Transcript Rural Transportation Summit

Rural Transportation Summit
Innovation – Ideas of Change
Presented by: Federal Highway Administration
Randy Everett
Arizona Assistant Division Administrator
[email protected]
602.382.8989
Sharon Gordon
Local Government Programs Engineer
[email protected]
602.382.8972
Objective
• Promote Opportunities to Foster
Innovation from Local Agencies
• Discuss Federal and State Outreach
Efforts Concerning Innovation
• Identify Next Steps
Why Innovate?
Improve
Productivity
Improve/build
customer
relationships
Streamline
processes
Reduce cost
Save Time
Why
Not innovate
?
• It’s just a Buzzword.
• Not in my pay grade to innovate?
• I’m just not a creative type of
person
• Innovation, its just not worth the
effort.
• No one, besides me, really cares
about Innovation.
• We’re a risk-averse culture.
Always will be.
• The world doesn’t need any
more changes.
• Been there, done that.
• If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
• I am trying to simplify my life
not complicate it.
Questions?
Five things you
will not hear
from the most
innovative
companies…...
 Can we do that?
 We can’t do that?
 We have to go through
proper channels.
 That’s good enough.
 That’s not my job.
To Have Great Ideas You
Have To Have A Lot Of
Them!!
Thomas Edison
What Do We Know
BIG
• An innovation can be
or small, brand new or bit
different, complex or simple.
• Innovation is NOT invention, an innovation is the
extension of
an invention.
• Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D
dollars you have... It's not about money. It's about the
people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
-Steve Jobs
Your Ideas can
change the future
Ideas of Change
Save
Money
&Time
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Doing
Business
Customer
Centric
More efficient
Increase productivity
Processes
Procedures
Ideas of Change
Manitowac County, Wisconsin
Benefits
Innovative
Idea
Problem
• Recycle
Damage House
Shingles?
• Recycling the
Shingles for
use on
Roadways
• Slow binder
aging
• Lower cost
for asphalt
companies
• Saves space at
landfill sites
• Make up 15%
of the asphalt
mix
• Prevent
potholes
SmartPhone
Where would we be without Innovation?
Federal Innovation Programs
Infrastructure
Voluntary
Evaluation
Sustainability Tool
(Invest)
Strategic Highway
Research Program
(SHRP2)
Every Day Counts
(EDC)
Infrastructure Voluntary Evaluation Sustainability Tool
(INVEST)
Developed by
FHWA
As a practical, webbased, collection of
voluntary best
practices, called
criteria.
Designed to help
Transportation
Agencies
Integrate sustainability
into their programs
(policies, processes,
procedures and
practices) and projects.
Facilitate balanced
decision-making among
environmental, economic
and social values
INVEST Implementation Sites
Strategic Highway Research Program
(SHRP2)
Helping the transportation community:
Improve safety
Enhance productivity
Boost efficiency
Increase reliability
Strategic Highway Research Program
(SHRP2)
Arizona is leading efforts in the following:
Innovative Bridge Designs for Rapid Renewal
Gila River Indian Community DOT – Lead Adopter
Preservation on High-Volume Roadways
Arizona DOT – Lead Adopter
Organizing for Reliability Tools
Arizona DOT-Lead Adopter
AZTech Regional Partnership
Every Day Counts
• Partnerships between FHWA and
State DOTs
▫ Shorten Project Delivery
▫ Accelerate Deployment of Market-Ready
Innovations
• Designed to focus on a finite set of
initiatives.
▫ Highway Planning
▫ Design
▫ Construction and Operation
Every
EveryDay
DayCounts
CountsI I
Planning and Environmental
Linkages (PEL)
In-Lieu Fees*
Arizona
EDC I
Initiatives:
Programmatic Agreements
(PAs)
Scope of Preliminary Design
Legal Sufficiency
Design Build (DB)
Safety EdgeSM (SE)
Every Day
Day Counts
Counts II
Construction Manager /
General Contractor (CM/GC)
Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA)
Arizona
EDC I
Initiatives
Adaptive Signal Control
Technology (ASCT)
Prefabricated Bridge
Elements and Systems (PBES)
Flexibilities in Utility
Relocation and
Accommodation
Flexibilities in Right-of-Way
(ROW)
Every Day Counts II
Arizona
EDC II
Initiatives
Local Public
Agency
Partnering: Stakeholder
Partnering Council
Traffic Incident
Management
Myths
Innovation
No Resources Available
Only limited to efforts
of Every Day Count
Initiatives
FHWA mandate
 Resources are available through
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various initiatives
ADOT does have Limited funds
Need to find ways to do more with
less
Need to use resources wisely
Stakeholders have great ideas
It’s a Partnership
Where Do you fit in?
Brainstorm ideas
Ask the right questions
Be Customer Centric
Think about other
stakeholders that could
be involved
• Use all types of
innovation
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Unexpected or Simple
innovation
Not just improvements
on existing procedure,
operation, or product
State Focused Outreach Efforts
• LPA Stakeholder Council
• Arizona Council for Transportation
Innovation
• Local Technical Assistance ProgramLTAP
LPA Stakeholder Council
• Purpose:
▫ Enhance communication
 FHWA, ADOT, LPA
• How to Get Involved
▫ Council Members
 COGs, MPOS, FHWA, & ADOT
LPA Stakeholder Council Members:
Metropolitan
Planning
Organizations
Council of
Governments
• CYMPO
• Chris Bridges
• CAG
• Andy Smith
• FMPO
• David Wessel
• MAG
• Steve Tate, Daniel Cook and Debbie Albert
• Sun Corridor MPO
• Duane Eithel
• NACOG
• Dave Swietanski
• YMPO
• Charlene FitzGerald
• PAG
• Paul Casertano, Ana Olivares and Keith Brann
• SEAGO
• Karen Lamberton and Juan Guerra
• WACOG (recent)
• VACANT
LPA Stakeholder Council Members:
ADOT
• Susan Anderson
• Bahram Dariush
• Dallas Hammit
• Scott Omer
• Madhu Reddy
• Jodi Rooney
• Alvin Stump
• Teresa Welborn
FHWA
• Randy Everett
• Sharon Gordon
Arizona Council for Transportation
Innovation
Local Technical Assistance Program-LTAP
Connection
Decision
Makers
We want to
reach you!
Calling all
agency Leaders
Local
Government,
MPO, COG rep
Leave Name,
telephone,
email address
Spread the
word!
To bring about
change we need
you to share
your ideas
Get Engaged
Discuss Innovation
Share ideas with colleagues to bring change
Candor
In order to get ahead, you
need great ideas - lots of
great ideas. To get the best
ideas, turn your business into
an idea machine.
Nurture a constant flow of
ideas from every level of your
organization - not just your
top managers.
The only way to foster such
idea-sharing is to develop a
culture of candor, where
people aren't afraid to speak
their minds. Reward them for
their candor, even if it makes
themselves and others - yes,
you - look bad.
• Jack Welch
Every Day Counts (EDC)
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/everydaycounts/
Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP2)
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/goshrp2/
Infrastructure Voluntary Evaluation Sustainability
Tool (INVEST)
https://www.sustainablehighways.org/
Arizona Department of Transportation
LTAP
Rebecca Mayer [email protected]
(602) 712-4252
LPA Stakeholder Council
Jodi Rooney [email protected]
(602) 206-3524
Innovation has no
geographic boundaries
and the game of
innovation is open
globally and locally.