TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop resources for state departments of transportation (DOTs) and other transportation organizations to help them explain the value of investing in resilience throughout the life cycle of planning, engineering, design, operations, construction, and maintenance activities. The resources should provide tools to build the business case for investing in resilience strategies and develop communication strategies to make the public and stakeholders aware of the importance of resilience as part of an organizational mission. Proposals are due July 15, 2020 at 5:00 PM Eastern.

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to (1) merge AASHTO Policy on the Accommodation of Utilities within Freeway Right-of-Way and AASHTO Guide for Accommodating Utilities within Highway Right-of-Way, targeting redundancies and necessary revisions and (2) update material within these two documents, where needed, with emphasis on material that has changed or developed following release of the previous edition. Proposals are due July 30, 2020 by 5:00 PM Eastern.

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to provide staff at Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, and Utah state DOTs with the training and support needed to implement the NCHRP Research Report 905: Measuring the Effectiveness of Public Involvement in Transportation Planning and Project Development. These state DOTs will use toolkit to: (1) Collect data from participants at public involvement events and from state DOT staff (2) Apply the survey scoring tool to analyze the data (3) Interpret the scoring tool results to evaluate the effectiveness of their public involvement events and programs. The project will also develop resources for use by additional state DOTs and their partners to implement the toolkit. Proposals are due August 11, 2020 by 5:00 PM Eastern.

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals encourage dissemination and application of the principles and practices presented in NCHRP Report 814: Data to Support Transportation Agency Business Needs: A Self-Assessment Guide. This will be done by (1) developing a plan to deliver professional services support for selected agencies undertaking to apply the principles and practices presented in the report; (2) preparing supplemental guidance and communication materials in preparation for and support of conducting a data self-assessment; (3) providing limited assistance to each agency during the data self-assessment; and (4) documenting effective, potentially transferrable practices of participating agencies. Proposals are due August 13, 2020 by 5:00 PM Eastern.

TRB's National Highway Cooperative Research Program (NCHRP) has issued an invitation for letters of interest from those wishing to be considered as a principal investigator for one or more of the 19 new NCHRP synthesis topics. Letters of Interest must be submitted through the Letters of Interest Submission Portal by August 27, 2020. For the list of new synthesis topics and for information for potential principal investigators, see the NCHRP Synthesis website.

Please forward this announcement to others who may be interested. For further information, contact Jo Allen Gause at jagause@nas.edu.