TRB is pleased to announce that we have selected Community Brands to provide a high-functionality online interface for the all-virtual 2021 Annual Meeting. The platform will make it possible for TRB provide both live and recorded sessions, interactive chat texting between attendees and speakers, virtual exhibit booths, and online...
Not on my bus. Not on my train. Not in my community. Across the country, hundreds of participants in a recent TRB webinar stood up and said this mantra out loud during a presentation by Kristen Joyner, executive consultant and trainer at South West Transit Association. Joyner and Margo Hill, a tribal attorney and tribal court judge,...
BTSCRP is seeking project technical oversight panel nominations for four projects in the FY2021 program. Nominations of members of historically underrepresented groups, including women, young professionals (age 35 and younger), and members of minority groups are encouraged. Panels for the new projects are scheduled to meet beginning in September...
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) is seeking ideas on candidate topics for the FY 2020 Legal Studies Program. The closing date for submission of topics for the FY 2021 program is October 2, 2020. Topic idea submission may be made through the online tool, ACRP's IdeaHub.
The Standing Technical Committee on Geometric Design and the Standing Technical Committee on Operational Effects of Geometrics both trace their origins to the post-World War II era, coinciding with the Interstate era and an unprecedented transportation public works boom. From 1946 through 1973 there are various references to both Committees in...
The forerunner to the Standing Technical Committee on Design and Rehabilitation of Concrete Pavements was the Committee on the Structural Design of Roads designated as Research Committee Number 2 in the original by-laws of the Highway Research Board. As the need for focused research on the emerging range of technical issues in the highway...
ACRP is holding its first-ever call for photos! We are looking for high-resolution images that reflect the diverse range of activities that occur at airports (passengers passing through terminals, staff working in control rooms, technicians on the scene, etc.), photos of airport locales (curbside baggage drops, terminal vendors, boarding areas,...
What are transit agencies doing to attract, retain, and advance women in the industry? TRB is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, September 2, 2020, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern that will identify the barriers and solutions to including more women in the transit industry. Presenters will discuss strategies to support women in transit and will share ...
The majority of travel demand models are derived from daily home- and work-based travel. But modeling intercity travel is also important. TRB will host a webinar on Monday, September 21, 2020 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Eastern that will discuss long-distance intercity travel models from Vermont, Florida, and Ontario. These models use integrated air...
Airports can use Building Information Modeling (BIM) practices to improve their facility operations and asset management processes. TRB is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will present data collected from a digital survey of over 60 airports, and interviews with airport staff, consultants, and...
All transportation researchers and students are invited to a TRB webinar on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET. The webinar will provide users of TRB's Research in Progress (RiP) Database with the latest information about RiP's search and data entry interfaces. The RiP Database is a leading tool for transportation...
China Highway and Transportation Society and TRB are jointly convening a U.S.-China Mobility Management Meeting on August 26, 2020 online. The theme is "Transit linkages with new mobility and micromobility, and the survival of both post COVID-19." COVID-19 has caused a severe decline in public ridership worldwide. This decline on ridership is...
TRBs Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has released its annual report, which provides background and an overview of the program, status of each of TCRPs projects, and a summary of some of the program's accomplishments for the year. In FY 2019, TCRP produced 11 publications, including 5 research reports and 6 syntheses, bringing the...
The high-resolution micro traffic data (HRMTD) of all roadway users is important for serving the connected-vehicle system in mixed traffic situations. The roadside LiDAR sensor gives a solution to providing HRMTD from real-time 3D point clouds of its scanned objects. "Automatic Background Filtering Method for Roadside LiDAR Data" proposed an...
Performance-based seismic design (PBSD) for infrastructure in the United States is a developing field, with new research, design, and repair technologies; definitions; and methodologies being advanced every year. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 949: Proposed AASHTO Guidelines for Performance-Based...
Emmett Municipal Airport, outside of Boise, Idaho, took every bit of advice from the TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Synthesis74: Combining Mixed-Use Flight Operations Safely at Airports. Since incorporating the procedures detailed in the report into its operations, the Emmett airport has not reported any further...
There are issues, opportunities, and challenges related to technology-enabled mobility services, and lots of ways that transit can learn from, build upon, and interface with new ways of traveling. The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Report 188: Shared Mobility and the Transformation of Public Transit examines the relationship...
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