Peer exchange

The Iowa Department of Transportation held a Research Peer Exchange on Aug. 18-20, 2009, in Ames, Iowa. RAC members from Region 3, along with Alaska, Washington and FHWA representatives were invited. Alaska and Illinois participated by videoconference. The topic of the peer exchange was "Most Promising Research."

On Wednesday, Aug. 18, the first day of the exchange, participants were asked to provide examples and a short presentation on their state’s most promising research projects. In addition to providing examples, participants addressed four questions.

• What are your most promising projects?
• How did you develop the project?
• How will you evaluate its effectiveness?
• What are your implementation and tech transfer plans?

All day Thursday and Friday morning, Aug. 19 and 20, participants attended the Mid-Continent Transportation Symposium. Friday afternoon was a peer exchange wrap-up meeting to summarize results of the exchange, the final report and next steps.

View or download peer exchange material

Click here to view the 2009 Peer Exchange Agenda.

Final report of the Peer Exchange.

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Attendance

Names
Ahmad Abu Hawash, Iowa DOT	Kathy Lindquist, Washington DOT
Clint Adler, Alaska DOT	Jim McMinimee, Utah DOT
Bryan Bradley, Iowa DOT	Dave Meggers, Kansas DOT
Patty Broers, Illinois DOT	Shashi Nambisan, InTrans
Rick Collins, Texas DOT	Chris Poole, Iowa DOT
Carol Culver, Iowa DOT	Scott Schram, Iowa DOT
Mark Dunn, Iowa DOT	Amy Schutzbach, Illinois DOT
Debra Elston, FHWA	Bill Stone, Missouri DOT
Ed Engle, Iowa DOT	Linda Taylor, Minnesota DOT
Max Grogg, FHWA Iowa Division	Daniel Yeh, Wisconsin DOT
Sandra Larson, Iowa DOT	Bob Younie, Iowa DOT