Feel free to contact me should you have questions. BTW where are you from
as my mother was mala czechie (Bohemian)?
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Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2015 11:51 AM
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Subject: [needs assessment listserv] Re: Needs assessment it trasnport
research and innovation
James,
many thanks for your willingness to help. I will check out the available
sources that you suggested.
Yasen
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On Sat, 8/8/15, james altschuld <maltschuld1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Subject: [needs assessment listserv] Re: Needs assessment it trasnport
research and innovation
To: needsassessment@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, August 8, 2015, 6:05 PM
Yasen, in my earlier
communication to you I was refereeing to the 8 needs assessment books I
have been involved in from 1995. They are all available on the SAGE
publications website. Ryan and his colleagues have also authored a NA
book as have Kaufmann and Guerra, and there are others.
So my comment was about
general sources.
Regards,
JWA
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Subject: [needs assessment listserv] Re: Needs assessment it trasnport
research and innovation
Dear all,
I will answer you in this manner this time, firstly because I assume that
everybody gets at the same time the comments made by somebody else and
secondly because I find it useful to lay down a bit more details related to
my query. Not to forget to mention also that I am very pleasantly
surprised to have the feedback of so many of you to my question of earlier
today.
So, I
work for the Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and
Communications /MTITC/ of Bulgaria.
Currently we have a national transport
strategy with the overall objective of
development of sustainable transport
system.
At implementation level however we have programmes and projects
encompassing mainly the development of the transport infrastructure, i.e.
construction of roads, rail, etc. On the other hand we are in contact with
EU states that have separate dedicated initiatives or programmes for
research and innovation in transport. I have asked some colleagues from
these countries how did they come up with their national research agendas
and the answer was mainly trough
(institutionalized) dialog of the various stakeholders.
My understanding
is that the implementation of research and innovations in our transport
sector might increase the effectiveness of the use of the resources and
also to support number of other positive outcomes like for example
potential new markets or commercial collaboration for our companies.
And here comes the challenge how to identify the research needs in the
sector. I will be happy enough to start solely with the identification of
the research needs of the agencies and the companies part of overall
structure of the ministry that I work at. So the needs assessment in
question has to be capable to answer to the following question:
What other (research
and innovations) activities, different from their current practice to
invest solely in the construction of new infrastructure, are available to
the entities part of the MTITC in order for them to improve the
achievement of their respective strategic goals?
In answer to
your suggestions :
1. I did try to find out
what are the research needs in other countries and transnational
organizations. For example I read some documents issued by the USA
Transportation Board, some OECD papers, etc. However thus I was just able
to identify that there is certainly something going on in this domain
elsewhere, but am probably lacking the required specific competence to be
able to use these activities as a hint of what might be needed in our case.
2 I tried to identify, utilizing google, even some more general Research
Needs Assessment methodology, but to no avail. Now I come to think that
probably even some broader sound methodology should be fine in this
situation.
3. I note the
proposal for meta analysis of the research articles, but it seems to me
very time consuming. I hoped that probably there is some means to prepare
a structured online questionnaire and to dispatch it towards the
respective entities responsible for the development of the various
transport modes /like for example Road Agency, National Railway
Infrastructure Company, etc./ and to some academics as well
I will be happy to read all comments and suggestion that you may have in
relation to the above,
Yasen
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On Thu, 8/6/15, Jolanta <jokavali@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Subject: [needs
assessment listserv] Re: Needs assessment it trasnport research and
innovation
To: needsassessment@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2015, 5:54 PM
Hello,
Iasen,
Perhaps, first it is
useful to focus on conducting a meta-analysis of transport research
scientific articles, so that you can make some general theoretical
assumptions on the "what is"
situation. For the analysis you could use the on-line scientific
databases and qualitative/quantitative methodologies for the thematic
and content search.
I can
only
guess that transport research is a
very broad theme, so perhaps you want
to
narrow it down to even more specific areas - what type of transport,
geographical area, public/privately owned, passenger/goods etc.
Afterwards you could use the broader
NA methodology to assess the need for
inovation in the area you are
investigating.
Best wishes,Jolanta
Kavale
Jolanta Kavale, Dr.
phil
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:01
PM, Iasen Markov <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Dear
colleagues,
I am
currently trying to identify any reference documents that might be out
there dealing with the assessment of transport research and innovation
needs.
I am
interested primarily in statutory documents, but am also keen to find
any other academic or general narratives.
My interest concerns the
methodology of conduct, reporting requirements, case studies and any
other related information.
Looking forward to your
comments,
best regards,
Yasen
Markov
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