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| TRB's events calendar altered by COVID-19 |
 | TRB is closely monitoring the evolving situation related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. For the status of conferences that TRB is convening, please check the individual conference websites through TRBs Calendar. For conferences that TRB is co-sponsoring, please check the websites of the organizations hosting those conferences.... |
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| TRB Webinar: Transportation & COVID-19 Practices from other disease outbreaks |
 | How can the transportation industry deal with and manage the COVID-19 outbreak? TRB is hosting a webinar on Monday, March 23 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will identify a holistic approach transportation and health agencies may take to contain and manage the outbreak. Addressing decision-making challenges in disease response in the... |
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| Transportation in the face of communicable disease |
 | If you work in the transportation industry, you probably have a plan for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). After all, part of the service you provide depends on the ability to keep people safe and healthy regardless of their travel plans. A growing list of airlines and governments have banned flights from China. Fortunately airports,... |
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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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| History Highlights - SHRP 2s Naturalistic Driving Study and the Power of Fundamental Research |
| From its first meeting in June 1999, the Committee for a Future Strategic Highway Research Program (Future SHRP) knew that it wanted something big in the field of highway safety research. For what would become SHRP 2, the Future SHRP committee recommended that highway safety needed fundamental research into the causes of crashes. To learn the... |
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| TRB Centennial and Women's History Month - Research Profiles - Patricia F. Waller |
 | Clinical psychology and highway safety may not have a great deal in common, but Patricia F. Waller, staff associate of the Highway Safety Research Center of the University of North Carolina, switched from the former to the latter in 1967 and has not regretted it. This is a reprint of an article that appeared in the Profiles section of the... |
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| TRB Webinar: Roundabouts in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices |
| The U.S. Federal Highway Administrations Manual on Uniform Traffic Devices (MUTCD) is the gold standard for designing and installing traffic signs, road markings, and signals. But how do roundabouts fit into the MUTCD? TRB is hosting a webinar on Monday, April 13 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will answer this question. 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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| 2020 Conference on Sustainability and Emerging Transportation Technology |
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| Commodity Flow Survey Workshop |
| TRB is sponsoring the Commodity Flow Survey Workshop on September 24-25, 2020 in Washington, DC to facilitate discussion among federal, state, and local level planners, in addition to transportation researchers, academics, and practitioners that use federal freight transportation data. Conducted every five years, the Bureau of Transportation... |
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| Workshop on Traffic Simulation and CAV Modeling: Extended Abstracts Due March 31 |
| TRB is sponsoring the Workshop on Traffic Simulation and CAV Modeling from November 16-18, 2020 in Irvine, CA. Traffic simulation is widely used to support the business processes of transportation agencies, and supports the planning, design, operation, and management requirements of increasingly complex traffic systems. Contributing to this need... |
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| RFP: A Guide to Computation and Use of System Level Valuation of Transportation Assets |
| TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop a guidebook that state transportation agencies and others can use for calculation and communication of the value of transportation assets, and for selecting valuation methods to be used in transportation asset management. Proposals are due... |
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| RFP: Laws Governing Homeless Encampments in Transportation Rights-of-Way |
| TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to produce a report that documents the laws, statutes, cases, procedures, policies, and other resources governing or addressing: (1) a transportation agencys prevention and/or removal of homeless encampments from transportation rights-of-way (2) the... |
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| Attracting, Retaining, and Advancing Women in Transit |
 | Women have traditionally been underrepresented within the transit workforce. However, the percentage of women within transit agencies appears to be increasing, and many transit agencies report that the percentage of women advancing into management and leadership positions has also been increasing over the past 5 years. The TRB Transit... |
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| Guidebook for Detecting and Mitigating Low-Level DC Leakage and Fault Currents in Transit Systems |
 | Improving the reliability of railway electric systems and preventing electrical outages due to insulator flashover and insulation failure is difficult because of aging infrastructure and the lack of continuous monitoring of the state of the systems. The pre-publication draft of the TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Research... |
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| Impacts on Practice: Measuring Success at RaleighDurham International Airport |
 | As an East Coast tech hub, Raleigh, North Carolina, is one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the United States. Leaders there used the knowledge gained from two reports by TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program to develop a draft Balanced Scorecard, which was then refined, approved, and implemented. Impacts on Practice:... |
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| TR News January-February 2020 issue table of contents now online |
 | The January-February 2020 issue of TR News - including a cover feature on the "radical" transportation logistics of the Burning Man festival - is available in hard copy and digital copy for subscribers. For those who are not subscribers, the table of contents is available. Other feature articles in the issue include ones on data's critical role in ... |
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| Installing smart roadway testbeds |
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| The federal role in planning freight systems |
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| TRBs SHRP2 data observes seat-belt usage |
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| Traveler-centric mobility performance strategies |
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| Addressing risky driving behaviors |
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| Protecting bats on bridges |
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| Options for adjusting the federal gas tax |
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| Travel trends across America |
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| Leveraging GPS data for decision making |
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| Choosing air travel options based on carbon emissions |
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| Planning, ridership, land use, and operations research |
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| Increasing bio-fuels in the U.S. |
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| Comparing traditional and electric delivery vehicles |
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| Updating the standards of traffic management |
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| Changing how people move |
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| COMTO: Call for papers and presentations extended to March 20 |
| The Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO) is hosting its Annual Meeting from July 18-21, 2020 in Hollywood, Florida. COMTO is seeking fresh, innovative, and cutting-edge proposals for presentations, panel discussions, and workshops that connect with the conference theme of Innovation Beyond Imagination. Proposals are now due... |
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| Hearing: The International Role of the United State Coast Guard |
| March 10 hearing at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation |
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