At TRB's 100th Annual Meeting in January 2021, more than 20 Spotlight Sessions will focus on this year's theme, "Launching a New Century of Mobility and Quality of Life." Specific sessions about equity in transportation will focus on:
women and gender in transportation,
mobility for older adults and people with disabilities,
TRB is requesting that presentations for the virtual Annual Meeting, to be held in January 2021, be pre-recorded. Information on how to pre-record can be found here. The deadline for making an appointment to record with our Virtual Platform vendor is December 28. Presenters can also pre-record themselves and upload their videos to the MyTRB...
Are you curious about what a virtual TRB Annual Meeting might look like? Hear from TRB Executive Director Neil Pedersen, TRB Technical Activities Division Director Ann Brach, and TRB volunteer Sandra Larson of Stanley Consultants. From sessions to keynotes and everything in between, they give you the highlights of what's coming throughout January...
Sidewalks are a much more complicated element of our transportation networks than they seem. Pedestrian facilities can range from sidewalks to ramps, to signals, to off-road hiking trails, and even infrastructure that connects to transit stops or shared bikes or scooter services. Over the past decade, state departments of transportation (DOTs) ...
The TRB Tell Us Our Story" centennial activity is designed to allow as many of you (TRBs volunteers and friends) as possible to participate in the TRB Centennial Celebration through the submission of your stories, which are our stories. The Tell Us Our' Story centennial activity consists of a series of monthly questions that will help...
TRB turns 100 on November 11, 2020. You are invited to join your colleagues listed below who have contributed to the TRB Century Club to support activities that will mark the anniversary; promote the value of transportation research; and celebrate the achievements of TRBs volunteers, sponsors, affiliates, and staff. Details on the Century...
Get up to speed on the latest TRB research before the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting. A new Snap Search has been developed to focus on TRB resources around Shared Mobility. Snap Searches provide a succinct summary of activities in TRB on a given topic, and over 60 topics are currently covered. The TRB Library can provide updates to existing Snap...
TRB is proud to release a special collection of papers published in Transportation Research Record (TRR) by awardees of the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Graduate Research Awards Program. This compendium showcases 90 students whose have papers have been accepted for publication in TRR. Learn more about the students research by...
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop rational methods for assigning short-duration traffic volume counts to adjustment factor groups for estimating annual average daily traffic. The research is concerned with all functional classes of roadways and traffic volumes. Proposals are...
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop a guidebook that may help state departments of transportation personnel in making decisions regarding snow and ice control operations and implementing safe, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly strategies. Proposals are due January 21, ...
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop a primer and guidebook to help airport operators understand and respond to homeless people at their facility. Proposals are due January 28, 2021 at 5:00 PM Eastern.
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to conduct a critical review of current and leading practices, research and application of emerging and new technologies, and opportunities for further advances to identify near-term opportunities for improving agencies capabilities to assess and...
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to (1) evaluate the recent experience of transportation agencies in using virtual public involvement with a particular focus on equity; and (2) develop a manual for selecting, creating, and using virtual public involvement tools and techniques for each...
Highway agencies have traditionally managed the safety improvement process by identifying and correcting high-crash locations (hot-spots), where concentrations of crashes and, often, patterns of crashes of similar types, were found. However, when crashes are evaluated over too short a period of time (3 years or less), locations may be identified ...
Traditional approaches to safety have focused on identifying high-crash locations and implementing projects to address predominant concerns at these locations. The systemic approach to safety is a method of safety management that typically involves lower unit cost safety improvements that are widely implemented based on high risk factors. The...
Transit workers experience more health and safety problems than the general workforce, primarily as a result of a combination of physical demands, environmental factors, and stresses related to their jobs. The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Research Report 217: Improving the Health and Safety of Transit Workers with...
One critical need for monitoring and improving transportation rail safety is early-stage pre-catastrophic-failure detection of rail breakage, or emerging faults under trains. The TRB IDEA (Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis) Program's Rail Safety IDEA Final Report 36: Onboard High-Bandwidth Fiber-Optic Sensing System for Broken Rail...
U.S. airports that receive assistance from the federal government are required to comply with a number of obligations imposed by federal law. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Legal Research Digest 21: Compilation of DOT and FAA Airport Legal Determinations and Opinion Letters as of December 31, 2018 covers legal matters that ...
The TRB Transportation Research E-Newsletter regularly covers transportation research developments in the United States and abroad. This document is not a report of the National Research Council or of the National Academies of Sciences. The opinions expressed in reports highlighted in TRB's Transportation Research E-Newsletter are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Transportation Research Board or the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
