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| Lessons continue to be learned in TRB events on COVID-19 |
 | As in many industries, transportation is facing significant challenges as a result the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Through the ongoing and rapidly changing phases of the pandemic, TRB is giving researchers, practitioners, and experts opportunities to share their insights with a wider audience through our webinars, Zoom meetings,... |
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| Winners selected for 2019-2020 TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs |
 | The Transportation Research Boards Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has selected winners for its annual University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs. Now in its 14th year, the prestigious competition encourages students to design innovative and practical solutions to challenges at airports. Four first-place winners... |
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| Seeking panel nominations for FY 2020 Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Syntheses and Projects: Nominations due July 3, 2020 |
 | ACRP is seeking panel nominations for 9 syntheses and 4 projects added to the current FY2020 program by its Oversight Committee. Please nominate yourself or other candidates to serve on the expert panels that oversee the technical content of these studies online at MyTRB. Please submit nominations by July 3, 2020. |
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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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| Tell Us Our Story by Michael Morris |
 | In a video submitted in response to TRB's "Tell Us 'Our' Story" centennial activity, Michael Morris, Director of Transportation, North Central Texas Council of Governments notes that TRB's centennial is an opportunity to "celebrate the accomplishments of TRB...and help us understand where we should go and how we should get there in the next 100... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Urban Freight Transportation: Embracing the Future with Insights from the Past |
| The original name of the Standing Technical Committee on Urban Freight Transportation was the Urban Goods Movement Committee when it was formed in 1975. Freight transportation planning in urban areas was not common at that time except in a few large urban areas. In the 1980s the committee experienced an increased participation by the private ... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Highway Traffic Monitoring: Understanding Tomorrows Problems to Better Serve the Public |
| Even before the advent of Intelligent Transportation Systems, the Standing Technical Committee on Highway Traffic Monitoring was identifying best practices, gaps, and research needs related to traffic monitoring programs. Initially established as a Weigh-in-Motion Task Force in 1985, it transitioned to a standing committee in 1988. The mission of... |
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| TRB Straight to Recording for All: Cone Penetration Test and Design of Transportation Structures Foundation |
| Cone Penetration Test (CPT) is a technology that can be used for design of foundation supporting various types of transportation structures including highway bridges. The CPT approach and its direct use can offer a far more efficient methodology in design and potential savings in resources compared to conventional methods. In June 2020, TRB... |
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| TRB Webinar: Smooth Road Ahead Applying Pavement Condition Data for Airports |
| Collecting pavement condition data is essential for managing airport pavements and ensuring safe operations. However, the availability of guidance for airports to be able to collect, apply, and maintain pavement condition data has not kept pace with rapid changes in technologies. TRB is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30... |
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| TRB Webinar: When to Use Fully Grouted Piezometer Installations |
| The fully grouted method of installing piezometers is increasingly popular, but it doesnt work in every case. TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern to provide critical information regarding the most effective piezometer installations for the applications at hand. It will focus on which factors to... |
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| TRB Webinar: Enhance Work Zone Safety with New Technologies |
| Work zone safety for road workers remains a challenge. TRB will conduct a webinar on Thursday, July 9, 2020 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern to explore several technologies for safer work zones. Presenters will discuss technologies that mitigate work zone intrusion, such as the Autonomous Truck Mounted Attenuator. They will also discuss intrusion... |
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| TRB Webinar: Bridge Scour Risk Management |
| Flooding and scour are a leading cause of bridge failures in the United States. Agencies responsible for bridge safety seek effective threat-mitigation strategies, including installation of scour countermeasures to monitor, control, inhibit, change, delay, or minimize stream instability and bridge-scour susceptibility. TRB is hosting a webinar on... |
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| TRB Webinar: Human Trafficking and Mobility of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women |
| Thousands of Native American women and girls disappear or are killed each year. These women and girls vanish from tribal lands, rural communities, and cities with no official accounting. TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern that will explore the unique mobility patterns of Native Americans as they... |
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| TRB Webinar: Measures of Performance for Operating a Reliable Transportation System |
| How can Transportation Management System (TMS) administrators implement and measure performance management strategies? TRB will conduct a webinar on Thursday, July 30, 2020 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern that will explore different ways to measure system performance management. Presenters will identify how a TMS may help performance measures to... |
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| ACRP Insight Event - Introduction to Blockchain and Airport Operations in a COVID-19 Environment |
| Blockchain has evolved into a technology with the potential to transform a range of industries by securing the exchange of privacy, establishing provenance, facilitating data sharing, and creating value through transactions in completely new, safe, and efficient ways. It has numerous relevant applications for airport operations, including managing ... |
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| RFP: Legal Issues in Transit Mega ProjectsCase Studies |
| TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has issued a request for proposals to produce a legal research digest that includes lessons learned from transit agencies, sample provisions from third party contracts and intergovernmental agreements to address legal issues, links to transactional documents, Federal Transit Administration (FTA)... |
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| Incorporating the Costs and Benefits of Adaptation Measures in Preparation for Extreme Weather Events and Climate ChangeGuidebook |
 | Extreme weather events and a changing climate increasingly boost costs to transportation agencies and to the traveling public. While Departments of Transportation (DOTs) are taking into account changing climate and extreme weather when making infrastructure decisions, they typically are not using a formal set of tools or cost-benefit analyses... |
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| Guidelines to Incorporate the Costs and Benefits of Adaptation Measures in Preparation for Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change |
 | Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is useful for climate change response and adaptation, and if used properly, it has great potential for long-range planning. CBA should help agencies navigate the spectrum of decisions from mitigation and greenhouse gas reduction to adaptation: where does investing public funds generate the most public good? The TRB... |
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| Legal Issues Concerning the Use of Transportation Facilities to Generate Revenue for State DOTs |
 | Utility companies are seeking to locate communications facilities and evolving wireless communication technology and its infrastructure in state right-of-way. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP LRD 81: Legal Issues Concerning the Use of Transportation Facilities to Generate Revenue for State DOTs summarizes and... |
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| Highway Hydraulic Engineering State of Practice |
 | The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Synthesis 551: Highway Hydraulic Engineering State of Practice documents significant changes in highway hydraulic engineering practices implemented by state departments of transportation (DOTs) over the past decade. The synthesis focuses on eight subtopics of highway hydraulic... |
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| Characteristics of the FBO Industry 2018-2019 |
 | The fixed-base operator (FBO) industry provides aeronautical services to a wide spectrum of aircraft operators at airports. The term FBO is defined by the FAA as a business granted the right by the airport sponsor to operate on an airport and provide aeronautical services . . . The most basic FBO offers its customers self-service fueling, as... |
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| The Transportation Research Board, 1920-2020; Everyone Interested is Invited - ebook versions now available |
 | The TRB Centennial Book is available for purchase in ebook or print format. In The Transportation Research Board, 19202020: Everyone Interested Is Invited, author Sarah Jo Peterson tells the story of how people and institutions created and have continued to shape TRB. In a compelling narrative accompanied by more than 150 images exploring the... |
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| How coronavirus disease (COVID-19) preparations may impact federal requirements |
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| Prices of alternative fuels |
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| FHWAs Fostering Multimodal Connectivity Newsletter: April 2020 |
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| FHWA R&T Now: March/April 2020 |
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| Position available: Director, Office of Railroad Infrastructure and Mechanical |
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| Modeling congestion patterns |
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| Marking crosswalks consistently |
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| Designing pedestrian crossings |
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| How an autonomous vehicle responds to an emergency vehicle |
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| How traffic noise affects wildlife crossings |
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| Stakeholders ideas about registration of motorized mobility devices |
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| Road infrastructure management applications |
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| Pathways to advanced biofuels |
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| Managing modeling projects |
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| NAS President Marcia McNutt on science and equality of opportunity |
| An editorial by Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences, in the latest edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) magazine, suggests a five-step program for the scientific community to help rectify racial inequality. McNutt writes, "By first admitting that science has been part of the problem in the... |
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| Hearing: R&D to Support Healthy Air Travel in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond |
| The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space & Technology Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a hearing on June 23, 2020. |
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| Disinfecting transit vehicles and facilities in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) |
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