The May-June 2017 edition of the TR News explores the role of transportation in economic development. Articles feature information about benefit-cost analysis, freight production models, transportation satellite accounts, and right sizing strategies. The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transpo...

TRB has released its requirements for submitting papers for presentation at the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting and/or publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board . This guide covers the organization and formatting of manuscripts for peer review and for publication, as well as instructions for submission. Papers that do not follow the guidelines will ...

A featured article in the March-April 2017 issue of the TR News highlights photos from the 96th TRB Annual Meeting, January 8-12, 2017. The article features photographs of sessions, workshops, committee meetings, and awards. Bruce M. Smith, Apperson Crump PLC, and General Counsel, Memphis Area Transit Authority, delivered the delivered the 2017 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture on “Ethical I...

A featured article in the March-April 2017 issue of the TR News highlights photos from the 96th TRB Annual Meeting, January 8-12, 2017. The article features photographs of sessions, workshops, committee meetings, and awards. Bruce M. Smith, Apperson Crump PLC, and General Counsel, Memphis Area Transit Authority, delivered the delivered the 2017 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture on “Ethical I...

TRB's National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Research Report 37: Using Commodity Flow Survey Microdata and Other Establishment Data to Estimate the Generation of Freight, Freight Trips, and Service Trips: Guidebook provides policy makers with improved establishment-level models that estimate the Freight Trip Generation (FTG), the number of vehicle trips produced and attracted at ...

A featured article in the November-December 2016 issue of the TR News highlights the challenges of freight transportation with regards to meeting new emissions standards. The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation. It also includes brief news items of interest to the transportation com...

A featured article in the March-April 2016 issue of the TR News highlights photos from the 95th TRB Annual Meeting, January 10-14, 2016. The article features photographs of sessions, workshops, committee meetings, and awards. Dr. Hani Mahmassani, William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation and professor, Northwestern University, and Director, Northwestern University Transportatio...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 823: Guidelines for Certification and Management of Flexible Rockfall Protection Systems provides advice on rockfall fence systems for transportation agencies. It also outlines data that are needed to evaluate the results of rockfall fence systems tested using the procedure recommended for acceptance. Finally, the report present...

The June-July-August 2015 TR News featured search tips to navigate the TRID database . TRID holds more than 1.09 million records of published research covering all modes of transportation. More than 156,000 records contain links to full-text documents. TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from the Transportation Research Information Services and the Joint Transport Rese...

The full edition of the June-July-August 2015 TR News is now available. This edition explore the effects of the changing world energy market on the transportation industry, with deliveries of coal declining, natural gas use on the increase, and oil shipments from North American locations rising to challenge overseas sources. Authors examine the changing energy market by energy source, the ...

TRB E-Circular 201: Linking the Past to the Future: Lessons from History About Emerging Technology explores the presentations made at a one-day, invitational workshop that took place on June 13, 2014 and was hosted by the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (JPO) of the U.S. Department of Transportation and the History Committee of the Transportation Research Board. The work...

The full PDF of TRNews 297 is now available. This edition covers TRB’s 94th Annual Meeting, which featured U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony J. Foxx, more than 3,500 research papers, major professional awards, committee meetings, an active exhibit hall, and more. This Annual Meeting also achieved recordbreaking attendance at a new and more capacious venue. This edition of the TR News als...

The feature article in the June-July-August 2015 edition of the TR News explores the critical role of Gulf of Mexico ports and terminals for production and exploration of U.S. energy. While petroleum dominates the region’s energy sector, other industries like natural gas and coal, as well as renewable energy sources are beginning to take hold in the region. The TR News ...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) latest Impacts on Practice explores how NCHRP’s Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) program has helped finance promising but unproven ideas in transportation engineering.

The latest edition of Research Pays Off explores a data analytics tool developed by the Florida Department of Transportation that combines archived intelligent transportation systems (ITS) data collected at the state’s regional transportation management centers (TMCs) with data from other sources to inform transportation planning and operation decisions. With traffic analysis, simulation modeli...

TR News 297 includes a feature article that provides highlights of the 94th TRB Annual Meeting, January 11-15, 2015. The article features photographs of sessions, workshops, committee meetings, and awards. The article provides a highlight of Daniel Sperling, Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy, University of California (UC), Davis, as the 2015 Chair of the TRB Ex...

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has released a document that summarizes a forum of distinguished speakers who considered engineering achievements of the last 50 years and looked toward the potential achievements of the next 50 years. The forum was part of the NAE’s annual meeting on September 28-29, 2014, and in celebration of the 50th anniversary of its founding. According to speaker...

The feature article in the September – October 2014 edition of the TR News explores lands that are defined by federal law as Indian Country and that are home to the cultures, traditions, and governments of Indian communities. The article provides an overview of the political and legal history of these lands, and explores the transportation initiatives on these lands. The TR News is TRB's bimont...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) S2-C06-RW-4: Manager’s Guide to the Integrated Ecological Framework is designed to provide a basic understanding of the Integrated Ecological Framework (IEF), a nine-step process for integrating ecological and transportation planning. It presents information about the relevant stakeholders and types of expertise needed to help ensure...

TRB’s Executive Committee periodically identifies a set of critical issues in transportation to focus attention on their likely impact on the nation’s economy and quality of life. The discussion of the critical issues identified in this document is intended to facilitate debate and to encourage research leading to their resolution. Previous editions of Critical Issues in Transportation have hig...

TRB’s Transportation Research Circular E-C178: Exploring New Directions for the National Household Travel Survey summarizes input on the design of the next National Household Travel Survey from the database’s user community.

The 50th anniversary of TRB’s magazine provides an occasion to look back at recent highlights and emerging themes, including climate change, the environment, security, technology applications, international research collaboration, lessons from transportation history, and more. TRB history buffs might also like to look back at article that marked the 40th anniverary of the magazine that was publ...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 723: A Model for Identifying and Evaluating the Historic Significance of Post-World War II Housing provides an approach to the identification and evaluation of postwar housing resources that can be used within the framework of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportat...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 189: Design and Management of Historic Roads explores how the inherent flexibility in the current policies, manuals, criteria, rules, standards, and data sets that underlie the transportation planning and project development process may be used to preserve historic roads and roads in historic districts and settings.

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report: S2-L01-RR-1: Integrating Business Processes to Improve Travel Time Reliability addresses various ways that transportation agencies can reengineer their day-to-day business practices to help improve traffic operations, address nonrecurring traffic congestion, and improve the reliability of travel times delivered to roadway system u...

A featured article in the November-December 2010 issue of the TR News by Robert E. Skinner, Jr., TRB’s executive director, reflects on the organization’s resiliency and adaptability during its 90-year history and offers insights on what lies ahead in the next decade, identifying the fundamentals that have held true in the past and are likely to hold true in the future. The article is part of TR...

The Committee on National Statistics, part of the National Academies’ Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE) has released a report that examines several aspects of census planning, including questionnaire design, address updating, non-response follow-up, coverage follow-up, de-duplication of housing units and residents, editing and imputation procedures, and several o...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2150 includes 15 papers that explore performance-based road maintenance contracts, equipment replacement at state departments of transportation, optimal timing and preventive maintenance of pavements, pavement preservation, and thin surface treatments for bituminous pavements. This issue of the TRR also exam...

A featured article in the January-February 2010 TR News explores the mutually beneficial relationship between public transit via streetcars and professional baseball that began in the late 1800s.