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2018 TRB Annual Meeting: Papers Due August 1, 2017 |
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TRB is accepting papers for consideration as part of the program for the 97th TRB Annual Meeting, January 7–11, 2018, in Washington, D.C., and for publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR). All papers—whether for presentation at the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting or publication in the TRR—must...
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2018 TRB Annual Meeting: Register Today for Annual Meeting Online Tutorials |
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TRB is hosting a series of webinars for participants of the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting, which takes place January 7-11, 2018 in Washington, D.C. There is no fee to attend the webinars; however participants must register in advance. Webinar recordings will be posted for those who cannot attend the live session. The following webinar schedule is...
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TRB Seeking Consultants for FY 2017 NCHRP Synthesis Projects - Nominations Due August 28, 2017 |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued an invitation for letters of interest from those wishing to be considered as a consultant for one or more of the fiscal year 2017 NCHRP synthesis topics. Nominations may be submitted using the Letters of Interest web form and are due by August 28, 2017.
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FY 2018 ACRP Synthesis Study Topics Sought: Submissions Due September 1, 2017 |
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TRB is seeking potential synthesis study topics as part of the upcoming activities of the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP). Topics may be submitted at any time; however, the deadline for the upcoming submission cycle is September 1, 2017. All proposed new topics must be submitted online through the TRB Synthesis Website....
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11th Annual Competition and Call for Communications Concepts with John and Jane Q. Public: Communicating the Value of Long-Term Transportation Planning |
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The TRB Technical Activities Division’s Planning and Environment Group is holding its 11th annual competition to find top methods for communicating transportation concepts to non-professional audiences. Entries, which should focus on communicating the value of long-term transportation planning, are due by July 24, 2017.
Additional...
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TRB Volunteer Profile: Catherine T. Lawson |
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Catherine T. Lawson, director of the Albany Visualization and Informatics Lab (AVAIL) at the State University of New York at Albany, is a featured volunteer in the September-October 2016 edition of the TR News. Dr. Lawson builds web-based tool suites for multimodal analysis, and her work has included a bus transit modeling suite for New Jersey...
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8th International Visualization in Transportation Symposium: Visualization in Action - Advance Registration Ends June 26, 2017 |
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TRB is sponsoring the 8th International Visualization in Transportation Symposium: Visualization in Action on July 27-28, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Advance registration rates end June 26, 2017.
The symposium theme is Visualization in Action. Today’s visualization techniques can reshape the way transportation agencies and companies approach...
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TRB Webinar: Planning and Preliminary Engineering Applications Guide to the Highway Capacity Manual: Part 2, Applications |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 from 2:00-3:30PM ET about how the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) can be used to support agencies’ planning, programming, and management decisions in a cost-effective manner. Released by TRB, the HCM is used by transportation agencies to evaluate the current and future operations of roadway...
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TRB Webinar: Pavement Management Practices in the U.S. and Canada |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on Monday, July 17, 2017 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET that features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Synthesis 501: Pavement Management Systems: Putting Data to Work.
This webinar will examine current pavement management practices, focusing primarily on the types of...
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2018 TRB Annual Meeting: Requirements for Submitting Papers |
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TRB has released its requirements for submitting papers for presentation at the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting and/or publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. This guide covers the organization and formatting of manuscripts for peer review and for publication, as well as instructions for submission. ...
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Synthetic Household Travel Data Using Consumer and Mobile Phone Data |
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Project 184: Synthetic Household Travel Data Using Consumer and Mobile Phone Data explores the development of a method that fuses consumer data with anonymous, passive location data to create synthetic populations with individual-level...
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Geological, Geoenvironmental, and Geotechnical Engineering: Volume 1 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2655 consists of 10 papers that explore geological engineering, including:
- Evaluating Constructed Aggregate Layers of Working Platforms and Flexible Pavements: Adequacy of In-Place Quality Control and Quality Assurance Techniques
- Results of Soaked and...
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New Guidelines for Lighting Overhead Signs |
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) latest Ready Results explores lighting for overhead signs in suburban and urban areas, where more complex road designs may make headlight illumination of overhead signs inadequate. In addition, there is little consensus and guidance about when sign lighting may be needed. NCHRP Report...
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New Standards Improve Safety of Adhesive Anchor Systems |
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) latest Ready Results explores test methods for adhesive anchors—bolt systems augmented by structural adhesives. Adhesive anchor systems add holding strength to steel-to-concrete connections such as concrete construction panels. However, short-term tests of fully cured adhesives do not...
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NCHRP Practice-Ready Solutions for Warm Mix Asphalt |
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) latest Research Topic Highlights explores the use and application of Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA). This fact sheet summarizes the use of WMA and applications in the past decade. WMA is produced at temperature that is cooler than hot mix asphalt (HMA), reducing worker exposure to asphalt fumes...
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First International Roadside Safety Conference: Safer Roads, Saving Lives, Saving Money |
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TRB's Transportation Research E-Circular 220: First International Roadside Safety Conference: Safer Roads, Saving Lives, Saving Money contains papers and abstracts presented at the TRB First International Roadside Safety Conference: Safer Roads, Saving Lives, Saving Money on June 12-15, 2017 in San Francisco, California. The conference supports...
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Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public Transportation: Guidebook on Planning and Managing Park-and-Ride |
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TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Report 192: Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public Transportation: Guidebook on Planning and Managing Park-and-Ride provides approaches to managing park-and-ride facilities, from developing the park-and-ride concept for a community to day-to-day...
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Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public Transportation: Research Report and Transit Agency Case Studies |
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TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 69: Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public Transportation: Research Report and Transit Agency Case Studies supplements TCRP Research Report 192: Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public...
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Review of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s Oversight of the Suspected Unapproved Parts Program |
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The U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Inspector General has released a report that assesses the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s ability to monitor aircraft parts that may have been manufactured without FAA approval or intentionally misrepresented, also known as suspected unapproved parts (SUPs). The report assesses the...
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Examining the Feasibility of Alcohol Ignition Interlocks for Motorcycles |
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The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a report that examines the use of interlocks on motorcycles throughout the country, and determines the significant issues affecting the use of alcohol ignition interlocks on motorcycles. The research may help reduce alcohol-related crashes and fatalities on motorcycles.
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St. Lawrence Seaway: Overview of Safety, Efficiency, Operational, and Environmental Issues |
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The U.S. Department of Transportation has released a report that examines the opportunities to improve St. Lawrence Seaway operations through the application of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technology. The report summarized current conditions, documents operational challenges, and identifies preliminary opportunities to apply ITS...
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Evaluation of Responsible Beverage Service to Reduce Impaired Driving by 21- to 34-Year-Old Drivers |
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The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a report that examines the effectiveness of a multicomponent intervention with responsible beverage service (RBS) training to reduce impaired driving among 21- to 34-year-olds. The research may reduce over-service practices and the frequency of serving to obviously intoxicated...
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Public Roads: May/June 2017 |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration's has released the latest edition of its Public Roads magazine. The magazine highlights developments in federal highway policies, programs, and research and technology. This edition features connected vehicles, motorcycle safety, the shortage of semitrailer truck parking, and traffic management strategies...
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Field Implementation of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Deck Panels |
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The Missouri Department of Transportation has released a report that examines a prototype fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) deck panel that incorporates polyurethane foam in an attempt to reduce the initial costs. The research develops the design methodology and construction details necessary to implement the FRP deck panels on an actual bridge,...
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Strategies for Effective Roundabout Approach Speed Reduction |
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released a report that provides a resource for engineers to identify and select appropriate speed reduction treatments for high-speed approaches to roundabouts. The research examines the practices and research literature on speed reduction techniques for high-speed approaches for all intersection...
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Alcohol-Related Hot-Spot Analysis and Prediction: Human-Centered Solutions to Advanced Roadway Safety |
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The Roadway Safety Institute at the University of Minnesota has released a report that investigates advances in identifying hot spots of motor vehicle crashes. The research uses hot spot maps to develop a new method of patrolling for intoxicated drivers.
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National Road Safety Partnership Program Newsletter: June 2017 |
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Australia’s National Road Safety Partnership Program has released the latest edition of its newsletter that features its news briefs, events, and reports. This edition features information on wet weather driving, autonomous emergency breaking, car-to-car crash test results, and more.
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The Relationship Between Vehicle Axle Loadings and Pavement Wear on Local Roads |
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The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that provides evidence on the wear characteristics of New Zealand local road pavements from accelerated pavement loading studies at an indoor testing facility. The research measures the number of wheel loads to fail a rutting pavement; validates the accelerated pavement testing with field...
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Linking People and Places: New Ways of Understanding Spatial Access in Cities |
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The International Transport Forum has released a report that examines how different people and groups experience spatial accessibility in cities. The research discusses how better data and computing power have improved accessibility analysis and mapping, and made it more relevant to people.
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Assessing Regulatory Changes in the Transport Sector: An Introduction |
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The International Transport Forum has released a report that explains the aspects of a Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) system for transportation regulations. The research describes the rationale and the benefits of RIA frameworks and provides advice on dealing with the practical realities of implementing RIA in the transportation sector.
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How Much Do Consumers Value Fuel Economy and Performance? Evidence from Technology Adoption |
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Resources for the Future has released a report that evaluates the effects of tighter fuel economy standards on private consumer welfare. The report compares the welfare costs of forgone performance increases to the expected fuel savings benefits.
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Rates of Motor Vehicle Crashes, Injuries, and Deaths in Relation to Driver Age |
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The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has released a fact sheet on the rates of crashes, injuries, and death per mile driven in relation to driver age based on the most recent data available, from 2014-2015 .
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Hearing on Self-Driving Vehicles |
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On June 14, 2017, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing that explores automated vehicle technology and hurdles for testing and deployment in the United States. The hearing also examines state and federal roles to ensure safety while promoting innovation and American competitiveness. Witness statements...
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