Every Day Counts: Innovation for a Nation on the Move - EDC-7 Progress Report #1, April 2024
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This report, titled "Every Day Counts: Innovation for a Nation on the Move - EDC-7 Progress Report #1," documents the April 2024 status of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) seventh round of the Every Day Counts (EDC) program. The EDC initiative aims to accelerate the deployment of proven but underused innovations in the transportation sector to shorten project delivery, enhance safety, reduce congestion, and improve environmental sustainability. The report serves as a resource for stakeholders to track progress and plan deployments for the seven innovations selected for the EDC-7 cycle, which runs from April 2023 through May 2025. The FHWA employs a state-based model involving State Transportation Innovation Councils (STICs) to identify, test, and institutionalize these technologies. Progress is tracked through five implementation stages: Not Implemented, Development, Demonstration, Assessment, and Institutionalized. To support adoption, the FHWA provides technical assistance and financial incentives through the STIC Incentive program (up to $125,000 per STIC annually) and the Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AID) Demonstration program (up to $1 million per project). The report details the status of the seven EDC-7 innovations across 54 entities, including the 50 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Federal Lands Highway. The seven innovations and their April 2024 implementation status are as follows: 1. **Nighttime Visibility for Safety:** Focuses on lighting and traffic control devices to reduce pedestrian fatalities, which are three times higher at night. Eight states have institutionalized this, while 16 are in demonstration or assessment stages. 2. **Next-Generation TIM (Traffic Incident Management):** Utilizes technology to improve responder safety and clear incidents faster. Twenty-nine states are demonstrating, assessing, or institutionalizing these technologies. 3. **Integrating GHG Assessment and Reduction Targets:** Aims to incorporate greenhouse gas metrics into transportation planning. Two states have institutionalized this, with nine in demonstration or assessment. 4. **Enhancing Performance with Internally Cured Concrete (EPIC²):** Uses pre-wetted lightweight aggregates to reduce shrinkage cracking in concrete. Three states have institutionalized EPIC², and 11 are demonstrating or assessing it. 5. **EPDs for Sustainable Project Delivery:** Uses Environmental Product Declarations to transparently communicate material impacts. Two states have institutionalized EPDs, with six in demonstration or assessment. 6. **Rethinking DBE for Design-Build:** Addresses challenges in ensuring Disadvantaged Business Enterprise opportunities in design-build contracts. Eight states have institutionalized solutions, and eight are demonstrating or assessing them. 7. **Strategic Workforce Development:** Promotes resources to recruit and retain highway workers amid labor shortages. Six states have institutionalized these strategies, with 18 demonstrating or assessing them. The report concludes that 31% of the overall goal for demonstration, assessment, or institutionalized implementation has been achieved as of April 2024. It lists specific STIC-funded projects awarded in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 to support these innovations, such as pilot programs for debris removal tools, internal curing standards, and workforce development initiatives. The FHWA intends to continue reporting progress every six months to track the transition of these innovations from initial stages to standard practice nationwide.
Key finding
As of April 2024, the Federal Highway Administration reports that states are in various stages of implementing seven targeted transportation innovations, with most entities still in development or demonstration phases rather than having fully institutionalized the practices.
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