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. Century Patron contribution levels begin at $3,000 for organizations with fewer than 30 employees and $5,000 for larger organizations. Additional information on the Cent...

TRB is accepting papers for consideration as part of the program for the 99th TRB Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2020, in Washington, D.C., and/or for publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR). All papers for presentation at the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting must be submitted to TRB’s paper submission website by August 1, 2019. Please be sure to consult the Instructions for Authors before submitting your paper. The spotlight theme for the 2020 meeting...

TRB is sponsoring the Environment and Energy Section Summer Conference in July 12-15, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. The meeting will explore transportation issues related to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), air quality, ecology, noise, resource conservation and recovery, energy and alternative fuels and technologies.

TRB released a series of recordings in June 2019 that explores how cities may strategically manage the final 50 feet of the urban goods delivery system. After a brief introduction, the presenters will identify key findings on commercial vehicles loading and unloading at curbs and alleys in dense urban areas. They will also discuss research outcomes for the final 50 feet and how this research is being used to inform new developments.  This series was organized by the TRB Standing Committee on Ur...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) is soliciting nominations for members of panels that will oversee individual TCRP Synthesis research projects as part of its fiscal year 2019 activities. Nominees should have expertise directly relevant to the issues being addressed by the project, and applicants can nominate themselves. Please be aware that attendance to the meetings is mandatory. Meeting dates can be found in the tentative scope of work by following the links below.. The nomination of w...

TRB will conduct a webinar on Thursday, July 11, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 184 and Web-Only Document 44 : Understanding FAA Grant Assurance Obligations. More than 3,000 airports in the United States have, at one time or another, received an Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grant from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fund airport planning or development. Each AIP grant currently issued by t...

TRB is sponsoring the 8th International Conference on Innovations in Travel Modeling (ITM) on June 14-20, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. The conference explores current models and modeling research. Participants will explore the integration of social, land-use, transportation supply and technology into the model process. The conference addresses how the industry can respond to the rapidly changing transportation environment given socio-demographic shifts in travel preferences and the integration of new mod...

TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)’s Research Report 204 : Partnerships Between Transit Agencies and Transportation Network Companies (TNCs). This research is designed to help transit agencies that have decided to pursue partnerships with one or more TNCs. This report draws from twenty case study partnerships explored or implemented by early 2018 in order to provide information on w...

TRB will conduct a webinar on Tuesday, July 16, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET to highlight key presentations from the April workshop entitled Innovations in Freight Data . Presenters will discuss the latest applications of emerging data sources and data fusion methods. They will identify freight data tools that are adaptable, flexible, user-friendly, and preserve proprietary data, or that are developed with open source technology. Presenters will also describe transferable methods of data collection, ...

TRB will conduct a webinar on Monday, July 8, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that discusses visualization in transportation decision-making, operations, and safety. In the transportation industry, visualization is a way to build consensus and monitor the progress of initiatives. Properly utilizing visualization techniques may bring clarity to complex data sets and improve communication between technical experts and policymakers. The presenters will discuss ways that visualization may enhance transporta...