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Robert E. Skinner, Jr., Executive Director, Transportation Research Board, Announces Retirement Plans |
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TRB’s Executive Director, Robert E. Skinner, Jr., has announced that he intends to retire after 30 years of service to the National Academies effective at the end of January 2015. Skinner joined TRB as senior program officer in 1983. In 1986 he became the director of TRB’s Studies and Special Programs Division, and in 1994 he was appointed...
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Annual Meeting Online Portal: Full 2014 TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Content |
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You are encouraged to visit the TRB Annual Meeting Online (AMOnline) portal to view the slides and posters of the more than 3,300 program presentations at the 2014 TRB 93rd Annual Meeting. These visual aids from the 2014 meeting are in addition to the 2,500 technical papers from the 2014 meeting that have been available on the...
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TRB’s SHRP 2 Tuesdays Webinar: Roadway Information Data from the SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study (S04A and S04B) |
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TRB Webinar: Conducting Forensic Investigations of Highway Pavements |
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TRB’s SHRP 2 Tuesdays Webinar: Worker Fatigue Risk Management (R03) |
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TRB’s SHRP 2 Tuesdays Webinar: Bridges Beyond 100 Years: Innovative Systems (R19B) |
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As part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays Webinar Series, TRB will conduct a webinar on May 6, 2014, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that will summarize SHRP 2 Project R19B: Bridges for Service Life beyond 100 Years: Service Limit State Design. There is no fee to attend this webinar or other webinars in the SHRP 2 Series; however, participants must register in...
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TRB Webinar: Peer to Peer: Detailed Looks at MAP-21 Asset Management Plan Pilot States |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on May 22, 2014, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that will cover how the Louisiana, New York, and Minnesota departments of transportation incorporated risk-management into their Transportation Asset Management Plans (TAMPs) and financial plans as required by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act. Participants...
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TRB Webinar: The Effects of Aviation Noise |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on May 29, 2014, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that will cover the potential effects of aviation noise on hearing, sleep, health, annoyance, and learning environments. Webinar presenters will discuss the noise concerns that present potential barriers to airport operations and expansion, and how those concerns can contribute...
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ASCE 2nd Transportation and Development Institute Congress* |
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TRB is cosponsoring the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2nd Transportation and Development Institute Congress (T&DI) in June 8-11, 2014, in Orlando, Florida. The meeting is designed to bring together all of the disciplines of transportation and infrastructure development, including aviation. The aviation component includes...
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2014 National Equipment Fleet Management Conference* |
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TRB is cosponsoring the 2014 National Equipment Fleet Management Conference on June 9-12, 2014, in Orlando, Florida. The conference is designed to provide a forum for the exchange of new ideas, strategies, and practices in the management of equipment fleets.
Issues to be addressed will include cost control, preventive maintenance, repairs,...
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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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Automated Vehicles Symposium 2014 |
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TRB is sponsoring the Automated Vehicles Symposium 2014 on July 15-17, 2014 in San Francisco, California. This symposium will focus on challenges and opportunities related to the increasing automation of motor vehicles as well as the environments in which they operate. The symposium will build on the 2012 and 2013 workshops on the state-of-the-art ...
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RFP: Operational and Legal Issues with Fuel Farms |
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TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has released a request for proposals to produce a compendium that describes and explains the various models and legal issues that airport counsel will likely encounter during the consideration, negotiation, and administration of fuel related issues. Proposals are due May 15, 2014.
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Review of U.S. Department of Transportation Truck Size and Weight Study: First Report: Review of Desk Scans |
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The Committee for Review of U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Truck Size and Weight Study has released its first of two reports. The Review of Desk Scans letter report reviews five preliminary products of the study of truck size and weight limits that the 2012 surface transportation authorization statute requires USDOT to carry out. The...
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Partners in Performance Management: Findings from the Transportation Research Board's 2013 State Partnership Visits Program |
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Each year, TRB’s Technical Activities Division staff visit state departments of transportation, as well as selected universities, transit and other modal agencies, and industry organizations, to determine the issues they are facing and how TRB can help in addressing those issues. In their annual state partnership visits in 2013, TRB senior program ...
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Highway Safety Performance 2013 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2398 consists of 12 papers that explore discontinuing late nighttime flash operations at signalized intersections; converting traffic signals from incandescent to led bulbs; the severity distribution functions for freeway segments; development of relationships...
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Identifying and Reducing Worker, Inspector, and Manager Fatigue in Rapid Renewal Environments |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R03-RW-1: Identifying and Reducing Worker, Inspector, and Manager Fatigue in Rapid Renewal Environments documents worker fatigue impacts during rapid renewal operations in the highway construction industry; and describes development of an integrated fatigue management toolkit....
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Project Management Strategies for Complex Projects: Case Study Report |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Renewal Project R10 has released a non-edited version of a report titled Project Management Strategies for Complex Projects: Case Study Report that describes fifteen U.S. projects and three international projects that incorporated strategies, tools, techniques, and methods to designed to aid ...
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Planning 2013 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2397 consists of 17 papers that explore statewide multimodal planning; active transit management; linking land use and transportation goals; life-cycle environmental assessments; public engagement in transportation planning; transportation affordability; the...
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Applying a Health Lens to Decision Making in Non-Health Sectors: Workshop Summary |
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The Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, part of the Institute of Medicine’s Board on Population has released a workshop summary on a meeting that was convened in September 2013 to foster cross-sectoral dialogue and consider the opportunities for and barriers to improving the conditions for health in the course of achieving other societal...
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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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Smart Growth and Economic Success: Strategies for Local Governments |
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report that reviews possible connections between smart growth strategies (which include building neighborhoods that are accessible by transit, bike, and foot) and the fiscal strength of local governments.
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Coordinating State and Regional Transportation Safety Planning Through the SHSP Process |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that summarizes a peer exchange designed to explore coordinating strategies for improving strategic highway safety plans (SHSP).
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Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon Guide: Recommendations and Case Study |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a guide that explains the operational and safety features of using pedestrian hybrid beacons as a means to reduce pedestrian-vehicle crashes.
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Proceedings of the Marine Safety and Security Council, the Coast Guard Journal of Safety at Sea: Spring 2014 |
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The U.S. Coast Guard has released the latest issue of this quarterly journal, which is described as the voice of the Coast Guard’s Marine Safety and Security Council. This issue highlights the causal factors that lead to marine casualties.
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Maryland Motor Carrier Program Performance Enhancement |
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The Maryland State Highway Administration has released a report that evaluates the effectiveness of the Maryland State Police and the Maryland Transportation Authority Police’s roadside inspections.
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Evaluation of Rear-End Bus Collisions and Identification of Possible Solutions |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that examines rear-end collisions between motorists and public transit buses to determine the extent to which such collisions occur, conditions that exist during the collisions, and collision prevention strategies.
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Highly Accelerated Lifetime for Externally Applied Bond Critical Fiber-reinforced Polymer (FRP) Infrastructure Materials |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that describes an investigation of accelerated aging protocols for fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforcement of concrete.
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Pavement Surface Specification for Road Load Measurement |
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The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has released a report that proposes a framework for specifying coast-down test surfaces for producing relevant, reproducible road load measurements.
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Effectiveness of Innovative Speed-Enforcement Techniques in Illinois |
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The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois has released a report that examines the effects of various police patrolling methods on the average speed and crash rate, and the number of speeding citations under various enforcement strategies.
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Investigation of Corrosion and Other Deterioration Effects in Highway Bridge Components Using Nondestructive Testing Technology of Acoustic Emission |
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The Eastern Seaboard Intermodal Transportation Applications Center at Hampton University has released a report that explains how acoustic emission monitoring can be used to assess corrosion and other deterioration in highway bridges so as to perform maintenance, rehabilitation, and repair.
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Quantifying the Impact of Large Percent Trucks Proportion on Rural Freeways |
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The Mountain-Plains Consortium, part of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University, has released a report that explores the extent to which the proportion of freight/truck traffic traveling on key routes has affected interactions with other vehicles.
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Has Motorization in the U.S. Peaked? Part 5: Update through 2012 |
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The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has released a report that examines the changes from 1984 to 2011 in the number of registered light-duty vehicles, and the corresponding changes in distance driven and fuel consumed.
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The Influence of Delineator Posts on Driving Behaviour |
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VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that investigates the influence of delineator posts as a means to improve drivers’ visual guidance when driving at night. This report is written in Swedish and contains a summary in English.
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Speed Reducing Audio Warnings at Road Works: Literature Review and Simulator Experiment |
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VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that identifies real-time audio warnings that can decrease drivers’ speed at road work sites. This report is written in Swedish and contains a summary in English.
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Travel Comfort on Winter Roads |
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VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that evaluates drivers’ experiences on snow-covered roads conditions. This report is written in Swedish and contains a summary in English.
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Use of Auxiliary Brakes in Heavy Vehicles |
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Austroads has released a report that reviews the use of auxiliary brakes by drivers of heavy vehicles on long and steep descents and proposes a driver training framework. This report is available for no fee after logging on to the site.
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Valuation of Travel Time Savings in Pedestrian and Bicycle Trips: Three Summaries |
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VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that summarizes three studies about cyclists’ and pedestrians’ valuation of travel time savings on different types of bicycle and foot paths. This report was written in Swedish and contains a summary in English.
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Projections of Road Casualties in Great Britain to 2030 |
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The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety has released a report that analyzes road casualty trends in Great Britain as a way to set road safety targets and justify future road safety spending.
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Safety Monitor 90, March 2014 |
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The European Transport Safety Council has released the latest issue of its bi-monthly safety newsletter that provides updates on European Union transport safety issues.
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Hearing on Issues for Hazardous Materials Reauthorization |
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On April 2, 2014, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials held a hearing to explore reauthorization of the Hazardous Materials Safety Program, which is authorized under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act. Witness statement and...
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TOD Standard |
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The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy has released a report that outlines core principles of urban design, including those that create pedestrian and cycling networks and strong customer bases for public transportation.
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CANSO News: March 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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NCSL Transport Report Newsletter: March 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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Sustainable Transport Newsletter: Winter 2014 |
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The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy has released the latest issue of its newsletter that highlights activities related to sustainable and equitable transport worldwide.
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