Staff from smaller airports typically lack specialized expertise in the negotiation and development of airport property or the resources to hire consultants. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Research Report 213: Estimating Market Value and Establishing Market Rent at Small Airports provides airport management, policymakers, and staff a resource for developing and leasing airp...

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...

The High Speed Intercity Passenger Rail program, administered by the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), is assessed in a report from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General. This report reviews the FRA’s risk analysis, assessment, and mitigation efforts for program expenditures.

A central role of a state Department of Transportation (DOT) fleet manager is to maintain a clear understanding of the fleet’s costs. This helps in tracking activities over time, comparing costs with other fleets, communicating with stakeholders, and effectively managing fleet assets. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's pre-publication draft of NCHRP Research Report 944: Gui...

For more than 150 years, the Federal False Claims Act has served to prevent false claims for federal government funds. In recent years, a number of state legislatures have enacted state false claims acts modeled after the Federal FCA, to prevent false claims for state government funds. State highway departments and transportation agencies have a continuing need to keep abreast of operating prac...

An overview of vehicle pricing programs is described in Lessons Learned for Designing Programs to Charge for Road Use, Congestion, and Emissions , a report from the National Center for Sustainable Transportation at the University of California at Davis. This report investigates design choices for programs that address major externalities related to vehicle use: road damage, emissions, and conge...

Transportation agencies across the United States are afflicted with aging infrastructure, unstable funding, changing performance expectations, and programs that need updating to meet future demand effectively and efficiently. Yet, these agencies are charged with ensuring ongoing alignment between the life cycle cost, capacity, extent, condition, and function of a piece of infrastructure or a pr...

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)’s top management challenges for 2020 are identified in a report from the USDOT Office of the Inspector General. This report determines the DOT’s impact on safety, documented vulnerabilities, large dollar implications, and ability to affect change.

The Wisconsin DOT issues both single- and multi-trip permits for Oversize–Overweight (OSOW) vehicles. As the number of OSOW vehicle permits issued in Wisconsin have increased in recent years, the management and analysis of OSOW permit data has become more labor-intensive and time-consuming. This "Research Pays Off" feature in  TR News edition 324 (November-December 2019), by Hani Titi, Nic...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s administrative fund is evaluated in a report from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General. This report assesses the FAA’s management and oversight of this fund.