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2022 TRB Annual Meeting: Plan Now to Exhibit
Act now to secure your exhibit space at the 2022 TRB Annual Meeting, January 9-13, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Join us as the meeting returns to an in-person format, after being held virtually in 2021. Don't miss this opportunity to demonstrate your organization's support for transportation research and innovation, and to showcase your products and...
 
2022 TRB Annual Meeting: Create or Update Your MyTRB Profile
You've heard the news that TRBAM is going to be in person for 2022. In order to attend the meeting, be sure to create or update your MyTRB profile now. MyTRB allows TRB volunteers, contributors, and participants to maintain their own contact information. You can identify your areas of interest, upload your bio, become a friend of a...
 
Committee and Reviewer Resources for Annual Meeting Paper Review
If you have questions or need procedural instructions while trying to carry out your role in facilitating this year's Annual Meeting paper review process, please visit the following resource pages:   Committee Guides Reviewer Guides   If you have additional questions that are not answered on those pages, please consult with a fellow ...
 
TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast: Gloria Jeff and How Transportation Equity is a Pizza
Gloria Jeff, Director of Rethinking I-94 at the Minnesota Department of Transportation, discusses how transportation planners can learn from the past and  bake equity into their processes moving forward. Listen to the podcast here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
 
Take Action Now to Keep Getting TRBs Newsletter in the Fall
By the end of September, TRBs weekly newsletter will take a new format. To continue to get outstanding research news from TRB every Tuesday in the new and improved TRB Weekly, you must subscribe to the new version. As a subscriber to our current TRB E-Newsletter, your subscription will not be moved automatically. Make sure youre subscribed...
 
2022 Traffic Control Device Student Challenge: Apply by October 1
In collaboration with American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA), TRB's Standing Technical Committee on Traffic Control Devices announces the annual Traffic Control Device Student Challenge (TCD Challenge). Individuals or teams of students are challenged to devise an innovative traffic control device for speed management on limited...
 
Nominate Principal Investigators for FY 2022 National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis Topics by August 27
NCHRP is seeking principal investigators for FY 2022 synthesis topics. The project numbers, titles, and preliminary scopes of work for 18 new FY2022 Synthesis Topics are available. Please submit a letter of interest to serve as a principal investigator for one or more of these studies online through the Letters of Interest Submission Portal....
 
Nominate Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Project Panels by September 21
ACRP is seeking panel nominations for 18 new projects selected for the FY2022 program. These panels will develop requests for proposals, select contractors, and review draft deliverables. Please nominate yourself or other candidates to serve on the expert panels of these research projects online at MyACRP. If you have a MyTRB account, you may...
 
Identifying Credible Sources in Social Media
People seek, share, and receive travel information from a wide variety of sources, such as transportation companies and agencies, insurance and manufacturing companies, family and friends, media, educational materials, advertisements, and the internetincluding social media. As with any other scientific research, transportation research is...
 
TRB Webinar: Evaluating and Rating Unsurfaced Roads

As of 2008, 33% of roads in the U.S. are unpaved or unsurfaced, and evaluating these roads requires a different perspective than evaluating asphalt or concrete roads. TRB will host a webinar on Wednesday, August 25, 2021 from 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern that will present two methodologies for unsurfaced road evaluation and rating. One is the unsurfaced...

 
TRB Webinar: Use and Design of Low-Density Cellular Concrete

Low-Density Cellular Concrete (LDCC) use has seen quite a rise among a multitude of transportation projects. TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, August 26, 2021 from 1:00-3:00 PM Eastern that will discuss the current uses and design techniques of LDCC. Presenters will examine how utilizing LDCC can speed up overall construction schedules and...

 
TRB Webinar: Training Operations Personnel at Small Airports
Managers of airports of all sizes face a perennial dilemma: how to efficiently train operations personnel while simultaneously ensuring a safe and secure airport environment. TRB is hosting a webinar on Monday, September 13, 2021 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM Eastern that will focus on current training methods and programs to prepare new and existing...
 
TRB Webinar: Chip Seals, Microsurfacing, and Fog Seals Specifications

Pavement preservation is a means of maintaining and improving the functional condition of an existing highway system, generally leading to improved pavement performance and longer service life. There are, however, considerable variations among states regrading specifications for construction of chip seals, microsurfacing, and fog seals. TRB will...

 
TRB Webinar: Evaluating the Performance of Retaining Walls and Embankments

Ongoing performance evaluation and research in embankment earthworks and retaining wall support can have implications for several aspects of a project. TRB will host a webinar on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 from 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern that will introduce modeling and field instrumentation  as well as describe how these tools inform design....

 
Drug-Impaired Driving Conference
Convened by Transportation Research Board, the Drug-Impaired Driving Conference will be held October 27-29, 2021 online. This conference will generate and inform new and innovative practices and strategies to reverse the trends in increasing drug-impaired driving on our roadways. Participants will discuss drug-impaired driving research and...
 
International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring*
Stanford University will host the International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure on December 7-9, 2021 in Stanford, CA. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. The workshop aims to assess the current state-of-the-art technologies in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and to discuss and identify...
 
TRANSED: Mobility, Accessibility, and Demand Response Transportation Conference - Accepting Abstracts Through October 29
Convened by Transportation Research Board, the TRANSED: Mobility, Accessibility, and Demand Response Transportation Conference will be held September 2022 in Seattle, WA. This conference combines two long standing conferences with similar content: the 16th International Conference on Mobility and Transport for Older Adults and People with...
 
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Recently Released TRB Publications
Development of a Comprehensive Approach for Serious Traffic Crash Injury Measurement and Reporting Systems
The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) requires a set of performance metrics to include assessment of serious injuries in crashes. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 302: Development of a Comprehensive Approach for Serious Traffic Crash Injury Measurement and Reporting...
 
Relationships Between the Fatigue Properties of Asphalt Binders and the Fatigue Performance of Asphalt Mixtures
Traffic-associated fatigue damage is one of the major distresses in which flexible pavements fail. This type of distress is the result of many thousandsor even millions of wheel loads passing over a pavement. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's pre-publication draft of NCHRP Research Report 982: Relationships Between the...
 
Practices for Closing Out Highway Projects from Substantial Completion to Final Payment
Although project closeout only entails a small portion of actual construction work, closing out highway construction projects for state departments of transportation (DOTs) is a complex and vital process that is a part of project delivery for highway construction projects. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Synthesis ...
 
TR News 332 March-April 2021
The March - April 2021 issue of TR Newswith a cover feature on TRB's 100th Annual Meetingis available in full online.  Other articles in the issue explore mobility and human trafficking, near-road air quality, and how to make safer roadway crossings for small wildlife. This is Issue 332. To subscribe to TR News, sign up through...
 
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Federal Research News
Transportation Security Administration screening systems
A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office
 
Energy justice
Energy Justice: Key Concepts and Metrics Relevant to EERE Transportation Projects, released by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory at the U.S. Department of Energy
 
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University Research News
Sharing real-time traffic data
Real-Time Traffic Analytics at Intersections, released by Carnegie Mellon University
 
Older drivers perceptions toward automated vehicles
UF & UABs Phase I Demonstration Study: Older Driver Experiences with Autonomous Vehicle Technology, released by the Transportation Institute at the University of Florida
 
Generational multimodality
Millennial Travelers Are More Multimodal than Older Travelers, but This Trend Might Change as They Age, released by the University of California, Davis
 
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International Research News
Testing polymer binders
Development of the Dynamic Shear Rheometer Consistency 6% Test Method for Polymer Modified Binders, released by Austroads
 
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In The Know
Eno Announces the Martin Wachs Memorial Centennial Essay Contest
The Eno Center for Transportation has announced it is holding an essay content that will offer both students and professionals an opportunity to get published in Eno Transportation Weekly, win a total of $12,000 in cash prizes, and build their reputation as an expert. Essays are due this Friday (August 20) and should be persuasive op-eds that...
 
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