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2014 TRB 93rd Annual Meeting: Interactive Program Now Available |
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TRB is pleased to announce release of its Annual Meeting Interactive Program that includes the ability to filter search results, a streamlined process for building your personal schedule, and more. Use the Interactive Program to assist you in deciding which events to attend during the TRB 93rd Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2014,...
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2014 TRB 93rd Annual Meeting: Harold "Skip" Paul, 2013 W. N. Carey, Jr., Award Recipient |
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In recognition of his outstanding service to transportation research and to TRB, Harold “Skip” Paul is the 2013 recipient of the W.N. Carey, Jr., Distinguished Service Award. Paul is Director, Louisiana Transportation Research Center, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. The consummate TRB state representative, he has long been ...
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2014 TRB 93rd Annual Meeting: Beverly A. Scott, 2014 Sharon D. Banks Award Recipient |
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Beverly A. Scott, General Manager, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority; and Administrator, Massachusetts Department of Transportation, Rail and Transit Division, has been selected as the recipient of the Transportation Research Board’s 2014 Sharon D. Banks Award for Humanitarian Leadership in Transportation. She is recognized for her long...
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2014 TRB 93rd Annual Meeting: Ralph Haas, 2013 Roy W. Crum Award Recipient |
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The 2013 Roy W. Crum Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Dr. Ralph Haas, Norman W. McLeod Engineering Professor and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo. Haas is recognized for making important, wide-ranging research contributions in the areas of pavement engineering and management...
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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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TRB Webinar: Asphalt Healing for Extended Pavement Sustainability |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on December 4, 2013 from 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. ET that will highlight research on the mechanism underlying asphalt healing and how it can be used in practice. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. A certificate for 2 Professional Development Hours (PDHs)...
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TRB Webinar: State of the Art Use of Probe Vehicle Data |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on December 9, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will explore state-of-the-art uses of probe vehicle data by state departments of transportation. 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...
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TRB Webinar: Airport Sustainability Practices and Strategies |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on December 11, 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 using guidebooks for identifying and incorporating sustainable practices, green technologies, and recycling strategies into traditional airport projects. Participants must...
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5th International Conference on Surface Transportation Financing: Innovation, Experimentation, and Exploration |
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TRB is sponsoring the 5th International Conference on Surface Transportation Financing: Innovation, Experimentation, and Exploration on July 9-11, 2014, in Irvine, California. The conference will focus on the latest research and practice in transportation finance, with an emphasis on innovative ideas from around the world. The goal is to...
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RFP: Toughness Requirements for Heat-Affected Zones of Welded Structural Steels for Highway Bridges |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program has issued a request for proposal to develop proposed toughness requirements for the heat-affected zones of welded structural steels for highway bridges. Proposals are due December 17, 2013.
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RFP: Guide for Optimal Replacement Cycles of Highway Operations Equipment |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program has issued a request for proposal to produce a guide that includes processes and tools to assist state highway agencies with making decisions about the optimal replacement cycles of on- and off-road highway operations equipment. Proposals are due December 17, 2013.
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RFP: NextGen––A Primer |
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TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program has issued a request for proposal to develop a resource guide for airport practitioners, decision makers, and the public to help airport operators communicate facts about NextGen. Proposals are due January 7, 2014.
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RFP: Guide for Civil Integrated Management (CIM) in Departments of Transportation |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program has issued a request for proposal to develop a civil integrated management guide for managers at state departments of transportation for assessing use of digital information, improving project quality, controlling costs, and identifying strategies for increased reliance on digital project...
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Rockfall: Characterization and Control |
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TRB's Rockfall: Characterization and Control addresses rockfall hazard identification and evaluation, investigation process, mitigation options, and maintenance and management programs.
The 600-plus page publication includes a DVD with video clips of rockfall field tests and several historical movies documenting rockfall field activities....
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Identification and Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Highway Design Features to Reduce Nonrecurrent Congestion |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Reliability Project L07 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled Identification and Evaluation of the Cost-Effectiveness of Highway Design Features to Reduce Nonrecurrent Congestion that focuses on geometric design treatments that can be used to reduce delays due...
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Design Guide for Addressing Nonreccurent Congestion |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Reliability Project L07 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled Draft Design Guide for Addressing Nonreccurent Congestion that catalogues highway design treatments that can be used to reduce nonrecurrent congestion and improve the reliability of urban and rural...
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Effective Removal of Pavement Markings |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 759: Effective Removal of Pavement Markings aids in the selection of safe, cost-effective, and environmentally acceptable practices for the removal of work zone and permanent pavement markings. The practices highlighted in this report emphasize minimal damage to the underlying...
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Reference Guide for Applying Risk and Reliability-Based Approaches for Bridge Scour Prediction |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 761: Reference Guide for Applying Risk and Reliability-Based Approaches for Bridge Scour Prediction presents a reference guide designed to help identify and evaluate the uncertainties associated with bridge scour prediction including hydrologic, hydraulic, and model/equation...
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Guidebook to Creating a Collaborative Environment Between Airport Operations and Maintenance |
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TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 92: Guidebook to Creating a Collaborative Environment Between Airport Operations and Maintenance provides tools and strategies that are designed to help potentially increase and improve collaboration between operations and maintenance staffs at airports.
The contractor's executive summary ...
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Traffic Signal Systems 2013, Volume 2 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2356 contains 14 papers that review an intelligent dilemma-zone protection system for a high-speed rural intersection; adaptive signal control in Germany; queue length under connected vehicle technology; a coordinated optimization model for signal timings of...
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Travel Demand Forecasting 2013, Volume 2 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2344 contains 16 papers that explore the effectiveness of Bayesian updating attributes in data transferability applications; social adoption in design and analysis of stated-choice experiments related to choice of electric cars; estimating dynamic workplace...
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Travel Surveys; Asset Management; and Freight Data 2013 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2354 contains 13 papers that discuss estimation bias and efficiency for pseudopanel data in travel demand analysis; quantification of key errors in household travel surveys; new measures for detection of data quality risks in mobility panel surveys; and...
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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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Accelerated Determination of ASR Susceptibility During Concrete Prism Testing Through Nonlinear Resonance Acoustic Spectroscopy |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that uses standard expansion tests and nonlinearity measurements to evaluate 10 concrete mix designs with varying alkali-silica reaction reactivity.
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Safety Analysis and Industry Impacts of the Pre-Employment Screening Program |
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The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has released a report that analyzes the attitudes of users and the safety impacts of the Pre-Employment Screening Program, which is a voluntary motor carrier safety program.
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Managing Railcar Maintenance: A Primer on Practices and Improvement Opportunities for the U.S. Transit Industry |
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The U.S. Federal Transit Administration has released a report that reviews the state-of-practice of transit railcar maintenance management and fleet management practices.
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Developing Louisiana Crash Reduction Factors |
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The Louisiana Department of Transportation has released a report that evaluates the safety benefit of raised pavement markers used with pavement striping on freeways.
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Development of Estimation Methodology for Bicycle and Pedestrian Volumes Based on Existing Counts |
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The Colorado Department of Transportation has released a report that discusses how pedestrians and bicyclists have been considered in the planning, design, and operation of transportation facilities.
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Operational Guidance for Bicycle-Specific Traffic Signals in the United States |
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The Oregon Department of Transportation has released a report that summarizes the literature, current engineering design and operational guidance documents, and survey results of bicycle-specific signals deployments.
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Warm Mix Asphalt Paving |
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The Montana Department of Transportation has released a report that considers the effectiveness of one type of warm-mix asphalt as compared to the state’s standard hot-mix asphalt.
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Road Safety in 170 Low-, Middle-, and High-Income Countries |
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The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has released a report that explores road safety in various countries and identifies commonalities that may assist in the creation of policies common to countries at a similar level of development.
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Behavior and Analysis of an Integral Abutment Bridge |
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The Mountain-Plains Consortium, part of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University, Fargo, has released a report that develops design guidelines for integral abutment bridges.
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Workforce Assessment of the Inland Waterway Industry: A Survey of Current and Future Training and Personnel Needs |
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The Kentucky Transportation Center has released a report that describes the issue of recruiting people for skilled positions on towboats as part of its workforce assessment of the inland waterways industry.
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TERRA E-News: October 2013 |
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The Transportation Engineering and Road Research Alliance (TERRA), which is coordinated by the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies, has released the latest issue of its quarterly newsletter. The newsletter addresses research on pavement, materials, and related transportation engineering challenges, including issues related...
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Illinois Center for Transportation Newsletter: November 2013 |
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The Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT), a partnership between the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), has released the latest issue of its quarterly newsletter designed to keep interested parties informed of current research and news at the ICT.
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CO2 Emissions Performance of Car Manufacturers in 2012 |
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The European Environment Agency has released a report that evaluates the performance of European passenger cars and their progress toward meeting the European CO2 emissions target.
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Health, Safety, and Bus Drivers |
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The Norwegian Centre for Transport Research has released a report that summarizes a literature review of work-related health problems in bus drivers and develops a model to predict the effect of these problems on driver, passenger, and bus safety.
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Effects of Polymer Segregation in Polymer Modified Binders on Field Performance |
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Austroads has released a report that investigates whether the segregation propensity of a polymer modified binder during hot storage affects its performance on the road. This report is available for no fee after logging onto the site.
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TRL E-News: November 2013 |
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The UK's Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) has released the latest issue of its periodic electronic newsletter that highlights TRL's activities and achievements.
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Hearing on FAA’s Certification Process for New Products and Innovations |
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On October 30, 2013, the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing to highlight the Federal Aviation Administration's process for certifying new products and innovations. Witness statements and the webcast of the hearing are available online.
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NCSL Transport Report Newsletter: September/October 2013 |
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The National Conference of State Legislatures has released the latest version of its monthly newsletter that covers state and federal transportation news, trends, and analysis.
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World Transport Policy and Practice: Vol. 19, No. 4 |
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Eco-Logica Ltd has released the latest issue of its peer-reviewed journal, which focuses on global research and practices that encourage sustainable transportation.
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