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TRB Executive Director Robert Skinner Featured in YPT Mentor Interview Series |
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The Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT), an organization that provides professional development, fellowship, and networking opportunities for young transportation professionals throughout the United States, has featured TRB Executive Director Robert E. Skinner, Jr. in its YPT Mentor Interview Series. Mr. Skinner discusses his position as... |
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Video on Developing an ACRP Problem Statement |
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TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program has released a video that provides an overview of the step-by-step process of submitting an ACRP problem statement. The video also includes tips on writing a successful ACRP problem statement. Problem statements are used to identify potential research needs and form the basis for selection of the ... |
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TRB Webinar: New Strategies for Managing Complex Projects (R10) |
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As part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays Webinar Series, TRB will conduct a webinar on May 7, 2013, from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET to explore the five-dimensional approach that was developed by the second Strategic Highway Research Program 2 (SHRP 2) Renewal Project R10 to help manage complex transportation projects from planning through the construction... |
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TRB Webinar: Improving the Quality of Pavement Management Data |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on May 8, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will explore strategies for improving the quality of pavement management data and techniques for evaluating a pavement program’s overall data quality. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. A certificate for... |
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TRB Webinar: Airport Organization and Workforce Development |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on May 30, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will feature research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) about challenges airport administrators face that are associated with the changing needs of the aviation industry. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is no... |
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Freeway and Managed Lane Operations Meeting and Conference |
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TRB is sponsoring the Freeway and Managed Lane Operations Meeting and Conference on June 23-26, 2013, in Atlanta, Georgia. The workshop will address the state of the practice in freeway operations and the integration of managed lanes into the transportation system. Sessions at the workshop will focus on transportation agency experiences and... |
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Eighth Annual Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Safety Symposium and Workshop |
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TRB's second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) will hold its Eighth Annual Safety Research Symposium on July 11, 2013, and a Safety Research Workshop on July 12, 2013. The concomitant events will take place in Washington, D.C. The symposium is designed to provide updates on SHRP 2 safety projects and to serve as a forum for the... |
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2013 Summer Meeting and Conference of the Freight, Marine, and Planning Committees |
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The 2013 Summer Meeting and Conference of TRB’s Freight, Marine, and Planning Committees will be July 17-19, 2013, in Washington, D.C. The conference will address freight mobility challenges and research needs through a blend of traditional mid-year business meetings of the standing committees with plenary and focus sessions addressing topics... |
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Railroad Operational Safety Committee Midyear Themed Meeting The Future Locomotive: How to Manage What You Have Today With a View to the Future |
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TRB is sponsoring the Railroad Operational Safety Committee Midyear Themed Meeting The Future Locomotive: How to Manage What You Have Today With a View to the Future on July 30-31, 2013, in Omaha, Nebraska. The committee meeting and conference will address engine cab design in terms of human interface theory and railroad applications. The meeting... |
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RFI: Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues Announcement: 2013/2014 |
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TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program is accepting applications for its Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues for the 2013/2014 academic year. The program, sponsored by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and administered by ACRP, is designed to encourage applied research on airport and related aviation... |
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RFP: Benefit-Cost Methodologies for Evaluating Multimodal Freight Corridor Investments |
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TRB National Cooperative Freight Research Program has issued a request for proposals to develop a guidebook for practitioners for conducting benefit-cost analyses of proposed infrastructure investments on multimodal, multi-jurisdictional freight corridors to inform public and private decision makers and other stakeholders at local, state,... |
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RFP: Research Support for the AASHTO Special Committee on Transportation Security and Emergency Management (SCOTSEM) |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to produce three products to be considered for use by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Special Committee on Transportation Security and Emergency Management. The products to be produced include the... |
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Effectiveness of Different Approaches to Disseminating Traveler Information on Travel Time Reliability |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Reliability Project L14 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled Effectiveness of Different Approaches to Disseminating Traveler Information on Travel Time Reliability that provides recommendations on appropriate ways to introduce and provide travel time... |
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A Lexicon for Conveying Travel Time Reliability Information |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Reliability Project L14 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled A Lexicon for Conveying Travel Time Reliability Information that includes a glossary of terms designed to convey travel time reliability information to travelers so that such... |
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SmartGAP User’s Guide |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Capacity Project C16 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of the SmartGAP User’s Guide. SmartGAP is a scenario planning software tool that synthesizes households and firms in a region and determines their travel demand characteristics based on their built environment and... |
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Airport Wildlife Population Management |
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TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 39: Airport Wildlife Population Management provides direct wildlife population control techniques for reducing wildlife collisions with aircraft. In addition, the report summarizes the ecological foundation of wildlife population control and management. ACRP Synthesis 39 is... |
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Using Pictograms to Make Transit Easier to Navigate for Customers with Communication Barriers |
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TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 59: Using Pictograms to Make Transit Easier to Navigate for Customers with Communication Barriers explores whether pictograms–picture-based communication tools that use illustrations with few or no words–can be effective in communicating emergency information and behavioral... |
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Using Census Data for Transportation Applications |
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TRB Conference Proceedings on the Web 10: Using Census Data for Transportation Applications summaries an October 2011 conference that focused on the critical role of census data in a wide range of transportation planning applications. |
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TRB Security, Emergency Management, and Infrastructure Protection Research Status Report |
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Since September 11, 2001, 145 security-, emergency management-, and infrastructure protection-related planning and implementation projects have been initiated through programs managed by the Transportation Research Board (TRB). One hundred eleven of these projects have been completed; 24 projects are in progress; and 10 projects have contracts... |
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Transportation Security: A Summary of Transportation Research Board Activities |
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A slideshow summary of the Transportation Research Board's pre- and post-September 11, 2001, transportation security activities is updated monthly. |
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2011 Bicyclists & Other Cyclists Traffic Safety Fact Sheet |
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The U.S. National Traffic Safety Highway Administration has released a fact sheet that details the numbers of cyclists killed and injured in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2011. |
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2011 Young Drivers Traffic Safety Fact Sheet |
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The U.S. National Traffic Safety Highway Administration has released a fact sheet that details the numbers of 15- to 20-year-old drivers who were killed and injured in motor vehicle crashes in 2011. |
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Innovator: March/April 2013 |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released the latest issue of its Innovator newsletter, which is designed to help advance widespread implementation of innovations and technologies in the highway community and help chronicle a nationwide movement to improve the way highways are built. |
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Review of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Oversight of ARRA Airport Grant Payments |
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General has released a report that evaluates whether the Federal Aviation Administration’s oversight of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grantees was sufficient to prevent or detect improper payments and ensured that funds adhered to ARRA requirements. |
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Review of the Federal Railroad Administration’s Oversight of the Rail Safety Improvement Act |
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General has released a report that assesses the Federal Railroad Administration’s progress in complying with the new Rail Safety Improvement Act-required rules. |
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Developing a Network-Level Structural Capacity Index for Structural Evaluation of Pavements |
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The Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research has released a report that develops a structural index for network-level pavement evaluation as a way to use the pavement’s structural condition in pavement management applications. |
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Developing Safety Performance Measures for Roundabout Applications in the State of Oregon |
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The Oregon State Department of Transportation has released a report that documents efforts to quantify the safety performance functions of roundabouts in order to evaluate the safety performance of single-lane, four-leg roundabouts. |
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End Region Detailing of Pretensioned Concrete Bridge Girders |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that discusses research programs that evaluate and quantify the effects of serviceability, behavior, and capacity of pretensioned concrete girders in different end region detailing schemes. |
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Performance Analysis of Centerline and Shoulder Rumble Strips Installed in Combination in Washington State |
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The Washington State Department of Transportation has released a report that examines the combined effects of centerline and shoulder rumble strips and compares installation scenarios with shoulder and centerline rumble strip installation. |
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Understanding the Decision-making Process for Drivers Faced with Lane Restriction or Closures on Wisconsin Highways |
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The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has released a report that considers the decision-making processes of drivers’ route selections, such as using an alternate route instead of the highway network if faced with lane closures or restrictions. |
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Field Evaluation of Smart Sensor Vehicle Detectors at Intersections—Volume 2: Performance Under Adverse Weather Conditions |
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The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois has released a report that discusses an evaluation of two microwave-based systems for vehicle detection at stop bar and advance zones of a signalized intersection during wind, snow, and rain. |
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Go! – April 2013 |
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The Center for Transportation Research and Education at Iowa State University has released the latest issue of Go! magazine. Go! is an online magazine for teens and young adults that explores the world of transportation and careers they can find there. |
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Field Performance Evaluations of Illinois Aggregates for Subgrade Replacement and Subbase—Phase II |
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The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois has released a report that validates results of the strength, stiffness, and deformation behaviors of three aggregate types used for subgrade replacement and subbase applications. |
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Improved Pedestrian Safety at Signalized Intersections Operating the Flashing Yellow Arrow |
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The Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium has released a report that summarizes research conducted with a driving simulator and mobile eye-tracking equipment to study the effects that opposing traffic, walking direction of pedestrians, and the number of section heads with a flashing yellow arrow have on driver performance. This... |
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Improving Freeway Traffic Speed Estimation Using High-Resolution Loop Detector Data |
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The Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota has released a report that discusses a methodology designed to solve the traffic engineering problem of measuring traffic speed using data from single inductive loop detectors. |
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Innovative Roadway Light Source and Dye Combinations to Improve Visibility and Reduce Environmental Impacts |
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The Region 2 University Transportation Research Center has released a report that investigates the feasibility of using a specialized light-emitting diode (LED) streetlight and dye-based roadway surface coating to reduce sky glow while adequately illuminating the road. |
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Vehicle Classification Using Mobile Sensors |
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The Region 2 University Transportation Research Center has released a report that considers the feasibility of using mobile traffic sensors for binary vehicle classification on arterial roads. |
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Driver Attitudes to Speed Enforcement |
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Austroads has released a report that explains an audit of existing speed enforcement strategies and a review of research about attitudes towards speeding and speed enforcement. This report is available without a fee after logging on to the site. |
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Pedestrian Safety: A Road Safety Manual for Decision-Makers and Practitioners |
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The Global Road Safety Partnership has released a report that discusses the magnitude of pedestrian death and injury, key risk factors, and how to assess an area’s pedestrian safety situation. |
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Quiet Pavement Technologies |
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The World Road Association has released a report that explains the conceptual framework for managing road noise, fundamentals of tire-pavement noise, and strategies for pavement-noise reduction. This report is available without a fee after logging on to the site. |
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Safer Speeds: An Evaluation of Public Education Materials |
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The Centre for Automotive Research at the University of Adelaide has released a report that reviews speed education resources in order to identify those that may be used to increase public acceptance of reduced speed limits. |
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Aviation Group News: April 2013 |
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The TRB Aviation Group has released the latest issue of its periodic newsletter. This issue solicits assistance in identifying aviation and other transportation professionals who would benefit from participating in the Aviation Group; seeks nomination for the 2014 Francis X. McKelvey Award; recommends that you mark your calendar to attend the 2014 ... |
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Maximizing Throughput at Soft Airfields |
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The Rand Corporation has released a report that highlights the trade-offs involved in operating aircraft from soft fields, including calculations used to determine optimum landing weights and the application of these calculations. |
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Motorcyclist Traffic Fatalities by State: 2012 Preliminary Data |
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The Governors Highway Safety Association has released a report that explores preliminary data on motorcyclist fatality counts for 2012 from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. |
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