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| TRB Webinar: The supply chain and COVID-19 |
 | COVID-19 has had a profound impact on supply chains for many different critical products, both in the United States and worldwide. The pandemic has created major changes in freight flows and has challenged the ability to deliver products to companies and consumers within the needed time frame. This has perhaps most acutely become an issue an... |
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| Funding transportation through the COVID-19 pandemic |
 | As responsible measures are taken to secure the nations physical health, our economic health is no doubt suffering. In this light, the U.S. Congress approved a massive economic stimulus bill to counter anticipated unemployment. With the COVID-19 pandemic hitting the travel and public transportation industries hard, TRBs catalog of related... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Truck and Bus Safety: Research Topics and Focus Areas |
 | The goal of the Truck and Bus Safety Committee, created in 2003, is to focus on motor carrier safety in all its aspects, including research and evaluation in human, roadway, vehicle, operational, and organizational arenas. Topic areas include problem assessment and data, laws and regulations, enforcement and compliance, driver health and wellness, ... |
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| Tell Us Our Story - What drew you to transportation community, and what keeps you here? |
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| "Tell Us 'Our' Story" March Responses Online - What have you learned about yourself in volunteering for TRB? |
 | Nikola Ivanov "learned that just as I am gaining valuable knowledge from thousands of TRB volunteers, I am also bringing value to this powerful community by being myself and contributing to the best of my abilities." Kohinoor Kar learned "..that I don't know several things in this universe of research, but I do know a few things in... |
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| TRB Webinar: Roundabouts in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices |
| The U.S. Federal Highway Administrations Manual on Uniform Traffic Devices (MUTCD) is the gold standard for designing and installing traffic signs, road markings, and signals. But how do roundabouts fit into the MUTCD? TRB is hosting a webinar on Monday, April 13 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will answer this question. Presenters will... |
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| TRB Webinar: Start your transportation research with TRID |
| If you are researching anything in transportation, you want to start with TRBs TRID database. Novice researchers, experts, and everyone in between is invited to a TRB webinar on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Eastern. TRID, one of the TRIS databases, helps researchers locate solutions to problems, avoid duplication of work, and ... |
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| TRB Webinar: Demanding data - Transactional data for demand-responsive transportation |
| Often referred to as on-demand services, demand-responsive transportation (DRT) relies extensively on the development of transactional data specifications. TRB is hosting a webinar on Thursday, April 16, 2020, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that will explore how these data specifications may help facilitate interaction between software systems that... |
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| TRB Webinar: Steel your bridges Preservation practices for steel bridge coatings |
| Does your organization manage steel bridges? TRB is hosting a webinar on Thursday, May 7, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will identify challenges of maintaining coating on steel bridges. Operating agencies must maintain the coating in order to protect the bridges from corrosion. This webinar will discuss coating and recoating methods that... |
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| TRB Webinar: You can get there from here - Developing an emissions roadmap for airports |
| Airports need ways to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. TRB is hosting a webinar on Thursday, May 21 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will present a roadmap that may help an airport establish key stakeholders and choose emissions reduction technologies. This roadmap may also help airports set goals, baselines, and targets, as well as... |
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| 2020 International Conference on Winter Maintenance and Surface Transportation Weather and Winter Maintenance National Peer Exchange: Early bird registration through May 21 |
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| Transit Security Preparedness |
 | Sixty percent of the transit-industry practitioners surveyed rate their transit agencys efforts to address their major security challenges as somewhat or very successful. However, only 25 percent say they have implemented any security-risk-reduction program that they consider to be exceptional or exemplary. The TRB Transit Cooperative... |
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| TR News: Data's Critical Role in Transportation Decisions |
 | One of the most time-honored of the technical activities that TRB performs, state visits revealed lots of interesting issues in 2019, including a lot around the important role state Departments of Transportation increasingly have around data needs. The TRB staff summary of the visits, each of which last one or two days and typically consist of ... |
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| Integrating Tribal Expertise into Processes to Identify, Evaluate, and Record Cultural Resources |
 | There are remaining challenges and gaps in the way federal agencies work with tribes and use their expertise in project decision-making. In addition, project and consultation outcomes may not result in benefits to both agencies and tribes. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 281: Integrating Tribal... |
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| Stray Current Control of Direct Current-Powered Rail Transit Systems: A Guidebook |
 | Stray current and stray currentinduced corrosion remain concerns among transit agencies, electrolysis committees, utility owners, providers, and electric railway carriers across the globe. It is easier to implement stray current isolation, mitigation, and collection options on a newer transit system with proper foresight and planning by following ... |
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| Facts about natural gas |
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| Calculating speeding behavior |
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| FHWA: Innovator, March/April 2020 |
| Bi-monthly Innovator newsletter, released by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration |
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| UTC Spotlight: April 2020 |
| Quarterly newsletter from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation |
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| Understanding data in different contexts |
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| Grass along roadsides |
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| How to measure travelers happiness |
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| The potential impacts of ride-hailing |
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| Supporting connected vehicles on roadways |
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| The future of ride-hailing |
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| What does successful public transportation look like? |
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| Making sustainable roads |
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| Updating traffic management standards |
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