Rodney E. Slater is the 2021 recipient of the Frank Turner Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Transportation. Secretary Slater is a partner at Squire Patton Boggs LLP, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation, and former Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration. The Frank Turner Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Transportation is a...
The TRB Careers in Motion Networking Fair is going virtual during the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting! TRB encourages your participation at the event, to be held Friday, January 22, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time). Attendees will have the opportunity to:
2020 has brought a lot of challenges, but we have also some reasons to celebrate. Since last autumn, we have found ways to honor TRBs centennial anniversary.
You have generously shared your stories about how the board has helped shape your careers and how you have helped shape transportation research.
Judith Corley-Lay, Director, National Center for Pavement Preservation let us know that says that ""The report that most effected my career was a NCHRP Synthesis Report "Chip Seal Best Practices" by Doug Gransberg. At the time I read the report, I was in the Pavement Management Unit of North Carolina Department of Transportation. From the report,...
The Standing Technical Committee on Pavement Preservation, created in 2008, is concerned with identifying and promoting the proactive use of cost-effective treatments to extend the life of existing pavements through research, education activities, and discussions among practitioners, researchers and industry representatives. The committee...
The Standing Technical Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (TFTC) is concerned with the development, validation, and dissemination of theoretical, experimental, methodological, and applied research on traffic flow theory (TFT) and traffic flow characteristics (TFC), and the determination of the relationship of TFT and TFC to the...
The TRT Subcommittee is reorganizing the Information, data, and knowledge (formerly Information organization) facet of the TRT to ensure that the terminology reflects current usage and concepts. The main headings for this section are being updated, and new terminology is being added. The revised headings under Information, data, and...
The driving pace of change in automated vehicle (AV) technologies and mobility services is challenging traditional public sector transportation research methods. TRB will conduct a webinar on Monday, November 9, 2020 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Eastern that will discuss innovative research approaches for advancing AV technology and shared mobility...
What is the future of transportation research and what is TRBs role in that future? Learn from our panel of experts about how the scale and scope of TRBs activities expanded steadily over the last 100 years, and what we might expect in the transportation field during the next 100 years. Join us on Thursday, November 12 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM ET...
Airports must maintain compliance with environmental regulations associated with deicing operations. TRB is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will discuss an adaptive management planning approach for deicing operations at airports, based upon a Best Management Practices (BMPs) framework. Presenters...
The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has resulted in a decline in transportation revenues and a slow rebound in transit ridership. Thus, there has been an increased interest in urban congestion pricing to ease congestion, encourage alternate modes, and generate revenue. TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, December 10, 2020 from 1:00-3:00 PM...
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has reissued a request for proposals to (1) merge AASHTO Policy on the Accommodation of Utilities within Freeway Right-of-Way and AASHTO Guide for Accommodating Utilities within Highway Right-of-Way, targeting redundancies and necessary revisions and (2) update material within these two...
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop AASHTO guidelines to assist state departments of transportation with using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) technologies for inspection and assessment of bridge element conditions. Proposals are due January 4, 2021 at 5:00 PM Eastern.
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop a guide to help state departments of transportation, public safety agencies, and the motor carrier industry prevent and mitigate the risk of bridge and/or tunnel strikes by motor vehicles. A significant part of the project is developing a...
Convened by Transportation Research Board, the Workshop on Traffic Simulation and CAV Modeling will be held as a virtual event November 16-18, 2020. Transportation system simulation is widely used to support the business processes of transportation agencies including those related to planning, design, operation, management, and safety of...
The Office of Research, Development, and Technology (RD&T) of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has excelled in engaging, maintaining communication with, and using inputs from a broad range of stakeholder groups. That is among the findings in TRB Special Report 334: Review of the Federal Railroad Administrations Research and...
The availability of transportation influences the ability of individuals to access health care, whether in urban, suburban or rural areas. Those lacking appropriate or available transportation miss health care appointments, resulting in delays in receiving medical interventions that can lead to poorer health outcomes. This in turn contributes to...
The collection and sharing of data are essential in an airports risk management process. The data can allow the airport to benchmark against the industry, monitor performance, and proactively understand trends. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Research Report 222: Collecting and Sharing of Operations and Safety Data...
Across the country, state transportation agencies of various modes have been required to incorporate performance measures (PMs) into their core business functions. With this trend developing nationwide, the TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Research Report 223: Performance Measures for State Aviation Agencies develops PMs for the ...
Because transportation investment programs have extended time horizons, state departments of transportation (DOTs) must forecast costs well into the future. This poses a serious challenge: the longer the time horizon, the more uncertainty and risk that forecasted costs will vary from actual, future costs. The TRB National Cooperative Highway...
Predicting the future of the construction market is always a challenging task - regardless of whether it is over the next one or 20 years - since it involves several uncertainties. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 283: Improving Mid-Term, Intermediate, and Long-Range Cost Forecasting for State...
Real-time transit data has been shown to have many benefits and is, in comparison with many other potential operational or capital improvements to bus or rail service, an affordable means of increasing ridership. The TRB IDEA (Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis) Program's Transit IDEA Final Report 93: An Open Platform for Transit...
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