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| Last chance to take TRB's survey on which resources we need to provide to you |
 | This is the last week for you to take our new survey, which is designed to get your feedback on how we can provide the best resources to you. Please plan to spend approximately 15 minutes on the survey, which will close Monday, March 16. |
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| Transportation fights back against human trafficking |
 | In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which declared that all persons held as slavesare, and henceforward shall be free. Incidentally, Lincoln signed the law establishing the National Academy of Sciences on March 3 of the same year. Slavery has been illegal in the U.S. for over 150 years, but a form of modern... |
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| Tell Us Our Story |
 | What have you learned about yourself in volunteering for TRB? Please submit your responses in to this month's question by March 31, 2020. TRB welcomes all stories: small or large, profound or light-hearted, sobering or humorous. The TRB Tell Us Our Story" centennial activity is designed to allow as many of you (TRBs volunteers and friends) as... |
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| "Tell Us 'Our' Story" February Responses Online - What is a significant contribution you think that TRB has made to transportation and why? |
| Navneet Garg, Program Manager, National Airport Pavement & Materials Research Center, Federal Aviation Administration, indicated that "one of the most significant contribution of Transportation Research Board (TRB) is to bring transportation professionals, policy makers, researchers, academics, industry experts, and users from around the world ... |
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| TRB Centennial and Women's History Month - Research Profiles - Katharine Mather |
 | "A petrographic examination of concrete ordinarily begins and ends with a problem of communication between the person who requests the examination usually an engineer-and the person who makes it-usually a petrographer. Unless the two succeed in producing a clear, mutually understood statement of the problem, they cannot expect a clear, useful... |
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| History Highlights - TRB's Technical Activities Committees: The Significance of Their History |
| TRB is pleased to make available the audio and slides of the January 13, 2020, Deen Lecture by Dr. Sarah Jo Peterson the author of The Transportation Research Board, 1920-2020, Everyone Interested Is Invited. Dr. Peterson's lecture was titled TRBs Technical Activities Committees: The Significance of Their History. Dr. Petersons lecture... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Technology Transfer within TRB |
 | With its committee structure, TRB is to a significant degree a technology transfer agency bringing the transportation community together to exchange information on research results, technology innovations, and new practices. TRB sponsors meetings and discussion forums, issues publications, and gathers groups of experts on numerous topics in... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Historic and Archaeological Preservation in Transportation |
| The Historic and Archaeological Preservation in Transportation Committee represents the full range of historic preservation interests in transportation including archaeology, architectural history, historic engineering, and the management of cultural resources. The work of the committee occupies intellectual spaces between the present and the... |
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| TRB Webinar: Making your budget work Stormwater management projects at airports |
| When airports are considering expanding or improving their stormwater facilities, conducting a benefit-cost analysis helps illuminate options and prioritize investments. TRB is hosting a webinar on Monday, March 16 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will highlight the steps airports can take to evaluate and promote environmentally friendly... |
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| TRB Webinar: How rough is your pavement? |
| Because of their unique features, current practices for estimating urban and low-speed pavement roughness could lead to inappropriate or misleading data. Make your measurements more accurate. TRB is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, March 17, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will describe methods for measuring, characterizing, and reporting roughness ... |
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| TRB Webinar: Exploring equity implications of emerging transportation technologies |
| Measuring equity holistically can be approached in several ways in the field of transportation. TRB is hosting a webinar on Thursday, March 19, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will explore how agencies can define and address disparity as they relate to emerging technologies and new transportation modes. The presenters will share tools, methods,... |
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| TRB Webinar: How to guide alternative contracting projects |
| Alternative contracting projects require significant procedural and cultural changes on the part of highway agencies. TRB is hosting a webinar on Thursday, March 26, from 1:00 to 2:30 PM Eastern that will address these changes. Learn about the tools of the trade for agencies that vary depending on the phase of project development, the specific... |
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| TRB Webinar: How construction history may enhance a pavement management system |
| Pavement management systems rely on a lot of data, which is essential to evaluating pavements. TRB is hosting a webinar on Thursday, April 9 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will explore how construction history data, such as pavement maintenance, preservation, and rehabilitation activities, may enhance pavement management. Presenters will... |
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| TRB Webinar: Start your transportation research with TRID |
| If you are researching anything in transportation, you want to start with TRBs TRID database. Novice researchers, experts, and everyone in between is invited to a TRB webinar on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Eastern. TRID (part of the TRIS database) helps researchers locate solutions to problems, avoid duplication of work, and ... |
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| TRB Webinar: Demanding data - Transactional data for demand-responsive transportation |
| Often referred to as on-demand services, demand-responsive transportation (DRT) relies extensively on the development of transactional data specifications. TRB is hosting a webinar on Thursday, April 16, 2020, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that will explore how these data specifications may help facilitate interaction between software systems that... |
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| TRB Straight to Recording for All: What successful Disadvantaged Business Enterprises mean for DBE program implementation |
| TRB released a recording in February 2020 that illustrates successful DBE programs. State and local agencies that receive federal funds must operate the Federal DBE Program. They have limited financial and staff resources to do so and get little feedback on what initiatives are successful. Presenters: Dave Keen (Keen Independent... |
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| RFP: Scoping Study to Develop the Basis for a Highway Standard to Conduct an All-Hazards Risk and Resilience Analysis |
| TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to provide a scoping study for a transportation framework for all-hazards risk and resilience analysis of transportation assets. Proposals are due April 21, 2020 at 4:30 PM Eastern. |
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| RFP: Programmatic Issues of Future System Performance |
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| RFP: Update to ACRP Report 40: Airport Roadway Analysis and Curbside Congestion Management Strategies |
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| 6th International Conference on Roundabouts: Early bird registration through March 17 |
| TRB is sponsoring the 6th International Conference on Roundabouts on May 18-20, 2020 in Monterey, CA. This triennial conference provides a forum for the exchange of ideas on all aspects of roundabouts as we work together to improve the safety and sustainability of our roadway network. The program will include peer reviewed abstracts, panels,... |
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| Transportation, Environment, and Energy: An Integrated Research Symposium: Call for Presentations closes April 1 |
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| Research Day - Transport innovation for sustainable development: Abstracts accepted through March 16 |
| The International Transport Forum (ITF), together with the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI), Transportation Research Board (TRB), and the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) will hold a Research Day on Transport Innovation for Sustainable Development. This Research Day will be held in Leipzig, Germany ... |
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| 13th National Conference on Transportation Asset Management: Early bird registration through April 12 |
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| Joint Committee Meeting: TRB Roadside Safety Design (AFB20) and AASHTO Technical Committee on Roadside Safety (TCRS) |
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| Innovation in Action: Accomplishments of the Transit IDEA (Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis) Program |
 | By funding early-stage, high-risk, high pay-off research in public transportation safety and performance, TRB's Transit IDEA program has paved the way for unexpected concepts to progress next-generation transportation technologies and methods. Innovation in Action: Accomplishments of the Transit IDEA (Innovations Deserving Exploratory... |
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| International Transportation and Economic Development Conference 2018 |
 | Transportation Research Circular E-C259: International Transportation and Economic Development Conference 2018 presents the proceedings from the ITED 2018. The report follows the general conference agenda, with presentations by speakers in the four plenary and 12 general sessions summarized. A list of the posters presented in one session is... |
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| Context-Sensitive Design Options for Workhorse Bridges in Rural Historic DistrictsPractitioners Guide and Research Report |
 | Thousands of workhorse bridges which have spans of less than 300 feet are located in historic districts or adjacent to historic structures. These bridges are often considered character-defining features in the landscape and may also serve as important crossings. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only... |
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| Guidance for Using the Interactive Tool for Understanding NEPA at General Aviation Airports |
 | Most general aviation (GA) airports are minimally staffed and rarely employ environmental specialists, and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) can be overwhelming to work through for those not familiar with the requirements. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Research Report 211: Guidance for Using the Interactive... |
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| Alternative fuel, SUV and pickup production, and micromobility in transportation energy |
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| Save construction costs with geosynthetic reinforcement development |
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| Supporting integrated transportation and land-use actions at the local level |
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| Lower-emissions air travel when booking flights online |
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| ROI, innovation, and preparation for public transit |
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| Emerging practices and developments in electric vehicles and charging |
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| Eliminating deaths and serious injuries to pedestrians and cyclists on Australasian roads |
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| Rise in pedestrian deaths in 2018 and 2019 |
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| Clean, efficient, and sustainable low-carbon transportation systems |
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