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Individuals or organizations wishing to be recognized as a Century Club or Century Patron contributor in the TRB history book, Transportation Research Board 1920–2020: Everyone Interested Is Invited must make their contributions by September 30, 2019. TRB’s history book will be made available to all full registrant attendees and your contribution recognition will be a lasting testimonial to you...

Global business and tourism depend heavily on the efficient operation of airports and movement of passengers, baggage, and cargo across many areas. With increasing demand and connectivity requirements for airports comes the need for more sophisticated simulation and modeling tools to validate design assumptions. Furthermore, airport design and planning decisions have significant impacts on poli...

The Sharon D. Banks Award is a biennial award established in the memory of Sharon Banks, who chaired the TRB Executive Committee in 1998. She passed away in 1999. The award recognizes innovative and successful leadership in people-oriented initiatives in transportation, sustained over an extended period of time, that exemplify Banks’ ideals of humanity and service. The Award will be presented d...

TRB officially turns 100 on November 11, 2020. To help celebrate, TRB is asking you to “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story.” The TRB “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story centennial activity is designed to allow as many of you (TRB’s volunteers and friends) as possible to participate in the TRB Centennial Celebration through the submission of your stories. The “Tell Us ‘Our” Story” Centennial activity consists of a series of ...

The TRB “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story centennial activity is designed to allow as many of you (TRB’s volunteers and friends) as possible to participate in the TRB Centennial Celebration through the submission of your stories. The “Tell Us ‘Our” Story” Centennial activity consists of a series of monthly questions that will help capture your stories. Here are some of the responses from our question in Au...

TRB turns 100 on November 11, 2020. You are invited to join your colleagues listed below who have contributed to the TRB Century Club to support activities that will mark the anniversary; promote the value of transportation research; and celebrate the achievements of TRB’s volunteers, sponsors, affiliates, and staff. Contributions made before September 30, 2019, will be recognized in TRB's 100 ...

Register and make hotel reservations today for the TRB 99th Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2020, in Washington, D.C. Registration is required for all Annual Meeting attendees, including session speakers, poster presenters, and those who attend the exhibit hall, career fair, or any workshops. As part of TRB's Centennial Celebration, all full registrants at the 99th Annual Meeting will be eligib...

Early interstate construction in the 1950s led to widespread protests across the United States. The reasons for these protests are examined in Freeway Revolts , a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. This report also relates the historical context of these revolts to potential policies that may improve public perception of highways.

Act now to secure your exhibit space at the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2020, in Washington, D.C. All indications are that attendance at the meeting will be the largest ever. Don't miss this opportunity to demonstrate your organization's support for transportation research and innovation, and to showcase your products and services to more than 13,000 transportation professionals. So...

TRB turns 100 on November 11, 2020. Your organization is invited to join the entities listed below that have contributed to the TRB Century Patron program to support activities that will mark the anniversary; promote the value of transportation research; and celebrate the achievements of TRB’s volunteers, sponsors, affiliates, and staff. Contributions made before September 30, 2019, will be rec...

More than 6,400 papers have been submitted to be considered by TRB for acceptance as part of the 2020 TRB 99th Annual Meeting  program. This amount is several hundred more than in any previous year. The 2020 TRB 99th Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2020, in Washington, D.C., covers all transportation modes, with more than 13,000 transportation professionals from around the world expected to...

Titles, dates, times, and brief descriptions are now available for the 100+ specialty workshops at the TRB 99th Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2020, in Washington, D.C. Annual Meeting registration is required for all workshop attendees. Mark your calendar now and plan to attend. Meeting registration and hotel reservations will be available through the TRB Registration and Housing Bureau in earl...

The Virginia Department of Transportation has released a report that identifies various issues that may affect historic roads. Historic roads are eligible for or listed on the National Register of Historic Places and may require special planning, design, and management considerations for preservation.

TRB’s Technical Activities Division has released Transportation Research Circular E-C245: Transportation Oral History: State of the Practice and a Path Forward that highlights the availability of more than 1,000 transportation oral histories and includes a proposal for the creation of a guidebook that transportation organizations could use to create their own oral histories. The circular also e...

Attention state departments of transportation! TRB is aware that some TRB sponsors have not been receiving notifications for webinar announcements, the e-newsletter, and other forms of communication. Please ensure that your IT departments are regularly whitelisting the following domains: service.govdelivery.com govdelivery.com gotowebinar.com This must be done manually to avoid emails sent from...

The TRB community extends condolences to the family and friends of Mr. Joseph Boardman who served as Chair of the TRB Executive Committee in 2005. Mr. Boardman passed away on Thursday, March 7, 2019, at the age of 70.  “Joe was a tireless advocate for improved transportation, and particularly for rail as an efficient and effective way to move both people and freight,” said Neil Pedersen, T...

Mark your calendar for future TRB Annual Meetings. Full information of meeting dates through 2029 are now available. Please note that the dates for the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting are later than usual to avoid conflict with the setup for the presidential inauguration. Upcoming dates include: January 12–16, 2020 January 31–February 4, 2021 January 9–13, 2022 The TRB Annual Meeting takes place at the...

The Institute for Transportation Engineers (ITE) has released its latest ITE Talks Transportation Podcast featuring Neil Pedersen, Executive Director of TRB, to discuss the Critical Issues in Transportation recently released by TRB. The discussion covers significant updates from the 2013 edition of the report, which includes an added emphasis on technology, safety, and public health. Pedersen a...

TRB has released Critical Issues in Transportation 2019 . In this report, which is updated periodically by the TRB Executive Committee, a series of challenging questions are posed to explore issues and opportunities that may arise 10 to 20 years into the future. These questions, 63 in all, have been organized into 12 topic areas and provide a way to frame future areas of research, policy analys...

Visit the TRB Annual Meeting Online (AMOnline) to locate papers, presentation slides, and posters from the 2017, 2018, and 2019 TRB Annual Meetings. This portal allows users to find all available papers and visual aids by session, presentation or paper number, author, subject area, and more. TRB is not providing the Compendium of Papers in advance of the meeting. Please use this online resource...

Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) is hosting an event on January 9, 2019 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM with TRB Executive Director, Neil Pedersen, and TRB staff officers who will describe ways to effectively navigate the TRB Annual Meeting. Register in advance. The event will take place at the Keck Center of the National Academies, 500 Fifth Street NW, Washington, D.C. 

TRB is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) and follows the NASEM guidelines in preventing discrimination, harassment, and bullying of participants at NASEM events, including TRB meetings and conferences. We encourage you to review this statement, as we strive to maintain a professional and cordial environment for anyone associated with TRB activities.

The next TRB E-Newsletter will be sent on January 2, 2019.

TRB is about $3,000 away from meeting its goal of securing $20,000 by Giving Tuesday, November 27.  Funding raised will be used to help support various activities being developed to commemorate TRB's centennial--November 11, 2020. Contributing to the Century Club ensures that you are linked with TRB forever through the inclusion of your name in the TRB 100 Year History book that will be av...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) latest Impacts on Practice explores the impact ACRP Synthesis 39 : Airport Wildlife Population Management has had on integrated wildlife management plans at airports. A wildlife biologist at Orlando International Airport utilized this report to develop a holistic approach to mitigating bird strikes with a specific species of heron that thrives i...

TRB turns 100 on November 11, 2020. To commemorate this milestone, TRB has a yearlong celebration planned that will begin in January 2020 to recognize and honor the extraordinary record of achievements accomplished by TRB’s volunteers, sponsors, affiliates, friends, and staff. Please support TRB's upcoming centennial anniversary activities by contributing to the Century Club (individuals) or Ce...

Raquelle (Kelly) Myers, staff attorney with the National Indian Justice Center (NIJC), is a featured volunteer in the TR News . Ms. Myers’ areas of interest are federal Indian law, family law, and tribal transportation programs. At NIJC, she aids the organization’s mission to improve the justice systems, health, and welfare in tribal communities, focusing on tribal transportation issues. While ...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 515: Practices for Preventing Roadway Departures identifies and summarizes practices being used by state departments of transportation (DOTs) to prevent roadway departure crashes and to identify the data-driven advantages and disadvantages of these practices. More than half of all traffic fatalities result from roadway depart...

TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board has released more than 200 papers from the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting. Enhancements to the journal include:  Articles published much closer to final acceptance A new user interface for the journal Article-level metrics  Full-text HTML to enhance discovery of the research Interactive proof markup for author...

The TRB community extends condolences to the family and friends of Dr. Anthony "Tony" Kane, who passed away on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. Dr. Kane served as an ex officio member of the TRB Executive Committee and was an active volunteer with TRB since 1977. “Tony Kane is someone whose professionalism, friendship, and passion, especially for safety, we all admired and benefited from." states Neil Pe...