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Section 4 - Evaluation of EAR Program Effectiveness
Section 4 - Evaluation of EAR Program Effectiveness
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Development of Methodologies to Evaluate the Nighttime Safety Implications of the Road way Visual Scene Under Varying Cognitive Task Loads, 3. Greatly Increased Use of Fly Ash in Hydraulic Cement Concrete (HCC)
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The scoring rubric for proposal evalua tion contains clear instructions on how reviewers should judge the potential for achieving both breakthrough innovations and gains to FHWA priority areas. Both of these measures seem to be effective in focusing reviewers on selecting projects that fit the criteria for exploratory advanced research.
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For example, in TP, experts and PIs noted that the rapid progress in developing fully autonomous vehicles drew attention away from partial automation and reduced the interest in this technology in the private sector. A more comprehensive evaluation of transition effectiveness would analyze not only transition plans but also actual transition support activities undertaken by EAR Program staff and PIs.
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A more fundamental issue is whether FHWA wishes to assign exploratory advanced research a higher priority in the FHWA R&T system. Doing so may require a commitment to providing more substantial and reliable funding and other resources, enabling the Program to gain greater visibility and leverage in the transportation research community.
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