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2014 TRB 93rd Annual Meeting: Registration Now Open |
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You are encouraged to register and make your hotel reservation online now for the TRB 93rd Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2014, in Washington, D.C. Spotlight sessions, workshops, and discussions at the meeting will address critical transportation issues such as performance measurement, the changing energy landscape, automated driving and connected ...
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2014 TRB 93rd Annual Meeting: Exhibits and Additional Marketing Opportunities |
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TRB is offering four opportunities—commercial exhibits, printed Final Program 4-color advertising, (NEW) Mobile App support, and the Annual Meeting Patron program with enhanced benefits—for businesses and other organizations to showcase their products and services, and to show their support for transportation research and innovation at the TRB...
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TRB Webinar: Airport Legal Research Digests |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on September 12, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will feature research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) on safety management systems, safety risk management, and wildlife management issues at airports. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is no fee...
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TRB’s SHRP 2 Tuesdays Webinar: Integrated Advanced Travel Demand Model with Mode Choice Capacity and Finely-Grained, Time-Sensitive Networks (C10) |
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As part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays Webinar Series, TRB will conduct a webinar on October 1, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. ET that will explore the project, Partnership to Develop an Integrated Advanced Travel Demand Model with Mode Choice Capability and Fine-Grained, Time-Sensitive Networks (C10) , which helps agencies develop integrated travel demand...
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Shared-Use Mobility Summit* |
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TRB is cosponsoring the Shared-Use Mobility Summit on October 10-11, 2013, in San Francisco, California. The summit is designed to bring mobility providers, policymakers, stakeholders, and interested members of the public together to explore media and public outreach on the state of the growing shared-use economy; issues pertaining to the various...
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7th International Visualization in Transportation Symposium: Visualization for Big Data |
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TRB is sponsoring the 7th International Visualization in Transportation Symposium: Visualization for Big Data on October 23-25, 2013, in Irvine, California. The goal of the 2013 Symposium is to advance innovation in visualization for transportation applications through the exchange of information, to create a collaborative environment that...
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2nd Conference of Transportation Research Group of India* |
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TRB is cosponsoring the 2nd Conference of Transportation Research Group (CTRG) of India on December 12-15, 2013, in Agra, India. The conference is designed to facilitate information exchange among transportation researchers, educators, managers, and policymakers from India and all over the world. The conference will address all forms of passenger...
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Airport Responsibility for Wildlife Management |
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TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Legal Research Digest 20: Airport Responsibility for Wildlife Management compiles the laws and regulations pertaining to wildlife hazard management and discusses mitigation techniques applicable to airport operators.
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Forecasting Highway Construction Staffing Requirements |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 450: Forecasting Highway Construction Staffing Requirements gathers information on the methods being used at highway transportation agencies to forecast staffing requirements.
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Estimating Joint Probabilities of Design Coincident Flows at Stream Confluences |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 199: Estimating Joint Probabilities of Design Coincident Flows at Stream Confluences documents procedures for estimating joint probabilities of coincident flows at stream confluences and guidelines for applying the procedures to design problems.
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Structures 2013 Volume 1 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2331 consists of 8 papers that explore axial and roll stiffnesses of rectangular steel-reinforced elastomeric bridge bearing pads; optimization of design details in orthotropic steel decks; three-dimensional parametric data exchange for curved steel bridges;...
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Network Modeling 2013, Volume 1 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2333 consists of 11 papers that address delays caused by incidents; discrete minimum-cost group assembly problems; park-and-ride service on linear travel corridosr; tradable credit schemes; variable speed limits; nonbooking taxi services; the effect of multiple ...
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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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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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The Effects of Increased Shuttle-Train Movements of Grain and Oilseeds |
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released a report that discusses the effects of shuttle-train movements on railroad efficiencies, local grain elevators, and demand for truck transport.
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Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Performance Testing—Axial Load Deformation Relationships |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has released a report that presents a database of nineteen performance tests used to describe the load-deformation behavior of a frictionally connected geosynthetic reinforced soil.
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Multimodal Transportation Indicators: August 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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Passenger Vehicles: Traffic Safety Fact Sheet, 2011 Data |
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s National Center for Statistics and Analysis has released a fact sheet that explores various aspects of passenger vehicle safety. This new report is based on 2008 data.
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Safety Evaluation of Converting Traffic Signals From Incandescent to Light-Emitting Diodes |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that determines whether the conversion of traffic signals from incandescent bulbs to light-emitting diodes has an effect on the number of crashes, and, if so, its effects on the crash modification factor.
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Simulator Study of Signs for a Complex Interchange and Complex Interchange Spreadsheet Tool |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that identifies potential improvements to current signing practices for complex interchanges.
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Synthesis of Traveler Choice Research: Improving Modeling Accuracy for Better Transportation Decisionmaking |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that synthesizes travel behavior research and identifies gaps in existing data, methods, and practices needed for supply- and demand-side interventions.
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Traffic Control Device Conspicuity |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that analyzes four traffic control device conspicuity studies.
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Determining the Limitations of Warm Mix Asphalt by Water Injection in Mix Design, Quality Control and Placement |
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The Ohio Department of Transportation has released a report that explains the laboratory performance of foamed warm-mix asphalt in the areas of permanent deformation, moisture-induced damage, fatigue cracking, and low-temperature cracking—as compared to traditional hot-mix asphalt.
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Development of a Freight Benefit/Cost Methodology for Project Planning |
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The Washington State Department of Transportation has released a report that discusses a process to develop an agency-friendly, data-supported framework for prioritizing public investments of freight systems.
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Evaluation of Warning Lights on Maintenance of Traffic Devices and Development of Possible Alternatives |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that documents efforts and results of evaluating the effect and value of steady-burn warning lights on temporary traffic control devices used to delineate the correct travel path in work zones.
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Performance of Chip Seals Using Local and Minimally Processed Aggregates for Preservation of Low Traffic Volume Roadways |
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The Colorado Department of Transportation has released a report that documents the performance of two low-traffic volume experimental chip seals constructed using locally available, minimally processed sand and gravel aggregates after four winters of service.
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Use of Scanning Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis to Determine Chloride Content of Concrete and Raw Materials |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that explores a system that monitors chloride ions diffusion in cement and concrete structures using scanning electron microscopy and microanalysis to help prevent corrosion.
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METRANS News: Summer 2013 |
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The METRANS Transportation Center, a joint partnership of the University of Southern California and California State University, Long Beach, has released the latest issue of its newsletter that highlights METRANS research, education, and outreach activities.
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Modeling Seniors’ Activity-Travel Data |
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The Illinois Center for Transportation has released a report that discusses the dynamics of elderly activity-travel behavior and its potential effects on the transportation system.
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TxDOT Resource for Linking Planning with Project Planning in Support of NEPA |
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The Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas at Austin has released a report that explores how various Texas agencies can facilitate the National Environmental Policy Act process by linking it with regional transportation planning and project planning.
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Western Iowa Missouri River Flooding—Geo-Infrastructure Damage Assessment, Repair, and Mitigation Strategies |
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The Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that explains advanced technologies for rapidly assessing the damage to geo-infrastructure and develop effective repair and mitigation strategies for future floods in Iowa.
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Investigation of Driver Sleepiness in FOT Data |
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VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that considers methods for identifying objective indicators of driver sleepiness in field operational test (FOT) data and evaluates a subjective video scoring method for estimating sleepiness levels.
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Review of Variability in Skid Resistance Measurement and Data Management |
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Austroads has released a report that explores variability associated with skid resistance testing and measurement so as to balance the limitations within the overall objective of providing safe road networks. This report is available for no fee after logging on to the site.
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