The transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Arizona Department of Transportation is hosting the 2025 International Airfield and Highway Pavement Conference on June 8-11, 2025.  TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. This conference will bring together transportation systems and infrastructure practitioners and researchers, operation managers, project/construction managers, academics, and transportation & development practitioners, c...

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the the Georgia Department of Transportation are hosting the 2022 National Hydraulic Engineering Conference on August 16 - 19, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. Themed “Advancing Hydraulic Engineering for Infrastructure Resiliency”, the tenth biennial conference will address the challenges that transportation agencies face to construct, maintain, sustain, and improve hydraulic stru...

Shawn Wilson, Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, discusses how his state is handling the effects of climate change and building more resilience. Listen to the podcast here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Gloria Jeff, Director of Rethinking I-94 at the Minnesota Department of Transportation, discusses how transportation planners can learn from the past and  bake equity into their processes moving forward. Listen to the podcast here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

People seek, share, and receive travel information from a wide variety of sources, such as transportation companies and agencies, insurance and manufacturing companies, family and friends, media, educational materials, advertisements, and the internet—including social media. As with any other scientific research, transportation research is susceptible to “misinformation” and “disinformation”. This is either information that conflicts with the best scientific evidence available at the time, or a coordinat...

Your search results in TRID will now be even more robust. TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation Database. Additional journals have been added to TRID for indexing. Your access to the article content is depended upon your organizational subscriptions. The newly added journals are: • Advances in Bridge Engineering (Springer) • Co...

A five-year memorandum of understanding has been signed by Latinos In Transit (LIT) and TRB/the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The focus of the MOU will be upon the shared interests of the two non-profit organizations, including working to bring more Latinos into leadership and workforce positions in TRB and throughout the global transportation industry.

The Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program is a full-time hands-on training and educational program that provides early career individuals with the opportunity to spend twelve weeks at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine  learning about science and technology policy and the role that scientists and engineers play in advising the nation. Erin Robartes is one of the fifteen Fellows and will be participating with Consensus and Advisory Stu...

Transportation Research Record: The Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR) has taken a major leap in the newly released 2020 Impact Factors. Jumping to an impact factor of 1.56, this is the largest single jump in the history of TRR. Thank you to TRR Editors, Reviewers, and Authors for your contributions to this success. The impact factor is one of a few key measures of a journal’s prestige. For example, getting published in journals with higher impact factors is an important factor in tenure...

After being named as Deputy Administrator earlier this year, the U.S. Senate, by a voice vote, has confirmed Nuria Fernandez as Administrator, the top position, of the Federal Transit Administration. As Bloomberg Law reported on Thursday, Fernandez "will become the first woman of color confirmed to the post. She’ll lead the 550-person agency as the nation recovers from the pandemic." Fernandez was a member of the TRB Executive Committee before being appointed by President Biden's administration.