Facilitating Partnerships in Transportation Research. A Synthesis of Highway Practice. National Cooperative Highway Research Program Synthesis 312.

摘要

In today's transportation research community, no single research unit possesses every required resource in sufficient measure to operate independently or meet all of its strategic goals. Partnerships can contribute significantly to providing answers. Partnerships can provide broader resource availability, increased flexibility in research performance, and greater opportunities to maximize the value of the research function for the parent organization. The purpose of the synthesis is to examine partnerships currently in use within transportation research, to identify key factors that facilitate these partnerships, and to present methods and approaches that produce synergies beneficial to the research program and to the participant organizations as a whole. Material in the synthesis is presented to assist state and provincial research units to form, manage, and sustain research partnerships more effectively.