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Geotechnology Research at TRB
The mission of the Transportation Research Board is to provide leadership in transportation innovation and progress through research and information exchange, conducted within a setting that is objective, interdisciplinary, and multimodal. This page highlights recently released TRB reports, meeting announcements, requests for proposals, and other announcements related to geotechnology. In addition, it includes links to selected geotechnology research-related activities taking place at the federal and state levels, and within the academic and international transportation communities. Finally, this page also highlights and provides links to TRB programs and activities, which are the source of most of TRB’s geotechnology-related research products. |
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TRB Geotechnology-Related Programs and Activities
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3rd International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics*February 24, 2015 TRB is cosponsoring the 3rd International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics on September 4-7, 2016, in Guimarães, Portugal. This conference will showcase research findings and practical applications of geotechnics on roads, rails, airports, harbors and other ground transportation infrastructure, with the goal of providing safe, economic, environmentally-acceptable, reliable, and sustaina... |
 Soil Mechanics 2014February 24, 2015 TRB’s Transportation Research Record (TRR): Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2462 Soil Mechanics 2014 consists of 15 articles that examine the effects of fines content on hydraulic conductivity and shear strength of granular structural backfill; an evaluation of AASHTO default values for pullout friction factor (f*) for steel grid mat reinforcement; strength and creep character... |
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 Visualization of Technical Data for Hazard Mitigation and Disaster ResponseJanuary 30, 2015 TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 467: Visualization of Technical Data for Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Response evaluate the tools and techniques used for mitigating geotechnical hazards and responding to geotechnical disasters such as landslides, rockfalls, settlement, sinkholes, and other events. |
Geotechnical Risk Assessment and Performance ManagementJanuary 26, 2015 TRB is sponsoring a Geotechnical Risk Assessment and Performance Management meeting that will be held on September 14, 2015, in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. The meeting is held in conjunction with the 66th Annual Highway Geology Symposium. Abstracts for the symposium are due March 2, 2015. |
 Geology and Properties of Earth Materials 2014January 21, 2015 TRB’s Transportation Research Record (TRR): Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2433 consists of 15 papers that evaluate cold region applications for in-place inclinometers based on microelectromechanical systems technology; seismic waveform tomography; models for scheduling risk evaluation in subsurface explorations; unknown foundations of bridges subjected to scour; and using fi... |
 2015 TRB 94th Annual Meeting: Compendium of Papers Now AvailableJanuary 6, 2015 The 2015 TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers is now available on the TRB Annual Meeting Online portal . Annual Meeting registrants can view the technical papers now. The posters and presentation slides will be available in early March. For Annual Meeting registrants, the compendium can be downloaded from the Annual Meeting Online portal at no cost. Also, a PDF version of the printed Fi... |
TRB 96th Annual MeetingJanuary 5, 2015 The 2017 TRB 96th Annual Meeting will be held January 8-12, 2017, in Washington, D.C. |
TRB 95th Annual MeetingJanuary 5, 2015 The 2016 TRB 95th Annual Meeting will be held January 10-14, 2016, in Washington, D.C. |
 Neil Pedersen Named TRB Executive Director – Effective February 1, 2015November 18, 2014 After a national search of extraordinary candidates for the Executive Director of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Neil Pedersen, Deputy Director of the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2), has been selected to lead TRB. Pedersen’s appointment will be effective on February 1, 2015. Pedersen joined the National Academies in 2012 as the Deputy Director of the second Strateg... |
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Cooperative Research Programs
TRB's Cooperative Research Programs Division manages several cooperative research programs that frequently produces reports that have relevence to issues outside of the program's core focus areas.
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Technical Activities Standing Committees
TRB's Technical Activities Division provides a forum for transportation professionals in all modes and functions to identify research needs and to share information on research and issues of interest. The Division's staff of specialists in each mode and discipline work with a network of volunteers to carry out activities on behalf of TRB sponsors and the transportation community, including the TRB Annual Meeting, conferences and workshops, publications, visits to each state, and responses to inquiries. This network includes members and friends of over 200 standing committees, supplemented by designated TRB representatives in each state, over 150 universities, and 35 transit agencies. |
Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2)
Congress established the SHRP 2 in 2006 to investigate the underlying causes of highway crashes and congestion in a short-term program of focused research. To carry out that investigation, SHRP 2 targets goals in four interrelated focus areas--Safety, Renewal, Reliability, and Capacity.
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Research in Progress in this Subject Area
TRB's Research in Progress (RiP) Database now contains more than 11,900 current or recently completed transportation research projects. Most of the RiP records are projects funded by federal and state departments of transportation. University transportation research is also included. The RiP Database also serves as a clearinghouse of University Transportation Centers ongoing research.
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Research Needs in this Subject Area
An important function of TRB is to stimulate research that addresses concerns, issues, or problems facing the transportation community. In support of this function, TRB Technical Activities standing committees identify, develop, and disseminate research need statements (RNS) for use by practitioners, researchers, and others.
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Research Completed in this Subject Area
TRB's TRID is 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. |
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