TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 874: The Transportation Research Thesaurus: Capabilities and Enhancements documents the results of a comprehensive assessment of the Transportation Research Thesaurus’s (TRT’s) capabilities and strategies for the TRT’s future development. The TRT is a structured, controlled vocabulary of terms in English, used by TRB and a variety of other organizations to support indexing, search, and retrieval of technical reports, research doc...

To keep pace with accelerating rate of research distribution, the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board is now publishing articles as soon as they are finalized. The latest papers to be published are as follows: Use of a Laser Diffractometer to Obtain the Particle Size Distribution of Fine-Grained Soils Interstate Speed Profiles Conditioning and Testing Protocol Combinations to Detect Asphalt Mixture Damage Safety Evaluation of the SafetyEdge Treatment for Pavement ...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Report 194: Knowledge Management Resource to Support Strategic Workforce Development for Transit Agencies explores the importance of knowledge management (KM), which is an organization’s process for collecting, storing, and sharing organizational information and knowledge, and provides guidance on implementing KM strategies in transit agencies. In addition, the guidance includes action plans for developing particular aspects of KM, analysis of KM...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web Only Document 241: Development and Management of Sustainable Enterprise Information Portals documents the research approach and methodology to develop  NCHRP Research Report 865 : Guidance for Development and Management of Sustainable Enterprise Information Portals. The guidance addresses the  development and management of effective Enterprise Information Portals (EIPs) at state departments of transportation. EIPs have become ...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 865: Guidance for Development and Management of Sustainable Enterprise Information Portals provides guidance for the development and management of effective Enterprise Information Portals (EIPs) at state departments of transportation. EIPs have become key tools for transportation agencies as they make available information about the transportation system and the agency’s activities. Such EIPs must be curated; that is, there are p...

TRB's latest National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Paths to Practice explores how the TRB webinar program helps advance NCHRP research. This program has become the go-to resource for transportation professionals who want to stay informed about the latest research results and get ideas on how to implement them without leaving their desks. NCHRP produces approximately 30 webinars per year.

A featured article in the November-December 2017 issue of the TR News explores previous Six Minute Pitch ideas from the TRB Annual Meeting. The Six Minute Pitch is the transportation industry start-up competition sponsored by TRB, and in 2018, it enters its sixth year. This article discusses how past winners have progressed with their ideas. The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation. It also in...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)  Web-Only Document 238: Developing the Guide to Retaining Essential Consultant-Developed Knowledge Within DOTs documents the methodology used to develop NCHRP Research Report 867 :  Keeping What You Paid For—Retaining Essential Consultant-Developed Knowledge Within DOTs . The document also provides key findings of the project and case studies used to create the guidance document.   NCHRP Research Report 867 presents guidance on th...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 867: Keeping What You Paid For—Retaining Essential Consultant-Developed Knowledge Within DOTs presents guidance on the use of knowledge capture and active learning to ensure that essential, mission-critical knowledge is maintained within the agency when a contractor’s work is finished. Knowledge capture is the process of transforming human knowledge into codified information (for example, through documentation of interviews with ...

The full edition of the July–August 2017  TR News  magazine is now available.  Moving research into practice is the theme of feature articles in this edition. Authors describe today’s successes, present a systematic approach that has proved effective at a state department of transportation, describe federal programs encouraging innovations at the state level, discuss initiatives by research programs to promote and document the implementation of results, and offer insights on technology tra...