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| Laws and Safety Efforts Can Prevent Distracted Driving |
 | When a person reads a text while driving, their eyes are off the road for an average of five seconds. At 55 miles per hour, that is like driving the length of a football field while blindfolded. Distracted driving continues to be an increasing problem. Crashes involving a distracted driver killed 3,142 people in 2019, up nearly 10 percent from... |
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| Funding for Transit Innovators: TRB Accepting Proposals for 2021 Transit IDEA Funding Cycles through May 1 |
 | TRB is accepting proposals for the 2021 Transit Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) program, which supports the development and testing of unproven, innovative concepts and methods for advancing public transit practice. The deadline for submitting proposals is May 1, 2021. The IDEA Program Announcement includes instructions... |
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| TRB Webinar: The New Virtual Reality for Public Meetings and Social Distancing |
| Public involvement is an important and necessary step in informing transportation decisions. But the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has dramatically altered how the public can make their opinions known. TRB will host a webinar on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 from 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern that will address how states can encourage virtual public... |
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| TRB Webinar: Emerging Challenges for Congestion Pricing on Managed Lanes |
| There is often a disparity between the goals that state departments of transportation have for priced managed lanes and the public assumption for those goals. The public tends to be skeptical of priced managed lanes because the concept is difficult to explain to a non-technical audience. TRB will host a webinar on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 from... |
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| TRB Webinar: Advances in Pavement Condition Surveys |
| Pavement condition surveys are critical elements in pavement engineering. TRB will host a webinar on Wednesday, April 7, 2021 from 1:00-3:00 PM Eastern that will present new developments in cracking protocol and standards. Presenters will identify progress in the Pooled-Fund study, discuss a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based automated survey, ... |
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| TRB Webinar: Truck Assumptions for Roundabout Design |
| Roundabouts are scalable intersections that can conform to a number of physical restraints that a location may present to a designer. TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, April 8, 2021 from 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern that will discuss how to build roundabouts using a design tool for the swept path of trucks. This tool utilizes truck characteristics... |
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| Research Day at ITF Annual Summit - abstracts due March 29 |
| 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 during the ITF Annual Summit May 26-28, 2021 in... |
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| How We Move Matters: Exploring the Connections between New Transportation and Mobility Options and Environmental Health - accepting abstracts through April 15 |
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| RFP: Incorporating Shock Events into Aviation Demand Forecasting and Airport Planning |
| TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has issued a request for proposals to produce a guidebook and methodology to help airports understand and account for potential shock events in forecasts and planning. Proposals are due April 26, 2021 at 5:00 PM Eastern. |
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| RFP: Asset Information Handover Guidelines: From Planning and Construction to Operations and Management |
| TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has issued a request for proposals to produce a guidebook that will assist airports in developing and maintaining an asset information handover process for accepting new and replacement physical assets used by key airport stakeholders. Asset information may include but is not limited to electronic ... |
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| RFP: Long-Term Pavement Performance Program Data Analysis: Guidelines to Improve Use of FWD and Longitudinal Profile Measurements |
| TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop guidelines for improved use of falling weight deflectometer (FWD) and longitudinal profile measurements data in evaluating pavement condition by considering the effects of temporal and/or diurnal variations and the data available in Long-Term... |
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| Modernizing the U.S. Offshore Oil and Gas Inspection Program for Increased Agility and Safety Vigilance |
 | The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), in seeking to augment and improve its offshore oil and gas inspection program, should focus less on inspecting all oil platforms and become more outcome-based by focusing on the riskiest entities. These are among the findings in TRB Special Report 338: Modernizing the U.S. Offshore Oil ... |
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| Use of Vehicle Probe and Cellular GPS Data by State Departments of Transportation |
 | Over the last decade, state departments of transportation (DOTs) have begun to use vehicle probe and cellular GPS data for a variety of purposes, including real-time traffic and incident monitoring, highway condition, and travel demand management. DOTs are also using vehicle probe and cellular GPS data to inform system planning and investment... |
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| The coronavirus (COVID-19)s effects on the aviation industry |
| A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office |
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| Sharing mobility data to support decision making |
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| The Maritime Administrations program goals |
| A report from the U.S. Department of Transportations Office of the Inspector General |
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| Chassis availability in shipping |
| A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office |
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| Culvert protection design |
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| Assessing bridge conditions through nondestructive testing |
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| Testing bank erosion |
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| Accessibility along different transit lines |
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| A calculator for the induced vehicle travel effect |
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| Enforcement trends of traffic offenses by commercial drivers license holders |
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| Structural performance of bridges |
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| Street conditions around San Jose schools |
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| How do transportation and mental health interact? |
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| Using blockchain to address transportation policy challenges |
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| Hearing: Full Steam Ahead for Rail: Why Rail is More Relevant Than Ever for Economic and Environmental Progress |
| On March 10, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials held a hearing to discuss the future of rail. |
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