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This is the third part of a series of blogs about funding transportation. The first discussed emergency funding while the disease was still in its earliest stages, the second discussed the planning required to prepare for an eventual economic recovery. The American Jobs Plan was proposed in March 2021 as a way to create millions of jobs and enhance the country’s infrastructure. Often referred ...

Convened by Transportation Research Board, the Geospatial Acquisition Technologies in Design and Construction Summer Committee Meeting will be held July 27-28, 2021 online. Topics include photogrammetric technology, importance of accurate geospatial mapping—especially considering autonomous vehicles, new methods in survey techniques and computations, LiDAR and other existing and emerging techno...

China Highway and Transportation Society (CHTS), ERTICO, European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI), Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA), Shenzhen Bus Company, and TRB's International Coordinating Council are offering " Re-Imagining Integrated Mobility Management Systems ." The event will be held online April 29 at 7 AM Eastern. What is the new mobility? How do ...

To improve your transportation research, TRIS is currently testing a new media-type for datasets in TRID . This new feature will allow TRIS to index datasets as unique outputs from projects with links to both ROSA P and the site where the dataset is published, while also referencing the final report supported by the dataset if appropriate. This new feature supports the U.S. Department of Transp...

For sponsors and those who registered for the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting, held in January, content from the conference is available online. To access it, please make sure you are logged into MyTRB, then click on the Online Program .  Multimedia content can be located by clicking on "More Details" under individual events. Content includes recordings for nearly all the sessions and workshops, a...

Understanding pandemics, their impacts to transportation, and potential effective response has become more important, not only for the response to COVID-19, but also if, as the World Health Organization warns, we are now “living in a time of viruses.” TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program and Transit Cooperative Research Program have jointly issued  NCHRP Research Report 963/...

Understanding pandemics, their impacts to transportation, and potential effective response has become more important, not only for the response to COVID-19, but also if, as the World Health Organization warns, we are now “living in a time of viruses.” TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program and Transit Cooperative Research Program have jointly issued  NCHRP Research Report 963/...

Safety technologies and programs aimed at reducing or eliminating risky driving behaviors may prevent a large number of crashes. The TRB IDEA (Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis) Program's Transit IDEA Final Report 88: Evaluation of an Automatic, Individual Computer-Based Driver Education and Training Program analyzes a software program that uses onboard safety monitoring data to monito...

Join the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a conversation about the social cost of carbon in the United States. Register for Climate Conversations: The Cost of Carbon , which will be April 15 from 3-4 p.m. EST. The social cost of carbon is a metric used for incorporating the economic impacts of carbon emissions into federal decision-making. Justin Worland (TIME) will...

When a person reads a text while driving, their eyes are off the road for an average of five seconds. At 55 miles per hour, that is like driving the length of a football field while blindfolded. Distracted driving continues to be an increasing problem. Crashes involving a distracted driver killed 3,142 people in 2019, up nearly 10 percent from 2018. Every U.S. state currently has restrictions ...

Modulus and Dynamic Cone Penetrometer Data Collection for Full-Depth Reclamation Projects , released by the Minnesota Department of Transportation

The September–October 2020 issue of TRB's magazine is now available in full online. Issue 330 includes the cover story, “Recycled Material Web Map,” and features articles on topics including incorporating resiliency into freight mobility, living with transformational technologies, and pollution-reducing highway barriers. TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovativ...

It is crucial that executive management and emergency response planners at state transportation agencies (DOTs) work together. TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, May 6, 2021 from 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern that will provide guidance for DOT senior executives about how to embed resilience into transportation planning. Presenters will share ways they have minimized the impact of and avoided potentia...

Reliable V2V Communication Networks: Applications in Fuel-Efficient Platooning , released by the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation at the University of Michigan

Increased use of zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) presents the greatest opportunity to improve the energy efficiency of light-duty vehicles—i.e., passenger vehicles and light trucks—over the period of 2025-2035, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The U.S Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S....

Amy Benedick, a senior study director at Westat, discusses current legislation about distracted driving, ways it can be enforced, and measures to educate the public. Listen to the podcast here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Today, transit agencies gather and manage more data than ever. However, data processing, exploration, the development of performance metrics, and communicating decisions are often fragmented and scattered across many departments. The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Synthesis 153: The Transit Analyst Toolbox: Analysis and Approaches for Reporting, Communicating, and Examining Tra...

The next episode of a webinar series on equity and the Black experience in transportation will be held on April 7. TRB Director of Technical Activities Ann Brach will moderate the event, which is hosted by the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). Speakers Bradley Mims, Federal Aviation Administration Deputy Administrator and Warren Whitlock Federal Highway Administration’s Offic...

Visualization is a powerful tool that can monitor performance and demonstrate progress on key transportation initiatives. TRB will host a webinar on Monday, May 17, 2021 from 1:00-3:00 PM Eastern that will illustrate effective uses of visualization techniques. Presenters will describe how these approaches can help clarify complex data sets and improve communication between technical experts an...

Effective transportation asset management (TAM) depends on having good data about the assets under management, their descriptions, current condition and history, functional performance, and the activities conducted to develop, maintain, improve, and rehabilitate them during the course of their service lives. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 956: Guid...

The January-February 2021 issue of TR News —with a cover feature on the challenges of truck size and weight—is available in hard copy and digital copy for subscribers. For those who are not subscribers, the table of contents is available. Other feature articles in the issue include "Way of the Future: Airports at the Horizon of 2040 and 2070," by Gaël Le Bris; "Strengthening Post-Hurricane Supp...

On March 25, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a hearing with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about transportation priorities.

In collaboration with American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA), TRB's Standing Committee on Traffic Control Devices announces the annual Traffic Control Device Student Challenge (TCD Challenge). Individuals or teams of students are challenged to devise an innovative traffic control device for speed management on limited access freeways. Students in high school, junior college, colle...

This is part of a series of blogs about funding transportation. The first discussed emergency funding while the disease was still in its earliest stages. A third part discusses the American Jobs Plan proposed in March 2021. Much of the transportation industry has struggled through the COVID-19 pandemic; however, vaccines are becoming increasingly available. Now is the time to increase emphasis...

Convened by Transportation Research Board, the 18th TRB Conference on Transportation Planning Applications (AppCon 2021) will be held in a virtual format June 21-24, 2021. AppCon attracts professionals from the academic, public, and private sectors to explore practical applications of transportation planning advances. The conference will include instructive and insightful presentation of the a...

Transportation Research Record (TRR) will be publishing a special, open-access issue featuring research relating to COVID-19 and transportation. Submissions will be accepted through April 30, 2021. We invite papers that address all aspects of pandemic-related effects on transportation, including: The COVID-19 pandemic and use of various travel modes The COVID-19 pandemic, telecommuting, and ac...

Transportation Research Record (TRR) invites you to submit papers for a Special Issue of TRR under the broad theme of freight transportation automation, logistics, and supply chains, covering both the private and public sectors. Submissions will be accepted through November 30, 2021. Of particular interest are papers: advancing state-of-the-art theories, design practices or operations explorin...

NCHRP is announcing eighteen new supplemental projects for FY 2021 and soliciting panel nominations for these supplemental projects. Submit nominations online through MyTRB. You will be asked to login to MyTRB. If you do not already have an account, you will be asked to create one using your email and a password.   The nomination of members of historically underrepresented groups, includin...

Pavement condition surveys are critical elements in pavement engineering. TRB will host a webinar on Wednesday, April 7, 2021 from 1:00-3:00 PM Eastern that will present new developments in cracking protocol and standards. Presenters will identify progress in the Pooled-Fund study, discuss a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based automated survey, and examine a drone-based unmanned survey meth...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop an ACRP WebResource to help airports leverage data more effectively by building or enhancing their data analytic capabilities. Proposals are due May 10, 2021 at 5:00 PM Eastern.