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Call for Nominations: Sharon D. Banks Award for Humanitarian Leadership in Transportation |
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The Transportation Research Board is seeking nominations for the Sharon D. Banks Award for Humanitarian Leadership in Transportation. This TRB award, which recognizes excellence in people-oriented initiatives throughout transportation, was inaugurated in 2002 and is presented biennially. The next presentation of the award will be made during the... |
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TRB Webinar: Transportation Funding Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) Legislation |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on May 14, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will examine the funding and finance impacts of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) legislation, including its successes and shortcomings. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. The ... |
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TRB Webinar: Roundabout Design and Development Review |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on May 16, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will explore how to plan, design, and implement roundabouts. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. A certificate for 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDH) will be provided to attendees who register and... |
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Seventh National Seismic Conference on Bridges and Highways (7NSC)* |
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TRB is cosponsoring the Seventh National Seismic Conference on Bridges and Highways (7NSC) on May 20-22, 2013, in Oakland, California. The conference is designed to increase awareness of seismic and geological hazards and to mitigate the risk of bridge and highway damage and failure through peer exchange and knowledge transfer. The conference... |
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TRB Webinar: Expedited Planning and Environmental Review of Highway Projects (C19) |
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As part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays Webinar Series, TRB will conduct a webinar on June 4, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will explore the SHRP 2 Report S2-C19-RR-1: Expedited Planning and Environmental Review of Highway Projects (C19). The report identifies strategies that have been successfully used to expedite the planning and environmental... |
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Meeting State and MPO Information Needs in a Constrained Fiscal Environment: Joint Midyear Meeting for TRB and AASHTO Committees |
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TRB is sponsoring Meeting State and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) Information Needs in a Constrained Fiscal Environment: Joint Midyear Meeting for the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Committees on June 10-12, 2013, in Washington, D.C. This... |
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Conference and Midyear Meeting of the TRB Policy, and Social and Economic Factors Sections |
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TRB is sponsoring workshops and the Midyear Meeting of the TRB Policy, and Social and Economic Factors Sections on July 22-23, 2013, in Washington, D.C. The program will include specialty sessions and workshops on finance, policy, environmental justice, and relationships between health and transportation. The conference’s closing session will... |
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RFP: TRB Accepting Proposals for Transit IDEA Program Funding |
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TRB is accepting proposals for the Transit Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program. The Transit IDEA Program provides financial support of up to $100,000 for the early stage development and testing of innovative and unproven concepts and methods for advancing transit practice. The due date for submitting Transit... |
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RFP: Inventory of State Passenger and Freight Rail Programs |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Rail Research Program (NCRRP) has issued a request for proposals to prepare an inventory of existing state passenger and freight rail programs; identify innovative funding mechanisms in this inventory; and conduct an analysis of targeted innovative funding programs extracted from this inventory that may be of use to... |
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Letter Report on Review of the U.S. DOT Strategic Plan for Research, Development, and Technology 2013-2018 |
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On April 30, 2013, TRB’s Committee for Review of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Strategic Plan for Research, Development, and Technology (RD&T) sent its letter report to Ray LaHood, Secretary of the U.S. DOT. Section 508 of the 2012 surface transportation authorization statute, as amended by Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st... |
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Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into the Transportation Planning and Programming Processes |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Reliability Project L05 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a final report titled Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into the Transportation Planning and Programming Processes that reviews domestic and international literature describing current research and... |
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Guide to Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into the Transportation Planning and Programming Processes |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Reliability Project L05 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled Guide to Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into the Transportation Planning and Programming Processes that is designed to help planning, programming, and operations managers to apply the ... |
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Guide to Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into the Transportation Planning and Programming Processes: Technical Reference |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Reliability Project L05 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled Guide to Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into the Transportation Planning and Programming Processes: Technical Reference provides a “how-to” guide for technical staff to select and... |
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Managing Utility Conflicts to Achieve the 3 C’s: Communication, Coordination, and Cooperation |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a project brief that summarizes the results of SHRP 2 Renewal Project R15B: Identification of Utility Conflicts and Solutions Project, which explored best practices on the use of utility conflict matrices (UCM), developed and tested a standardized UCM concept, and developed... |
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Increasing Truck Driver's Awareness: Use of In-Vehicle 3D Sounds |
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TRB’s Safety Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program Final Report for Safety-IDEA Project 19: Increasing Truck Driver's Awareness: Use of In-Vehicle 3D Sounds explores the development and testing of a system using in-vehicle three-dimensional sound as a technique for augmenting the truck driver’s situational awareness. |
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Transit Station and Stop Adoption Programs |
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TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 103: Transit Station and Stop Adoption Programs explores transit agency programs in which local organizations, individuals, or other partners “adopt” a transit station or stop and receive recognition or incentives in exchange for, periodically, performing duties such as removing litter,... |
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Guidebook for Preparing Airport Emissions Inventories for State Implementation Plans |
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TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 84: Guidebook for Preparing Airport Emissions Inventories for State Implementation Plans is designed to assist in the preparation of airport emissions inventory component of a State Implementation Plan. The Guidebook offers a basic, intermediate, and advanced approach for preparation of... |
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Enforceability of Local Hire Preference Programs |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Legal Research Digest 59: Enforceability of Local Hire Preference Programs highlights considerations that public agencies and community groups ought to take into account when contemplating what may be the best course of action when deciding whether to implement local hire programs.... |
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Practices and Performance Measures for Local Public Agency Federally Funded Highway Projects |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 442: Practices and Performance Measures for Local Public Agency Federally Funded Highway Projects explores what performance measures, delivery practices, strategies, and tools are currently used in relation to federally-funded local public agency (LPA) highway project... |
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The Guayule Plant a Renewable Domestic Source of Binder Materials for Flexible Pavement Mixtures |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Final Report for NCHRP-IDEA Project 143: The Guayule Plant a Renewable Domestic Source of Binder Materials for Flexible Pavement Mixtures explores the design of a flexible pavement mixture produced with little to no virgin petroleum based... |
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Daytime Color Appearance of Retroreflective Traffic Control Sign Materials |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that describes processes used to determine physical measurements of the chromaticity and luminance of retroreflective sign materials. |
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Estimating Lives Saved by Electronic Stability Control, 2009-2011 |
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The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a research summary that discusses the number of lives saved in passenger cars from the use of electronic stability control. |
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Laser Illumination of Helicopters: A Comparative Analysis with Fixed-Wing Aircraft for the Period 1980 – 2011 |
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has released a report that examines the frequency and adverse effects of laser illuminations involving helicopters, as compared with fixed-wing aircraft. |
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Multimodal Transportation Indicators: April 2013 |
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The Research and Innovative Technology Administration, a part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, has released a report containing multimodal transportation indicators in the areas of safety, economy, fuel prices, end-user prices, passenger usage, freight usage, system performance, and capital expenditures. |
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School Transportation Related Crashes Traffic Safety Fact Sheet |
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The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a fact sheet that summarizes types of fatalities in school transportation-related crashes. |
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Evaluation of Dynamic Message Signs and Their Potential Impact on Traffic Flow |
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The Maryland State Highway Administration has released a report that explores the potential impact that dynamic message signs have on traffic flow as well as their accuracy, timeliness, relevance, and usefulness. |
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Fatigue Performance of Brass Breakaway Light Pole Couplings |
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The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois has released a report that discusses testing of notched hexagonal-shaped coupling used to connect light pole bases to foundation anchor bolts—which are intended to mitigate impacts on vehicle occupants after collisions. |
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Formulating a Strategy for Securing High-Speed Rail in the United States |
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The Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University has released a report that identifies and addresses security issues in high-speed rail (HSR) planning, including analyses of HSR attacks, attempted attacks, and plots against HSR systems. |
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Noise Mapping of Container Terminals at the Port of Los Angeles |
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The METRANS Transportation Center has released a report that models noise of container terminals at the Port of Los Angeles as a way to predict future noise levels of the area. |
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Restoration Progress and Flood Disturbance at Illinois Department of Transportation Wetland Migration Sites |
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The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois has released a report that analyzes monitoring data to examine the influence of flooding on ecological mechanisms that lead to variations in floodplain compensatory mitigation wetlands. |
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A Simulation-Based Assessment Approach to Increase Safety Among Senior Drivers |
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The Region 2 University Transportation Research Center has released a report that studies the driving capabilities of senior drivers by analyze the impact of supplementing traditional senior driver evaluations with state-of-the-art driving simulation technologies. |
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Attitudes, Ownership and Use of Electric Vehicles: A Review of Literature |
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The Institute of Transport Economics at the Norwegian Centre for Transport Research has released a report that explores characteristics of electric vehicle owners in Norway. |
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The Effect of Road Roughness (and Test Speed) on GripTester Measurements |
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The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that investigates the effect of road roughness and macrotexture on skid resistance measurements by using a device called the GripTester. |
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Evaluating Standards and Practices for Facilitating Visually Impaired People’s Mobility in the Built Environment |
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The Institute of Transport Economics in the Norwegian Centre for Transport Research has released a report that reviews wayfinding and makes recommendations for its improvement in transport systems, with an emphasis on inclusive design and tactile paving. |
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Improvement of the Performance of Hotmix Asphalt Surfacings in New Zealand |
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The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that identifies possible changes in using thin layers of asphalt so that improvements in performance could be obtained. |
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Road Accident Investigation Guidelines for Road Engineers |
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The World Road Association has released a report that describes how accident data and the location of crashes should be reported and assessed. This report is available without a fee after logging on to the site. |
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Driver Distraction and Hands-Free Texting While Driving |
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The Traffic Injury Research Foundation has released a report that considers key facets of distracted driving and the implications for texting while driving among young drivers. |
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Eno Brief: May 2013 |
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The Eno Transportation Foundation has released the latest version of its monthly on-line newsletter. The newsletter is designed to provide information on transportation policy, executive leadership, news within the greater Eno community, and other items of interest. |
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