The May-June 2017 edition of the TR News explores the role of transportation in economic development. Articles feature information about benefit-cost analysis, freight production models, transportation satellite accounts, and right sizing strategies. The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transpo...

TRB's Transportation Research E-Circular 222: Automated Vehicles Symposium 2016 presents the proceedings from the Automated Vehicle Symposium (AVS) on July 19-21, 2016 in San Francisco, California. The 2016 AVS provided the opportunity for communication, collaboration, and information sharing on a wide range of topics, including potential public policy, safety and security, ethics, and equity c...

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 ...

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...

A featured article in the March-April 2017 issue of the TR News highlights photos from the 96th TRB Annual Meeting, January 8-12, 2017. The article features photographs of sessions, workshops, committee meetings, and awards. Bruce M. Smith, Apperson Crump PLC, and General Counsel, Memphis Area Transit Authority, delivered the delivered the 2017 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture on “Ethical I...

A featured article in the March-April 2017 issue of the TR News highlights photos from the 96th TRB Annual Meeting, January 8-12, 2017. The article features photographs of sessions, workshops, committee meetings, and awards. Bruce M. Smith, Apperson Crump PLC, and General Counsel, Memphis Area Transit Authority, delivered the delivered the 2017 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture on “Ethical I...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 846: Improving Findability and Relevance of Transportation Information (Volumes I and II) provides practices and tools to facilitate on-demand retrieval of useful information stored in project files, libraries, and other agency archives. The report defines a management framework for classification, search, and retrieval of trans...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 150: NextGen for Airports, Volume 5: Airport Planning and Development provides guidance to help airports of all sizes plan for and incorporate NextGen capabilities. The document will help airports accomodate Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) requirements while also taking advantage of the potential benefits of these fede...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 848: Inspection Guidelines for Bridge Post-Tensioning and Stay Cable Systems Using NDE Methods describe nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods for assessing the condition of in-service post-tensioning and stay cable systems. The NDE methods outlined in this report explore different condition assessments, including corr...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 508: Data Management and Governance Practices develops a collection of transportation agency data management practices and experiences. The report demonstrates how agencies currently access, manage, use, and share data.

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 231: Challenges to CV and AV Applications in Truck Freight Operations explores connected vehicle (CV) and automated vehicle (AV) technology, focusing on heavy trucking. The report identifies existing and emerging freight regulatory, planning, policy, and operational environments and challenges for connected and autono...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has release a report that explores the interactions between technological, economic, and societal trends and identifies possible near-term developments for work. This report emphasizes the need to understand and track these trends and develop strategies to inform, prepare for, and respond to changes in the labor market. It offers eva...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 125: Multiagency Electronic Fare Payment Systems describes the current practice, challenges, and benefits of utilizing electronic fare payment systems (EFPS), such as smart cards. This synthesis reviews current systems and identifies their major challenges and benefits; describes the use of electronic fare systems in multimodal, multia...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Legal Research Digest (LRD) 48: Legal Issues Concerning Transit Agency Use of Electronic Customer Data explores the advantages, disadvantages, risks, and benefits for transit agencies moving to electronic, cloudbased, and other computerized systems for fare purchases and for communicating with customers. “Smart” fare cards are now commonplace, a...

TRB's E-Circular 219: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge and the Federal Transit Administration’s Mobility on Demand Sandbox: Advancing Multimodal Mobility and Best Practices Workshop features presentations and dialogue from a January 8, 2017 workshop at the TRB Annual Meeting. The workshop explored the role of public transit, shared mobility, and advanced technology (...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2564 consists of 15 papers that explore travel demand forecasting, including: Integration of a Capacity-Constrained Workplace Choice Model: Recent Developments and Applications with an Agent-Based Simulation in Singapore Modeling Carsharing with the Agent-Based Simulation MATSim: State of the Art, Applicatio...

TRB's Rail Safety Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Safety Project 26: Remote Sensing with Mobile LiDAR and Imaging Sensors for Railroad Bridge Inspections describes results from a research effort to investigate the applicability of two remote sensing approaches–one based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and the other one on imaging sensors—to help detect concrete cracks a...

TRB's National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Research Report 37: Using Commodity Flow Survey Microdata and Other Establishment Data to Estimate the Generation of Freight, Freight Trips, and Service Trips: Guidebook provides policy makers with improved establishment-level models that estimate the Freight Trip Generation (FTG), the number of vehicle trips produced and attracted at ...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2601 consists of 16 papers that explore safety data analysis and evaluation, including: Comprehensive Injury Severity Analysis of SUV and Pickup Truck Rollover Crashes: Alabama Case Study Investigating the Speed and Rear-End Collision Relationship at Urban Signalized Intersections Investigating the Heterogen...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that explores the challenges faced by the federal statistical system and the foundational elements needed for a new paradigm. The report is designed to help foster a paradigm shift in federal statistical programs that would use combinations of diverse data sources from government and private-sector sources in pl...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 503: Leveraging Technology for Transportation Agency Workforce Development and Training documents how state and local transportation agencies are using information and communication technologies (ICT) to train their workforce. The report explores the planning and resources required to implement and maintain a training and dev...

TRB's Transit Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Report 79: Implementation of Smart Card Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) Technology in Small Transit Agencies for Standards explores a 90-day pilot operation to demonstratie the feasibility of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Contactless Fare Media System (CFMS) Standard on a small rural agency system. While man...

A featured article in the November-December 2016 issue of the TR News highlights the challenges of freight transportation with regards to meeting new emissions standards. The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation. It also includes brief news items of interest to the transportation com...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 501: Pavement Management Systems: Putting Data to Work documents current pavement management practices in state and provincial transportation agencies. The report focuses on the use of pavement management analysis results for resource allocation, determining treatment cost-effectiveness, program development, and communication...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2566, includes 11 papers that explore information related to travel behavior, including: Shifts in Long-Distance Travel Mode Due to Automated Vehicles: Statewide Mode-Shift Simulation Experiment and Travel Survey Analysis Longitudinal Vehicle Transaction Model: Assessment of Lead and Lagged Effects of Longer...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2567 consists of 15 papers that explore network modeling, including: Dynamic Optimal Vehicle Relocation in Carshare Systems Planning of Resource Replishment Location for Service Trucks Under Network Congestion and Routing Constraints Optimal Heterogeneous Sensor Deployment Strategy for Dynamic Origin-Destina...

TRB's E-Circular 218: Advancing Freeway Operations Through Strategic Research captures the state of affairs in freeway operations and reflects on the known universe of tools, techniques, and trends in emerging technologies in freeway management. From predictive software to electronic surveillance systems, operations have advanced rapidly in the past two decades. This publication will aid transp...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Legal Research Digest 72: Summary of Federal Law Restricting Use of Highway Safety Data in Tort Litigation explores the origins and provisions of 23 U.S.C. § 409, Discovery and Admission as Evidence of Certain Reports and Surveys, which prohibits the use, in tort litigation, of highway safety data created for purposes related to safety...

TRB's E-Circular 217: Exploring New Directions for the National Household Travel Survey: Phase Two Report of Activities summarize the status, approach, and expected content of the new National Household Travel Survey data for the user community. The National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), administered by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), provided data on personal travel in the United ...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 150: NextGen for Airports, Volume 3: Resources for Airports presents an overview of the many elements of NextGen, in terms and context that are relevant, familiar, and understandable to airport operators. This guide and associated primer broadly address potential airport impacts and include background information so that airport personnel...