TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 138: Public Transit Rider Origin–Destination Survey Methods and Technologies captures the state of the practice among agencies of different sizes, geographic locations, and modes and evaluates the opportunities for and challenges of conducting surveys in an era of emerging technologies. The report presents the reality and complexity of...

The Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota has released a report that develops a merge assist system using vehicle-to-vehicle communication technologies. The goal of this report is to accurately acquire vehicle positioning information at a freeway entrance ramp in order to make merging safer.

PIARC has released a report that investigates low-cost information technology services (ITS) for low- and middle-income countries to increase their urban mobility. This report seeks to clarify service areas, stakeholders, business models and costs, system architecture, quality of service, and other aspects of low-cost ITS. The report is available for no fee after logging onto the site.

The Virginia Department of Transportation has released a report that identifies how travel demand models may be modified to incorporate the potential impacts of driverless vehicles (DVs). The DVs described in this report are presumed to be completely autonomous.

The International Council on Clean Transportation has released a report that outlines the application of existing vehicle simulation tools to streamline technology verification and accelerate technology uptake in green freight programs. This tool may be used by fleet or green freight program managers to estimate the potential fuel savings of truck technologies without extensive real-world testing.

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation has released the latest edition of its newsletter that highlights recent accomplishments and products from university transportation centers (UTCs). This edition features the University of Maryland. It describes a smartphone app that uses personalized incentives to nudge commuter behavior ...

The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has released a report that outlines the study methodology, data collection, data reduction, and data analysis of a specific adaptive signal control technology (ASCT) used in Illinois. Field evaluation of ASCT is important in understanding the system’s contribution to traffic safety and operational performan...

The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has released a report that examines the adequacy of available Illinois weigh-in-motion data. This report also develops refined live-load factors for Illinois load and resistance factored rating practice based on recorded truck loads in Illinois.

The U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe Center has released a report that summarizes the results of a conference about artificial intelligence and predictive analytics in transportation. Experts at the conference discussed how new technologies may be applied throughout the transportation enterprise, such as troves of data from mapping applications that may improve traffic modeling and save ...

Austroads has released a report that documents a pilot project to improve the measurement and reporting of serious injury crashes. The goal of this report is to provide a proof of concept for a national approach to supply routine data on non-fatal serious road injuries. The report is available for no fee after logging onto the site.