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| Truck drivers face challenges, and research is here to help |
 | The challenges for truck drivers are immense. Now, with fluctuations in the supply chain and dramatic increases in e-commerce due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, TRB is recognizing National Truck Drivers Appreciation Week with a compendium of resources for the industry. TRBs April 8 webinar on supply chains and COVID-19... |
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| 2021 TRB Annual Meeting: Create or update your MyTRB profile |
 | You've heard the news that TRBAM is going virtual for 2021. In order to attend the meeting, be sure to create or update your MyTRB profile now. MyTRB allows TRB volunteers, contributors, and participants to maintain their own contact information. You can identify your areas of interest, upload your bio, become a friend of a standing... |
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| Seeking project panel nominations for FY 2021 Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP): Nominations due September 21, 2020 |
| ACRP is seeking panel nominations for 18 new projects selected for the FY2021 program. Please nominate yourself or other candidates to serve on the expert panels of these research projects online at MyTRB. These panels will develop requests for proposals, select contractors, and review draft deliverables. Nominations are welcome anytime... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Public Health and Transportation |
| The TRB Joint Subcommittee on Health and Transportation was created in 2011 to identify, advance and publish research and information to expand and improve current understanding and evaluation of the health impacts of federal, state, regional and local transportation policies, procedures and actions. The scope of this Subcommittee includes a wide... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Emergency Evacuations: Building Resilience through Efficient Response |
| The Standing Technical Committee on Emergency Evacuations was created in January of 2001 to increase understanding of the technological, operational, and human dimensions of evacuations during emergencies and disasters. Within a matter of months after the group's formation, the United States was confronted with the terrorist attacks of September... |
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| TRB Webinar: Modeling Long-Distance Intercity Travel for Sustainable Global Travel |
| The majority of travel demand models are derived from daily home- and work-based travel. But modeling intercity travel is also important. TRB will host a webinar on Monday, September 21, 2020 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Eastern that will discuss long-distance intercity travel models from Vermont, Florida, and Ontario. These models use integrated air... |
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| TRB Webinar: Designing Beyond - Improving Airport Operations through BIM |
| Airports can use Building Information Modeling (BIM) practices to improve their facility operations and asset management processes. TRB is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will present data collected from a digital survey of over 60 airports, and interviews with airport staff, consultants, and... |
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| TRB Webinar: Stay Current on Research in Progress |
| All transportation researchers and students are invited to a TRB webinar on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET. The webinar will provide users of TRB's Research in Progress (RiP) Database with the latest information about RiP's search and data entry interfaces. The RiP Database is a leading tool for transportation... |
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| TRB Webinar: Advancing Transportation Equity |
| Historically, transportation has not served everyone equally. What is the industry currently doing to right these wrongs? TRB will host a webinar on Tuesday, October 13, 2020 from 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern that will identify current research and practices in transportation equity. Presenters will synthesize past research from existing TRB reports and... |
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| TRB Webinar: How Accurate are Traffic Forecasts? |
| Traffic forecasts play an important role in the planning and design of road projects, but we know little about how accurate they are. TRB will host a webinar on Wednesday, October 14, 2020 from 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern that will address these gaps, comparing forecasts and post-opening traffic counts for more than 1,200 road projects in the United... |
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| TRB Webinar: Determining Social and Economic Qualifications in the DBE Program |
| Small businesses in the U.S. are facing extraordinary ongoing difficulty in light of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Because of this, more individuals may want to apply for Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) certification through an individualized showing of disadvantage. TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, October 15, 2020 from ... |
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| 18th Biennial National Harbor Safety Committee Conference |
 | Convened by Transportation Research Board in partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard, the 18th Biennial National Harbor Safety Committee Conference will be held from June 15-17, 2021 in Boston, MA. Titled "Maritime Strong: Navigating Diverse Growth and Change," the event focuses on promising practices, innovation, and technology to address critical... |
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| RFP: Quantitative Procedures for Designing and Operating Ferry Transit Services |
| TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has issued a request for proposalsto present key quantitative procedures for designing and operating scheduled and fixed-route ferry transit services and facilities that serve passengers-only and passengers and vehicles. Proposals are due October 13, 2020 at 5:00 PM Eastern. |
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| Emerging Challenges to Priced Managed Lanes |
 | There is a wide disparity between the goals that state departments of transportation (DOTs) have for priced managed lanes and the public assumption for those goals. The public tends to be highly skeptical of priced managed lanes because the concept is difficult to explain to a nontechnical audience. The TRB National Cooperative Highway... |
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| Integrating Social Media with Emergency Management at Airports |
 | Social media is an important, if not crucial, tool for sharing information among individuals and for connecting organizations with their customers. For this reason, social-media managers at airports are critical to emergency management for information gathering and sharing. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP WebResource... |
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| Promising Practices for Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine |
 | Careers in science, engineering, and medicine offer opportunities to advance knowledge, contribute to the well-being of communities, and support the security, prosperity, and health in the United States. But many women do not pursue or persist in these careers, or advance to leadership positions - not because they lack the talent or aspirations,... |
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| Improved Test Methods and Practices for Characterizing Steel Corrosion Potential of Earthen Materials |
 | Electrochemical properties of earthen materials such as electrical resistivity, pH, salt concentrations, and organic contents are commonly used to characterize the corrosion potential of buried metal elements that are in direct contact with the surrounding soil. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report ... |
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| TR News March-April 2020: A Century of Progress ... Foundation for the Future |
 | Issue 326 of TRB's magazine dives into details from the TRB 99th Annual Meeting, which had a record crowd of nearly 14,000 attendees gathered January 1216, 2020, in Washington, D.C. The MarchApril 2020 TR News features photo highlights from the Annual Meeting along with more coverage of the conference. TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine... |
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| Guiding national freight policy |
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| Controlling renegade drones |
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| Should unmanned aircraft system operations be allowed? |
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| Registering airline pilots as basic medical aides |
| A report released by the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation |
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| Prioritizing bridge repairs |
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| How severe weather impacts the road network |
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| Stop lines effect on intersection safety |
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| Crash risk at access points |
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| Project prioritization for Statewide Improvement Programs |
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| The effects of flooding on multi-modal transportation degradation |
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| Attitudes and behaviors related to cycling |
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| Supporting vehicle-to-infrastructure communication |
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| Identifying investment opportunities for the road network |
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| What are the barriers to and motivators for walking? |
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| Operating vehicles with high mass axle limits |
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| Banning heavy fuel oil |
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| Nat Ford of TRB's Executive Committee wins prestigious award |
| Nathaniel P. Ford, Chief Executive Officer of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority in Jacksonville, Florida, will receive the Outstanding Public Transportation Manager Award from the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). Known as the best of the best, APTA award winners are outstanding role models of excellence, leadership, ... |
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| Hearing: Amtraks response to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) |
| On September 9, 2020, the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials held a hearing to determine how Amtrak has responded to COVID-19. |
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| NAM COVID-19 Conversations Webinar Series - Until We Have a Vaccine: Surveillance, Testing, and Contact Tracing - September 16, 2020 |
| The National Academy of Medicine's next COVID-19 Conversations webinar will held on September 16 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM Eastern. This webinar's panel will discuss the many aspects of COVID-19 containment, including best practices for disease surveillance and outbreak identification, testing strategy and opportunities, and progress on contact... |
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| Improving Marylands interstates |
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