Evaluation of the Every Day Counts Program (2025)
Chapter: Glossary
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"Glossary." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Evaluation of the Every Day Counts Program. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/28871.
Glossary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Candidate | A specific innovation in surface transportation considered by the EDC Program for |
| Innovation | inclusion in a future EDC Round. |
| Diffusion of Innovations | The adoption of innovations across multiple organizations. |
| EDC Innovation | A specific set of technologies, practices, or approaches selected by the EDC Program for promotion in the surface transportation community and presented at the EDC Summit. |
| EDC Round | A 2-year period in which a collection of EDC Innovations is supported by the EDC Program. |
| EDC Summit | A summit (in-person or virtual) where transportation leaders from across the country gather to discuss and identify opportunities for implementing EDC Innovations in their respective states. |
| Evaluation project | The project to assess the Every Day Counts Program conducted by RTI. Also referred as “evaluation” or “project.” |
| External stakeholders | A person or organization outside of the FHWA that is involved in enabling the outcomes of the EDC Program. |
| Impact | Positive and negative, primary and secondary long-term effects produced by an intervention, directly or indirectly, intended or unintended. See also Outcome. |
| Implementation | The process of deploying an EDC Innovation in an operational setting. |
| Implementation Deployment Team | A group of experts recruited by the EDC Program to develop the plan of activities and resources that will support state DOTs who choose to adopt an EDC Innovation. |
| Industry stakeholder groups | Members of trade and professional associations who communicate and collaborate with the FHWA on the EDC Program. |
| Innovation | The implementation of a new or significantly improved product (good or service), or process, a new marketing method, or a new organizational method in business practices, workplace organization or external relations (OECD 2005). |
| Internal stakeholders | A person affiliated with the FHWA. |
| Outcomes | Changes or benefits resulting from activities and outputs. Short-term outcomes produce changes in learning, knowledge, attitude, skills, or understanding. Intermediate outcomes generate changes in behavior, practice, or decisions. Long-term outcomes produce changes in condition. See also Impact. |
| Outputs | A product or consequence generated by a program activity. |
| Potential innovation | An innovation proposed by the surface transportation community to the EDC Program for possible selection as a candidate EDC Innovation. |
| Program | Any activity, project, function, or policy that has an identifiable purpose or set of objectives (GAO 2011). |
| Program Logic Model | A schematic and description of the rationale for how the program is designed and why it is expected to produce its intended results. |
| Research | Creative work undertaken on a systematic basis to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society (OECD 2002). |
| Theory of Change | Description of how a programmatic intervention is expected to induce a change in the program’s participants or environmental conditions. |
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