North Carolina Department of Transportation
Research & Innovation Summit – 2021

2021 Preliminary Agenda

See below for a preliminary schedule. All times are Eastern Time.

Expanded preliminary agenda (this will be revised as additional details are confirmed)

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

10:15 – 10:35 a.m.: Introductory remarks

10:35 – 10:45 a.m.: Break

10:45 a.m. – 12 p.m.: Breakouts 1

  • Lightening Talks – Technology
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Panel Discussion
  • NCDOT Communicate Lessons, Exchange Advice, Record (CLEAR) Implemented Innovation Winner
  • Freight Application Workshop

12 – 12:30 p.m.: Break for Lunch

12:30 – 1:15 p.m.: Plenary address / Continued Lunch
Presenters: J. Eric Boyette, Secretary of Transportation, NCDOT, and Neil Mastin, PE, Research & Development Manager, NCDOT

1:15 – 1:30 p.m.: Break

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.: Breakouts 2

  • Environmental & Hydraulics
  • Multimodal
  • Pavement & Materials
  • Lightning Talks – Unmanned Aircraft Systems / Aviation

3:00 – 3:15 p.m.: Break

3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.: Breakouts 3

  • Traffic & Roadway Design
  • Bicycle / Pedestrian
  • Structures, Construction & Geotechnical
  • NCDOT Transportation Center Of Excellence 1

 

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

10:30 – 11:45 a.m.: Breakouts 4

  • NCDOT Technology / Innovation
  • Railroad Incidents & Trespass
  • Lightning Talks – Hydraulics / Pavement / Structures
  • Research Grant Writing

11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.: Break

12:15 – 1:15 p.m.: Plenary address / Continued Lunch

1:15 – 1:30 p.m.: Break

1:30 – 3:00 p.m.: Breakouts 5

  • Traffic Safety 
  • Transportation Resiliency
  • Equity / Social Impacts in Transportation
  • NCDOT Transportation Center Of Excellence 2    

3:00 – 3:15 p.m.: Break

3:15 – 4:45 p.m.: Breakouts 6

  • Interactive “Unsession”
  • National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)
  • Transportation Equity
  • NCDOT Transportation Center Of Excellence 3