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2014 TRB 93rd Annual Meeting: Your Source for Professional Development Hour and American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits |
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Nationally recognized Professional Development Hours (PDHs) may be claimed for attending the TRB 93rd Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2014, in Washington D.C. Each hour of participation earns one (1) PDH; attendees must maintain their own records of attendance. TRB will confirm an individual’s registration at the request of the licensing or...
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TRB Webinar: Highway Capacity Manual 2010: New Urban Streets Methodology – Auto Mode |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on October 22, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will provide an overview of the Highway Capacity Manual 2010’s (HCM 2010’s) new multimodal urban streets method as it relates to the auto mode. 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: 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 Webinar: Successful Practices for Effective Tribal Consultation |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on November 14, 2013 from 12:30 p.m.- 2:00 p.m. ET that will feature research conducted by TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) about practices and programs to achieve successful transportation projects on tribal lands. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for...
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RFP: Methodology for Estimating the Value of Travel Time Reliability for Truck Freight System Users |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program has issued a request for proposals to develop and demonstrate a methodology that can estimate the value of travel time reliability to truck freight system users when evaluating proposed highway infrastructure and operations investments. Proposals are due November 19, 2013.
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RFP: Pavement Performance Measures that Consider the Contributions of Preservation Treatments |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program has issued a request for proposals to relate pavement performance measures to preservation, service life, and life-cycle costs and also prepare a guide for state highway agencies to implement these measures. Proposals are due November 26, 2013.
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RFP: Leadership Guide for Strategic Information Management for State Departments of Transportation |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program has issued a request for proposal to produce a guidebook, written for state DOT executives and managers, on how to effectively allocate resources to develop and maintain the agency’s capability to provide mission-critical information when and where it is needed. Proposals are due...
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RFP: Proposed Enhancements to Pavement ME Design: Improved Consideration of the Influence of Subgrade and Unbound Layers on Pavement Performance |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program has issued a request for proposal to propose enhancements, as needed, to the Pavement Mechanistic-Empirical Design procedures to better reflect the influence of subgrade and unbound layer properties on pavement performance. Proposals are due by December 10, 2013.
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RFP: Improving Findability and Relevance of Transportation Information |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program has issued a request for proposals to improve the classification, search, and retrieval of transportation information at state departments of transportation. Proposals are due December 6, 2013.
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RFP: Integrating Goods and Services Movement by Commercial Vehicles in Smart Growth Environments |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program has issued a request for proposal to develop a guide of tangible proactive and reactive practices–policy, planning, design, and operations–to integrate goods and services movement by commercial vehicles in smart growth environments. Proposals are due by December 19, 2013.
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Transit Bus Operator Distraction Policies |
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TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 108: Transit Bus Operator Distraction Policies is designed to help transit agencies develop policies and programs to address and prevent distracted driving incidents.
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Geology and Properties of Earth Materials 2013 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2349 consists of 16 papers that explore hexagonal wire mesh gabion panels; geotechnical impacts on system performance; fast-track technology; unbound aggregate base materials; influence of contact angle on the soil-water characteristic curves; subgrade...
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Performance Indicators, Sustainability, and Socioeconomic Factors 2013 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2357 consists of 15 papers that explore performance indicators to assess urban transportation systems; performance-based accountability; the greenroads rating system; sustainability and strategic planning performance measures; a strengths, weaknesses,...
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Exploring New Directions for the National Household Travel Survey |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Circular E-C178: Exploring New Directions for the National Household Travel Survey summarizes input on the design of the next National Household Travel Survey from the database’s user community.
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Model Education Curricula and Toolkit for the Transportation of Hazardous Materials |
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TRB’s Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program (HMCRP) Web-Only Document 2: Model Education Curricula and Toolkit for the Transportation of Hazardous Materials includes model post-secondary education curricula that address the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for the safe, secure, and efficient transportation of hazardous materials...
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TR News March-April 2013: Deploying Transportation Research: TRB 92nd Annual Meeting Highlights |
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The full PDF version of the March-April 2013 issue is now available. TRB policy is to release the full PDF version of a TR News four months after its release in print format.
Photographic highlights of sessions, events, presentations, meetings, exhibits, awards, and more from TRB’s 92nd Annual Meeting—including valedictory speeches...
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Accelerated Determination of ASR Susceptibility During Concrete Prism Testing Through Nonlinear Resonance Ultrasonic Spectroscopy |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a brief that develops a measurement technique that can quantify damage associated with alkali-silica reactions (ASR) in concrete specimens and assess the accumulated damage.
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Successes in Stewardship Newsletter: October 2013 |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released the latest issue of its Successes in Stewardship monthly newsletter, which highlights current environmental streamlining practices from around the United States.
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Understanding Transportation Systems-An Integrated Approach to Modeling Complex Transportation Systems |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a brief that explains an agent-based approach for integrated driver and traveler behavior modeling.
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Development of a Geographic Information System (GIS) Tool for the Preliminary Assessment of the Effects of Predicted Sea Level and Tidal Change on Transportation Infrastructure |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that describes a sketch planning tool for conducting statewide and regional assessments of transportation facilities that are vulnerable to sea level change.
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Evaluation of a Mobile Work Zone Barrier System |
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The Oregon Department of Transportation has released a report that evaluates the use of a mobile barrier in a variety of work zone environments so as to assess its benefits and limitations for safety strategies and investments.
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Information/Education Synthesis on Roundabouts |
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The Montana Department of Transportation has released a report that identifies strategies to promote roundabouts as an approach to intersection control when the roundabouts may offer a viable design alternative.
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An Integrated Framework for Modeling Freight Mode and Route Choice |
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The Maryland State Highway Administration has released a report that presents a methodology to determine freight mode choice for use in the statewide travel demand modeling.
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Landscaping of Highway Medians at Intersections |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that evaluates the safety performance of landscaping requirements for the installation of trees on medians at intersections.
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Montana DOT Solutions Newsletter: Fall 2013 |
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The Montana Department of Transportation has released its quarterly newsletter that discusses transportation research isses in Montana.
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A Report Card from Missourians: Final Report 2013 |
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The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has released a report that summarizes Missouri residents’ overall satisfaction with MoDOT’s performance and identifies the most important transportation services and improvements.
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Twenty Year Performance Review of Michigan’s European Concrete Pavement |
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The Michigan Department of Transportation has released a report that details the condition data and preservation work of a section of European pavement that it constructed near Detroit.
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An AHP-based Approach to Prioritizing Resources for Highway Routine Maintenance |
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The Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas at Austin has released a report that develops a methodology for minimizing the impact of budget fluctuations through quantifying the risk of not performing a maintenance activity and identifying the priority of maintenance activities based on the quantified risk.
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A Comparison of CAFE Standards and Actual CAFE Performance of New Light-Duty Vehicles |
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The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has released a report that compares the recent improvements in fuel economy with projected corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) performance levels.
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Curbside Intercity Bus Industry: Research of Transportation Policy Opportunities and Challenges |
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The Institute for Public Administration at the University of Delaware has released a report that explores the curbside intercity bus industry, including issues stemming from the unprecedented growth of the industry and its fragmented regulatory environment.
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Cycling in the African American Community: Safety Training Guidelines and Findings |
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The Southwest Region University Transportation Center has released a report that presents a program user’s manual for the Cycling in the African American Community safety training intervention.
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Life-Cycle Energy Implications of Different Residential Settings: Recognizing Buildings, Travel, and Public Infrastructure |
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The Southwest Region University Transportation Center has released a report that quantifies day-to-day and embodied energy consumption to examine how the built environment can influence travel demand and energy consumption.
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McTrans Newsletter: October 2013 |
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The McTrans Center at the University of Florida has released the latest version of its monthly newsletter.
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Stuck in Traffic: Analyzing Real Time Traffic Capabilities of Personal Navigation Devices and Traffic Phone Applications |
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The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has released a report that measures the real time traffic capability and accuracy of personal navigation devices and smartphone applications to determine how well the devices report traffic jams.
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Synthesis of Work-Zone Performance Measures |
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The Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that identifies and summarizes how agencies collect, analyze, and report different work-zone traffic-performance measures.
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Major Accident Investigation Report |
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The National Truck Accident Research Centre, part of the National Transport Insurance in Australia, has released a report that discusses a representative sample of serious heavy truck crashes that occurred in the country in 2011.
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NEMT Coordinators in Minnesota: A Survey of How Minnesota Counties Use Coordinators to Deliver Non-Emergency Medical Transportation |
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The Minnesota Council Transportation Access has released a report that documents how select Minnesota counties use transportation coordinators in providing and administering non-emergency medical transportation under the state's fee-for-service medical assistance program.
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Timing of Driver’s License Acquisition and Reasons for Delay among Young People in the United States, 2012 |
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The AAA Traffic Safety Foundation has released a report that investigates the ages that young people obtain driver’s licenses, as well as reasons for delaying licensure among those who did not obtain a license before turning 18.
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