Staff from smaller airports may not be experienced or have specialized expertise regarding the negotiation and development of airport property or airport staff may lack the resources to hire consultants. TRB is hosting a webinar on Thursday, October 29, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will discuss how to estimate market value for small airports. Estimating market value and establishing ...

Historically, certain individuals and communities, including those from minority, low-income, and limited English proficiency populations, have not benefited equitably from transportation investments and programs. Understanding the impacts of transportation investments on these individuals and communities and taking steps to address inequities are critical functions of transportation agencies....

Do you make decisions that affect the resilience of airport infrastructure in response to the long-term impacts of climate change? TRB is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, October 7, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will discuss how to apply benefit-cost analysis tools and techniques to improve this decision making process. Presenters will identify how to recognize, enhance, and adapt proc...

Airports and the communities they serve have offered air service incentives to influence airline route decisions and encourage new services by mitigating some of the financial risks that new services can create for airlines. TRB hosted a webinar on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that discussed the different types of air service incentives that airports and communities...

Monarch butterflies rely on roadside corridors for essential nectar sources and milkweed. TRB hosted a webinar on Wednesday, June 3, 2020 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM Eastern that discussed how transportation managers may enhance roadside areas for monarchs and other pollinators. This webinar will identify the current state of knowledge about monarchs’ use of roadside rights-of-ways and associated risk...

Practitioners from transit agencies are invited to a TRB webinar on Tuesday, August 6, 2019, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET. The webinar featured research from the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)’s Research Report 205 : Social and Economic Sustainability Performance Measures for Public Transportation. This webinar provided an overview of the report along with the American Public Transpo...

TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Synthesis Report 529 : How Transportation Agencies Assess the Value of Added Capacity Highway Projects Versus Other Modal Projects and Strategies. This webinar will discuss how state departments of transportation (DOTs) and ...

TRB conducted a webinar on Thursday, September 20, 2018 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that shared case studies from the operations of continuous access priced managed lane projects in California, Washington, and Minnesota. Continuous access priced managed lanes, which contain only a dashed-stripe separating the managed lanes from the general purpose lanes, are relatively new. Presenters addressed ...

TRB conducted a webinar on Thursday, September 13, 2018, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)’s Web-Only Document 22 : Passenger Value of Time, Benefit-Cost Analysis, and Airport Capital Investment Decisions. The webinar focused on Volume 1: Guidebook for Valuing User Time Savings in Airport Capital Investment Decision Analysis. ...

TRB conducted a webinar on Wednesday, August 29, 2018, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET that featured research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Synthesis 521: Investment Prioritization Methods for Low-Volume Roads. This webinar identified current practices used by transportation agencies to make investment decisions about low-volume roads. Low-volume roads can be at a ...

TRB conducted a webinar on Wednesday, August 15, 2018, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET that features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Research Report 879 : Optimal Replacement Cycles of Highway Operations Equipment. This webinar introduced the project development process, including the factors relevant for determining optimal replacement cycles using life-cyc...

TRB conducted a webinar on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET that discusses how state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations may integrate performance and asset management into their decision-making processes. These organizations are considering changes to how they do business after the Federal Highway Administration finalized rules for performance...

TRB conducted a webinar on Wednesday, January 31, 2018, from 2:00PM to 3:30PM ET that features research from the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)’s Synthesis 84 : Transportation Network Companies: Challenges and Opportunities for Airport Operators. This webinar discussed how transportation network companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft have become common providers of ground transpor...

TRB conducted a webinar on Tuesday, November 14, 2017, from 2:00PM to 3:30PM ET that features research from the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)’s Synthesis 81 : Food and Beverage and Retail Operators: The Costs of Doing Business at Airports and Report 54 : Resource Manual for Airport In-Terminal Concessions. This webinar discussed how airport operators may develop and implement air...

TRB conducted a webinar on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET that discusses the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)’s approach toward the implementation of resilience in transportation projects. The discussion on resilience at the scientific, practical, economic, and policy level has evolved recently, and the Fixing America's Surface Transportation A...

TRB conducted a webinar on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM ET that featured research from National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 824 : Methodology for Estimating the Value of Travel Time Reliability for Truck Freight System Users. This webinar demonstrated the survey methodology that was developed to estimate the value of travel time reliability for truck...

TRB conducted a webinar on Tuesday, December 13, 2016 from 1:00 to 2:30PM ET that featured research from National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 487 : Public Perception of Mileage Based User Fees. This webinar featured research that analyzed three sources of information about public opinion on mileage fees. The presenters provided key findings about overall support level...

TRB conducted a webinar on Wednesday, November 9, 2016 from 1:00 to 2:30PM ET that featured research from National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 469 : Impacts of Energy Developments of U.S. Roads and Bridges. Presenters discussed the economic impact of heavy truck traffic related to energy development on the nation’s roads and bridges, including impacts on state and cou...

TRB's Transportation Infrastructure Task Force will conduct a webinar on October 28, 2016 at 1:00pm ET that will explore how Transportation Asset Management can preserve the value of assets through the timely application of preservation treatments. Participants will be able to compare and contrast each approach covered. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is no fee f...

TRB conducted a webinar on Thursday, September 8, 2016, from 2:00PM to 3:30PM ET that features research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) that provides guidance and information on the economic valuation of airports and air cargo operations. The economic impact of airports is often assessed at a local or regional level to educate communities about how their airports ...

TRB's Transportation Infrastructure Task Force conducted a webinar on July 6, 2016, from 11:00am to 12:30pm ET, that explored efforts to measure the impact of transportation on the economy. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is no fee for attending the webinar. The Moving Ahead for Progress for the 21st Century Act of 2012 (MAP-21) requires the U.S. Department ...

TRB conducted a webinar on Thursday, May 12, 2016 from 2:00PM to 3:30PM ET that examined the financial impacts to transportation arising from extreme weather events and the subsequent recovery. These events can present long-term risks and disruptions to communities, governments, and future projects. This webinar examined the operationalization of resilience, considering social and economic pers...

TRB conducted a webinar on Tuesday, March 15, 2016 from 2:00PM to 3:30PM ET on research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) that discussed  how changing airline industry conditions are affecting the air service at small and medium sized airports. This webinar provided 1.5 Continuing Education Units for Accredited Airport Executives. This webinar was approved by t...

TRB conducted a webinar on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 from 1:00PM to 2:30PM ET that discussed  NCHRP Report 750 : Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 4: Sustainability as an Organizing Principle for Transportation Agencies. This report investigates what it would mean for a transportation agency to be organized around supporting a more sustainable society, and offers a model for i...

TRB conducted a webinar on August 13, 2015, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that presented the results of NCHRP Synthesis 479: Forecasting Transportation Revenue Sources: Survey of State Practices . This synthesis features a survey of all state departments of transportation and documents current methods of revenue forecasting. States are facing a transportation funding crisis with diminished purchasin...

TRB conducted a webinar on August 12, 2015, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that covered NCHRP Synthesis 480: Economic and Development Implications of Transportation Disinvestment, which focuses on how state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations manage their transportation infrastructure network to balance competing maintenance and shrinking investment budgets while mit...

TRB conducted a webinar on March 5, 2015, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that featured research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) on the effects of regulatory compliance costs on small airports and the implementation of Through-the Fence (TTF) operations (outside entities gaining access to the airport’s airside infrastructure). Webinar presenters discussed best practices ...

TRB conducted a webinar on February 24, 2015, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that featured research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) on airline service decisions. Webinar presenters discussed factors that affect airline service decisions and passenger choice in regions with multiple airports. This webinar was organized by the Airport Cooperative Research Program in colla...

As part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays Webinar Series, TRB conducted a webinar on September 9, 2014 that highlighted the process used to develop, justify, apply, and assess the use of travel time reliability in project evaluation and decision making. Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu for instructions on receiving a copy of the recorded webinar. The objective of SHRP 2 Reliability Project L35 is t...

As part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays Webinar Series, TRB conducted a webinar on August 19, 2014 that explores SHRP2 project C01 and associated projects relating to the development of the Framework for Collaborative Decision-Making on Additions to Highway Capacity . This research is derived learned from 23 case studies of highway capacity enhancements and finds that effective, multi-stakeholder collabo...

As part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays Webinar Series, TRB conducted a webinar on April 1, 2014, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that summarized SHRP 2 Projects C08: Linking Community Visioning and Highway Capacity Planning and C02: Performance Measurement Framework for Highway Capacity Decision Making . View the recorded webinar . Project C08 produced an interactive Vision Guide to assist practitioners in bet...

TRB conducted a webinar on February 26, 2014, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that explored the role of goods movement in our nation's economic well-being and the parts that traffic engineering, transportation operations, and planning play in ensuring safe, efficient freight operations. The webinar provided examples of collaboration and improved regional freight operations. In addition, webinar p...

As part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays Webinar Series, TRB conducted a webinar on November 19, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. ET that explored two SHRP 2 projects relating to Economic Impact Analysis: Interactions Between Transportation Capacity, Economic Systems, and Land Use (C03) and Development of Tools for Assessing Wider Economic Benefits of Transportation (C11) . View the recorded webinar . This w...

TRB conducted a webinar on May 16, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that explored how to plan, design, and implement roundabouts. Contact Reggie Gillum at  RGillum@nas.edu  for information on accessing a link to the recorded webinar. This webinar will introduce some fundamentals of roundabouts and panelists will discuss specific planning, implementation, analysis, and design issues i...

TRB conducted a webinar on March 27, 2013 from 2 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that showed participants how to use the Roadside Safety Analysis Program (RSAP). Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu for instructions on receiving a link to the webinar recording. The Roadside Safety Analysis Program (RSAP) was developed to update and enhance the cost-effectiveness analysis procedures in the AASHTO Roadsid...

TRB conducted a web briefing or "webinar" on October 20, 2011 that addressed the findings of TRB Special Report 303: Equity of Evolving Transportation Finance Mechanisms . As traditional sources of funding for the nation’s surface transportation system fail to keep pace with demand, proposals for new sources have proliferated. New funding strategies, such as pricing for road use, and new instit...

On  Monday, April 19, 2010, TRB conducted a web briefing or "webinar" that explored practical tips for using the Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS), Research in Progress (RiP), and Research Needs Statements (RNS) databases. For more details,  view a summary of this webinar. Watch a recording of the webinar. You will need  Windows Media Player 9 or highe...

On September 10, 2009, TRB conducted a web briefing or "Webinar" that explored ways to incorporate climate change impacts into transportation system planning. For more details,  view a summary of this webinar. Email Reggie Gillum at  RGillum@nas.edu to receive a link to the recording of this session. There is no fee for employees of TRB sponsors to receive this recordin...

On August 19, 2009, TRB conducted a web briefing or "Webinar" that explored recent advances in renewable energy technologies and market incentives for higher efficiency and "greener" fuels. For more details,  view a summary of this webinar. Email Reggie Gillum at  RGillum@nas.edu to receive a link to the recording of this session.  There is no fee for employees of TRB sponso...

On June 8, 2009, TRB conducted a web-seminar or “webinar” that explored the use of public–private partnerships to finance highway infrastructure projects. For more details,  view a summary of this webinar.  A recording of this session is not available.

On May 19, 2009, TRB conducted a web-seminar or “webinar” that explored the prospect of increased government involvement in the airline industry, given high energy costs and an industry-wide financial crisis. For more details,  view a summary of this webinar. Email Reggie Gillum at  RGillum@nas.edu to receive a link to the recording of this session. There is no fee for employees ...

View and listen to selected presentations given at the 88th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on January 11-15, 2009, as part of the TRB’s Conference Recording series.  The TRB Conference Recording series is designed to bring information presented at TRB conferences and meetings to those who were not able to attend. To request an archived recording, email Reggie Gillum . There is no fee for...

View and listen to selected presentations given at the TRB 87th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. , on January 13-17, 2008 , as part of the TRB’s Conference Recording series. The TRB Conference Recording series is designed to bring information presented at TRB conferences and meetings to those who were not able to attend.   To request an archived recording, email Reggie Gillum ...

View and listen to selected presentations given at the 86th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., on January 21-25, 2007, as part of the TRB’s Conference Recording series. The TRB Conference Recording series is designed to bring information presented at TRB conferences and meetings to those who were not able to attend.   To request an archived recording, email Reggie Gillum . There is no fe...

View and listen to selected presentations given at the TRB 2006 Annual Meeting Summary of Major Issues in Albany , NY , on March 15, 2006 prepared by the New York State Department of Transportation , as part of the TRB’s Conference Recording series. The TRB Conference Recording series is designed to bring information presented at TRB conferences and meetings to those who were not able to atten...

View and listen to selected presentations given at the 85th Annual Meeting in Washington , D.C. , on January 22-26, 2006 , as part of the TRB’s Conference Recording series. The TRB Conference Recording series is designed to bring information presented at TRB conferences and meetings to those who were not able to attend.   To request an archived recording, email Reggie Gillum . There is no...

2005 Joint Summer Conference : Conference Recording   View and listen to selected presentations given at the Joint Summer Conference in Boston , MA , on July 10-12, 2005 , as part of the TRB’s Conference Recording series. The TRB Conference Recording series is designed to bring information presented at TRB conferences and meetings to those who were not able to attend.   To request an...