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TRIS indexed 1,000+ 2021 Annual Meeting papers in TRID. This includes only those unpublished papers for which the authors authorized inclusion of full text in the Online Program. Registrants for the full Annual Meeting can access full text of the papers. The Exhibits & Committee Meetings Only registration option does not grant access to...
The Transportation Research Board is seeking nominations for the Sharon D. Banks Award for Humanitarian Leadership in Transportation. This TRB award, which recognizes excellence in people-oriented initiatives throughout transportation, was inaugurated in 2002 and is presented biennially. The next presentation of the award will be made during the...
Transportation in the Face of Communicable Disease If you work in the transportation industry, you are undoubtedly working overtime to plan for when the COVID-19 pandemic subsides and your sector can return to some semblance of normality. Part of the service you provide depends on the ability to keep people safe and healthy regardless of their...
Transportation Research Record (TRR) will be publishing a special, open-access issue featuring research relating to COVID-19 and transportation. In response to requests, submissions will be accepted through June 30, 2021. We invite papers that address all aspects of pandemic-related effects on transportation, including:
Calling all airport professionals with a strong background in intermodal passenger facilities! ACRP, in collaboration with TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP), will investigate the role of innovation and emerging technologies as they influence passenger behavior. The study...
The third episode of a webinar series on equity and the Black experience in transportation will be held on April 28. Carol Lewis, Chair of TRB's Special Committee for Inclusion and Diversity, will moderate the event, which is hosted by the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). Speakers include Hau Hagedorn of Portland State...
Security is important to consider when designing and building transportation infrastructure. TRB will host a webinar on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM Eastern to illustrate deployment strategies for implementing security practices. Presenters will describe case studies from Minnesota, Idaho, bridges, and cyber perspectives to...
It is crucial that executive management and emergency response planners at state transportation agencies (DOTs) work together. TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, May 6, 2021 from 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern that will provide guidance for DOT senior executives about how to embed resilience into transportation planning. Presenters will share ways they...
Visualization is a powerful tool that can monitor performance and demonstrate progress on key transportation initiatives. TRB will host a webinar on Monday, May 17, 2021 from 1:00-3:00 PM Eastern that will illustrate effective uses of visualization techniques. Presenters will describe how these approaches can help clarify complex data sets and...
The availability of transportation influences the ability of individuals to access health care, whether in urban, suburban, or rural areas. TRB is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM Eastern that will provide information to assist communities in improving transportation access to health care services. The webinar is...
Continuing TRB's annual summer symposia on automated vehicle systems, TRB will host the virtual 2021 Automated Road Transportation Symposium (ARTS21) July 12-15, 2021. Register by June 12 for the best rates! Since 2012, the Symposium has offered the worlds largest, most diverse, collaborative, and participatory conference on automated vehicles ...
For the tenth consecutive year, TRB's annual summer symposium on automated vehicle systems (now known as ARTS) will be facilitating global industry and government collaboration on todays toughest AV topics with in-depth breakout sessions. Participants convene to build insights and influence industry and policy direction on a diverse range...
Convened by Transportation Research Board, the 18th TRB Conference on Transportation Planning Applications (AppCon 2021) will be held in a virtual format June 21-24, 2021. AppCon attracts professionals from the academic, public, and private sectors to explore practical applications of transportation planning advances. The conference will include...
Convened by Transportation Research Board, the 13th National Conference on Transportation Asset Management will be held on August 7-10, 2021 online. the conference will cover a broad range of asset management topics to help transportation agencies manage their infrastructure assets to meet societys needs today and in the future. The...
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has issued a request for proposals to create (1.) A framework by which the U.S. airport industry can have a consistent and standardized adoption of automated ground vehicle systems AGVS with a focus on their use for airside operations and (2.) A playbook that is written for individual airports,...
TRB's Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (BTSCRP) has released a request for proposals to develop a scalable framework for state highway safety offices that (1) identifies components and examples of successful traffic safety public education and awareness efforts designed to elicit behavioral change; (2) outlines the critical...
Although the need for a more effective set of short- and long-term transportation resilience strategies is increasingly obvious and urgent, many knowledge gaps and institutional barriers still exist. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 975: Transportation System Resilience: Research Roadmap and White...
On April 21, 2021, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation held a hearing to examine the safe return to air travel in the United States.
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