The National Transport Commission in Australia has released a report that discusses the loss of effluent as a load restraint breach for heavy vehicle drivers transporting livestock. This report focuses on the enforcement of such breaches under the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) and identifies solutions to clarify the HVNL chain of responsibility.

The Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that evaluates tree seedling performance, site selection, and project design of forested wetland restoration sites in Iowa. Road projects sometimes have unavoidable impacts on wetlands, and while many wetland mitigation projects in the state have been successful, concerns about compliance for forested wetland mitiga...

TRB has released two new Snap Searches exploring the environmental process and natural resources . A Snap Search provides a summary of TRB research reports that are underway and published, upcoming events, and ongoing committees that cover these specific topics. Produced by TRB’s Library , Snap Searches are designed for the busy researcher or professional who would like to quickly get up to spe...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Report 197: Tools for a Sustainable Transit Agency explores the development of practical tools for improving sustainability at transit agencies: The Sustainability Routemap: An interactive PDF, similar to a website, that guides the user to improve a transit agency’s sustainability program through application of change management princip...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has released a pre-publication, non-edited version of Synthesis 93: Sustainability's Role in Enhancing Airport Capacity. This report compiles information and examples that successfully demonstrate the value of building sustainability concepts into capacity-enhancing projects and describes additional resources and tools that provide guidance on h...

TRB has released new Snap Searches exploring air quality and climate change. A Snap Search provides a summary of TRB research reports that are underway and published, upcoming events, and ongoing committees that cover these specific topics. Produced by TRB’s Library , Snap Searches are designed for the busy researcher or professional who would like to quickly get up to speed on complex research...

TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board has released more than 200 papers from the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting. Enhancements to the journal include:  Articles published much closer to final acceptance A new user interface for the journal Article-level metrics  Full-text HTML to enhance discovery of the research Interactive proof markup for author...

The draft Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) report reviewed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, explores a wide range of topics of high importance to the United States and society more broadly, extending from human health and community well-being, to the built environment, to businesses and economies, to ecosystems and natural resources.  The National...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released its proceedings of a workshop hosted in January 2018 that explores best practices and lessons learned from other high-risk, high-reliability industries for the benefit of the research community and of citizens, industry practitioners, decision makers, and officials addressing safety in the offshore oil industry. Since th...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)  Web-Only Document 33: Commercial Space Operations Noise and Sonic Boom Modeling and Analysis is the contractor’s final report on the methodology and development for ACRP Research Report 183: User Guides for Noise Modeling of Commercial Space Operations—RUMBLE and PCBoom. ACRP Research Report 183 provides guidance on using RUMBLE 2.0, which...