The U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report that reviews the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s efforts to collect hydrographic data to determine the depth and bottom configuration of water bodies. The report examines how NOAA determines its hydrographic survey priorities; NOAA’s efforts to compare the costs of collecting its own survey data to the cos...

The Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that examines the artificial neural network (ANN) approach to structural health monitoring that may augment visual inspection methods by developing a crack-induced damage quantification model for reinforced concrete bridge girders. The research develops a touch-enabled user interface to allow the ANN models to be ut...

The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University (NDSU) has released a report that investigates the effectiveness of the Great Rides Bike Share program that was launched in 2015. The research examines user opinions on the bike share program, analyzes demand for the bike share program, studies the impact of the program on NDSU student travel behavior and shifts in...

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has released a report that evaluates and improves the FDOT FB-Deep software prediction of nominal resistance of H-piles, prestressed concrete piles in Florida limestone, and large diameter (> 36”) open steel and concrete piles. The research also evaluates the estimation of unit side friction on permanent steel casing for drilled shafts in Flori...

TRB presented two awards for data sources and data fusion at the Innovations in Freight Data Workshop, which took place on May 17-18, 2017 in Irvine, California. Garreth Remple of Traininfo received the Best New Data Source Award for the “Live Train Crossing Information Tool.” Vladimir Livshits received the  Best New Data Fusion Award  behalf of Maricopa Association of Governments and...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Project 184: Synthetic Household Travel Data Using Consumer and Mobile Phone Data explores the development of a method that fuses consumer data with anonymous, passive location data to create synthetic populations with individual-level synthetic travel diaries. The travel diaries detail...

The International Transport Forum has released a report that examines how different people and groups experience spatial accessibility in cities. The research discusses how better data and computing power have improved accessibility analysis and mapping, and made it more relevant to people.

TRB has released its requirements for submitting papers for presentation at the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting and/or publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board . This guide covers the organization and formatting of manuscripts for peer review and for publication, as well as instructions for submission. Papers that do not follow the guidelines will ...

The Roadway Safety Institute at the University of Minnesota has released a report that investigates advances in identifying hot spots of motor vehicle crashes. The research uses hot spot maps to develop a new method of patrolling for intoxicated drivers.

Statistics Canada has released a report that conceptualizes and implements a method to measures of remoteness that takes into account the most recent literature on the subject, as well as taking advantage of new computational opportunities provided by the integration of official statistics with data from non-official statistical sources. The research may fine-tune the remoteness index or discri...