The spotlight theme for the TRB 89th Annual Meeting, Investing in Our Transportation Future—Bold Ideas to Meet Big Challenges, will focus attention on what transportation policy makers, practitioners, and researchers can do to address the major challenges currently facing transportation. These include transportation’s role in building and maintaining a strong economy, revamping transportation financing and funding programs for the 21st century, working towards a zero fatalities goal in transportation, achieving climate change and energy security targets by 2050, enhancing and preserving our transportation infrastructure, and eliminating congestion as we know it, among others.
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TRB 89th Annual Meeting, January 10-14, 2010, in Washington, D.C., covers all transportation modes, with more than 3,000 presentations in nearly 600 sessions addressing topics of interest to all attendees—policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions.
The Annual Meeting, which draws attendees from throughout the United States and from more than 65 countries, is perhaps the single largest gathering of transportation practitioners and researchers in the world. Information on how to register for the meeting and how to obtain hotel reservations through the TRB Housing Bureau will be available on the Annual Meeting website in mid-September.