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TRB dominant in President Biden's U.S. DOT appointee list
January 22, 2021
We're happy to note that more than a third of President Joe Biden's appointees to key U.S. Department of Transportation leadership positions have volunteered their service to or have engaged with TRB in the past. See the full list of appointees.

Third Episode of TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast Features Susan ShaheenThird Episode of TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast Features Susan Shaheen
January 22, 2021
TRB is pleased to announce the third episode of our new podcast, Transportation Explorers. The series gives voice to the many volunteers of the Transportation Research Board and other leading transportation experts. The co-hosts explore the latest and most critical research and innovations in transportation. In this episode, Susan Shaheen of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the Univer...

Training needs of rural and small urban transit agencies
January 21, 2021
Assessment of Immediate Small and Rural Transit Training Needs , released by the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University

New Transportation Research Thesaurus Video Posted
January 21, 2021
A new 7-minute video will help preparers populate ‘Field 17 Keywords’ field with the best terms from the Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) that most accurately describe the content of their report.  See AASHTO’s Report Guidelines and Requirements for more information about the Technical Report Documentation Page. SPR-funded reports must include this form in the report, and it is good...

Innovator: January/February 2021
January 21, 2021
The bi-monthly Innovator Newsletter , released by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration

New Mobility Services Combined with Transit Show Potential to Further Accessibility, Efficiency, Equity, Safety, and SustainabilityNew Mobility Services Combined with Transit Show Potential to Further Accessibility, Efficiency, Equity, Safety, and Sustainability
January 21, 2021
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has undeniably changed our normal routines and established practices. These changes, along with ongoing advancements in technology, may present opportunities to offer better mobility options to a wider segment of the American population than ever before. If carefully combined with public transit and substantially scaled up, the concept of offering con...

TR News November-December 2020 issue table of contents now onlineTR News November-December 2020 issue table of contents now online
January 20, 2021
The November-December 2020 issue of TR News —with a cover feature on the development of a Recycled Material Web Map—is available in hard copy and digital copy for subscribers. For those who are not subscribers, the table of contents is available. Other feature articles in the issue include "Living with Transformational Technologies and Other Surprises," "Asphalt Recycling: History of Recycled M...

RFP: Improving Public Transportation in Rural Areas and Tribal Communities
January 20, 2021
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) have jointly issued a request for proposals to produce a guidebook on how to initiate new and enhance existing rural and tribal public transportation services that improve mobility and accessibility. The guidebook should promote practices that are responsive to customers and aid transit p...

TRB's 100th Annual Meeting in the news
January 19, 2021
The January 2021 TRB Annual Meeting is generating headlines from press and participants alike. Catch up on your reading, watching, and listening!       Video   Kittelson & Associates, Inc. TRB 2021 - Conversation with Kittelson Cambridge Systematics TRB 100th Anniversary Celebration         Podcast AASHTO's ETAP Podcast Environmental Topics at the Vir...

2021 TRB Annual Meeting: Mobile App Now Available2021 TRB Annual Meeting: Mobile App Now Available
January 15, 2021
Download the TRB Annual Meeting mobile app before the 100th Annual Meeting. To download the app, search “TRB 2021” in the Apple Store or Google Play. When opening the app for the first time, enter the same email address used to register for the Annual Meeting to unlock the app. The app provides registered attendees with the ability to search the full schedule of events, program participants, ex...

2021 TRB Annual Meeting: Resource Pages are Available2021 TRB Annual Meeting: Resource Pages are Available
January 15, 2021
Resource pages for the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting are available. Visit this page for information about how to participate in the virtual meeting , the the online program , mobile app  (available in late December), and other information . The TRB 100th Annual Meeting will be conducted as a virtual event  throughout January 2021. Exact dates are January 5-8, 11-15, 21-22, and 25-29. Regis...

Second Episode of New Podcast, Transportation Explorers, is AvailableSecond Episode of New Podcast, Transportation Explorers, is Available
January 14, 2021
TRB is pleased to announce the second episode of our new podcast, Transportation Explorers. The series gives voice to the many volunteers of the Transportation Research Board and other leading transportation experts. The co-hosts explore the latest and most critical research and innovations in transportation. In this episode, Katie Turnbull of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute discusse...

2021 TRB Annual Meeting:  Thank You, Exhibitors2021 TRB Annual Meeting: Thank You, Exhibitors
January 14, 2021
TRB thanks its  2021 Annual Meeting exhibitors . Please make sure to schedule time to visit some of the more than 130 virtual exhibits to learn about the goods, services, and potential solutions that are available to help address changes you are facing. Exhibit Hours “Live” Hours : Exhibits will be listed as “live” from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM Eastern Time each day, during the dates of the TRB...

Seeking project panel nominations for FY 2021 Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP): Nominations due February 5, 2021
January 13, 2021
TCRP is seeking panel nominations for the approved FY 2021 research projects . Descriptions are available of FY 2021 projects for which RFPs are expected to be issued. Please nominate yourself or other candidates to serve on the expert panels of these research projects online at MyTRB . These panels will develop requests for proposals, select contractors, and review draft deliverables. Nominati...

RFP: Research Roadmap for Knowledge Management
January 13, 2021
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop a research roadmap for knowledge management in state departments of transportation (DOTs) and other transportation agencies. The roadmap shall be designed to systematically revisit research priorities to guide research and ensure its future relevancy. Proposals are due March 2, 2021 at 5:00...

Analyzing state CDL testing programs
January 13, 2021
2017 Report on Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Skills Testing Delays , released by the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

TRB’s Transportation Explorers: Anthony Foxx Explores Equity
January 11, 2021
Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx discusses growing up in Charlotte, N.C., where freeways that were essentially walls cut his neighborhood off from the rest of the world. Neighborhoods like this – “on the other side of the tracks” – all over the country saw their economic values decrease without any real restitution. Foxx talks about how the lessons of the past can inform how we...

Insights, Inclusion, and Impact: Framing the Future for Women in TransportationInsights, Inclusion, and Impact: Framing the Future for Women in Transportation
January 11, 2021
In comparison to the levels of public interest and attention, there is little research to help understand the major obstacles and constraints encountered by women travelers and women working in transportation industries. TRB's Transportation Research Circular E-C268: Insights, Inclusion, and Impact: Framing the Future for Women in Transportation details the 2019 Women’s Issues in Transportation...

2021 TRB Annual Meeting: Thank You, Patrons2021 TRB Annual Meeting: Thank You, Patrons
January 11, 2021
The Transportation Research Board thanks its 2021 TRB 100th Annual Meeting Patrons who are showing their support for transportation research and innovation, and aiding TRB in its mission to provide leadership in transportation innovation and progress through research and information exchange. TRB's 100th Annual Meeting program will cover all transportation modes, addressing topics of interest t...

TRB Announces First Episode of New Podcast, Transportation ExplorersTRB Announces First Episode of New Podcast, Transportation Explorers
January 10, 2021
TRB is pleased to announce our new podcast, Transportation Explorers. The series gives voice to the many volunteers of the Transportation Research Board and other leading transportation experts. The co-hosts explore the latest and most critical research and innovations in transportation. Listen to the first episode, with former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx discussing equity iss...

2021 TRB Annual Meeting: Watch What to Expect at a Virtual Meeting
January 8, 2021
Are you curious about what a virtual TRB Annual Meeting might look like? Hear from TRB Executive Director Neil Pedersen, TRB Technical Activities Division Director Ann Brach, and TRB volunteer Sandra Larson of Stanley Consultants. From sessions to keynotes and everything in between, they give you the highlights of what's coming throughout January 2021. The meeting's exact dates are January 5-8,...

TR News September-October 2020: Embracing the FutureTR News September-October 2020: Embracing the Future
January 7, 2021
The September–October 2020 issue of TRB's magazine is now available in full online. Themed “Embracing the Future,” the issue celebrates TRB’s centennial with articles forecasting the future of transportation. Authors present outlooks that are multimodal, creative, diverse, inclusive, and thought-provoking, offering a pause point for transportation researchers, policy makers, and practitioners a...

COVID-19 Addendum to Critical Issues in TransportationCOVID-19 Addendum to Critical Issues in Transportation
January 6, 2021
The year 2020’s raging coronavirus pandemic and reckoning with long-standing racial injustice led to widespread disruption and suffering, social unrest, and renewed calls for an accounting of our fragmented public health system and troubled history of racial inequity. The crises of 2020 transcend transportation yet also raise fundamental questions for it along with other sectors of our society ...

Transportation Research Board 2020 Annual ReportTransportation Research Board 2020 Annual Report
January 6, 2021
The 2020 Annual Report summarizes TRB’s accomplishments in each of its major program areas and how TRB has served the nation and the global transportation professional community throughout 2020. TRB provides leadership in transportation improvements and innovation through trusted, timely, impartial, and evidence-based information exchange, research, and advice regarding all modes of transportat...

Propose New Topics for the 2021 TCRP Synthesis Program: Submissions due March 19
January 6, 2021
TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) is seeking potential synthesis study topics for the 2021 TCRP Synthesis Program. TCRP will fund seven (7) new synthesis topics. Anyone may propose topics. A synthesis study documents current practice and experience for specific public transportation topics.   The following factors are considered in the selection process for new topics. The ...

Innovator: November/December 2020
January 2, 2021
The bi-monthly Innovator Newsletter , released by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration

2021 TRB Annual Meeting: Many Opportunities to Hear from Minority Student Fellows2021 TRB Annual Meeting: Many Opportunities to Hear from Minority Student Fellows
January 2, 2021
The TRB Minority Student Fellows Program, now in its twelfth year, promotes minority participation in transportation and in TRB. The program welcomes 25 students from 17 minority-serving institutions. Students in this cohort represent a range of engineering, planning, and social science majors and will present their research on a similar range of topics. Please stop by their presentations to of...

Placeholder for NCHRP Research Report 915
January 1, 2021
Hello Russell,   Please assign a placeholder URL for NCHRP Research Report 915: Relationship Between Erodibility and Properties of Soils.   We need this so that an Excel spreadsheet that will accompany the report can direct readers to the Inquiry Operation Manual for the spreadsheet, which is included in the report.   Thanks,   Janet   Janet McNaughton Senior Editor Co...

A Message for the New Year from TRB LeadershipA Message for the New Year from TRB Leadership
December 31, 2020
On behalf of the TRB Executive Committee, the thousands of volunteers involved in TRB committees and research panels, and the TRB staff, we are pleased to report on the work done in 2020, the 100th year of the Transportation Research Board. The past year has been one of unprecedented challenges, but also one of major accomplishments as evidenced in our 2020 Annual Report . This year has demons...

Christopher Blasie Helps "Tell Us 'Our' Story" in December's ResponsesChristopher Blasie Helps "Tell Us 'Our' Story" in December's Responses
December 31, 2020
Christopher Blasie, Emerging Technology Leader, Collins Aerospace let us know that "TRB has really opened my mind to explore new horizons in the transportation industry." Thank you Christopher for participating in TRB's Centennial Celebration and to everyone else that has made submissions to the "Tell Us 'Our' Story" centennial activity. To read all the responses to December's question visit th...
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