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Why would MDT do research, you ask? To deliver solutions so that we can provide evidence-based insights to transportation challenges!

To complete the task, the MDT Research Section offers solutions that assist MDT employees find answers and advance our mission. Available avenues we offer are:

• Collaboration: Connect with qualified professionals internal and external to MDT.
• Resources: Use professional tools such as surveys, literature reviews, and webinars.
• Expanded Knowledge: Learn something new or deepen knowledge of an existing topic or issue.
• Ongoing improvement: enhancement through continual learning and growth.
• Professional Growth: Build experiences through committee participation and memberships.

Working with MDT Research creates solutions. It starts with “what problem are you trying to solve” and ideally ends with tangible solutions that directly solve that problem, such as new products, processes, or tools.

Sharing and disseminating information to promote change created by research is called “technology transfer” and the MDT Research Section leads this important role. Technology transfer is broad ranging and provides various types of information to a large range of people, such as MDT staff and the transportation community. Example “tech” transfer mechanisms:

• Reports published by both MDT and other agencies.
• Library and library services.
• Pilot Projects trying new technologies or new uses for technologies.
• Surveys, newsletters, and presentations.
• Literature searches; and
• MDT’s Research Section web site.

For more information, please visit the Tech Transfer web page.

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What We Do:

MDT’s Research Program Section consists of several programs.

Funding for the Montana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) is also managed by the MDT Research Section.

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Contacts

Rebecca Ridenour
Supervisor
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Alexandra Nelson
Research Project Manager
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Emily Hawley
Research Project Manager
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Anders Johnson
Librarian
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