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| 2021 Annual Meeting: Rodney E. Slater Recipient of the 2021 Frank Turner Medal for Lifetime Achievement |
| 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... |
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| 2021 Annual Meeting: Careers in Motion Networking Fair is Going Virtual! |
| 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: live chat directly with hiring managers, get instant feedback on your... |
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| Celebrating 100 Years of Transportation with TRB and Launching 100 More |
| 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. You may have received a copy of ... |
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| Judith Corley-Lay Helps "Tell Us 'Our' Story" in October's Responses |
| 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,... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Pavement Preservation to Sustain Roadway Health at Minimal Costs |
| 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... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics |
| 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... |
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| Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) Updates Terminology |
| 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... |
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| TRB Webinar: Advancing Innovative Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility Research |
| 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... |
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| TRB Webinar: Celebrating TRBs Centennial by Exploring the Future of Transportation Research |
| 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... |
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| TRB Webinar: Planning an Effective Airport Deicing Runoff Management Program |
| 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... |
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| TRB Webinar: Cross-Cutting Issues in Urban Congestion Pricing |
| 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... |
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| RFP: Merging and Updating AASHTO Policy on the Accommodation of Utilities within Freeway Right-of-Way and AASHTO Guide for Accommodating Utilities within Highway Right-of-Way |
| 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... |
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| RFP: Proposed AASHTO Guidelines for Applications of Unmanned Aerial Systems Technologies for Element-Level Bridge Inspection |
| 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. |
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| RFP: Guide for Preventing and Mitigating the Risk of Bridge and Tunnel Strikes by Motor Vehicles |
| 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... |
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| Workshop on Traffic Simulation and CAV Modeling |
| 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... |
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| Review of the Federal Railroad Administrations Research and Development Program |
| 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... |
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| Guidebook and Research Plan to Help Communities Improve Transportation to Health Care Services |
| 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... |
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| Collecting and Sharing of Operations and Safety Data |
| 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... |
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| Performance Measures for State Aviation Agencies |
| 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 ... |
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| Improving Mid-Term, Intermediate, and Long-Range Cost Forecasting: Guidebook for State Transportation Agencies |
| 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... |
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| Improving Mid-Term, Intermediate, and Long-Range Cost Forecasting for State Transportation Agencies |
| 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... |
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| An Open Platform for Transit Agencies to Improve the Quality of Their Real-Time Data |
| 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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| The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)s impact on highway safety |
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| Funding U.S. Coast Guard cutters |
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| FHWA R&T Now: September/October 2020 |
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| Feasibility of a federal grant program to match private infrastructure investments |
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| Developing a post-earthquake plan |
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| Public policy for designing connected vehicles |
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| Runoff from low-volume roads |
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| Utilizing Mobility as a Service in public transportation |
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| Potential technologies to reduce CO2 emissions |
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| Distributing electric infrastructure throughout Germany |
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| First trips and multimodal integration matter |
| Most recent podcast episode from the Public Transport Research Group at Monash University |
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| Projections of fuel cell electric vehicle deployment |
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