Abstract
This report attempts to examine, identify, and understand effective communication practices of transportation researchers, to determine how the audience values the communication, and how these communication efforts relate to a project’s implementation or success. Effective communication of the value of research is not only necessary to justify the resources spent on it, but is necessary to secure any funds and generate support for future projects. In short, this study serves as a communications project. (Author/publisher). This report may be accessed by Internet users at http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_w131.pdf