What's New in Law

The TRB 2021 Annual Meeting and TRB’s flagship journal, Transportation Research Record (TRR), invite research papers addressing Racial Inequity and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Paper submissions are due August 1, 2020. Racial Inequity Transportation can play a key role in addressing, as well as intensifying, the racial disparity that exists is in our society. We invite research that examines the tran...

As in many industries, transportation is facing significant challenges as a result of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Through the ongoing and rapidly changing phases of the pandemic, TRB is giving researchers, practitioners, and experts opportunities to share their insights with a wider audience through our webinars, Zoom meetings, blog articles, social media, and other platforms w...

Create or update your MyTRB profile  now if you will be a credited author of a paper submitted for presentation or for inclusion in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board . Having up-to-date profile information in the MyTRB system will ensure that you’ll have a smooth paper-submission process. If you are the designated corresponding author for a pa...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has issued a request for proposals to produce a legal research digest that includes lessons learned from transit agencies, sample provisions from third party contracts and intergovernmental agreements to address legal issues, links to transactional documents, Federal Transit Administration (FTA) guidance, instructive court or arbitration decisio...

The TRB Centennial Book is available for purchase in ebook or print format. In The Transportation Research Board, 1920–2020: Everyone Interested Is Invited , author Sarah Jo Peterson tells the story of how people and institutions created and have continued to shape TRB. In a compelling narrative accompanied by more than 150 images exploring the history of transportation and research, she argues...

In a video submitted in response to TRB's "Tell Us 'Our' Story" centennial activity, Michael Morris, Director of Transportation, North Central Texas Council of Governments notes that TRB's centennial is an opportunity to "celebrate the accomplishments of TRB...and help us understand where we should go and how we should get there in the next 100 years."  Thank you Michael! Michael's video i...

Thousands of Native American women and girls disappear or are killed each year. These women and girls vanish from tribal lands, rural communities, and cities with no official accounting. TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern that will explore the unique mobility patterns of Native Americans as they travel from rural tribal territories to urban c...

Utility companies are seeking to locate communications facilities and evolving wireless communication technology and its infrastructure in state right-of-way. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP LRD 81: Legal Issues Concerning the Use of Transportation Facilities to Generate Revenue for State DOTs summarizes and provides a legal analysis of the legal issues related to ...

TRB is committed to holding its 100th Annual Meeting in January 2021. We are closely monitoring the evolving situation related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and its potential impacts on the meeting. We are evaluating how to hold the meeting in a way that continues the important convening value and ensures the health and safety of everyone involved in the event, including whethe...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is hosting a virtual workshop on June 23, 2020, titled “COVID-19 and Black Communities.” To register for this event, please visit the registration page . To learn more information, including the agenda, please visit the web page . The workshop will also be recorded for those unable to join live. Members of the Roundtable on Black Me...

With all the news justifiably vying for your attention, has the 2020 United States Census flown under your radar? Searching National Academies Press or the Transportation Research Record (TRR) for reports that cite Census or ACS data yields thousands of results. “Census data is the basic building block for transportation analysis,” says Krishnan Viswanathan of Cambridge Systematics and a TRB vo...

Next steps for practitioners to take. Impacts on managed lanes. Security planning. Travel behavior and telework trends. Those are just a handful of the resources now available on the COVID-19 transportation resources website available from TRB and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

According to Dr. Susan Shaheen, Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering; and Co-Director, Transportation Sustainability Research Center, UC Berkeley, "Transportation is arguably experiencing its most transformative evolution since the introduction of the automobile. Concerns about climate change, the global pandemic, an economic recession, and social equity are converging with dramatic te...

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. Details on the Century Club and a link to contribute is available at https://...

TRB has been closely monitoring the evolving situation related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. The health and safety of our volunteers, sponsors, meeting guests, staff, and the greater community are of utmost importance to us. In light of the current situation, we have decided that the event cannot be held as scheduled. Any decision regarding whether to reschedule the event or t...

A video created as part of TRB’s Centennial celebration has been named the winner of three 2020 Telly Awards, which annually showcase the best work created within television and across all types of video production. The video, titled Your Future in Transportation , highlights the excitement, challenges, and fulfillment that those who select transportation as their career can expect to enjoy. Fo...

Slope failures pose serious risks for state transportation agencies and federal agencies that own or maintain roads, highways, and/or adjacent property. Many transportation agencies have adopted unstable slope management programs and standards as part of a larger effort to provide an efficient and effective methodology to prevent or control landslides or rockfalls. The TRB National Cooperative ...

According to Dr. Geraldine Knatz, Professor of the Practice of Policy and Engineering, University of Southern California, "100 Years from now at TRB's 200th year anniversary, people will look back and wonder about the vehicles people own and think "how inefficient." Single owner vehicles will be replaced by a transportation system that will be fast, efficient, clean, accessible to all and on-de...

The TRB Technical Activities Division’s Standing Committee on Public Involvement in Transportation is holding its 14th annual John and Jane Q. Public Communications Contest. TRB seeks best practices in successfully communicating with John and Jane Q. Public during disruptive, crisis situations that affect the transportation industry. The John and Jane Q. Public Communications contest recog...

Dear Transportation Colleagues, Like many of you, I am deeply troubled and heartbroken by the brutal killing of George Floyd by police officers who were sworn to protect the lives of their fellow citizens. His death has sparked protests and demonstrations across the nation and the world. I relate to and empathize with the hundreds of thousands of people who are protesting peacefully about endu...

A new Hot Topics related to social equity is featured on the TRID home page . Hot Topics are preconfigured searches that will always bring back the latest publications and projects indexed in TRID. You can copy the Social Equity Hot Topic link to an email or embed them on a web site or anywhere else. Other Hot Topics are available at https://trid.trb.org/Topics . Recent additions include inform...

The TRB 100th Annual Meeting is scheduled for January 24 to 28, 2021, in Washington, D.C. The paper submission site is now open starting and all are due August 1, 2020.

According to Dr. Xiaohua Lou, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ingram School of Engineering, Texas State University "I hope 100 years later, TRB will be the most popular academic conference in the world. The researchers can not only come to Washington DC to attend the meeting, but they can also use the new technology to virtually attend this meeting. The conference will be 100 times bigger tha...

Sixty percent of the transit-industry practitioners surveyed as part of a recent TRB synthesis report rated their transit agency’s efforts to address their major security challenges as somewhat or very successful. In an effort to improve these practices, a majority of agency responders have made major changes to employee training, technology, customer outreach/education, and security staffing i...

Missy Rudin-Brown, Manager, Human Factors and Macro Analysis, Transportation Safety Board of Canada says, "I have conducted research in transportation safety and been investigating transportation occurrences for over 20 years. My work has contributed to road safety policy and practice, and to safety improvements in all modes. I hope that, in future, I can have a positive impact on the world by ...

TRB's “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story" challenge is now looking into the future. What is your vision for the Transportation Research Board 100 years from now? What are solutions that you have identified as a result of research you learned about through TRB? How have you or your team been the “hero” at work as a result of TRB? TRB welcomes all stories: small or large, profound or light-hearted, sobering or...

TRB is committed to holding its 100th Annual Meeting in January 2021. We are closely monitoring the evolving situation related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and its potential impacts on the meeting. We are evaluating how to hold the meeting in a way that ensures the health and safety of everyone involved in the event, including whether some or all of the meeting will be held vi...

International cooperation in transport research mandates developing research governance and institutional structures that facilitate seamless creation and sharing of knowledge, technologies and innovations. Effective collaboration on international research, however, suffers from procedural barriers, shortages of research funding and disparities in research governance. The TRB Standing Technica...

According to Hongtao Dang, Assistant Professor, Central Washington University "I hope to make an impact on intelligent transportation and smart infrastructure through the internet of things and data analytics. The emerging 5G technology will transform transportation worldwide. The transformation will take a collective endeavor. I wish to contribute my effort through research activities. Also, ...

Full paper submissions for the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting will be open starting June 1, 2020. Please consult the submission guidelines before preparing your paper. The deadline for paper submission is August 1, and committee review comments will go to authors by October 31. Authors submitting for both presentation and publication in the Transportation Research Record (TRR) will be given the opport...