TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has issued a request for proposals to identify and document the motivations, benefits, and barriers to public transportation coordination and integration that facilitates seamless travel, and to provide guidance on how to integrate and coordinate delivery of a public transportation system in a multi-service region. Proposals are due July 20, 2012.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program is accepting applications for its Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues for the 2012/2013 academic year. The program, sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration, is designed to encourage applied research on airport and related aviation system issues and to foster the next generation of aviation community leaders.&n...

The spotlight theme for the TRB 92nd Annual Meeting, January 13-17, 2013, in Washington, D.C., is Deploying Transportation Research—Doing Things Smarter, Better, Faster. These uncertain times are also exciting times for the transportation community, which looks to build on its successes as never before. Spotlight sessions, workshops, and discussions at the TRB 92nd Annual Meeting will highlight...

TRB standing committees have issued  calls for papers for the TRB 92nd Annual Meeting, January 13-17, 2013, in Washington, D.C, and the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR). While papers addressing any relevant aspect of transportation research will be considered, some committees are soliciting papers in specific subject areas to help potential...

TRB is cosponsoring the 2012 Equipment Management Workshop in June 24-28, 2012, in Mobile, Alabama. The workshop will explore issues such as cost control, preventive maintenance, repairs, shop productivity, employee training and motivation, equipment replacement decisions, inventory control, alternative fuel vehicles, environmental safety, privatization, multiplexed electronics, and other relat...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to explore issues related to the problem of just compensation in light of declining property values. Proposals are due May 21, 2012.

On April 18, 2012, the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security held a hearing to examine the use of tolls on U.S. bridges and tunnels; efforts made by entities that set rates to remain transparent and accountable about setting rates; and, equity among commuters, businesses, and ...

TRB is sponsoring the Waste Management and Resource Efficiency in Transportation Summer Workshop on July 8-11, 2012, in Madison, Wisconsin. The workshop will explore the development and integration of proactive environmental management systems and sustainability concepts into transportation programs in the industry’s evolution from a solid and hazardous waste remediation and managemen...

TRB is sponsoring the 14th International Managed Lanes Conference on May 22-24, 2012, in Oakland, California. The conference is designed to help advance the state-of-the-art related to managed lanes and pricing strategies. The conference theme will focus on the evolution of high-occupancy-vehicle (HOV) lanes into high-occupancy-toll (HOT) and managed lanes using pricing and other strategie...

The National Research Council Canada has released a report that describes a decision-making approach designed to address sustainable design and management of highway bridge decks.  Factors that the approach attempts to balance include minimization of the owner’s costs, users costs, and environmental impacts.