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| TRB Annual Meeting Registration Fees Announced |
 | Registration fees for the Virtual 2021 TRB Annual Meeting will be significantly lower than the fees for last years in-person meeting. While announcing the fees, TRB also released an accompanying document called Why Attend a virtual TRB Annual Meeting, containing a detailed list of the specific benefits of attending the event virtually (e.g.,... |
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| Why attend a virtual TRB Annual Meeting? |
| Because the need for knowledge hasnt changed. Check all the boxes and the value is obvious: ? Quality - Access to the same high-quality content that youve come to expect from TRB. ? Engagement - Attend open committee meetings, January 5-8 and January 11-15, 2021, without any scheduling conflicts from technical sessions.... |
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| Warning: Annual Meeting Mailing List Solicitations |
| If you receive a solicitation to purchase the TRB Annual Meeting attendee mailing list, it is not coming from TRB. TRB recommends that you do not click on any links in the email and that you delete it immediately. TRB also recommends that you do not request to be removed from the mailing list as that likely would confirm to the sender that your ... |
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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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| Funding for rail innovators: 2020 Rail Safety IDEA proposals due September 15 |
 | The deadline is quickly approaching to submit proposals for the 2020 Rail Safety Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program, which supports the development and testing of innovative concepts and methods for advancing transit practice. Proposals are due September 15, 2020. The Rail Safety IDEA Program provides funding at an early... |
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| Tell Us Our Story: "How has TRB helped enrich your professional life?" |
 | 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... |
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| Which of Your Colleagues Have Contributed to TRB's Centennial Activities? Join Them Today! |
| TRB turns 100 on November 11, 2020. You are invited to join your colleagues listed below who have contributed to the TRB Century Club to support activities that will mark the anniversary; promote the value of transportation research; and celebrate the achievements of TRBs volunteers, sponsors, affiliates, and staff. Details on the Century... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Pavement Management Systems: Inception to Implementation |
| The Standing Technical Committee on Pavement Management Systems' Centennial Paper reviews the history of the committee by describing the evolution of pavement management over more than 50 years. Each decade, from the 1960s to the 2020s, is described in chronological order along the evolution of the state of the practice. During this period the... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - General and Emerging Pavement Design |
| The Standing Technical Committee on General and Emerging Pavement Design was created in 2016 primarily to address aspects of and approaches to pavement design and rehabilitation universal to pavements of all types and challenges for pavements not fully compatible with traditional asphalt or concrete pavement design assumptions and models. Various... |
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| TRB Webinar: Envisioning the Next Generation of Traffic Management Systems (TMSs) |
| What approaches has your agency considered when developing your TMS? TRB will host a webinar on Tuesday, September 8, 2020 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Eastern that will identify how to develop a clear and compelling vision as the first step in moving toward the next generation of a TMS. This vision helps identify desired future state and capabilities... |
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| TRB Webinar: Fabricating Asphalt for Laboratory Testing |
| Performance testing of asphalt mixtures is becoming more widespread for a variety of reasons and with a variety of testing devices. There are guidelines for conducting these tests, but they do not all provide uniform or comprehensive direction for fabricating test specimens. TRB is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, September 9, 2020 from 2:00 to... |
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| TRB Webinar: Framework for Managing Data from Emerging Technologies |
| 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. These data are too large, too varied in nature, and will change too quickly to be handled by the traditional database management... |
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| TRB Webinar: Capacity Impacts of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles |
| Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) are the wave of the future, but is the road infrastructure ready for them? TRB will host a webinar on Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern that will present findings from a national pooled fund study on planning level capacity impacts of CAVs. Presenters will evaluate the impacts of CAVs on... |
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| TRB Webinar: Governing Data to Improve Transportation Asset Management |
| Data governance can drive better decisions and be an integral part of an agencys strategic planning. TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, October 1, 2020 from 1:00-3:00 PM Eastern that will identify thoughtful data governance through data systems, data collection, and strategies for communicating results. This webinar will also provide tools and... |
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| Airport Workforce Programs Supporting Employee Well-Being |
 | Airport employees face a variety of stressors in their daily work lives, and there are numerous and varied approaches that airports are currently taking to focus on employee well-being. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Synthesis 113: Airport Workforce Programs Supporting Employee Well-Being details the most commonly used... |
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| Measuring Quality of Life in Communities Surrounding Airports |
 | Many airports seek to understand their impacts on neighboring towns, cities, and regions through economic impact analyses, employment studies, and environmental studies, such as those that focus on sustainability efforts or noise. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Research Report 221: Measuring Quality of Life in Communities... |
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| TRR: Eighty-Five Percent Solution: Historical Look at Crowdsourcing Speed Limits and the Question of Safety |
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| Critical Infrastructure, Emergency Evacuation, and Logistics of Disaster Recovery 2014 |
 | This 2014 issue of the journal Transportation Research Record (TRR) is still relevant today, as we are seeing a busy hurricane season in the U.S., among other natural disasters. It summarizes ways to plan post-disaster operations in a highway network; mobility benefits of intermediate crossovers on contraflow facilities during hurricane... |
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| Roundabouts: An Informational Guide Second Edition |
 | This 2010 TRB report on planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of roundabouts remains useful in helping to explain the trade-offs associated with roundabouts. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Report 672: Roundabouts: An Informational Guide Second Edition updates the U.S. Federal Highway... |
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| Safety of automatic train controls |
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| Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) impacts on commercial passenger airline operations |
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| FHWAs Fostering Multimodal Connectivity Newsletter: July 2020 |
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| Travel trends during the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) |
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| Overcoming limitations from earlier waveform inversion methods |
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| Reducing roadway departure crashes |
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| Damage assessment analysis for pavement and bridges |
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| Testing the strength of corroded bridges |
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| Performance of bridge bearings |
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| The impacts of transportation on social and economic mobility |
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| How environmental factors affect driver behavior |
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| Charging infrastructure in rural areas |
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| World Transit Research Newsletter: August 2020 |
| Bimonthly newsletter released by the Institute of Transport Studies at Monash University |
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| Designing safe, efficient roads |
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| Setting charging metrics for electric vehicles |
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| Electronic sign readability |
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| National Academies to seek public comment on Draft Framework for Equitable Allocation of a COVID-19 VaccineWeek of Aug. 31 |
| A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee tasked with developing an overarching framework to assist policymakers in planning for equitable allocation of a vaccine against COVID-19 will issue a discussion draft of the preliminary framework for public comment on September 1. The committee was formed in July in response to ... |
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| Managing curb spaces |
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| Making streets work for everyone |
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| Meeting the needs of customers with mobility difficulties during the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) |
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