Rural Transportation SummitInnovation – Ideas of Change

Randy Everett Sharon GordonArizona Assistant Division Administrator Local Government Programs EngineerRandy.Everett@dot.gov Sharon.Gordon@dot.gov602.382.8989 602.382.8972

Presented by: Federal Highway Administration

•Promote Opportunities to Foster Innovation from Local Agencies

•Discuss Federal and State Outreach Efforts Concerning Innovation

•Identify Next Steps

Objective

Improve Productivity

Improve/build

customer relationships

Streamline processes Reduce cost Save Time

Why Innovate?

Why Not innovate?

• Not in my pay grade to innovate?

• Innovation, its just not worth the effort.

• We’re a risk-averse culture. Always will be.

• Been there, done that.

• I am trying to simplify my life not complicate it.

• It’s just a Buzzword.

• I’m just not a creative type of person

• No one, besides me, really cares about Innovation.

• The world doesn’t need any more changes.

• If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Questions?

To Have Great Ideas You Have To Have A Lot Of

Them!!Thomas Edison

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.

• An innovation can be BIG 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

What Do We Know

Ideas of Change

Customer Centric

Doing Busines

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Save Money &Time

• More efficient• Increase

productivity • Processes• Procedures

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Ideas of ChangeManitowac County, Wisconsin

Problem• Recycle

Damage House Shingles?

Innovative Idea• Recycling

the Shingles for use on Roadways• Slow

binder aging

Benefits• Lower cost

for asphalt companies

• Saves space at landfill sites

• Make up 15% of the asphalt mix

• Prevent potholes

Where would we be without Innovation?

SmartPhone

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, web-based, 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)

Improve safety

Enhance productivity

Boost efficiency

Increase reliability

Helping the transportation community:

Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2)

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

Arizona is leading efforts in the following:

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 Day Counts I

Arizona EDC I

Initiatives:

Planning and Environmental Linkages

(PEL)

In-Lieu Fees*

Programmatic Agreements (PAs)

Scope of Preliminary Design

Legal Sufficiency

Design Build (DB)

Safety EdgeSM (SE)

Every Day Counts I

Every Day Counts I

Arizona EDC I

Initiatives

Construction Manager / General Contractor

(CM/GC)

Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA)

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 I

Every Day Counts II

Arizona EDC II Initiativ

es

Local Public Agency

Partnering: Stakeholder Partnering Council

Traffic Incident Management

Innovation

Myths

No Resources Available

Only limited to efforts of Every Day

Count Initiatives

FHWA mandate

Resources are available through 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

Facts

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

• Unexpected or Simple innovation

• Not just improvements on existing procedure, operation, or product

•LPA Stakeholder Council•Arizona Council for Transportation Innovation

•Local Technical Assistance Program-LTAP

State Focused Outreach Efforts

•Purpose: ▫Enhance communication

FHWA, ADOT, LPA

•How to Get Involved▫Council Members

COGs, MPOS, FHWA, & ADOT

LPA Stakeholder Council

Metropolitan Planning

Organizations• CYMPO• Chris Bridges

• FMPO• David Wessel

• Sun Corridor MPO• Duane Eithel

• YMPO • Charlene FitzGerald

Council of Governments

• CAG• Andy Smith

• MAG• Steve Tate, Daniel Cook and Debbie

Albert

• NACOG• Dave Swietanski

• 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

LPA Stakeholder Council Members:

Arizona Council for Transportation Innovation

Outreach Council - Intended to gather and share innovative transportation focused ideas

Members represent state and local agencies in AZ

Innovative Transportation Idea-Presentations scheduled throughout the year.

Local Technical Assistance Program-LTAP

Connection

We want to reach you!

Local Government, MPO, COG

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Decision Makers

Calling all agency Leaders

Leave Name, telephone,

email address

Spread the word!

To bring about change we need you to share your

ideas

Share ideas with colleagues to bring change

Discuss Innovation

Get Engaged

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 TransportationLTAPRebecca Mayer Rmayher@azdot.gov(602) 712-4252

LPA Stakeholder CouncilJodi Rooney Jrooney@azdot.gov(602) 206-3524

Innovation has no geographic

boundaries and the game of innovation is

open globally and locally.