We Can Learn Something from That! Promoting an Experimental Culture in Transportation

Experiments are the most effective way to show what works, or might work, in a given setting. This article describes four types of experiments that can yield useful information for transportation investments: laboratory experiments, analytic models, field experiments and natural experiments. Major natural disasters can be turned into learning experiments that enable agencies to be better prepared. Building a project in stages can result in lesson learned from early stages improving later ones. Fostering a culture of experimentation within the transportation community allows learning through systematic studies of changes from within and threats from without, resulting in a better transportation system.

• Record URL:
  http://www.accessmagazine.org/articles/spring-2014/can-learn-something-promoting-experimental-culture-transportation/
• Record URL:
  http://www.accessmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2015/06/access44.pdf
• Record URL:
  https://merritt.cdlib.org/d/ark%3A%2F13030%2Fm5f50hp9/2/producer%2FACCESS44.pdf
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• Authors:
  • Schofer, Joseph L
  • Chan, Raymond
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Photos; References;
• Pagination: pp. 28-34
• Serial:
  • Access
  • Issue Number: 44
  • Publisher: University of California Transportation Center (UCTC)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Culture (Social sciences); Experiments; Learning; Transportation policy
• Subject Areas: Highways; Policy; I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01577585
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 2 2015 11:40AM