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2014 TRB 93rd Annual Meeting: Hotel Rooms Going Quickly |
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You are encouraged to register and make your hotel reservation online now. Registration is required for all Annual Meeting attendees, including those who plan to attend any workshop, visit the Exhibits, or take advantage of onsite programming and services. Annual Meeting attendee registration is required to obtain a hotel reservation.
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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’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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TRB Webinar: Slag Cement for Sustainable Concrete |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on October 30, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. ET that will summarize slag cement material characteristics, specifications, and its effect on fresh and hardened concrete properties. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. A certificate for 2 Professional...
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TRB’s SHRP 2 Tuesdays Webinar: SHRP 2 Economic Impact Tools (C03 and C11) |
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TRB Webinar: Highway Capacity Manual 2010: What’s New with Unsignalized Intersection Methodologies |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on November 20, 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) unsignalized intersection methodologies. 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 ...
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Innovations in Travel Demand Forecasting–2014 |
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TRB is sponsoring a conference on Innovations in Travel Demand Forecasting–2014 on April 27-30, 2014, in Baltimore, Maryland. The event will allow researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and experiences on the latest developments in travel modeling and identify research and implementation challenges and issues associated with deploying...
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RFP: Mitigation of Weldment Cracking of Highway Steel Structures due to the Galvanizing Process |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program has issued a request for proposals to improve design, materials, and construction specifications of galvanized steel highway structures that can be used to mitigate weldment cracking caused by the galvanizing process. Proposals are due December 10, 2013.
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Methods for Evaluating Fly Ash for Use in Highway Concrete |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) 749: Methods for Evaluating Fly Ash for Use in Highway Concrete presents suggested changes to coal fly ash specifications and test protocols contained in American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Standard Specifications for Transportation Materials and...
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Partnership to Develop an Integrated, Advanced Travel Demand Model and a Fine-Grained Time-Sensitive Network |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Capacity Project C10A has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled Partnership to Develop an Integrated, Advanced Travel Demand Model and a Fine-Grained Time-Sensitive Network that explores development of a dynamic integrated travel demand model with advanced policy...
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Long-Term Stewardship of Safety Data from the Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Letter Report: October 14, 2013 |
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On October 14, 2013, TRB’s Committee on the Long-Term Stewardship of Safety Data from the Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) sent its second letter report to Victor Mendez, administrator of the Federal Highway Administration; David Strickland, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; and Bud Wright,...
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Safety Management 2013 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2364 consists of 10 papers that explore variable speed limit control strategies; opinions on safety policy; rural roadway departure crashes; traffic calming measures in New York City; safety management tools; high-crash-risk intersections; fatal crash...
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Traffic Signal Systems 2013, Volume 1 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2355 contains 10 papers that study cycle length; optimizing traffic signal timing; assessing agency-wide signal management objectives; estimating queue lengths at signalized intersections; and dynamic lane assignment at isolated signalized intersections....
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Structures 2013, Volume 2 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2332 contains seven papers that explore seismic retrofit of aerial stations; the Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez Bridge during the 2010 Chile earthquake; material behavior of steel and synthetic fibers in dry-cast application; behavior of bell and spigot joints...
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Adapting Freight Models and Traditional Freight Data Programs for Performance Management: Summary of a Workshop |
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TRB Conference Proceedings on the Web 12: Adapting Freight Models and Traditional Freight Data Programs for Performance Management: Summary of a Workshop explores the adequacy of freight data and modeling to support performance measurement in public- and private-sector decision making. The workshop was held April 30–May 1, 2013, in Washington, D.C.
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SHRP 2 Project Brief: Transportation for Communities: Advancing Projects through Partnerships |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a project brief that highlights Transportation for Communities—Advancing Projects through Partnerships (TCAPP), a collaborative web-based resource for planning, programming, and developing highway capacity enhancement projects.
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Emergency Relief Program: Federal-Aid Highway Assistance for Disaster-Damaged Roads and Bridges |
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This Congressional Research Service report explains the Emergency Relief Program, which is a program for reconstructing major highways or bridges have been destroyed by natural disasters or catastrophic failures (e.g., bridge collapse).
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FHWA and AASHTO Announce Round 2 Recipients of SHRP2 Implementation Assistance Opportunities |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) have announced that 18 States will be provided with Round 2 implementation and technical assistance as part of the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2).
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Performance Based Planning and Programming Guidebook |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a guidebook that details how to apply performance management principles for multimodal transportation systems.
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Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD): FY2013 Appropriations |
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This Congressional Research Service report details account-by-account summaries of FY2012-2013 transportation-related appropriations and selected budget issues.
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The 2013 Corridor Capacity Report: The 12th Edition of the Annual Congestion Report |
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The Washington State Department of Transportation has released a report that details performance measures of multimodal and person-based metrics for statewide congestion data.
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Evaluation of Bias in the Hamburg Wheel Tracking Device |
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The Iowa Department of Transportation has released a report that evaluates how various states collect and analyze test results of the Hamburg Wheel Tracking Device to help eliminate or reduce bias in reporting test results.
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Exploring Travelers' Behavior in Response to Dynamic Message Signs (DMS) Using a Driving Simulator |
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The Maryland State Highway Administration has released a report that explores the effectiveness of a dynamic message sign by examining driving subjects’ performance while using a driving simulator.
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Flexible Public Transportation Services in Florida |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that reviews the use of flexible public transportation services in Florida, which include service models such as route deviation, request stops, and flexible-route segments.
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CTS Catalyst: October 2013 |
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The latest issue of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Transportation Studies (CTS) Catalyst newsletter is now available. Catalyst provides current information on the latest in transportation-related research and activities from the CTS.
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Improving the Effectiveness of Nighttime Temporary Traffic Control Warning Devices, Volume 1: Evaluation of Lights on Nighttime Work Zone Channelization Devices |
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The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois has released a report that reviews the effectiveness of warning lights on nighttime work zone channelization devices, such as drums and barricades.
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Motorcycles: Crash Trends, Conspicuity, and Interventions |
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The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University has released a report that discusses trends in the number and type of motorcycle crashes in North Dakota.
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A New Spatial Multiple Discrete-Continuous Modeling Approach to Land Use Change Analysis |
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The Southwest Region University Transportation Center has released a report that formulates a multiple discrete-continuous probit land-use model within a spatially explicit economic structural framework for land-use change decisions.
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ND Traffic Safety: Oil Counties |
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The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University has released a fact sheet that profiles safety issues on roads in Western North Dakota that were once used only for local access and agriculture purposes but are now used at high volumes for oil production activities.
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Repair of I-65 Expressway Bridges Using Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) Composites |
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The Kentucky Transportation Center has released a report that documents repair of I-65 bridges, including repairs of precast, prestressed concrete girder spans and the reinforced concrete bearing pads.
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Repair Using Steel Fiber Reinforced Polymer on US 150 Bridge |
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The Kentucky Transportation Center has released a report that details the pre-construction monitoring, planning and design, and construction measures of Kentucky’s US 150 bridge.
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USF Journal of Public Transportation: Volume 16, No. 3, 2013 |
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The Center for Urban Transportation Research of the University of South Florida has released the latest issue of its Journal of Public Transportation.
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Bumpy Roads Ahead: America’s Roughest Rides and Strategies to Make our Roads Smoother |
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TRIP, a Washington, D.C.-based national transportation research group, has released a report that examines the condition of the nation’s major urban roads, including pavement condition data, trends in travel, the developments in repairing roads and building them to last longer.
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Drivers of Demand for Transport |
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The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that explores data availability and analytical steps that could be considered when developing transportation demand models.
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EME Technology Transfer to Australia: An Explorative Study |
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Austroads has released a report that investigates a French high modulus hot-mix asphalt technology with a high performing material in heavy-duty pavements that carry large volumes of high-weight vehicles. This report is available for no fee after logging on to the site.
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Nordic Road and Transport Research: No. 2, 2013 |
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VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released its biannual magazine that summarizes road research news from public road and transport research organizations in the Nordic countries.
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Trends Among Fatally Injured Teen Drivers |
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The Traffic Injury Research Foundation in Canada has released a report that summarizes characteristics, trends, and contributing factors of fatal teen driver collisions.
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Getting the Goods without the Bads: Freight Transportation Demand Management Strategies to Reduce Urban Impacts |
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The State Smart Transportation Initiative has released a report that identifies and evaluates strategies to reduce the social costs associated with goods movement in urban areas by managing transportation demand.
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