Title: SHARING WHAT WE KNOW: LEVERAGING INNOVATION THROUGH KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN THE TRANSPORTATION COMMUNITY
Abstract: At the federal level, both the National Transportation Library and the Federal Highway Administration's concept for transportation knowledge sharing promise to help researchers gain access to a wealth of information and experience. While the transportation community is extremely large and diverse, the knowledge management cycle can be viewed as consisting of four straightforward basic elements: find/create, organize, share, and use/reuse. A knowledge sharing network would incorporate a robust search engine that allows for full text searching as well as an index, such as the controlled language of the Transportation Research Thesaurus recently developed for the Transportation Research Board. Much of this knowledge can be made available to a wide audience through the Internet. The overall result is improvement in the use of applied knowledge to build a better bridge, operate roadways more efficiently, and improve safety. A central principle of knowledge management is that organizations can best foster knowledge capture and exchange through Communities of Practice--professional networks to pose, share, and resolve issues and make the results available to others. As customers participate in Communities of Practice, they can become both users and producers of information. A knowledge network facilitates and accelerates this process.
Publication Year: 1998
Publication Date: 1998-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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