Secure your organization's booth as part of its exhibit at the TRB 2021 Annual Meeting in January. Booths in the virtual exhibit hall will cost $1,900 or half the cost of the 2021 in-person rate, which was $3,800 for a 10 x 10 square foot booth. A 2021 virtual booth will come with two full meeting registrations, the ability to register an...
Todays transportation systems are increasingly integrated cyber and physical systems. Rail crossing and other traffic signals are automated. Control systems at airports monitor and control systems like staff access, airfield lighting, and baggage handling. Other systems monitor bridge and tunnel traffic and structural integrity. As a result,...
Transportation Research Record (TRR) will be publishing a special, open-access issue featuring research relating to COVID-19 and transportation. In addition to papers submitted for TRBAM 2021 and recommended by TRB committees, we are also accepting additional submissions until October 31. We invite papers that address all aspects of...
This year's Bartlett Award recipient is Leo Vecellio Jr., chairman, president and CEO of Vecellio Group and past chairman of ARTBA (the American Road & Transportation Builders Association). ARTBA, the American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials (AASHTO), and TRB cosponsor the George S. Bartlett Award, which was...
The TRB Tell Us Our Story" centennial activity is designed to allow as many of you (TRBs volunteers and friends) as possible to participate in the TRB Centennial Celebration through the submission of your stories, which are our stories. The Tell Us Our' Story centennial activity consists of a series of monthly questions that will help...
In April 2012, the Committee Research Coordinator's (CRC) Committee and Council was formed. The Council became the long-term entity to provide ongoing visioning, leadership, guidance, and training to the CRCs and chairs. The CRC Council also serves as a liaison among the CRCs and chairs, and TRB and the Technical Activities Council (TAC). The...
The Standing Technical Committee on Intergovernmental Relations in Aviation recognizes that a wide range of governmental agencies and organizations are involved in aviation at the local, state, national, and international levels, and that effective intergovernmental relations and coordination are critical to the regulation, management, and...
The importance of safety cannot be overstated and requires continued shifts in the approach to safety management within the public transportation industry. TRB is hosting a webinar on Monday, November 2, 2020, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern that will describe the characteristics of Employee Safety Reporting (ESR) programs, which are required by...
The ongoing loss of wetlands and other water resources poses a great concern. As such, federal, state, and local jurisdictions have enacted regulations to avoid or minimize these impacts and compensate for unavoidable losses. TRB is hosting a webinar on Thursday, November 5, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will discuss water resources on...
Truck driver training schools and Commercial Drivers License (CDL) testing agencies face pressure to keep up with the perennial driver shortages. During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, these pressures are exacerbated by social distancing rules that increase the time and manpower demands for CDL road tests. TRB is hosting a webinar on Friday, ...
Unstable slopes affect almost every state transportation department in all types of geographies. TRB will host a webinar on Monday, November 23, 2020 from 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern that will explore the geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring technologies that are used to inform safety, operational, and treatment decisions for these slopes....
Convened by Transportation Research Board, the 18th TRB Conference on Planning Applications (AppCon 2021) will be held in a virtual format June 21-25, 2021. AppCon attracts professionals from the academic, public, and private sectors to explore practical applications of transportation planning advances. The conference will include instructive and ...
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to (1) refine and refocus the 2018 reorganized AASHTO Committee on Bridges and Structures (COBS) strategic plan; (2) develop operating guidelines; and (3) develop a research roadmap for short- and long-term goals that can be used by COBS to focus its...
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop the Airport Construction Emissions Inventory Tool (ACEIT) Version 2.0 and an accompanying user manual. The update will improve the tools functionality and usability in helping airports and stakeholders better understand and quantify airport...
The amount of data surrounding the application of emerging technologies is expanding, producing big data at magnitudes not previously seen. While a few agencies have found some success with individual projects, most are uncertain on how to handle this level of big data at an organizational level. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research ...
With increased connectivity between vehicles, sensors, systems, shared-use transportation, and mobile devices, unexpected and unparalleled amounts of data are being added to the transportation domain at a rapid rate, and these data are too large, too varied in nature, and will change too quickly to be handled by the traditional database management ...
The Texas Department of Transportation had a rare opportunity to investigate how pavement type affects the quality of stormwater runoff, something that is often difficult to address in the limited space available in highway rights-of-way. The research showed that roadways paved with permeable friction course/open-graded friction course (PFC/OGFC)...
Pavement recycling is a technology that can restore the service life of pavement structures and stretch available funding for pavement rehabilitation. In general, pavement recycling techniques remix the existing pavement material and reuse it in the final pavement in the form of a stabilized layer. Limitations to further widespread...
On October 21, 2020, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing to examine the current state of the passenger and freight rail network.
The TRB Transportation Research E-Newsletter regularly covers transportation research developments in the United States and abroad. This document is not a report of the National Research Council or of the National Academies of Sciences. The opinions expressed in reports highlighted in TRB's Transportation Research E-Newsletter are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Transportation Research Board or the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
