What's New in Education and Training

TRB standing committees will be reviewing submissions for the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting and potential publication in the Transportation Research Record (TRR). We welcome submissions on all modes of transportation and relevant transportation-related research. Because of committee restructuring, individual committees will not be issuing Calls for Paper this year. However, in addition to the general...

The TRB Technical Activities Division’s Standing Committee on Public Involvement in Transportation is holding its 14th annual John and Jane Q. Public Communications Contest. TRB seeks best practices in successfully communicating with John and Jane Q. Public during disruptive, crisis situations that affect the transportation industry. The John and Jane Q. Public Communications contest recog...

Scientific American and Nature Research with support from National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and California Congressman Jerry McNerney hosted a special panel discussion via podcast . The podcast, part of the Science on the Hill series, featured experts speaking with Scientific American senior editor Mark Fischetti about what goes into modeling our climate—and how such mo...

Winnie Okello, Senior Civil Engineer, told TRB that her "vision for TRB 100 years from now is that we will have transitioned to better more efficient and accessible modes of transportation. Modes that also take into consideration the complex utility needs of its users. The more technologically advanced society becomes the greater the desire for community and human connection; I hope we as trans...

The National Academy of Medicine's next COVID-19 Conversations webinar will held on July 8 from 5:00 to 6:30 PM Eastern. This webinar's panel will discuss the variety of considerations being weighed before reopening colleges and universities in fall 2020, including the role of testing and contact tracing, responding to outbreaks, if sports can safely resume, and other strategies to prevent the ...

The importance of safety cannot be overstated and requires continued shifts in the approach to safety management within the public transportation industry. The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's pre-publication of TCRP Research Report 218: Characteristics and Elements of Non-Punitive Employee Safety Reporting Systems for Public Transportation compiles the best practices used in non-puni...

Older workers are retiring in droves, and new employees are not entering the aviation workforce swiftly enough to replace those leaving. TRB is hosting a webinar on Thursday, August 6, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will identify ways to address the labor shortage by fostering the next generation of aviation professionals, including pilots, mechanics, and airport managers. This webinar...

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:...

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 t...

As in many industries, transportation is facing significant challenges as a result of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Through the ongoing and rapidly changing phases of the pandemic, TRB is giving researchers, practitioners, and experts opportunities to share their insights with a wider audience through our webinars, Zoom meetings, blog articles, social media, and other platforms w...

Create or update your MyTRB profile  now if you will be a credited author of a paper submitted for presentation or for inclusion in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board . Having up-to-date profile information in the MyTRB system will ensure that you’ll have a smooth paper-submission process. If you are the designated corresponding author for a pa...

The TRB Centennial Book is available for purchase in ebook or print format. In The Transportation Research Board, 1920–2020: Everyone Interested Is Invited , author Sarah Jo Peterson tells the story of how people and institutions created and have continued to shape TRB. In a compelling narrative accompanied by more than 150 images exploring the history of transportation and research, she argues...

In a video submitted in response to TRB's "Tell Us 'Our' Story" centennial activity, Michael Morris, Director of Transportation, North Central Texas Council of Governments notes that TRB's centennial is an opportunity to "celebrate the accomplishments of TRB...and help us understand where we should go and how we should get there in the next 100 years."  Thank you Michael! Michael's video i...

The Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has selected winners for its annual University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs . Now in its 14th year, the prestigious competition encourages students to design innovative and practical solutions to challenges at airports. Four first-place winners were chosen across four technical challenge areas: Ai...

Thousands of Native American women and girls disappear or are killed each year. These women and girls vanish from tribal lands, rural communities, and cities with no official accounting. TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern that will explore the unique mobility patterns of Native Americans as they travel from rural tribal territories to urban c...

The fully grouted method of installing piezometers is increasingly popular, but it doesn’t work in every case. TRB hosted a webinar on Wednesday, July 8, 2020 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern to provide critical information regarding the most effective piezometer installations for the applications at hand. It focused on which factors to consider when deciding on a fully grouted instal...

TRB is committed to holding its 100th Annual Meeting in January 2021. We are closely monitoring the evolving situation related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and its potential impacts on the meeting. We are evaluating how to hold the meeting in a way that continues the important convening value and ensures the health and safety of everyone involved in the event, including whethe...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is hosting a virtual workshop on June 23, 2020, titled “COVID-19 and Black Communities.” To register for this event, please visit the registration page . To learn more information, including the agenda, please visit the web page . The workshop will also be recorded for those unable to join live. Members of the Roundtable on Black Me...

With all the news justifiably vying for your attention, has the 2020 United States Census flown under your radar? Searching National Academies Press or the Transportation Research Record (TRR) for reports that cite Census or ACS data yields thousands of results. “Census data is the basic building block for transportation analysis,” says Krishnan Viswanathan of Cambridge Systematics and a TRB vo...

Next steps for practitioners to take. Impacts on managed lanes. Security planning. Travel behavior and telework trends. Those are just a handful of the resources now available on the COVID-19 transportation resources website available from TRB and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

According to Dr. Susan Shaheen, Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering; and Co-Director, Transportation Sustainability Research Center, UC Berkeley, "Transportation is arguably experiencing its most transformative evolution since the introduction of the automobile. Concerns about climate change, the global pandemic, an economic recession, and social equity are converging with dramatic te...

How will future vehicle Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEV) fleet scenarios affect emissions of criteria pollutants, mobile source air toxics, and greenhouse gases? TRB conducted a webinar on Tuesday, June 30 that discussed research on future vehicle fleet scenarios’ effect on emissions. Presenters reviewed literature and modeling analysis on U.S. ZEV adoption. The work provides insights encouraging ...

TRB turns 100 on November 11, 2020. You are invited to join your colleagues listed below who have contributed to the TRB Century Club to support activities that will mark the anniversary; promote the value of transportation research; and celebrate the achievements of TRB’s volunteers, sponsors, affiliates, and staff. Details on the Century Club and a link to contribute is available at https://...

Roadway roundabouts are enjoying some time in the spotlight. Although many people associate them with merry old England, they are very much an American phenomenon as well. A recent TRB National Cooperative Highway Program (NCHRP) analysis on roundabouts focused on their use in crash prediction models and methods in Development of Roundabout Crash Prediction Models and Methods . By examining a v...

A video created as part of TRB’s Centennial celebration has been named the winner of three 2020 Telly Awards, which annually showcase the best work created within television and across all types of video production. The video, titled Your Future in Transportation , highlights the excitement, challenges, and fulfillment that those who select transportation as their career can expect to enjoy. Fo...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are hosting Best Safety and Hygiene Practices for Public Workspaces in COVID-19 on June 23, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:00 PM Eastern. This webinar will explore the challenges of operating workplaces with a public interaction component in the COVID-19 environment. These facilities are complex environments and include museums, cafeterias, gif...

According to Dr. Geraldine Knatz, Professor of the Practice of Policy and Engineering, University of Southern California, "100 Years from now at TRB's 200th year anniversary, people will look back and wonder about the vehicles people own and think "how inefficient." Single owner vehicles will be replaced by a transportation system that will be fast, efficient, clean, accessible to all and on-de...

The world is grappling with the containment of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) until a vaccine is developed. TRB hosted a webinar on Tuesday, June 16, 2020 to discuss how planning, preparedness, and response can mitigate exposure and viral spread of communicable diseases among transportation customers and employees. Presenters discussed their experiences on the ground. Even locations without rep...

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) is hosting Transportation Asset Management Summer MegaMeeting on July 13-15, 2020 online. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this conference. The event will be a series of six web-based sessions to continue the crucial work of the community of practice despite the inability to meet in person. Content will include coronavirus d...

The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that examines the nation’s minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and identifies promising programs and effective strategies that have the highest potential return on investment for the nation by increasing the quantity and quality MSI STEM graduates. This study also provides critical information and perspective abo...