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Highway 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 highways. In addition, it includes links to selected highway 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 highway-related programs and activities, which are the source of most of TRB’s highway-related research products. |
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TRB Highway-Related Programs and Activities
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Public Roads: May/June 2014July 25, 2014 The U.S. Federal Highway Administration's has released the latest edition of its Public Roads magazine. The magazine highlights developments in federal highway policies, programs, and research and technology. |
 Permanent Signs Mounted on Median BarriersJuly 24, 2014 TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 465: Permanent Signs Mounted on Median Barriers reports on the current state of practice for mounting permanent highway signs on top of rigid median barriers throughout the United States. |
 2015 TRB 94th Annual Meeting and Transportation Research Record: Paper Submissions Due August 1, 2014July 24, 2014 TRB is accepting papers for consideration as part of the program for the TRB 94th Annual Meeting , January 11-15, 2015, in Washington, D.C., and for publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR). The spotlight theme for the 2015 TRB Annual Meeting is Corridors to the Future: Transportation and Technology. Spotlight sessions, workshops, and... |
RFP: IDEA Program Announcement 2014: Funding Proposals Now Being Accepted July 23, 2014 TRB’s Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) annual program announcement solicits funding proposals for the upcoming review cycles. The announcement explains the IDEA programs, describes the types of eligible projects and their funding structures, suggests general areas for which IDEA proposals can be submitted, and provides guidelines and forms for submitting proposals. NCHRP ... |
 2015 TRB 94th Annual Meeting: Plan Now to Exhibit at Our New VenueJuly 22, 2014 On July 24, 2014, all businesses and organizations will have the opportunity to register for exhibit space to showcase their products and services to nearly 12,000 transportation professionals in attendance at the TRB 94th Annual Meeting, January 11-15, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The meeting, to be held at a new venue, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, will provide new benefits to exhi... |
Rural Connections: Challenges and Opportunities in America’s Heartland: 2014July 18, 2014 TRIP, a national transportation research group, has released a report that explores the condition, use, and safety of the nation’s rural transportation system, particularly its roads, highways, and bridges, in order to help identify areas where improvements to America’s rural transportation system may be needed. |
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 TR News January-February 2014: ABCs of Bridge RenewalJuly 18, 2014 The full PDF version of the January-February issue is now available. This issue of the TR News focuses on the effects the boom in the domestic energy industry is having on low-volume roadways in Texas; practical findings from a 26-state pooled-fund study on winter maintenance challenges; the mega-project under way to replace the Gerald Desmond Bridge in the Port of Long Beach, California;... |
Symposium Celebrating 50 Years of Traffic Flow Theory*July 17, 2014 TRB is cosponsoring the Symposium Celebrating 50 Years of Traffic Flow Theory on August 11-13, 2014, in Portland, Oregon. The symposium will highlight the influence of the “fundamental diagram” on current practice, explore potential future developments, and examine real-time measurements of traffic performance. |
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Synthesis of Information Related to Highway Problems
TRB's Synthesis of Information Related to Highway Problems searches out and synthesizes useful knowledge from all available sources and prepares concise, documented reports on specific topics. Reports from this endeavor constitute an National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) report series, Synthesis of Highway Practice.
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Highway Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program
TRB's Highway Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program is designed to provide an opportunity to investigate new and unproven concepts or to evaluate novel applications of technologies that have been tried, tested or used for highway systems practice.
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Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program
TRB's Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program searches out and synthesizes useful knowledge from all available sources and prepares concise, documented reports on specific topics. Reports from this endeavor constitute an Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (CTBSSP) report series, Synthesis of Commerical Truck and Bus Safety Practice. |
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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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