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Hydraulics and Hydrology 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 hydraulics and hydrology. In addition, it includes links to selected hydraulics and hydrology 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 hydraulics and hydrology-related research products. |
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TRB Hydraulics and Hydrology-Related Programs and Activities
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 2013 TRB 92nd Annual Meeting and Transportation Research Record Call for PapersMay 18, 2012 TRB standing committees have issued calls for papers for the TRB 92nd Annual Meeting, January 13-17, 2013, in Washington, D.C, and the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR). While papers addressing any relevant aspect of transportation research will be considered, some committees are soliciting papers in specific subject areas to help potential... |
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 Hydraulic Design of Highway Culverts, Third EditionApril 23, 2012 The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that provides information for the planning and hydraulic design of culverts. The publication updates Hydraulic Design Series Number 5 and adds new information on software solutions, aquatic organism passage, culvert assessment, and culvert repair and rehabilitation. |
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 A National Authority on RoundaboutsApril 17, 2012 Roundabouts have seen unprecedented growth across the United States, from just a handful a decade ago to more than 2,000 and counting. National guidance had to keep pace with the needs of states and communities planning and implementing roundabouts, and NCHRP took a lead role. |
 Better, Safer Bridges For When the Earth ShakesApril 9, 2012 In regions across the nation, bridge engineers know that the next major seismic event is coming—maybe tomorrow, maybe centuries from now. DOTs have the critical charge of designing for earthquakes and protecting the lives of travelers. |
 Highway Design 2011February 27, 2012 TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2262 contains 23 papers that explore spacing between freeway ramps, three-dimensional alignment, sight distance, design consistency for two-lane highways, passing process on two-lane rural highways, reduced-conflict intersections, operational interactions between freeway managed lanes and parallel, general p... |
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 Global Change and Extreme Hydrology: Testing Conventional WisdomSeptember 6, 2011 The Water Science and Technology Board, part of the National Academies’ Division on Earth and Life Studies (DELS), has released a report based on the proceedings of a workshop that examines whether floods and droughts are becoming more prominent in the United States, how they are changing at the regional scale, and what is known about global climate’s influence on these changes. This report pre... |
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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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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. |
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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