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RFI: ACRP FY 2016 Research Problem Statements Sought |
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Research problem statements are now being accepted for the FY 2016 Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP). These submittals, which are used to identify potential research needs and form the basis for selection of the annual ACRP research program, are not proposals to conduct research.
It is easy to develop and submit a problem...
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RFP: Liability of State Departments of Transportation for Design Errors |
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to explore how a state department of transportation (DOT) may be able to protect itself from liability arising from infrastructure design and product errors and omissions. Proposals are due April 6, 2015.
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RFP: Legal Requirements for State DOT Participation in Conservation Plans |
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to describe habitat conservation plans and their relation to wetland mitigation banking, regional planning, and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Proposals are due April 6, 2015.
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RFP: Identifying Best Practices and Sharing Resources for Transit Technical Training |
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TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has issued a request for proposals to document the best models of technical training programs; develop a resource catalog of available training materials; and identify procedures for disseminating resources to the transit community at large. Proposals are due May 5, 2015.
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TRB Webinar: Next Generation Air Transportation System: A Research Update |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on March 17, 2015, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that will feature an update on the research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) on the Next Generation Air Transportation System (“NextGen”)—a term used to describe a number of federal programs designed to modernize the National Airspace System (NAS). ...
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TRB Webinar: Developing Reliability-Based Bridge Inspection Practices |
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TRB Webinar: A Model for Publishing and Linking Transportation Datasets and Reports |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on March 24, 2015, from 1:00pm to 2:30pm ET that will explore early initiatives to integrate discrete data publications with traditional scholarly publications by leveraging new and existing repository platforms and services. Webinar presenters will review the work flow integration among Purdue University's data...
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TRB Webinar: Rigid Pavement Preservation: Research Results |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on April 8, 2015, from 11:00am to 12:30pm ET that will cover select findings of current or recently completed research on rigid pavement preservation. Webinar presenters will discuss savings from preservation, shotblasting, grinding, and grooving in Oklahoma, as well as describe permeable concrete maintenance issues...
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TRB Webinar: Safety and Financial Impacts of Airport Winter Operations |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on April 9, 2015, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that will feature research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) on safety and financial concerns involving airport winter operations. Webinar presenters will discuss best practices and practical applications to assist airport stakeholders in determining ...
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IBTTA Transportation Finance & Road Usage Charging Conference: Registration Now |
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TRB is cosponsoring the IBTTA Transportation Finance & Road Usage Charging Conference April 26-28, 2015 in Portland, Oregon. Attendees will explore the use of toll financing to build and operate limited access road infrastructure. Attendees will also learn how other states are exploring road usage charging (RUC), a policy of assessing...
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2016 International Symposium on Enhancing Highway Performance: 7th International Symposium on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service; 3rd International Symposium on Freeway and Tollway Operations*: Abstracts due March 31, 2015 |
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TRB is cosponsoring the 2016 International Symposium on Enhancing Highway Performance: 7th International Symposium on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service; 3rd International Symposium on Freeway and Tollway Operations June 14-16, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. The symposium will focus on the latest research and international improvements in ...
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2015 TRB’s 5th International Conference on Transportation Systems Performance Measurement and Data: Register today for live webcasting |
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TRB is sponsoring the Fifth International Conference on Transportation Systems Performance Measurement and Data on June 1-2, 2015 in Denver, CO. The conference will explore international best practices in transportation systems performance measurement and data management. A pre-conference workshop will take place on May 31, 2015. Live webcasting...
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3rd International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics* |
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TRB is cosponsoring the 3rd International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics on September 4-7, 2016, in Guimarães, Portugal. This conference will showcase research findings and practical applications of geotechnics on roads, rails, airports, harbors and other ground transportation infrastructure, with the goal of providing safe, economic,...
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Bicycles and Motorcycles 2014 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record (TRR): Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2468 consists of 16 articles that summarize computer vision techniques to collect helmet-wearing data on cyclists; an evaluation of interactions between buses and bicycles at stops; a visual survey tool for determining factors that make a street...
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Transit 2014, Vol. 4 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record (TRR): Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2418 consists of 15 articles that chronicles the jobs–housing balance of bus commuters in Beijing, China; an evaluation of presignals at oversaturated signalized intersections; transit signal priority with connected vehicle technology; combinatorial...
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Asphalt Materials and Mixtures 2014, Vol. 3 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record (TRR): Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2446 consists of 10 articles that explore a method for evaluating moisture susceptibility and rutting using the Hamburg wheel tracking test; the influence of air void content on moisture damage susceptibility of asphalt mixtures; a performance-based...
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Pavement Management 2014, Vol. 2 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record (TRR): Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2456 consists of 17 articles that document enhanced gradation guidelines to improve asphalt mixture performance; accelerated pavement testing of warm-mix asphalt for heavy-traffic airfields; permeability of porous friction course pavements before and...
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Evaluation of the Federal Railroad Administration Research and Development Program |
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TRB has released a prepublication version of Special Report 316: Evaluation of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Research and Development Program assesses the effectiveness of the FRA's process for identifying research priorities and the usefulness of FRA’s Research and Development (R&D) products for improving railroad safety. The...
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Long-Term Bridge Performance Committee Letter Report: February 20, 2015 |
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On February 20, 2015, TRB’s Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) Committee sent its fifth letter report to Gregory Nadeau, acting administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The committee provides advice and assistance on the conduct of the LTBP program, which is designed to collect research-quality data on a large representative...
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Naturalistic Driving Study: Linking the Study Data to the Roadway Information Database |
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TRB's second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-S31-RW-3: Naturalistic Driving Study: Linking the Study Data to the Roadway Information Database details the methodology used to link the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) data to the SHRP 2 Roadway Information Database (RID), the...
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Naturalistic Driving Study: Collecting Data on Cell Phone Use |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-S06-RW-2: Naturalistic Driving Study: Collecting Data on Cell Phone Use details the methodology used to acquire cell phone use records from a subset of participants in the SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) during the time when they were enrolled in the study. The cell phone...
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Activity-Based Travel Demand Models: A Primer |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-C46-RR-1: Activity-Based Travel Demand Models: A Primer explores ways to inform policymakers’ decisions about developing and using activity-based travel demand models to better understand how people plan and schedule their daily travel.
The document is composed of two...
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Estimating Takeoff Thrust Settings for Airport Emissions Inventories |
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TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has released ACRP CD-161: Estimating Takeoff Thrust Settings for Airport Emissions Inventories that offers guidance designed to help airport practitioners include the effects of reduced takeoff thrust in their emissions inventory calculations. When calculating air quality emissions inventories for ...
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Management Guide to Intellectual Property for State Departments of Transportation |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 799: Management Guide to Intellectual Property for State Departments of Transportation documents guidance on how agencies can manage the copyrights, patents, and other intellectual property that may be used or produced as a byproduct of the agency’s usual business activities....
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Designing the Archive for SHRP 2 Reliability and Reliability-Related Data |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-L13A-RW-1: Designing the Archive for SHRP 2 Reliability and Reliability-Related Data explores the development, testing, and deployment of the SHRP 2 Reliability Archive system. This archive is a repository that stores the data and information from SHRP 2 Reliability and...
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Fiber Additives in Asphalt Mixtures |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 475: Fiber Additives in Asphalt Mixtures summarizes the types of fibers used in asphalt mixtures, their properties, how they are tested, how they are applied, and lab and field performance of the fiber mixes.
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Volpe News: Transportation Planning Resource, Congestion Pricing Strategies, and More |
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Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center, has released its eNews bulletin that features its news briefs, tools for practitioners, and reports.
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U.S. DOT Invites Ideas on Secretary Foxx’s Beyond Traffic 2045 Framework |
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U.S.DOT will host a series of Virtual Sessions – each focused on a different theme of the Beyond Traffic Framework. RSVP for each session is required (all times EDT). RSVP, and download the Draft Beyond Traffic Framework, at: http://www.dot.gov/beyondtraffic.
Dates and times are:
• March 17th, 1:00-2:00 PM - Beyond Traffic: How We Move
•...
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Public Spending on Transportation and Water Infrastructure, 1956 to 2014 |
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The U.S. Congressional Budget Office has released a report that provides information on public spending for six types of transportation and water infrastructure (i.e., aviation, highways, mass transit and rail, water transportation, water resources, water utilities) between 1956 and 2014.
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Disadvantaged Business Enterprise and Business Development Programs |
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The U.S. Department of Transportation has released a report that highlights practices and recommendations for program management, training, and guidance for its nationwide disadvantaged business enterprises and business development programs.
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Review of NHTSA’s the National Automotive Sampling System Crashworthiness Data System |
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a report that assesses the process used by the U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) to redesign the National Automotive Sampling System Crashworthiness Data System and the potential for this redesign to improve the system’s sample.
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Innovator: March/April 2015 |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released the latest issue of its bi-monthly Innovator newsletter, which is designed to help advance widespread implementation of innovations and technologies in the highway community and help chronicle a nationwide movement to improve the way highways are built.
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Development of Automated Testing Tools for Traffic Control Signals and Devices (NTCIP and Security) Phase 2 |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that explains a National Transportation Communications for ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) Protocol (NTCIP) automated testing system for NTCIP-compliant actuated signal controllers.
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Development and Integration of Advanced Timber Bridge Inspection Techniques for NBIS |
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released a report that identifies new techniques and equipment that can improve the quality of timber bridge inspection practices and can be implemented as part of the National Bridge Inspection Standards (NBIS).
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SafeTREC Newsletter: March 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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Investigation of Relationships Between AIMS Shape Properties and VST Friction Values |
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The University of Illinois Center for Transportation has released a report that assesses pavement properties through analysis of aggregate imaging system (AIMS) and micro-deval shape properties, and variable speed test (VST) friction data.
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Development of Railroad Highway Grade Crossing Consolidation Rating Formula |
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The Center for Transportation Research and Education at Iowa State University has released a report that presents a quantitative approach for assessing railroad crossings for possible consolidation, focusing on factors that stakeholders deem important.
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NC State CCEE News: Spring 2015 |
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The North Carolina State University College of Engineering has released the latest issue of its newsletter, which provides updates on the civil, construction, and environmental engineering activities taking place within the college.
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Go! Exploring the World of Transportation: March 2015 |
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The Center for Transportation Research and Education at Iowa State University has released the latest issue of Go! magazine. Go! is an online magazine for teens and young adults that explores the world of transportation and careers they can find there.
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NRSPP Bulletin: March 2015 |
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The National Road Safety Partnership Program (NRSPP), a collaborative forum of Australian organizations focused on workplace road safety strategies, has released its monthly bulletin that provides updates, information about events, and resources about road safety-related issues. This bulletin is available for no fee after logging on to the site.
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Transport and Handling of Polymer Modified Binders |
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Austroads has released a brief that summarizes procedures and key requirements for transporting and handling polymer modified binders. This report is available for no fee after logging onto the site.
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Road Safety Newsletter: March 2015 |
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The Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport within the European Commission has released the latest version of its newsletter that highlights road safety issues and research in the European Union.
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Telematics Jammers - Addressing the Risk |
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The National Road Safety Partnership Program (NRSPP), a collaborative forum of Australian organizations focused on workplace road safety strategies, has released a report that assesses the risks of jamming tools that can block signals to and from in-vehicle monitoring systems, also known as telematics.
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Low Level Cycle Signals Used as Repeaters of the Main Traffic Signals: Track Trial Report |
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The Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) in the United Kingdom has released a report that explains testing of cycle signals and layouts by investigating the reactions of road users to low level cycle signals (LLCSs) at a specially-constructed ‘urban’ four-arm junction. This report is available for no fee after logging onto the site.
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Traffic Safety Trends: State Legislative Action 2014 |
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The National Conference of State Legislatures has released a summary of states’ legislative action of occupant protection, distracted driving, driver licensing, impaired driving, aggressive driving, speed limits, motorcycle helmets, automated enforcement, school bus safety, and pedestrian and bicycle safety.
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NCSL Transportation Update: January/February 2015 |
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The National Conference of State Legislatures has released the latest version of its newsletter that summarizes transportation-related news from across the federal government
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Streetside: March 2015 |
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The Alliance for Biking and Walking has released the latest edition of its newsletter that includes news on safety-related topics, policy updates, advocacy information, and upcoming events.
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Hearing on the Public Safety Wireless Broadband Network |
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On March 11, 2015, the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee held a hearing to examine the First Responder Network Authority’s (FirstNet’s) progress in establishing a nationwide broadband network for emergency responders. FirstNet was established in the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012. A webcast of the...
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Eno Brief: March 2015 |
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The Eno Transportation Foundation has released the latest version of its monthly on-line newsletter. The newsletter is designed to provide information on transportation policy, executive leadership, news within the greater Eno community, and other items of interest.
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