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1) TRB Core Program Sponsors ($65,000 +)
   2) Marine Board Sponsors
   3) Sustaining Affiliates
   4) Organizational Affiliates
   5) Individual and Student Affiliates

TRB Core Program Sponsors are the major source of financial support for TRB's core technical activities. Federal, state, and local government agencies, and professional societies and organizations that represent various industry groups are eligible to be TRB sponsors. Fees and services are negotiated with each sponsor to best serve its particular needs and to provide fundamental support for the Board's programs and activities of interest to the entire transportation community. Sponsors are represented on the TRB Executive Committee. In addition, the transportation departments of the 50 states and the District of Columbia each have an official representative to provide liaison with the Board. Organizations that are TRB sponsors are entitled to display educational, non-commercial exhibits at the TRB Annual Meeting.

State DOT Sponsors collectively contribute more than $7 million annually to the TRB Core Programs. Our state sponsors include the Highway and Transportation Departments of the 50 states and DC.

Federal Sponsors of TRB's Core Programs contribute various amounts ranging from $65,000 to $2.3 million per year. TRB's current federal sponsors include:

• Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
• Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
• Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
• Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
• Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
• Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA)
• Science and Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
• U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)
• U.S. Navy - Office of Naval Research (ONR)

Other Sponsors of TRB's Core Programs contributing $65,000 include:

• Association of American Railroads (AAR)
• American Public Transportation Association (APTA)
• American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI)
• South Coast AQMD (Air Quality Management District)

Major Benefits of Being a $65,000+ Sponsor of TRB’s Core Programs:

• Nearly unlimited registrations to TRB’s Annual meeting for all agency employees. (agency will provide a listing for advance registration for its employees to reduce costs.)
• Meeting facilities and an exhibit booth at the Annual Meeting
• Sponsors are represented on the TRB Executive Committee.
• Nearly unlimited delivery of all TRB hard copy publications (approx 200 per year). TRB will maintain and update a mailing list for distribution of publications to agency staff as designated by your liaison. TRB can tailor delivery of publications to agency employees by designating employees to receive only publications in certain subject areas (e.g. environment, energy, freight transportation, security, etc).
• As a TRB Sponsor, agency employees receive full online access to all the Transportation Research Records: Journal of the Transportation Research Board papers published since 1999. (The Record Series consists of the papers from the Annual Meeting that are chosen for publication.)
• TRB will maintain standing committees in subject areas of interest to agency. TRB will also establish appropriate new committees as the need is demonstrated and to respond to changing issues facing the transit industry.
• As a TRB Sponsor, agency employees have access to contact information for individuals who serve on TRB committees and panels through the TRB Online Directory.
• TRB standing technical committees currently sponsor or co-sponsor 25-30 conferences and more than 75 workshops annually on a wide range of subjects. As a TRB Sponsor, agency employees are eligible for discounted registration fees for many of these conferences.
• Agency employees are eligible for free registration for TRB sponsored webinars on a wide range of transportation topics.
• Agency employees are eligible for free access to all collected Annual Meeting PowerPoint presentations, posters, and e-session videos.
• TRB will continue to operate a staff Field Visit Program to facilitate the exchange of relevant information and increased participation by transit agencies on committees and programs of NAS/TRB. TRB will schedule visits with transit agencies and establish liaison representatives with these agencies as appropriate. A summary of the results of these visits is printed annually in the TRNews, which will be distributed to more than 10,000 subscribers, including your agency.
• Agency employees have access to TRB’s Library and to TRID. TRID is a newly integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide – with more than 50,000 records linked to full-text documents. TRID is also indexed with a standardized vocabulary from the Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT). The Research in Progress (RiP) records in TRID are available as a separate searchable database through TRB. RiP has expanded to include international research projects and university research.

For more information regarding TRB Core Program sponsorship please contact:

Michael LaPlante
Director of Finance, TRB
mlaplante@nas.edu
202-334-3215