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The Passing of Dr. Charles Gorman Gilbert |
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The TRB community extends its condolences to the family and friends of Dr. Charles Gorman Gilbert on the event of his passing. Dr. Gorman was a member of the TRB Executive Committee from 1998 to 2002, and served on various TRB standing committees from 1973 to 2009. Before his retirement in 2007, he was the head of the School of Civil &...
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2015 TRB 94th Annual Meeting: American Planning Association Continuing Maintenance Credits Have Been Approved |
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The American Planning Association program to certify Continuing Maintenance (CM) credits for retaining American Institute of Certified Planners certification has approved more than 200 possible credits offered from sessions and workshops offered at the 2015 TRB 94th Annual Meeting. Attendees who attended these sessions may now log earned CM...
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TRB Webinar: LTPP InfoPave: Visualization to Facilitate Extraction of Information out of Data |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on March 11, 2015, from 1:00pm to 2:30pm ET that will explore the Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) InfoPave—the web interface for the Federal Highway Adminstration's pavement performance database. Webinar presenters will highlight layout data analysis examples that demonstrate the utility of LTPP InfoPave in...
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TRB Webinar: Considerations for the Selection of Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement (CRCP) for Projects |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on March 30, 2015, from 2:00pm to 3:30 pm ET that will describe the considerations for selecting continuously reinforced concrete as the pavement type for state highway projects in California, Oregon, and Texas. Webinar presenters will cover a cooperative effort by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration with industry...
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TRB Webinar: Pothole Patching: One More Time |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on April 1, 2015, from 1:00pm to 2:30pm ET that will cover NCHRP Synthesis 463: Pavement Patching Practices, which summarizes current practices for patching small-scale defects in concrete and asphalt practices. Webinar presenters will discuss the results of a literature search and a state survey related to pavement...
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TRB Webinar: Debt Finance Practices for Surface Transportation: Current Issues and Research Needs |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on April 2, 2015, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm ET that will explore a variety of policy issues related to the issuance and management of debt for surface transportation projects. The extent to which debt financing is used by states for transportation projects is being considered by policy makers and the private sector. Decision ...
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RFP: IDEA Program Announcement 2015: Funding Proposals Now Being Accepted |
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TRB’s Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) annual program announcement solicits funding proposals for the upcoming review cycles. The announcement explains the IDEA programs, describes the types of eligible projects and their funding structures, suggests general areas for which IDEA proposals can be submitted, and provides...
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RFP: Guidance for the Implementation of the Toward Zero Deaths National Strategy on Highway Safety |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop guidance to implement the national highway safety strategy, “Toward Zero Deaths,” for use by the safety community. Proposals are due May 5, 2015.
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32nd International Bridge Conference (IBC 2015)* |
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TRB is cosponsoring the 32nd International Bridge Conference on June 7-11, 2015, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Topics of sessions and papers that will be presented include issues such as accelerated bridge construction; design, evaluation, analysis, and inspection; foundations, substructures, and buried structures; long-span bridges; rehabilitation ...
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8th New York City Bridge Conference* |
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TRB is cosponsoring the 8th New York City Bridge Conference on August 24-25, 2015, in New York City. The conference will explore state-of-the-art design and rehabilitation of bridge structures and act as a forum to help enhance technical expertise within the bridge engineering sector.
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Disrupting Mobility: A Global Summit Investigating Sustainable Futures* |
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TRB is cosponsoring Disrupting Mobility: A Global Summit Investigating Sustainable Futures on November 11-15, 2015 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This conference will focus on how new or innovative technologies are impacting mobility.
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2015 National Accelerated Bridge Construction Conference* |
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TRB is cosponsoring the 2015 National Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) Conference on December 7-8, 2015, in Miami, Florida. The conference focuses on pre-fabricated bridge elements, systems, and technologies that enable accelerating construction of bridges using various materials and techniques. ABC projects successfully completed in the...
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The Role of Planning in a 21st Century State Department of Transportation—Supporting Strategic Decisionmaking |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 798: The Role of Planning in a 21st Century State Department of Transportation—Supporting Strategic Decisionmaking examines how the planning function in state departments of transportation can more effectively support strategic decisionmaking.
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Socioeconomic, Health, and Human Factors |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record (TRR): Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2452 consists of 14 articles that examine the impact of highway investment on the economy and employment across U.S. industrial sectors; the evolving connection of transit, agglomeration, and growth of high-technology business clusters; an analysis of...
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Planning 2014 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record (TRR): Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2453 consists of 21 articles that explores future transportation demand in the United States; the reasoning-building process for transportation project evaluation and decision making; peak vehicle miles traveled and postpeak consequences; reducing vehicle ...
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Traffic Signal Systems 2014, Vol. 1 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record (TRR): Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2438 consists of 9 articles that explore a dynamic signal priority control strategy to mitigate off-ramp queue spillback to a freeway mainline segment; an empirical analysis of controller event data to select vehicle detector fault triggers; issues...
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Naturalistic Driving Study: Alcohol Sensor Performance |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-S31-RW-2: Naturalistic Driving Study: Alcohol Sensor Performance offers a glimpse into alcohol-impaired driving through the inclusion of an alcohol sensor in the Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS). The S31 Project developed and evaluated an alcohol-detection algorithm...
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Guidebook: Project Management Strategies for Complex Projects |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R10-RW-2: Guidebook: Project Management Strategies for Complex Projects facilitates the application of a five-dimensional management approach for complex projects. The objective of the guidebook is to identify and communicate the critical factors involved in successfully...
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Bridges for Service Life Beyond 100 Years: Service Limit State Design |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R19B-RW-1: Bridges for Service Life beyond 100 Years: Service Limit State Design explores design codes critical for bridges to reach a service live of beyond 100 years.
The report also addresses performance measures and design procedures that utilize criteria to maximize...
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The Effect of Public-Private Partnerships and Non-Traditional Procurement Processes on Highway Planning, Environmental Review, and Collaborative Decision Making |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-C12-RR-1: The Effect of Public-Private Partnerships and Non-Traditional Procurement Processes on Highway Planning, Environmental Review, and Collaborative Decision Making explores the different points in the overall project development process when public-private partnership...
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Innovations to Locate Stacked or Deep Utilities |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R01C-RW-1: Innovations to Locate Stacked or Deep Utilities documents research and tested tools that could be used to help locate buried utilities or utility systems in highway construction projects.
SHRP 2 Renewal Projects R01B and R01C developed a report about...
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Practices for Developing Transparent Best Value Selection Procedures |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 471: Practices for Developing Transparent Best Value Selection Procedures examines practices related to the best value bid approach to procuring highway construction services. Best value procurement is a process to select the most advantageous offer by evaluating schedule,...
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Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data: Summary of a Workshop |
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The National Research Council’s Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences has released the report, Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data: Summary of a Workshop, that summarizes a workshop convened in April 2014 by the National Research Council's Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics to explore how best to train students to ...
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Realizing the Potential of the American Community Survey: Challenges, Tradeoffs, and Opportunities |
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The Panel on Addressing Priority Technical Issues for the Next Decade of the American Community Survey; Committee on National Statistics, part of the National Academies Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE) has released a report that provides input on ways of improving the American Community Survey (ACS), focusing on...
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SHRP2 Education Connection Funding Opportunity |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has announced the SHRP2 Education Connection initiative, which provides grants to professors and instructors to bring state-of-the-practice solutions into their classrooms. Applications are due April 9, 2015.
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Multimodal Transportation Indicators: February 2015 |
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The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology has released a report containing multimodal transportation indicators in the areas of safety, economy, fuel prices, end-user prices, passenger usage, freight usage, system performance, and capital expenditures.
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Critical Reasons for Crashes Investigated in the National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey |
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The U.S. National Highway Safety Administration has released a fact sheet that investigates events and associated factors leading up to crashes involving light vehicles, as reported in the National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey.
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Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 749 Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2015 |
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The U.S. Congressional Budget Office has released a report that estimates the amount that the Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act of 2015 would authorize for rail programs from 2016–2020, including amounts for Amtrak, grants to states for intercity rail projects, and implementation.
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Review of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s to Carry Out Agency-Wide Reforms |
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a report that examines the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s progress to streamline and reform the agency as Congress considers reauthorizing the agency in fiscal year 2015.
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2013 Traffic Safety Fact Sheet: Pedestrians |
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The U.S. National Highway Safety Administration has released a fact sheet that provides information on pedestrian deaths and injuries, and characteristics of the death or injury—including time of day, vehicle type, and impact point.
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Review of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s Oversight of Oversize Vehicles |
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a report that discusses how the U.S. Department of Transportation regulates and provides oversight of oversize vehicles and how states regulate oversize vehicles.
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Rumble Strip Noise Evaluation |
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released a report that presents results of sound level monitoring of three types of longitudinal rumble strips installed along the edge of two-lane rural roads.
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Evaluation of Waste Concrete Road Materials For Use In Oyster Aquaculture – Field Test |
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The Maryland State Highway Administration has released a report that considers the suitability of recycled concrete aggregate from road projects as possible bottom conditioning material for on-bottom oyster aquaculture in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Traffic and Data Preparation for AASHTO DARWin-ME Analysis and Design |
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The Louisiana Transportation Research Center has released a report that explains software designed to assist state departments of transportation in data preparation and management of pavement mechanistic empirical design input data.
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Impacts of Potential Seismic Landslides on Lifeline Corridors |
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The Oregon Department of Transportation has released a report that presents a probabilistic method for a regional seismically-induced landslide hazard analysis, and mapping by using predictions for strong ground motions and seismic sources.
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Real-Time Information Dissemination Requirements for Illinois per New Federal Rule |
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The University of Illinois Center for Transportation has released a report that provides guidance on meeting the new federal rule that requires states to provide real-time traveler data along all major routes in metropolitan areas and along limited-access roadways.
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University of Florida Transportation Institute Newsletter: February 2015 |
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The University of Florida Transportation Institute has released its monthly newsletter that provides information on its research activities and other initiatives.
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Modeling Merging Behavior at Lane Drops |
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The Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that discusses how understanding driver behavior, traffic control plans, work zone policies, and countermeasures can assist with reinforcing desirable lane closure merging behavior.
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Montana's Occupant Protection Programs |
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The Montana Department of Transportation has released a report that evaluates the relationship between its occupant protection program and seat restraint usage.
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Assessment Program for Kentucky Traffic Records |
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The Kentucky Transportation Center at the University of Kentucky has released a report that summarizes its assessment of the utility of potential performance metrics and availability of data in the Kentucky Traffic Records System.
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SafeTREC Newsletter: February 2015 |
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The University of California-Berkeley's Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) has released the latest issues of its newsletter that highlights activities taking place at the center as well as other transportation safety-related news.
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North American Resources and Natural Gas Supply to the State of California |
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The Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis has released a report that considers changes in the U.S. energy sector that resulted from new ways of extracting natural gas and includes discussion on issues associated with pipeline transportation of the gas.
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RoadSafe News: February 2015 |
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RoadSafe, a British organization that aims to reduce road deaths and injuries by encouraging partnerships between the private sector and road safety professionals, has released its monthly newsletter. This newsletter provides updates, information about events, and resources about road safety-related issues.
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The Effectiveness of Roads Policing Strategies |
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TRL, the Transport Research Laboratory in the United Kingdom, has released a report that evaluates the effectiveness of a roads policing strategy by examining the number of people killed and seriously injured in road collisions. This report is available for no fee after logging on to the site.
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Comparison of the Mechanical Properties and Degradation of Wheel Load, Part 2 |
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VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that studies the correlation between the degradation of unbound base layer and mechanical properties on materials exposed by wheel load to VTI’s Heavy Vehicle Simulator. This report is available for no fee after logging on to the site.
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Road Fatalities and Serious Injuries in Australia and New Zealand 2001–10 |
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Austroads has released a report that provides an analysis of all injuries from road crashes occurring in Australian jurisdictions and New Zealand from 2001–2010.This report is available for no fee after logging onto the website.
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2015 Rural Counties Pavement Needs Assessment |
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The California Rural Counties Task Force has released a report that compares revenues to pavement maintenance needs for rural counties in California and provides different funding scenarios for preventative maintenance.
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Guide to Science-Based Decision-Making |
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The Council of State Governments has released a guide that outlines strategies for policymakers to assess the assumptions, conclusions, and results found in state public hearing witness testimony and scientific studies. These strategies can be applicable to policymakers from any department, including transportation.
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Hearing on Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization |
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On March 3, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing to explore major issues for consideration in the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s reauthorization. These issues include GPS-based air traffic control under NextGen and the growth of commercial interest in...
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Hearing on Oversight and Reform of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration |
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On March 4, 2015, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing to examine truck safety programs and the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s regulations, all in the context of reauthorization of highway safety programs. Witness statements and a webcast of the hearing are available online.
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Institute for Trade and Transportation Studies Newsletter: February 2015 |
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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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