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.

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 Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 95: Practices for Wayside Rail Transit Worker Protection is designed to highlight knowledge, practice, lessons learned, and gaps in information related to wayside rail transit worker protection programs.

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 97: Improving Bus Transit Safety Through Rewards and Discipline addresses the practices and experiences of public transit agencies in applying both corrective actions and rewards to recognize, motivate, and reinforce a safety culture within their organizations.

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 693: Attracting, Recruiting, and Retaining Skilled Staff for Transportation System Operations and Management provides guidance designed to help transportation agencies recruit and retain qualified professional staff in the systems operation and management (SOM) area. The report explores SOM career paths, skill requirements, and ...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 182: Appendices to NCHRP Report 693 includes a set of tables showing systems operations and management job categories, number of positions, and educational requirements for all 50 states. NCHRP Report 693 : Attracting, Recruiting, and Retaining Skilled Staff for Transportation System Operations and Management provides...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Results Digest 14: Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues summarizes the results of the initial four years of the Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues (ACRP Project 11-04). The program is designed to encourage applied research on airport-related aviation system issues and to foster t...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 93: Practices to Protect Bus Operators from Passenger Assault highlights practices and policies implemented by transit agencies to deter and mitigate assaults on bus operators.

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-L06-RR-2 Guide to Improving Capability for Systems Operations and Management examines the way transportation agencies should be organized to successfully execute operations programs that improve travel time reliability. After the guide was submitted for publication, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Of...

The latest issue of TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Impacts on Practice highlights information included in ACRP Report 22: Helping Airport and Air Carrier Employees Cope with Traumatic Events that is described as “critical” by Hilary Fletcher, former County Manager for Pitkin County, Colorado. Ms. Fletcher is founder of the Colorado Aviation Recovery Support Team that helps co...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 149: Improving Safety-Related Rules Compliance in the Public Transportation Industry identifies potential best practices for all of the elements of a comprehensive approach to safety-related rules compliance. The categories of best practices, which correspond to the elements of a safety-related rules compliance program, include screening ...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2211 contains 6 papers that explore building a system to implement research and innovation, improving a design-focused course in transportation engineering, traffic engineering in a hybrid format, an introductory course in transportation engineering, online discussions supporting learning in transport planni...

The National Academy of Engineering has released the latest issue of its quarterly magazine that presents thoughtful opinion and analysis on engineering research, education, and practice; science and technology policy; and the roles of engineering and technology in all aspects of society. The summer issue of The Bridge is devoted to changing the conversation about engineering and engaging young...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 685: Strategies to Attract and Retain a Capable Transportation Workforce includes straight-forward, implementable practices that transportation Human Resources (HR) managers and hiring professionals can use to help improve the recruitment and retention of qualified employees in their organizations. The report provides informatio...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Results Digest 100: Professional Certification and Credentialing Program for the Transit Industry explores the findings of a literature review and a gap analysis of the efficacy of four transit-specific professional development programs. The report also examines potential strategies that might be used to deploy and maintain a transit in...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2198 contains 17 papers incorporating bicycle and pedestrian topics in university transportation courses, high-visibility school crosswalks, safety effectiveness of leading pedestrian intervals, driver and pedestrian behavior at uncontrolled crosswalks, pedestrian traffic flow in confined passageways, roadwa...

The January–February 2011 TR News presents case studies of successful, problem-solving collaborations between the state departments of transportation and University Transportation Centers. In an annual mainstay feature, TRB Technical Activities program officers report on a range of state-related developments observed firsthand during field visits to state and regional transportation agencies an...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2199 contains 6 papers that explore student understanding of sight distance in geometric design, learning styles in an engineering laboratory, design of transportation curriculum materials with examples, traffic control game for teaching high school students, outsourcing decision making in a department of tr...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 667: Model Curriculum for Highway Safety Core Competencies presents course materials, including the instructor’s guide and student workbook, for a fundamental highway safety training course. The course is designed to address the core competencies highway safety practitioners should have or acquire. An accompanying CD-ROM include...

The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine have released a report that explores the role of diversity in the science, technology, engineering, and medicine (STEM) workforce and its value in keeping America innovative and competitive. The committee that developed the report suggests that the federal government, industry, and post-secondary instit...

The National Research Council has released a dataset that can be used to assess the quality and effectiveness of doctoral programs based on measures important to faculty, students, administrators, funders, and other stakeholders. The data, collected for the 2005-2006 academic year from more than 5,000 doctoral programs at 212 universities, cover such characteristics as faculty publications, gra...

TRB’s Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (CTBSSP) Synthesis 18: Older Commercial Drivers: Do They Pose a Safety Risk? explores age-related changes in the basic functional abilities needed to drive safely. The report is designed to help assist industry and labor practitioners in promoting safer commercial operations.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 18: Aviation Workforce Development Practices explores airport operating entity jobs and related skill sets needed to perform those jobs. The report also identifies potential ways to gain training on the skill sets needed to fulfill airport-related jobs and notes gaps where skill sets, and educational and advancement opportunities,...

A special feature article in the September-October 2009 issue of the TR News highlights the TRB Planning and Environment Group’s recent annual competition to recognize fresh and creative methods of communicating technical transportation issues and concepts to the public. The focus of the competition was energy and climate change in transportation. The top entries ranged from a book to multimedi...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2109 includes 8 papers that explore transportation planning education in the United States, simulating transportation for realistic engineering education and training, enhancing civil engineering recruitment and coordination with industry, demonstrating transportation planning and design issues with an inter...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525, Vol. 14, Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies is designed to provide transportation managers and employees with an introductory-level reference document to enhance their working knowledge of security concepts, guidelines, definitions, and standards.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 22: Helping Airport and Air Carrier Employees Cope with Traumatic Events provides insight and practical guidance to address the difficult emotional and psychological implications in response and exposure to traumatic events. These traumatic events can be the result of human-made accidents, acts of terrorism, or natural disasters that have...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2096 includes 14 papers that explore roundabouts, truck lane restrictions, sleep apnea and driving performance, the effect of horizontal curvature on truck crashes, roadside tire debris, occupational road safety programs, and safety impacts of truck speed limiters. This TRR also examines the influence of dri...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 5: Development of a Guidebook for Managing Small Airports describes the research process related to the development of ACRP Report 16: Guidebook for Managing Small Airports .

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 135: Controlling System Costs: Basic and Advanced Scheduling Manuals and Contemporary Issues in Transit Scheduling explores information on available scheduling tools and techniques and their capabilities. Also, the report provides guidance to transit agencies on a variety of scheduling issues typically faced in a transit operating enviro...