TRB turns 100 on November 11, 2020. Your organization is invited to join the entities listed below that have contributed to the TRB Century Patron program to support activities that will mark the anniversary; promote the value of transportation research; and celebrate the achievements of TRB’s volunteers, sponsors, affiliates, and staff. Century Patron contribution levels begin at $3,000 for organizations with fewer than 30 employees and $5,000 for larger organizations. Additional information on the Cent...

TRB is accepting papers for consideration as part of the program for the 99th TRB Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2020, in Washington, D.C., and/or for publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR). All papers for presentation at the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting must be submitted to TRB’s paper submission website by August 1, 2019. Please be sure to consult the Instructions for Authors before submitting your paper. The spotlight theme for the 2020 meeting...

Attention state departments of transportation! TRB is aware that some TRB sponsors have not been receiving notifications for webinar announcements, the e-newsletter, and other forms of communication. Please ensure that your IT departments are regularly whitelisting the following domains: service.govdelivery.com govdelivery.com gotowebinar.com This must be done manually to avoid emails sent from these domains being caught in spam filters. Whitelisting should be updated every quarter.

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 TRB’s volunteers, sponsors, affiliates, and staff. Details on the Century Club and a link to contribute is available at http://www.trb.org/Centennial/CenturyClub.aspx . Additional information on the Centennial Celebration activities is avail...

On May 15, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation Committee Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing to review the status of the Boeing 737 MAX. Witnesses included the Acting Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Chair of the National Transportation Safety Board. Witness statements and a webcast of the hearing are available online.

TRB standing committees have begun issuing calls for papers for the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting and for the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR) . If you plan to submit a paper for presentation and/or publication, please visit the Approved List of Calls for Papers . The calls are available now, so that you will have the maximum amount of time to respond to them. However, committees will continue to produce new calls for papers throughout the month of June, so ple...

TRB is seeking potential synthesis study topics as part of the upcoming activities of the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP). Topics may be submitted at any time; however, the deadline for the upcoming submission cycle is September 20, 2019. This year, submit topics through ACRP’s IdeaHub . Sign into IdeaHub using a previously created MyACRP information, or register with MyACRP. Upon entering IdeaHub: Click on IDEAS. Click on CREATE NEW IDEA (upper right of the screen). Choose a Research To...

TRB is cosponsoring the 4th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics on August 30-September 2, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. This conference will showcase research findings and practical applications of geotechnics on roads, rails, airports, harbors, and other ground transportation infrastructure, with the goal of providing safe, economic, environmentally-acceptable, reliable, and sustainable infrastructure.

TRB is cosponsoring the Geo-Structural Aspects of Pavements, Airfields, and Railways (GAP) 2019 conference on November 4-7, 2019 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This conference seeks to foster communication between the main transportation sectors, generate cooperation between the pavement and geotechnical disciplines, and advance pavement and embankment engineering technologies.

TRB is cosponsoring a research day with the International Transport Forum (ITF), European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI) and the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) on May 21, 2019 in Leipzig, Germany. The theme of the research day is “Transport Connectivity for Regional Integration” and will be hosted in conjunction with the International Transport Forum’s 2019 Annual Summit .The program for the Research Day is now available and will address: Enhancing regional in...