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Join Us Today for Transportation Investments in Response to Economic Downturns: Lessons for the Future from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Experience |
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TRB is sponsoring a gathering of transportation and fiscal policy experts to discuss a new TRB report, Transportation Investments in Response to Economic Downturns.
The event will take place on Tuesday, February 18, 2014, from 1 to 3 p.m. in Room 120 of the National Academy of Sciences building, 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington,...
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TRB’s SHRP 2 Tuesdays Webinar: Analytic Procedures for Determining the Impacts of Reliability Mitigation Strategies |
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As part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays Webinar Series, TRB will conduct a webinar on February 18, 2014, from 2:00pm – 4:00pm ET that explores the SHRP 2 projects L03, L33, and L07, which address non-recurring congestion through analysis and review of geometric design features in roadways and the use of travel time reliability prediction models for urban...
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TRB Webinar: Ensuring Productive Regional Freight Operations and its Economic Benefits |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on February 26, 2014, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that will explore the role of goods movement in our nation's economic well-being and the parts that traffic engineering, transportation operations, and planning play in ensuring safe, efficient freight operations. Participants must register in advance of the webinar,...
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Discussion on The National Academy of Sciences and The Royal Society Joint Publication on Climate Change Science |
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On Thursday, February 27, 2014, from 10:00-11:30 EST, you’re invited to join the US National Academy of Sciences and the UK’s Royal Society for the release of “Climate Change: Evidence and Causes.” Written by a UK-US team of leading climate scientists and reviewed by climate scientists and others, the publication is intended as a brief, readable...
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TRB Webinar: DOT Climate Change Adaptation and Local Resilience Coordination – An Operations Perspective |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on March 6, 2014, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm ET that will explore the climate change adaptation challenges facing federal, state, and local governments as they coordinate and promote resilient transportation systems. Webinar presenters will describe how different transportation agencies are incorporating potential climate...
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TRB’s SHRP 2 Tuesdays Webinar: SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study |
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4th International Conference on Roundabouts |
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TRB is sponsoring the 4th International Conference on Roundabouts on April 16-18, 2014, in Seattle, Washington. The event, which will draw upon more than 20 years of roundabout design, planning, and operational knowledge, will explore innovative and effective uses of roundabouts to help enhance the safety and efficiency of intersections. The...
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Waste Management and Resource Efficiency in Transportation Summer Conference |
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TRB is sponsoring the Waste Management and Resource Efficiency in Transportation Summer Conference on June 15-17, 2014 in New York, NY. The conference will explore the latest knowledge, expertise, and experience in development and integration of proactive environmental management systems and sustainability concepts into transportation programs.
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5th International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design* |
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TRB is cosponsoring the 5th International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design on June 22-24, 2015, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The objective of this symposium is to stimulate continued world-wide improvements to highway geometric design. The symposium will focus on the latest research, policies, and innovative practices related to...
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RFP: Takings and Mitigation |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposal to explore the impact of the Koontz v. St. John’s River Water Management District, 133 S. Ct. 2586 (June 25, 2013) decision on the extent to which permitting agencies are able to advance public policy goals in the land use permitting process and project...
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RFP: Liability of Transportation Entity for the Unintentional Release of Secure Data or The Intentional Release of Monitoring Data on Movements or Activities of The Public |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposal to review what statutes, regulations or common law exist regarding the release of data collected for transportation purposes. Proposals are due by March 19, 2014.
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RFP: A Look at the Legal Environment for Driverless Vehicles |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposal to develop an overview of the legal issues generated by developments in automated vehicles, and communications related to vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to roadway technologies. Proposals are due by March 19, 2014.
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RFP: TRB Accepting Proposals for 2014 Transit IDEA Program Funding |
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TRB is accepting proposals for the Transit Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program. The Transit IDEA Program provides financial support of up to $100,000 for the early stage development and testing of innovative and unproven concepts and methods for advancing transit practice. The due date for submitting Transit...
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Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 2: Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, and the Highway System: Practitioner’s Guide and Research Report |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 750: Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 2: Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, and the Highway System: Practitioner’s Guide and Research Report provides guidance on adaptation strategies to the likely impacts of climate change through 2050 in the planning, design,...
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Alternative Fuels and Technologies 2013 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2385 consists of 8 that explore plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; biodiesel from lagoon microalgae; sustainable biofuel supply chain planning and management; location of electric vehicle charging stations; neighborhood effects on hybrid vehicle adoption; travel ...
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SHRP 2 in Transition: Moving Research Results into Implementation |
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A featured article in the November-December 2013 issue of the TR News describes how the Federal Highway Administration and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials are working to achieve the routine use of second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) products by state departments of transportation and other...
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Access to International Transportation Research Information |
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TRB Conference Proceedings on the Web 13: Access to International Transportation Research Information summarizes the results of a September 2012 conference that explored new and innovative practices of information sharing that could benefit the U.S. transportation community. The conference also addressed strategies for the exchange of...
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Safety Data, Analysis, and Evaluation 2013 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2386 consists of 21 papers that explore hot-spot identification; the safety and operational benefits of variable speed limits; the effects of public rest areas on fatigue-related crashes; an application of stochastic gradient boosting techniques to enhance...
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Travel Behavior 2013, Volume 1 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2382 consists of 19 papers that explore commuting by bicycle in Madrid, Spain; the accuracy of geoimputation; travel time frontiers; elderly transport mobility and subjective well-being; the willingness to pay for managed-lane systems; uncertainty in predicted...
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Pavement Management 2013, Volume 4 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2369 consists of 13 papers that explore unbound pavement layers modified by geogrids; permanent deformation characteristics of unbound granular materials; the effect of cross-anisotropy of hot-mix asphalt modulus on falling weight deflections and embedded...
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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Advanced System Utilizing a Data Acquisition System on Highways (FAST DASH) Safety Technology Evaluation Project #1: Blindspot Warning |
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The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has released a report that discusses an evaluation of promising safety technologies aimed at improving commercial motor vehicle operations.
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The Carrier Safety Measurement System (CSMS) Effectiveness Test by Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (BASICs) |
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The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has released a report that examines the extent to which the Carrier Safety Measurement System (CSMS) is effective at identifying high-risk motor carriers by using the CSMS Effectiveness Test.
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Screening Level Assessment of Arsenic and Lead Concentrations of Glass Beads Used in Pavement Markings |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that developed a preliminary understanding of the risk associated with the presence of arsenic and lead in glass beads used in pavement marking systems.
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Methodology for Analysis of Soluble Salts from Steel Substrates |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that presents the result of a laboratory study of methodology for extraction and analysis of soluble salts from steel substrates.
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Embedded Data Collector (EDC) Evaluation Phase II: Comparison with Instrumented Static Load Tests |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that discusses comparisons of 139 piles and 213,000 hammer blows by using the Embedded Data Collector, the Pile Driving Analyzer, and the CAse Pile Wave Analysis Program.
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Lifting HOV/HOT Lane Eligibility and Shoulder Use Restrictions for Traffic Incident Management |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that investigates lifting high occupancy vehicle/high occupancy toll (HOV/HOT) lane eligibility and shoulder use restrictions during major incidents on general-purpose lanes.
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Safety Performance Functions for Freeway Merge Zones |
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The Colorado Department of Transportation has released a report that documents its safety performance function development for ramp-freeway merge zones categorized as isolated, non-isolated, and weave.
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Evaluating Truck and Rail Movements along Competitive Multimodal Corridors |
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The Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas at Austin has released a report that explores how mechanistic models for both trucks and rail can be integrated in a passenger car model.
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Assessment of the Effectiveness of Advanced Collision Avoidance Technologies |
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The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has released a report that describes the current state of knowledge of several advanced collision-avoidance technologies and presents an assessment of their effects on traffic safety. This report is available for no fee after logging on to the site.
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Has Motorization in the U.S. Peaked? Part 4: Households Without a Light-Duty Vehicle |
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The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has released a report that examines an index of U.S. motorization levels, specifically, trends in the proportion of households without a light duty vehicle. This report is available for no fee after logging on to the site.
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Intelligent Compaction 101 |
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The Center for Earthworks Engineering Research at Iowa State University has released a YouTube video that provides an introduction to intelligent compaction for road construction, which covers the benefits and applications of implementing the technology.
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State of Practice for Concrete Cylinder Match Curing and Effect of Test Cylinder Size |
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The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois has released a report that explores the effects of match-curing performance while taking into consideration the insulated jacket mold and air chamber technologies, and the effect of cylinder size.
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Implementation of Low Temperature Tests for Asphalt Mixtures to Improve the Longevity of Road Surfaces |
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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 examines field samples obtained from cores of roads that underwent bending beam rheometer tests.
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Winter Management Systems…or are There Other Versions of the Winter Model? A Review of Existing Systems |
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VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that explains a model called the Winter Model, which is used to make calculations for winter road maintenance and associated costs. This report is written in Swedish and contains a summary in English.
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NCSL Transport Report Newsletter: January 2014 |
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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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Urban Freight Resource Guide |
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The TRB Committee on Urban Freight Transportation has released the latest version of its resource guide that identifies papers, books, and websites that highlight insights and innovative techniques in the area of urban freight transportation.
The guide is designed to assist in identifying resources that provide ideas on ways to enhance freight ...
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PRISM 2011 Base Demand Model Implementation |
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Rand Corporation has released a report that documents the implementation of its new demand models—a population model, a travel demand model, and a final processing model.
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CANSO News: January 2014 |
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CANSO, the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation, has released its monthly newsletter that provides updates on air traffic management issues around the world.
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Institute for Trade and Transportation Studies Newsletter: January 2014 |
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The Institute for Trade and Transportation Studies has released the latest issue of its periodic newsletter that reports on the domestic and international infrastructure, transportation, and safety implications of commercial freight movements.
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