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| A message from TRB Executive Director Neil Pedersen regarding TRB and COVID-19 |
 | Dear Colleague, As a valued member of the TRB community, I wanted to update you on: - the National Academies and TRBs actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
- TRB resources that are available to the transportation community
- TRBs plans going forward, and
- impacts of the pandemic on TRBs finances and staff.
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| TRB Webinar: The supply chain and COVID-19 |
 |  COVID-19 has had a profound impact on supply chains for many different critical products, both in the United States and worldwide. The... |
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| Transportation planning to the extreme for weather and climate change |
| More intense and more frequent extreme precipitation events are projected in a warming climate. With this risk comes possible detrimental outcomes based on what has happened in the past. Water rises over bridges. Homes, businesses, and roads on steep hills fall away in a landslide. Tornadoes rip through towns. Planes are grounded. Coastal areas... |
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| New resources available from TRB on transportation and pandemics |
| TRB, through our partnership with Sage Publishing, has created a free online collection of articles from the Transportation Research Record about transportation and pandemics. In addition to existing TRB publications, library resources, and this recently published collection, TRBs Technical Activities Division and Sage have created the TRB... |
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| TRB Centennial and Women's History Month - Research Profiles - Julie Fee |
 | "Every day more problems are identified than resources are available to solve, but some effort must address the future. This visionary aspect is important if we are to advance as a society. The trade-offs that must be made in the allocation of resources pose a serious problem for research management. How to achieve an effective balance is... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Meeting the Information Needs of the Road User |
| For more than 40 years, the TRB Standing Technical Committee on User Information Systems has been involved with every challenge, technology, and evolution of user information systems and has been engaged and involved in some of the worlds most pressing transportation challenges. Despite the many changes in roadway design, technological... |
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| History Highlights - Celebrating the 100th Synthesis of Highway Practice, Setting a Model for Transit and Airports |
 | The Transportation Research Board (TRB) paused in 1983 to honor reaching the 100th National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis of Highway Practice in less than 15 years. To celebrate, TRB shared an insider view in TR News of how synthesis reports came to be and reviewed the impacts of numbers 1 through 100. To learn the whole... |
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| Tell Us Our Story - What drew you to transportation community, and what keeps you here? |
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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: The intersection between health and transportation |
| Is your community fully invested in improving public health in regards to infrastructure, services, and access to jobs? TRB is hosting a webinar on Monday, April 27 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM Eastern that will explore how transportation networks impact public health. The presenters will discuss how the federal government and state departments of... |
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| TRB Webinar: Sustainable highway construction |
| Decision makers may consider sustainability when planning, programming, and designing phases of highway construction. TRB is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, April 28, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will discuss how the construction industry can contribute to sustainability. Presenters will describe a guidebook that offers ideas to better leverage ... |
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| TRB Webinar: What role does ecology have in sustainable transportation? |
| For transportation to be sustainable, it is critical that the entities responsible for developing sustainable transportation all understand it to mean the same thing, understand how to do implement it, and understand how to measure whether their implementations were effective. TRB is hosting a webinar on Thursday, April 30, from 1:00 to 2:30 PM... |
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| 6th International Conference on Roundabouts - Will not be held as scheduled |
| 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. Any... |
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| Research Day - Transport Innovation for Sustainable Development - Will not be held as scheduled |
| We have 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. Any... |
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| RFP: Operational Performance and Safety Effects of Arterial Weaving Sections |
| TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop a deterministic method for evaluating the operational performance of weaving sections on arterials. The safety effects of varying geometric, volume, and traffic control conditions in weaving sections on arterials will also be identified.... |
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| Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 7: Preservation, Maintenance, and Renewal of Highway Infrastructure |
 | There is a wide range of plausible futures in terms of drivers that could bring change and practices that could emerge over the next 30 to 50 years. Because the range of plausible futures over such a long-term period is very broad, making a focused prediction of the implications for highway infrastructure preservation, maintenance, and renewal is... |
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| Transportation Network Companies (TNCs): Impacts to Airport Revenues and OperationsReference Guide |
 | Transportation network companies (TNCs) have become an increasingly popular form of transportation since initially permitted at some airports in 2014. While many airports receive significant revenue from TNCs, others have recorded declines in parking revenue and rental car transactions that are perceived to be a direct result of TNC operations. ... |
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| Building and Maintaining Air Service Through Incentive Programs |
 | Airports and the communities they serve view robust air service as an important element for economic well-being and overall quality of life. Incentive programs are often used to encourage airlines to maintain or augment service to a community. Recent airline industry trends, including airline consolidation, use of larger aircraft, the rise of... |
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| Self- Deicing LED Signal for Railroads and Highway Intersections |
 | LED signal lights may get too cold on the signal lens to deice or melt snow and could cause accidents in snowy conditions. The TRB IDEA (Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis) Program's Rail Safety IDEA Final Report 29: Self- Deicing LED Signal for Railroads and Highway Intersections aims to develop and demonstrate a new type of... |
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| TR News: Radical logistics in the heavy traffic of the Burning Man Festival |
 | Each summer, tens of thousands of people journey to the Nevada desert by land and by air to participate in a unique event. For one week, the volume of traffic on nearby desert roads and at an otherwise sleepy airport rivals the operational volume at some of the largest highways and commercial airports in the country. A modern-day Brigadoonthe ... |
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| Impact of COVID-19 on aviation funding |
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| Impact of COVID-19 on public transportation funding |
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| The U.S. DOTs purchase card program |
| A report released by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)s Office of the Inspector General |
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| Recent federal highway announcements |
| FHWA R&T Now, released by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration |
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| Estimating bridge construction contract time |
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| Using stainless steel on bridges |
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| Traffic data collection improvements |
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| Preventing corrosion on bridges |
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| Future fuel options for trucks and busses |
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| How wide tires impact fuel consumption |
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| Public transportation and its impact on crime and harassment |
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| The future of automated vehicles |
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| Enhancing Australian freight productivity |
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| Advancing bridge assessment techniques |
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| Lessons from Paris low-emission zone |
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| NAM COVID-19 Conversations Webinar Series - The Science of Social Distancing: Part 2 - April 1, 2020 |
| The National Academy of Medicine's second COVID-19 Conversations webinar held on April 1 at 5:00 PM Eastern will discuss benefit-risk analysis of social/physical distancing strategies, including for vulnerable populations; examine strategies for mitigating mental health impacts; and explore what science is available to guide eventual relaxation of ... |
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| DOE seeking input, collaboration on science and technology response to COVID-19 |
| The Department of Energy (DOE) is encouraging submission of research questions that the scientific community may address with DOE resources. The agency recommends they be scientific questions that underpin COVID-19 response and that the research community may answer using DOE user facilities, computational resources, and enabling... |
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| Notice: APTA Cancels 2020 Mobility and Rail Conferences |
| The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) has cancelled their upcoming conferences for both the bus and rail industries. The bus conference was originally scheduled in May 2020, and the rail conference was originally scheduled in June 2020. For more information, visit the APTA website. |
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| BMSA Illustrating Mathematics Webinar Series: Computed Commutes |
| The Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics (BMSA) of the National Academies is hosting the next webinar in their Illustrating Mathematics Webinar Series on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 3PM. Join invited speakers Dawn Woodard and Daniel McGehee to learn how mathematics impacts commuting. This webinar is part of a larger series featuring... |
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| The Giving Earth argues for greener energy |
| The Bridge, released by the National Academy of Engineering |
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| Mitigating earthquake and climate change hazards |
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