renewal: rapid maintenance and repair of the
deteriorating infrastructure using already-available
resources, innovations and technologies
Capacity: planning and designing a highway
system that offers minimum disruption and meets
the environmental, and economic needs of the
community
Reliability: reducing congestion and creating more
predictable travel times through better operations
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Implementing SHRP2 Solutions
Moving forward
• Approximately 30 high-priority
products introduced over the next
few years
• Users run the gamut of the
transportation industry
• Selected products integrated into
current transportation practices
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Products Ready for First Round
Implementation
Capacity
• Implementing Eco-Logical (C06)
Renewal
• Next-Generation Project Management Tools
– Managing Risk on Rapid Renewal Projects(R09)
– Managing Complex Projects (R10)
• Bridge Designs for Rapid Renewal (R04)
• Preservation Techniques for Heavily-Traveled Roadways (R26)
Reliability
• Organizing for Reliability Tools (L01/L06)
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Implementation Assistance
Levels of Engagement
Proof of Concept Pilot
• Funds for piloting products to evaluate readiness for implementation
• Contractor support to collect data and evaluate the application
Lead Adopter Incentive
• Funds for lead adopters to offset implementation cost and mitigate risks
• Recipients required to provide specific deliverables designed to further refine the
product, and possibly “champion” the product to other States and localities.
User Incentive
• Funds for implementation support activities after lead adopter use.
• Used to conduct internal assessments, build capacity, implement system process
changes, organize peer exchanges, or offset other implementation costs
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Implementation Assistance
Products & Solicitation
First Round Products
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Proof of
Concept
Pilot
Lead
Adopter
Incentive
User
Incentive
R09 – Managing Risk
2
0
0
R10 – Complex Projects
0
4
0
R04 - Bridge
0
7
12
R26 – Pavement Preservation
0
10
10
C06 – Eco-Logical
0
6
20
L01/L06 – Ops Organization
0
20
0
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Implementation Assistance
Selection Criteria
General criteria for participants (will vary among products)
• Geographic diversity of participants
• Demonstration of culture to implement new products or
processes
• Demonstration of past interest and/or efforts to implement similar
products or processes
• High commitment to making institutional/organizational changes
• Commitment to conduct demonstration workshops
• Willingness to share experience by facilitating peer-to-peer
activities
• Commitment to dedicate staff to the implementation project
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Bringing greater collaboration for better, faster
decisions
Capacity Focus Area –
Technical Product Description
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Capacity Focus Area
Tools for planning, environmental reviews, and collaborative
decision making to expedite project delivery while meeting
community and environmental goals.
Products address:
Collaborative decision making; economic impact analysis; dynamic
integrated models and networks; conservation, highway planning and
environmental review integration; freight demand planning.
Benefits:
• Efficient project delivery, fewer conflicts and delays
• Reduced project costs because decisions are made once, not revisited
• Facilities that meet community, mobility, and environmental goals
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Today’s Product
Implementing
Eco-Logical (C06)
Practical guidance and
broad-based ecological
approach to highway
planning
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Implementing Eco-Logical
Challenge
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Higher expectations and demands, shrinking budgets
Piecemeal mitigation
Lack of predictability
Limited guidance about how to cost-effectively apply an
ecosystem-scale approach to transportation planning
Solution
• Create a roadmap for applying the ecosystem-scale approach
to transportation planning, and provide the tools, evidence,
and best practices to support multiagency adoption
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Implementing Eco-Logical
– Background
• Builds on FHWA’s Eco-Logical: An Ecosystem Approach to
Developing Infrastructure Projects (2006)
• Fills a gap by addressing challenges in
planning for ecosystems and infrastructure
– Duplication of efforts
– Uncertainty and lack of predictability
– Results: piecemeal mitigation
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Eco-Logical Overview
• 9-step process to identify
ecological priorities in a region
Ecosystems
Conservation
• Includes tools for:
– Cumulative effects
and alternatives analysis
– Regulatory assurances
– Ecosystems crediting
Planning
Environmental
Permitting
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Benefits to the
Eco-Logical Approach
• Promotes streamlined and efficient
delivery of infrastructure projects
• Improves the predictability of project
permitting and environmental review
• Enhances interagency coordination
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Predictability
Connectivity
Conservation
Transparency
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Bringing greater collaboration for better, faster
decisions
Capacity Focus Area –
Product Implementation
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Implementing Eco-Logical –
Financial Assistance
First Round Products
February 2013
Proof of
Concept
Pilot
Lead
Adopter
Incentive
User
Incentive
C06 – Eco-Logical
0
6
20
• No proof of concept pilots
– 15 previous Eco-Logical grant projects and 4 SHRP2
pilots
• Up to 6 Lead Adopter Incentives $200,000 - $250,000 each
• Up to 20 User Incentives ~ $25,000 each
• State DOTs and MPOs eligible
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Implementing Eco-Logical
– Current FHWA Activities
• Administer financial incentives
• Develop guidelines/model agreements to support integrated
conservation, planning, and permitting
• Leverage agency liaisons
• Identify links to MAP-21
• Support technical training and peer exchanges
• Examine lifecycle costs and benefits
• Identify and equip champions and opinion leaders
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Implementing Eco-Logical –
Additional Development Activities
• Data integration
– geospatial ecological screening tools and data
• Strategies to address offsite mitigation concerns
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Implementing Eco-Logical
– AASHTO Activities
• Survey State Departments of Transportation
• Develop an Eco-Logical starter kit
• Develop an Eco-Logical Practitioner Handbook
• Provide executive training
• Provide technical expert assistance
• Provide peer exchange opportunities
• Bring together State DOT environmental and planning practitioners
• Develop and facilitate an Eco-Logical community of practice
• Document case studies to highlight successful use
• Develop an awards and recognition program
• Develop an outreach and communication plan and materials
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Implementing Eco-Logical
An Ecological Approach to Integrating Conservation and
Highway Planning, Volume 2, is available online at
http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/166938.aspx
For more information, please work with your FHWA
Division Office (www.fhwa.dot.gov/about/field.cfm) or
contact one of the following:
Shari Schaftlein
Shannon Eggleston
Stephen Andrle
FHWA
Shari.Schaftlein@dot.gov
AASHTO seggleston@aashto.org
TRB
sandrle@nas.edu
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Looking Ahead:
Transportation for Communities: Advancing Projects through
Partnerships (TCAPP) (C01)
Expedited Planning and Environmental Review (C19)
Economic Projections (C03/C11)
Travel Demand and Network Models (C10)
Freight Planning Guide (C15)
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Implementation Timeline
• Solicitation opens: Mid-February
• Solicitation closes: Mid-March
• First awards: Mid-April
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Questions?
Email: goSHRP2@dot.gov
Contact your FHWA Division
SHRP2 Research:
www.TRB.org/SHRP2
SHRP2 at AASHTO:
http://SHRP2.transportation.org
Eco-Logical:
http://www.environment.fhwa.dot.gov/ecological/
eco_entry.asp
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