1. AASHTO Innovation Initiative
I’d like to speak about two related subjects today:
The AASHTO Technology Implementation Group’s national promotion of Maintenance Decision Support Systems for winter highway maintenance;
A multi-state Pooled Fund Study that is developing and refining an operational MDSS.
I head the Office of Operations Support at South Dakota DOT. Dave Huft, who heads our Office of Research, is a member of the TIG and is the project manager for the Pooled Fund Study. He has to be in Minneapolis for another meeting today, but will return here tomorrow.
Dave Huft, SDDOT
AASHTO Research Advisory Committee
Wichita, KS, July 24, 2018

2. Origin of AII Originally Technology Implementation Group
Post-SHRP1 implementation effort
1st meeting December, 2000
Reported to Standing Committee on Highways
Immediate ties to RAC
Joe Denault, WV Chair

3. TIG Vision & Mission
…a culture where rapid advancement and implementation of high payoff, innovative technologies is the expectation of the transportation community
…to identify and champion the deployment and implementation of a select few ready-to-use technologies, products, or processes that are likely to yield significant benefits to the transportation community

4. TIG Role in Innovation

5. TIG Process Identify & Solicit “Ready to Use” Technologies
Select High-Payoff Focus Technologies
Provide Leadership to Promote & Support Implementation
Create Lead States Teams
Fund Outreach
Conferences
Showcases
Workshops
Marketing
Brochures
Manuals
Multimedia
Webinars

6. Current Focus Technologies
Pedestrian Gateway Treatment
Wrong Way Driver (WWD) Detection Systems
Interactive Visualization
Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Strands
e-Construction
Project PS&E Collaborative Review
Watershed Resources Registry

7. AASHTO Innovation Initiative
Renamed May, 2014
SHRP2 Implementation
EDC
STIC
Not all innovation comes from implementation of formal research

8. AII in New Committee Structure

9. TIG Exec Committee Membership
Mark Van Port Fleet, MI
Dallas Hammit, AZ
Binh Bui, GA
Tommy Nantung, IN
Chris Herrick, KS
Valerie Edgar, MD
Brian Thompson, PA
Dave Huft, SD
Shane Marshall, UT
Garrett Moore, VA
Chad Clawson, AASHTO
Thomas Harman, FHWA
Brian Roberts, NACE
Len Sanderson, PB
Mike Stenko, TRANSPO
Waseem Dekelbab, TRB

10. TIG Funding AASHTO Technical Services Program +Alaska FHWA
$6,000/state
37 states FY18
FHWA
$200,000
(as of May 2018)
+Alaska

11. AII Roles EDC/STIC Support State Innovations Suggest technologies
Evaluate STIC Award nominations
Apply lead state concept when appropriate
Solicit innovations from states (traditional role)

12. Technology Nomination Form
This is the nomination form from the website

13. Proposed Role: Innovation Clearinghouse
Web-based, database driven tool
Clearinghouse of innovative ideas
DOTs
AASHTO
FHWA
TRB
Active links to state and national websites of research & business needs
Community of Practice for informal engagement
~40 innovation & research staff so far

14. Proposed Role: Innovation Clearinghouse
Unstructured List of Innovations from State DOT Users
Structured List of Innovations from AASHTO/TRB/DOTs
Innovations from Domestic & International Scans
User
Rating
Expert
Review
Innovation Clearinghouse
Unstructured List of Innovations from State DOT Users
Links to Business & Research Needs from
State DOTs, FHWA, National Organizations

15. Innovation Community of Practice

16. vs. or & ? Research Stereotype Innovation Stereotype Slow Methodical
Incremental
Expensive
Immediate
Ingenious
Revolutionary
Cheap, cost-saving

17. Stereotypes Can Be Dangerous
We Must Consider
SD Pavement Examples
Value of Rigor & Documentation
Long-Term Effects
Range of Conditions
Level of Risk
Do you remember
“Ready-Fire-Aim”?
Full-Depth Asphalt
Thin Concrete
Lime Treated Base

18. Questions for You Which of AII’s proposed roles will serve your DOT?
What changes would you suggest to AII’s role?
How could AII better inform you?
How can AII actively engage more states?
Should RAC have a stronger role in AII?
How can Research and Innovation thrive in our DOTs?

19. Summary
AASHTO TIG and AII have supported innovation and implementation for 18 years
Major changes in organization and role are in progress now
Now is a time of great
need
challenge
opportunity
RAC and your state can play in this game

20. Questions? http://aii.transportation.org Dave Huft
Research Program Manager
South Dakota DOT
700 East Broadway Avenue
Pierre, SD
Phone:
Fax: