TRB standing committees have issued  calls for papers for the TRB 92nd Annual Meeting, January 13-17, 2013, in Washington, D.C, and the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR). While papers addressing any relevant aspect of transportation research will be considered, some committees are soliciting papers in specific subject areas to help potential...

TRB is cosponsoring the 4th Urban Street Symposium on June 24-27, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois. The symposium is designed to explore improvements in suburban and urban street design practices, foster discussions on alternative street design practices, examine alternative street designs, and facilitate the transfer of urban street research findings to state agencies and to local governments. Early...

TRB conducted a webinar on April 10, 2012, that explored techniques for maintaining and managing granular surfaced roads. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu to request a recording of the webinar. Webinar presenters will share techniques for maintaining and managing granular surfaced roa...

The Colorado Department of Transportation has released a report that explores a cost-benefit analysis of constructed hot mix asphalt projects using three and five-year warranty specifications.

Austroads has released a report that explores four on-road public transport priority treatments including full bus lane, set back bus lane, queue jump bus lane, and no priority. The report is free after registering on the website.

The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that explores the cause of failures in several cantilever sign structures that occurred as a result of four major hurricanes during a six-week period, and explores design potential improvements that can be made to these structures.

The World Bank has released a report that explores the outlook for world air transport energy consumption; discusses air transport’s impact on the environment; and highlights potential energy efficiency gains in aircraft design, air service operations, and infrastructure design.  The report also examines potential policy options for countries with respect to air transport energy efficiency.

The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that explores a statistical modeling exercise to develop a means for predicting the expected in-service skid resistance of rural sections of the New Zealand state highway surfaced with chip seal.

The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that explores tensile fatigue design criteria of aggregates bound by stabilizing agents for use in pavement design.

The National Research Council Canada has released a report that describes a decision-making approach designed to address sustainable design and management of highway bridge decks.  Factors that the approach attempts to balance include minimization of the owner’s costs, users costs, and environmental impacts.