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| Transportation research makes the road safer for students to get back to school |
 | School buses are traditionally a very safe way to travel. They represent 25 percent of the miles traveled by students in the U.S. but account for less than 4 percent of the injuries and 2 percent of fatalities. Conversely, passenger vehicles with teen drivers, bicycling, and walking have estimated injury rates and fatality counts... |
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| 2021 TRB Annual Meeting: Thank you for submitting your papers |
 | Thank you to everyone who submitted a paper to TRB for possible presentation as part of the 100th Annual Meeting and for publication in Transportation Research Record (TRR). The papers will be peer reviewed and authors should expect to be notified of the status of their papers by late October 2020. The meeting program will cover all... |
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| National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) soliciting FY2022 problem statement submittals by November 2, 2020 |
 | Problem statements are now being accepted for the FY 2022 NCRP through the AASHTO Special Committee on Research and Innovation (R&I). Please review and follow the outlined format before submitting. Submit problem statements electronically by November 2, 2020. For more information, please contact Lori Sundstrom, NCHRP Manager, at |
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| Seeking principal investigators for FY2021 NCHRP Synthesis Projects: Letters of interest due August 27, 2020 |
| TRB's National Highway Cooperative Research Program (NCHRP) has issued an invitation for letters of interest from those wishing to be considered as a principal investigator for one or more of the 19 new NCHRP synthesis topics. Letters of Interest must be submitted through the Letters of Interest Submission Portal by August 27, 2020. For the list... |
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| See Kara Kockelman's response and others that helped "Tell Us 'Our' Story" on solutions that you have identified as a result of research you learned about through TRB? |
 | Kara Kockelman, Professor of Transportation Engineering, University of Texas Austin, said in part that "I have been fortunate to work intensively on two TRB-sponsored research projects, through the NCHRP & SHRP programs. The first was titled Safety Impacts and Other Implications of Raised Speed Limits on High-Speed Roads. We learned a great... |
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| History Highlights: Organizing the American Association of Highway Officials (AASHO) Road Test |
 | The AASHO (American Association of State Highway Officials) Road Test, which would end up costing two orders of magnitude more than the 1950 Maryland road test, started as the regional project of the Mississippi Valley Conference of State Highway Departments. As with the WASHO (Western Association of State Highway Officials) Road Test, planning... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Transit Capacity and Quality of Service |
| The Standing Technical Committee on Transit Capacity and Quality of Service's origins date back to 1998, when a Task Force on Transit Capacity and Quality of Service was formed while the first edition of the TCQSM (Kittelson & Associates, Inc. et al. 1999) was being prepared. The TCQSM was envisioned as the transit counterpart to the widely... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - 100 Years of TRB Steel Bridge Research |
| Steel has been used in bridges for well over 100 years, beginning with the construction of Eads Bridge in St. Louis, MO in 1874, the first steel bridge in the world. Over the years, the HRB/TRB Standing Technical Committee on Steel Bridges has contributed to major advancements in the state of knowledge of steel bridge engineering, helping to... |
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| TRB Webinar: Selecting Better Pavement Markings through Field Trials |
| How can the quality of pavement markings be improved in a cost-effective and efficient manner? TRB will conduct a webinar on Monday, August 10, 2020 from 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern that will discuss how organizations can use field trials as tools for improving pavement markings. Presenters will describe transverse test decks that may be used to evaluate ... |
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| TRB Webinar: Enter the PortalThe Transportation Performance Management (TPM) Portal |
| Does your organization practice effective Performance Management (PM)? TRB will host a webinar on Wednesday, August 12, 2020 from 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern that will explore the Transportation Performance Management Portal, which is a product of the Transportation Pooled Fund Program. The Portal illustrates PM best practices and fosters collaboration... |
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| TRB Webinar: Whats Cooler than Cool? Cooler Pavements for Urban Heat Island Mitigation |
| Urban Heat Islands (UHI) are a common phenomenon in which urban areas are warmer than adjacent rural areas. As the climate continues to change and more people move into urban areas, the UHI effect becomes more pronounced, especially with regards to energy consumption and public health. TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, August 13, 2020 from... |
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| TRB Webinar: How Women Fare in the Transit Industry |
| 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 ... |
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| TRB Webinar: Enhancing Pavement Foundation Resilience through Moisture Measurement |
| Accurate and timely moisture measurement is important for properly compacting geomaterials during construction and to understand the environment below existing pavements. TRB is hosting a webinar on Thursday, September 17, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern exploring newer, potentially less expensive and time-consuming methods that continuously... |
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| NTI Webinar: TCRP Research Report 206: Guidance for Calculating the Return on Investment in Transit State of Good Repair* |
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| RFP: Legal Issues and Strategies for Best-Value Procurement for Highway Construction |
| TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to produce a legal research digest that includes: (1) an analysis of fairness issues in the best-value procurement process that may have resulted in formal bid protests or questions regarding reduced competition and (2) a review and analysis of the... |
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| Equity Analysis in Regional Transportation Planning Processes, Volume 2: Research Overview |
 | Transportation agencies that manage federally funded programs and projects are responsible for ensuring that their plans, programs, policies, services, and investments benefit everyone in their jurisdictions equitably. The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Research Report 214: Equity Analysis in Regional Transportation... |
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| Conference on Health and Active Transportation |
 | The Conference on Health and Active Transportation brought together leaders from the transportation and health disciplines to chart a course for the future of active transportation. TRB's Transportation Research Circular E-C264: Conference on Health and Active Transportation compiles comments of the plenary sessions and individual breakout... |
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| Models for Law Enforcement at Airports |
 | Each airport and its law enforcement model have a unique set of relationships, operations, and resources. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Synthesis 107: Models for Law Enforcement at Airports provides a concise body of knowledge to assist airport management, operators, researchers, and users by detailing the varying types... |
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| TRR: A Straightforward Procedure to Characterize Nonlinear Viscoelastic Response of Asphalt Concrete at High Temperatures |
 | Rutting and fatigue damage are two major forms of distress that cause the most concern in asphalt concrete pavements, as they affect both serviceability and safety over the performance life of asphalt pavements. Ruttingpermanent deformation under the wheels pathis more dominant at high temperatures, and fatigue damageevolution of micro-cracks... |
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| Federal funding for transportation in 2021 |
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| Characteristics of electric vehicles |
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| Effectively deploying Transportation Systems Management and Operations |
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| Improving bridges while increasing worker safety |
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| Designing pavements |
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| Treatments for bridge decks |
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| Novel materials for the construction and retrofitting of bridges |
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| Attitudes toward self-driving technology |
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| Different bike share approaches |
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| How to train transit professionals |
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| Energy storage needs of the electric grid |
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| How transportation progress affects our lives |
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| Regulating the reduction of greenhouse gases |
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| How a place is valued from a transportation perspective |
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| How transportation, health, and healthcare are interrelated |
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| Guidance for setting speed limits |
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