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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 hosted a webinar on Monday, March 23 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that identified a holistic approach transportation and health agencies may take to contain and manage the outbreak. Addressing decision-making challenges in disease response in the transportation... |
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| Finding, keeping, and advancing women in the transportation workforce |
 | The transportation industry is expecting an all-encompassing need for an increased qualified workforce. Retirements are creating countless new open positions in the public transit, highways, airports, and marine industries. A new outline released by TRB for how the public transit industry can and already is attracting, retaining, and advancing ... |
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| TRB Centennial and Women's History Month - Research Profiles - Joyce H. Johnson |
 | In 2000 Joyce H. Johnson was Director of The Transportation Institute, School of Business and Economics, North Carolina A&T State University. At that time she was a 27-year veteran of NCA&TSU whose expertise as a teacher, researcher, and provider of public information was focused on preparing a core of well rounded, diverse... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - We Design to Make it Land Safely: Aircraft and Airport Compatibility |
 | In 1975, TRB established the Special Committee on Air Transport Activities. Multiple committees were established under the guidance of the Special Committee on Air Transport Activities to address the research needs and challenges facing aviation. The first committee organized was the Airport Landside Operations Committee in 1976. In 1979, the ... |
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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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| ACRP announces four new research projects, seeks panel nominations |
| The Oversight Committee of TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program recently selected four additional projects for our FY 2020 program. We are now seeking panel nominations, which are due March 31. Click here for more information about the projects and how to nominate yourself. |
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| TRB Webinar: Greener in many ways: Environmentally sustainable funding and financing |
| Environmental sustainability and transportation funding/financing intersect in more than one way. Approaches that encourage transportation patterns and infrastructure investment may also protect the environment and promote sustainability and resiliency simultaneously. TRB is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, April 22 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM Eastern... |
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| TRB Webinar: Designing solid-state roadway lighting |
| Transportation lighting has changed dramatically over the past decade. TRB is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, March 31, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will provide guidelines for new designs of roadway lighting. Presenters will focus on applications of solid-state lighting (SSL), which uses lower energy, reduces maintenance, and can be easily... |
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| TRB Webinar: Breaking down barriers Aiding airport travelers with disabilities |
| Airports have made great strides toward improving accessibility for airport travelers with disabilities, but barriers still exist. TRB is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, April 21 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will address what else airports can do to aid travelers with disabilities. This webinar will discuss practices that airports can use to... |
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| TRB Webinar: Guide for transportation performance management and data |
| Transportation Performance Management (TPM) provides a way to make visible progress in meeting agency objectives. TRB is hosting a webinar on Monday, March 30, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will present guidance for making effective use of data for Transportation Performance Management (TPM). The presenters will showcase how TPM can contribute ... |
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| 2nd International Conference on Nanotechnology of Cement and Concrete (2NCC20) - Cancelled |
| TRB has been closely monitoring the evolving situation related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The health and safety of our volunteers, sponsors, meeting guests, staff, and the greater community are of utmost importance to us. In light of the current situation, we have decided that the event cannot be held as scheduled. Convened... |
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| Workshop on Traffic Simulation and CAV Modeling: Extended abstracts due May 8 |
| Convened by Transportation Research Board, the Workshop on Traffic Simulation and CAV Modeling will be held on 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... |
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| CRP adjusts timeline of RFPs because of COVID-19 |
| Due to COVID-19, TRB's Cooperative Research Programs have adjusted the timeline of Requests for Proposals. For current RFPs with proposals due on March 23rd or later, the deadline is extended by 30 days, and those submitting will be required to upload proposals in PDF to a Dropbox link. No hard copies will be required. |
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| RFP: Access to Jobs, Economic Opportunities, and Education in Rural Areas - Deadline extended |
| TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to prepare guidelines for state departments of transportation (DOTs) and other public and private organizations involved in rural development and the provision of transportation services. These guidelines should address a range of components, building... |
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| RFP: Emerging Issues: Impact of New Disruptive Technologies on the Performance of DOTs - Deadline extended |
| TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop a guide for state DOTs and other transportation planning agencies to understand, predict, plan for, and adapt to the potential impacts of emerging disruptive technologies. In preparing this guide, the research should identify issues, effects, ... |
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| RFP: Update to ACRP Report 40: Airport Roadway Analysis and Curbside Congestion Management Strategies - Deadline extended |
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| RFP: Scoping Study to Develop the Basis for a Highway Standard to Conduct an All-Hazards Risk and Resilience Analysis - Deadline extended |
| 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 May 21, 2020 at 4:30 PM Eastern via Dropbox. |
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| RFP: A Guide to Computation and Use of System Level Valuation of Transportation Assets - Deadline extended |
| 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 May ... |
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| RFP: Programmatic Issues of Future System Performance - Deadline extended |
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| Identification of Factors Contributing to the Decline of Traffic Fatalities in the United States from 2008 to 2012 |
 | Between 2005 and 2011, the number of traffic fatalities in the U.S. declined by 11,031, from 43,510 in 2005 to 32,479 in 2011. This decline amounted to a reduction in traffic-related deaths of 25.4 percent, by far the greatest decline over a comparable period in the last 30 years. Historically, significant drops in traffic fatalities over a... |
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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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| Incorporating Roadway Access Management into Local Ordinances |
 | Managing access connections to roadways is vital to safety and operational performance of roadways for all users. Given the separation of authority between state and local governments over land development and access, intergovernmental coordination is integral to effective access management. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research... |
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| Evaluating the Effects of Recycling Agents on Asphalt Mixtures with High RAS and RAP Binder Ratios |
 | More than 90 percent of highways and roads in the United States are built using hot-mix asphalt (HMA) or warm-mix asphalt (WMA) mixtures, and these mixtures now recycle more than 99 percent of some 76.2 million tons of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) and about 1 million tons of recycled asphalt shingles (RAS) each year. Cost savings in 2017... |
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| Biomimetic Antifreeze Molecules: A Novel Solution to Deicing Salts and Air-Entraining Admixtures |
 | In determining what is effective in preventing or slowing ice formation and growth on roadways and bridges, it was found that biomimetic antifreeze molecules (BAMs) would not effectively melt ice once it has formed nor provide additional synergistic benefit to using the molecules in tandem with traditional deicers. Contrastingly, BAMs did prevent... |
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| TR News September-October 2019: Transportation Workforce of the Future is now available in full online |
 | Issue 323 of TRB's magazine complements our recent short video Your Future in Transportation. The September-October 2019 issue has several features on the workforce topic, including ones called "People, Organizations, Jobs, and Businesses for Tomorrows Transportation, "The Future Multimodal Workforce," "How to Win the War for Talent," and... |
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| Ongoing investigation into design, development, and certification of Boeing 737 MAX |
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| Physics-based analyzation of concrete bridge deck inspections |
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| Exploring the quality of traffic detector data |
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| Light-duty and heavy-duty vehicle emission control policies in China |
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| Future volumetric obligations for biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and renewable fuel |
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| Pricing carbon emissions from transportation |
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| Encouraging the use of fit-for-purpose available materials in road construction |
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| The market, safety, health, and regulation for shared e-scooters in Oslo |
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| Identifying the root cause and systems failures leading to fatal collisions |
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| XXI Panam 2020 - Pan-American Conference on Transportation and Logistics August 5-7 |
| Held bi-annually, the PANAM conference will be postponed until October 15-19,2020. It is regularly attended by hundreds of transportation researchers, senior decision makers, and transportation professionals, including current and former transportation ministers, from nearly all countries in the Americas. The Universidad del Pacfico has been... |
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