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TRB Congratulates AASHTO Executive Director Bud Wright on His Retirement |
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Bud Wright, Executive Director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has announced that he will retire at the end of 2018.
“The entire TRB community is grateful to Bud Wright for the tremendous support that he has given to TRB over the years, and particularly during his time as Executive Director of ...
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TCRP Launches New Home Page on www.TRB.org |
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The Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) is pleased to announce the launch of its newly redesigned primary home page: http://www.trb.org/TCRP/TCRP.aspx.
The new landing page has been designed to ensure visitors are provided with a user-friendly experience across all digital platforms, including desktops, tablets, and phones. The TCRP...
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TRB Webinar: Tools for a Sustainable Transit Agency |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on Tuesday, June 5, 2018, from 2:00PM to 3:30PM ET that features research from the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)’s Research Report 197: Tools for a Sustainable Transit Agency.
This research explores the development of two tools for improving sustainability at transit agencies, the Sustainability Routemap...
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TRB Webinar: Classifying Fracture Critical Members |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on Thursday, June 7, 2018 from 2:00 PM to 4:00P M ET that that will discuss the concept of fracture critical members (FCMs) in steel bridges. Over the past decade, there have been various notions about what constitutes an FCM, but it was not clearly defined. This webinar will present recent research and specifications on ...
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NTI Webinar: TCRP Synthesis 136: Contracting Fixed-Route Transit Service* |
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TRB is cosponsoring a webinar on Wednesday, June 27, 2018 from 2:00-3:30 PM ET that features the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 136: Contracting Fixed-Route Bus Transit Service. Participants should register in advance. The National Transit Institute (NTI) is sponsoring this webinar, and there is no fee to register...
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RFP: Permissible Uses of Airport Revenue and Property |
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has released a request for proposals to evaluate the scope of permissible uses of airport revenue and property. Proposals are due July 9, 2018.
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Ninth International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (SHMII-9)* |
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TRB is cosponsoring the Ninth International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (SHMII-9) on August 4-7, 2019, in St. Louis, Missouri. Submit abstracts online within one of the conference tracks and topics by June 1, 2018. If you are interested in proposing a special session with five or six...
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Enhanced Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board Now Available |
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TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board has released more than 200 papers from the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting. Enhancements to the journal include:
- Articles published much closer to final acceptance
- A new user interface for the journal
- Article-level metrics
- Full-text HTML to...
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Review of the Draft Fourth National Climate Assessment |
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The draft Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) report reviewed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, explores a wide range of topics of high importance to the United States and society more broadly, extending from human health and community well-being, to the built environment, to businesses and economies, to...
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The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education |
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have released the report, The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education. This report examines the evidence behind the assertion that educational programs that mutually integrate learning experiences in the humanities and arts...
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Safety Compass Newsletter: Spring 2018 |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released the latest issue of its Safety Compass newsletter. This edition features information about:
- Local road safety plans
- Vulnerable road user safety
- Safety analysis and data
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Public Roads: Spring 2018 |
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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 information about:
- Building sustainable bridges
- New pavement technologies
- Integrating connected and...
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Transit Safety and Oversight Spotlight: May 2018 |
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The U.S. Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has released its monthly newsletter about the latest transit safety issues. This edition features information about:
- Upcoming trainings
- MARTA's wayside worker protection project
- Cherry blossom safety strike force event
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Effectiveness of Stationary Police Vehicles with Blue Lights in Freeway Work Zones |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that analyzes the effectiveness of deploying stationary police vehicles with flashing blue warning lights in freeway work zones. The effectiveness was evaluated based on reductions in average vehicle speeds, reductions in vehicle speeding, and changes in vehicle lane use.
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Evaluation of Green Lights on TMAs |
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The Missouri Department of Transportation has released a report that compares the use of green versus traditional amber lights on Truck Mounted Attenuators (TMAs) to see if using green lights improved safety in mobile work zones. Simulator tests captured driver behavior measures, including first blinker distance and speed, merge distance and...
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An Evaluation of Michigan’s Continuous Count Station (CCS) Distribution |
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The Michigan Department of Transportation has released a report that evaluates Michigan’s current continuous counting program and identifies how to combine traffic data from Intelligent Transportation Systems sites and continuous counting stations (CCS) sites. Measuring traffic data from continuous counting programs is one way to gauge traffic...
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Safety Performance Functions for Rural Road Segments and Rural Intersections in Michigan |
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The Michigan Department of Transportation has released a report that describes the development of safety performance functions for rural road segments and intersections in Michigan. This report aims to provide a number of tools that allow for proactive safety planning activities, including network screening and identification of high-risk sites.
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Compliance Crash Testing of the Type 60 Median Barrier |
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The California Department of Transportation has released a report that discusses the results of a crash test on the Type 60 Median Barrier, which is used in California. The objective of this report is to verify that the Type 60 Median Barrier will meet the evaluation criteria for longitudinal barriers.
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Precast, Prestressed Concrete Bent Caps: Volume 1: Preliminary Design Considerations and Experimental Test Program |
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The Texas A&M Transportation Institute has released a report that explores the design and behavior of pretensioned bent caps on bridge substructures. Precast prestressed concrete bent caps may enable accelerated construction and improve longevity by reducing the propensity for cracking.
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Precast, Prestressed Concrete Bent Caps: Volume 2: Design Recommendations and Design Examples |
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The Texas A&M Transportation Institute has released a report that provides examples of pretensioned bent cap designs to demonstrate implementation of bridge design recommendations. This report also provides recommendations for converting existing reinforced concrete bent cap designs to pretensioned designs.
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Development of Rural Road Bridge Weigh-in-Motion System to Assess Weight and Configuration of Farm-to-Market Vehicles |
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The Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that assesses the impact of farm-to-market vehicles and other implements of husbandry (IoH) on rural bridges. IoH vehicles usually travel rural roads with heavy loads, especially during harvest. This report seeks to provide accurate information of IoH weights on...
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Modified Micro-Deval Procedure for Polishing of Fine Asphalt Mix Aggregates |
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The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has released a report that describes a test procedure that combines Micro-Deval and 2nd generation Aggregate Imaging Measurement Systems. This procedure was developed to characterize aggregate polishing characteristics in order to provide a means for...
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Power Play: How Governments are Spurring the Electric Vehicle Industry |
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The International Council on Clean Transportation has released a report that provides a detailed assessment of light-duty electric vehicle sales and manufacturing, including the associated battery production and its suppliers. This report seeks to investigate the status of the major electric vehicle markets through 2017 and identify policy...
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Blockchain and Beyond: Encoding 21st Century Transport |
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The International Transport Forum has released a report that investigates the potential for distributed ledger technologies (DLT) to support broader coordination of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) in urban settings. DLTs, such as blockchain, allow agents to enter into direct relationships with each other according to a commonly agreed set of rules...
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Defining, Measuring, and Improving Air Connectivity |
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The International Transport Forum has released a report that reviews various approaches to measuring air connectivity, and applies them to assess the air connectivity performance of two hub airports on different continents. Air connectivity is broadly defined as the ability and ease with which passengers and freight can reach destinations by air.
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Guidelines and Specifications for Microsurfacing |
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Austroads has released a report that provides guidelines for using microsurfacing treatments in Australia. This report offers specific recommendations for road asset owners and managers to use microsurfacing materials along with a framework to use when developing a microsurfacing specification. The report is available for no fee after logging into ...
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Scoping Study for a Location Referencing Model to Support the BIM Environment |
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Austroads has released a report that proposes a new Primary Location Reference System (PLRS) designed to support and to depend upon existing secondary reference systems. A PLRS provides a framework for roadway management systems to integrate their data. The report is available for no fee after logging into the site.
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SHRP2 Webinars on Advanced Methods to Identify Pavement Delamination (R06D) Proof of Concept Trials |
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The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will host two webinars on the findings of the Proof of Concept experiments performed in multiple states that were part of the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2) product R06D, Advanced Methods to Identify...
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Hearing: FAST Act Implementation: Motor Carrier Provisions |
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On May 22, 2018, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit held a hearing to understand the implementation of various motor carrier provisions passed in the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. Representatives from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...
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The Economic Cost of Failing to Modernize Public Transportation |
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The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) has released a report that quantifies the economic costs of what happens when transit systems are not in a state of good repair (SGR). This report highlights case studies from around the country about how different agencies are dealing with SGR issues.
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