TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a project brief that highlights Transportation Project Impact Case Studies (T-PICS). T-PICS is a web-based tool designed to allow for economic impacts to more easily be considered during community visioning for transportation, or during public and stakeholder involvement for long-range system planning or corridor planning. Vi...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 64: Handbook for Evaluating Emissions and Costs of APUs and Alternative Systems is designed to help airports evaluate alternatives to aircraft auxiliary power units (APUs). The handbook addresses environmental impacts, costs, infrastructure and maintenance requirements, and funding options. The printed version of the handbook includes a C...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 424: Engineering Economic Analysis Practices for Highway Investment explores how U.S. transportation agencies have applied engineering economics--benefit–cost analyses and similar procedures--to decisions on highway investments.

Roundabouts have seen unprecedented growth across the United States, from just a handful a decade ago to more than 2,000 and counting. National guidance had to keep pace with the needs of states and communities planning and implementing roundabouts, and NCHRP took a lead role.

TRB’s National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 15: Dedicated Revenue Mechanisms for Freight Transportation Investment explores methods that might be used to raise revenue to support government investment in freight transportation facilities, primarily for highway transportation. The report assesses revenue-generating mechanisms such as motor-vehicle fuel tax surcharges, vehi...

In regions across the nation, bridge engineers know that the next major seismic event is coming—maybe tomorrow, maybe centuries from now. DOTs have the critical charge of designing for earthquakes and protecting the lives of travelers.

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a Capacity Projects Brief, which summarizes the status of products being produced within the Capacity area of SHRP 2. The objective of Capacity Research in SHRP 2 is to develop tools for systematically integrating environmental, economic, and community requirements into the analysis, planning, and design of new highway c...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 92: Transit Asset Condition Reporting examines and documents the current state of the practice in transit asset condition management. The report defines transit asset management as a strategic planning process that supports informed capital investment planning and programming. The report’s objective is to provide transit agencies and t...

TRB’s National Freight Cooperative Research Program (NFCRP) Report 13: Freight Facility Location Selection: A Guide for Public Officials describes the key criteria that the private sector considers when making decisions on where to build new logistics facilities. A final report that provides background material used in the development of NFCRP Report 13 has been published as  NCFRP Web-Onl...

TRB’s National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Web-Only Document 1: Web-Only Document 1: Background Research Material for Freight Facility Location Selection: A Guide for Public Officials (NCFRP Report 13) provides background material used in the development of NCFRP Report 13 , which describes the key criteria that the private sector considers when making decisions on where to bui...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 25: Strategies for Reuse of Underutilized or Vacant Airport Facilities presents an overview of the issues surrounding the reuse of aeronautical facilities and terminals.

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2221 includes 12 papers that explore funding options for federal surface transportation, mileage-based charges, replacing the federal fuel tax with per-mile user charges, the vehicle mileage fee at federal and state levels, cost of collecting vehicle miles traveled fees, urban network privatization, the poli...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released the latest version of its Capacity Program Brief, which summarizes recent progress within the Capacity area of SHRP 2. The objective of Capacity Research in SHRP 2 is to develop tools for systematically integrating environmental, economic, and community requirements into the analysis, planning, and design of new highway capac...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2203 is the first of three volumes that collectively present 90 technical papers pertinent to low-volume roads, 44 by authors from the United States and 46 by authors from 18 other countries. Volume 1, contains 27 papers that address environment; safety; design; and economics, finance, and planning aspects o...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) RRD 102: Public Transportation Systems as the Foundation for Economic Growth examines how transit investments are linked to economic growth and recovery in several cities in Turkey, Egypt, and South Africa.

TRB’s National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 11: Truck Drayage Productivity Guide is designed to help improve drayage productivity and capacity while reducing emissions, costs, and port-area congestion at deepwater ports. The guide includes suggestions designed to help shippers, receivers, draymen, marine terminal operators, ocean carriers, and port authorities address ine...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 48: Impact of Jet Fuel Price Uncertainty on Airport Planning and Development is designed to help airport operators and planners measure the impact of changes in jet fuel price on supply and demand for air service at commercial service airports. The report includes background research;  a computer model, available online and in CD ROM...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2187 contains 19 papers that explore tax increment financing, revenue performance and bonding costs of toll roads, pass-through tolling agreements, flexible-term highway concessions, a vehicle mileage-based user fee, impact fees emphasizing vehicle miles traveled, equity in road pricing, equitable congestion...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released the latest version of its Capacity Program Brief, which summarizes recent progress within the Capacity area of SHRP 2. The objective of Capacity Research in SHRP 2 is to develop tools for systematically integrating environmental, economic, and community requirements into the analysis, planning, and design of new highway capac...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 677: Development of Levels of Service for the Interstate Highway System examines a level-of-service-based approach to describing the performance of Interstate Highway System (IHS) assets. The report also includes a template and process that state departments of transportation (DOTs) may use to implement this approach for managin...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 36: Airport/Airline Agreements—Practices and Characteristics is designed to assist both airport operators and airlines with negotiating and understanding various aspects of airline/airport operator business relationships–including those in use and lease agreements–by enhancing mutual understanding of each other’s decision-making process d...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2166 contains 14 papers that explore ship-based greenhouse gas reduction negotiations; supply chain coordination for port sustainability; the berth-scheduling problem; a web-based foreign waterborne cargo data system; global port operations and their influence on port labor; measuring the concentration degre...

TRB’s National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 7: Identifying and Using Low-Cost and Quickly Implementable Ways to Address Freight-System Mobility Constraints explores standardized descriptions of the dimensions of the freight transportation system, identifies freight mobility constraints in a multimodal context, highlights criteria for low-cost and quickly implementable imp...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2156 includes 18 papers that explore car ownership among young adults, time-dependent utility in activity and travel choice behavior, probit-based discrete-continuous model of activity choice, strategic thinking and risk attitudes in route choice, the impact of immigrant status on household auto ownership, e...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2162 includes 13 papers that explore stacking priority rules, scheduling trucks at cross-docks, system efficiency at container terminals, air pollution impacts of shifting freight from truck to rail, freight mobility constraints, and the use of passenger rail infrastructure for goods movement. This issue of ...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 664: Measuring Transportation Network Performance explores ways to monitor transportation network performance by developing new or integrating existing performance measures from different transportation modes and multiple jurisdictions.

A featured article in the July-August 2010 TR News includes a 21-question, true-or-false and multiple choice quiz that gauges knowledge of basic information, general and specific, related to globalization and transportation. The enlightening answers to the quiz are accompanied by citations of readily available resources for additional information and reference.

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2157 includes 18 papers that explore behavioral biases in travel demand analysis; spatial-temporal student activity population; changes in travel behavior in response to weather conditions; the impact of public holidays on travel time expenditure; sociodemographics, activity participation, and trip chaining ...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) CRP-CD-78 provides safety forecasting software and accompanying guidance that is designed to help independently forecast the safety impacts of changes in socio-demographics and safety investments, both engineering and behavioral. CRP-CD-78  is available for download as an ISO image. Instructions for burning a CD-ROM from an I...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 661: A Guidebook for Corridor-Based Statewide Transportation Planning explores a template for corridor planning designed to help states to better understand the implications of transportation decisions on mobility, communities, economic development, and environmental stewardship.