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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: Understanding and Mitigating Disease Transmission at Airports |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on September 19, 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 potential disease outbreaks associated with air travel and tools to assist with mitigating such events. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is no fee...
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TRB Webinar: Lessons Learned from State DOT Activities Addressing Data for Decision Making and Performance Measures |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on September 23, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will explore the process of turning data into information to make sound decisions within state and metropolitan transportation agencies. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. A certificate for 1.5...
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TRB Webinar: Pavement Drainage Practices to Achieve Long Lived Pavements |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on October 23, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will highlight TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Results Digest 268: Performance of Pavement Subsurface Drainage, which provides information about the overall effectiveness of subsurface drainage on the performance of flexible and...
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TRB’s SHRP 2 Tuesdays Webinar: Bridges for Service Life Beyond 100 Years: Innovative Systems, Subsystems, and Components (R19A) |
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As part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays Webinar Series, TRB will conduct a webinar on October 29, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. ET that will explore the project Bridges for Service Life beyond 100 Years: Innovative Systems, Subsystems, and Components, which produced the report Design Guide for Bridges for Service Life as well as a companion research report...
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Identifying Influences on and Minimizing the Variability of Ignition Furnace Correction Factors |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to determine the significant influences that affect the variability of asphalt and aggregate correction factors for ignition furnaces. The project will also develop guidelines for the installation, operation, and maintenance of ignition furnaces, and...
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Guide for Identifying, Classifying, Evaluating, and Mitigating Truck Freight Bottlenecks |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop classifications and quantitative measures for truck freight bottleneck categories, and a methodology for identifying truck freight bottlenecks. The project will also identify a range of options for potentially solving or mitigating truck...
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How Airports Measure Customer Service Performance |
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TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 48: How Airports Measure Customer Service Performance examines the strategic importance of customer service and how airports are measuring the quality of customer service.
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Guide for Conducting Forensic Investigations of Highway Pavements |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program Report 747: Guide for Conducting Forensic Investigations of Highway Pavements explores a process for conducting forensic investigations of pavements that is designed to help understand the reasons behind premature failures or exceptionally good performance. The process also allows for the...
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Strategic Directions on Roadway Departure Crashes |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Circular E-C175: Strategic Directions on Roadway Departure Crashes contains authored summaries of the presentations and breakout discussions from a August 2012 workshop that explored research needs regarding roadside departure crashes in support of the World Health Organization’s Decade of Action initiative.
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Urban and Traffic Data Systems 2013, Volume 1 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2338 consists of 9 papers that explore multiday driving patterns and fuel usage; efficient transit analysis; route choice analysis; Bluetooth-based travel time estimation; sensor optimization for travel time data collection; and standardized data processing....
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Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Chloride Roadway Deicers on the Natural Environment |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 449: Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Chloride Roadway Deicers on the Natural Environment documents the range of methods, tools, and techniques used by transportation agencies to minimize the environmental impact of chloride-based roadway deicers.
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An Ecological Approach to Integrating Conservation and Highway Planning, Volume 1 |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Capacity Project C06A has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled An Ecological Approach to Integrating Conservation and Highway Planning, Volume 1 that summarizes the research approach and major findings of a project designed to help transportation and environmental ...
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Guide to the Integrated Ecological Framework |
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Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities for the First Quarter of 2013 |
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The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a fact sheet that summarizes estimates of traffic fatalities for the first quarter of 2013.
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How Vehicle Age and Model Year Relate to Driver Injury Severity in Fatal Crashes |
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The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a research summary that examines how the age of the vehicle at the time of the crash and the vehicle’s model year are correlated with the injury outcome of the driver.
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Review of Condition Assessment Methods for FAA Facilities |
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a report that addresses the condition of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-staffed facilities, the extent to which FAA has responded to identified safety deficiencies, and the extent to which its facilities follow leading practices.
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Review of FHWA’s Monitoring of Unexpended Recovery Act Highway Funds |
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General has released a report that reviews the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) controls for monitoring unexpended Recovery Act funds and its policies, procedures, and management activities for these funds.
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State Transportation Statistics 2012 |
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The U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), has released its annual reference guide to transportation data by state.
The annual report consists of over 100 tables of state data on infrastructure, safety, freight transportation,...
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Assessment of Potential Concerns Associated with the Use of Cement Kiln Dust in FDOT Concrete Mixes |
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The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has released a report that discusses possible human exposure and environmental emissions associated with making and using concrete manufactured with baghouse filter dust.
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Decision Framework for Corridor Planning within the Roadside Right-of-Way |
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The Michigan Department of Transportation has released a report that explains a framework for supporting context-sensitive planning and decision making for roadside right-of-way use and development.
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Land Development Risks Along State Transportation Corridors |
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The Washington State Department of Transportation has released a report that provides tools to help turn adverse risks of land development into opportunities to make route improvements.
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Preparation for Implementation of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide in Michigan - Part 2: Rehabilitation Evaluation |
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The Michigan Department of Transportation has released a report that evaluates the impact of input variables on predicted pavement performance for selected rehabilitation design alternatives.
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Detection of Water and Ice on Bridge Structures by AC Impedance and Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy Phase II |
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The Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota has released a report that details its second approach to dielectric relaxation spectroscopy for low-cost sensing systems intended to monitor ice, water, and deicing solutions on road bridge deck surfaces.
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Evaluation of Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls for Bridge Ends in Kentucky; What Next? |
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The Kentucky Transportation Center at the University of Kentucky has released a report that summarizes nationwide survey results of the status of mechanically stabilized earth wall abutments in Kentucky.
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Evaluation of Superpave Mixtures Containing Hydrated Lime |
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The Louisiana Transportation Research Center has released a report that evaluates the engineering properties of hot-mix asphalt (HMA) mixtures containing hydrated lime as compared to conventional mixtures, and the influence of hydrated lime on the mechanical properties of HMA mixtures.
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Go! – August 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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Investigation of Improvements to Truck Volume Assignments and Public Transportation Benefits Methodologies in TTI’S Urban Mobility Report |
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The Southwest Region University Transportation Center has released a report that investigates the methodology used in the Texas A&M Transportation Institute’s Urban Mobility Report as it relates to the daily volume distributions for trucks, benefits of transit ridership, and transit delay reduction calculations.
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ITRE Directions: September 2013 |
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The Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) at North Carolina State University’s Centennial Campus, Raleigh, North Carolina, has released the latest version of its quarterly newsletter that highlights ITRE’s recent activities, events, programs, and research.
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Simulation of Investment Returns of Toll Projects |
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The Southwest Region University Transportation Center has released a report that develops a methodological framework to illustrate key stages in simulating investment returns of toll projects.
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Technology Today: Summer 2013 |
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The Louisiana Transportation Research Center has released its quarterly newsletter that summarizes its recent events, reports, and accomplishments.
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Transportation Security Institute: Recruiting Next Generation Professionals |
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The Southwest Region University Transportation Center has released a report that provides a curriculum framework intended to develop high school students’ interest in the transportation security industry.
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The Role of Public Transport for Carbon Emission Reductions |
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VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that considers options to make its vehicles independent of fossil fuels by 2030. This report is written in Swedish and contains an English summary.
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State-of-the-Art Traffic Speed Deflectometer Practices |
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Austroads has released a report that provides a state-of-the-art review of current traffic speed deflectometer practice based on a road traffic speed workshop held in Great Britain in June 2012. This report is available for no fee after logging on to the site.
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Eno Brief: August/September 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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Moving Off the Road: A State-By-State Analysis of the National Decline in Driving |
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The U.S. PIRG Education Fund has released a report that uses Federal Highway Administration data to examine state-by-state trends in driving and correlate with other factors such as unemployment, urbanization, and home-based work.
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Research Impacts: Better—Faster–Cheaper |
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The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has released a report that lists the 2013 collection of high value research highlights from across the U.S.
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