TRB and the International Transport Forum (ITF) will further develop the longstanding cooperation between the two organizations. On January 14, 2019 during TRB’s 98th Annual Meeting, ITF Secretary-General Young Tae Kim and Neil Pedersen, Executive Director of TRB, highlighted the successful co-operation in past years and emphasized their joint intention to further enhance the existing collaboration in mutually beneficial and pragmatic ways. The ITF has been participating, and contributing to, TRB confere...

As many as 42 papers are now available in an online-first format for TRB’s Transportation Research Record (TRR): Journal of the Transportation Research Board . A total of 97 papers have been processed and sent to authors. Browse all online first papers on the TRR Online website.

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has released a request for proposals to identify the cognitive tasks and required abilities used in airside operations and describe the demands that may limit or complicate situational awareness, thus increasing risk of runway incursions. The proposal should also determine technologies and processes that may improve situational awareness for airport employees and others working on the airside. Proposals are due March 5, 2019.

TRB will conduct a webinar on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that will discuss strategies for bottleneck identification, diagnosis, and mitigation. Traffic bottlenecks in the United States are worsening, and states must manage their bottleneck problems with minimal funding. Therefore, it is necessary to demonstrate a return on investment regarding bottleneck mitigation strategies. The presenter will identify how bottleneck intensity and frequency can be precisely determined in ways...

TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Synthesis Report 529 : How Transportation Agencies Assess the Value of Added Capacity Highway Projects Versus Other Modal Projects and Strategies. This webinar will discuss how state departments of transportation (DOTs) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) assess the benefits and costs of adding highway capacity versus other...

TRB is seeking potential synthesis study topics as part of the upcoming activities of the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP). The deadline for the upcoming submission cycle is March 15, 2019. All proposed new topics must be submitted online through the TRB Synthesis website . Ideas submitted for study topics form the basis for selection of the annual Synthesis Program. Topics are selected by a project panel that meets once a year. The TCRP project panel members perform a preliminary screening an...

TRB is seeking potential synthesis study topics as part of the upcoming activities of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP). Topics may be submitted at any time; however, the deadline for the upcoming submission cycle is February 19, 2019. All proposed new topics must be submitted online through the TRB Synthesis Website . Synthesis studies document current practice for specific highway topics. The primary users of the reports are the practitioners who work in these areas using divers...

TRB will conduct a webinar on Tuesday, February 12, 2019 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)’s Research Report 200 : Contracting Commuter Rail Services, Volume 2: Commuter Rail System Profiles. This webinar will provide an introduction to the guidebook in Volume 1 and an overview of the commuter rail systems in North America profiled in Volume 2. The presenters will discuss the various approaches that exist for providing commuter rail. Th...

TRB will hold a public webinar on Thursday, January 24, 2019 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. to present a summary of the 2018 report, Research to Improve Estimates of Impacts of Changes in Truck Size and Weight Regulations . The report was prepared by the Truck Size and Weight Limits Research Plan Committee, Transportation Research Board, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in response to a request of the Federal Highway Administration for a study to develop a research roadmap to address gap...

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 as your cloud access to three years of TRB abstracts, papers, and visual aids. All employees of year-round TRB ...