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Glossary, Roles, Statuses, and Codes

Person Roles

FHWA Director for Research, Development, and Technology - The person with the authority to approve a transportation pooled-fund (TPF) research study and authorize expenditure of 100 percent SP&R funds.

FHWA Division Administrator - The person at each FHWA division office who receives correspondence concerning transportation pooled-fund studies.

Investigator - The contractor’s employee who is primarily responsible for conducting the study.

Program Manager for Planning and Environment - The person with the authority to approve 100 percent SP&R funding for planning pooled-fund studies.

Subscriber - A person who subscribes to be notified of new solicitations.

Technical contact - The person in a study partner organization with interest/expertise in the subject matter of the study who is available for consultation during the period of solicitation.

Visitor - The person who visits the public area of the TPF web site.

Person Roles - Users who are authorized to use password protected areas of the web site.

FHWA facilitator - The employee of FHWA with administrative responsibility for the Transportation Pooled-Fund Program who tracks and assigns study numbers.

FHWA technical liaison - An employee of FHWA who participates in the activities of the technical advisory committee and contributes knowledge of the national research and technology program.

Funding contact - The person in a sponsoring agency or partner organization who is authorized to solicit or commit funds. Typically the funding contact for a state transportation agency is a member of the AASHTO Research Advisory Committee (RAC).

Lead agency contact - The lead agency employee who is primarily responsible for administering the study.

Member, technical advisory committee - A member of the group described above.

Webmaster - An employee of the organization that is hosting the TPF web site who receives e-mail sent to the web site.



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