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2019 TRB Annual Meeting: Workshop Information |
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Titles, dates, times, and brief descriptions are now available for the 100+ specialty workshops at the TRB 98th Annual Meeting, January 13-17, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Annual Meeting registration is required for all workshop attendees. The Human Factors workshops, which are those with titles beginning with “HR,” have limited attendance and...
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Warning: Annual Meeting Mailing List Solicitations |
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Don’t be fooled! If you receive a solicitation to purchase the TRB Annual Meeting attendee mailing list, it is not coming from TRB.
TRB recommends that you do not click on any links in the email and that you delete it immediately. TRB also recommends that you do not request to be remove from the mailing list as that likely would confirm...
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TRB Webinar: Workforce of the Future: Educating and Retraining the Freight Industry |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on Tuesday, August 28, 2018 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET that explores the future of freight education. Presenters will focus on how to develop a talent pipeline starting in primary and secondary education (K-12) and continuing through university programs. The webinar will provide information for the K-12, community...
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TRB Webinar: Beyond Volume: Investment Prioritization Methods for Low-Volume Roads |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, August 29, 2018, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET that features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Synthesis 521: Investment Prioritization Methods for Low-Volume Roads.
This webinar will identify current practices used by transportation agencies to make investment decisions ...
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TRB Webinar: Hacks and Attacks: Keeping Critical Transportation Infrastructure Resilient |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on Thursday, August 30, 2018 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that will identify recent attacks on transportation systems and describe practices that may avoid network breaches. As critical transportation infrastructure comes to rely on greater amounts of data, cyberattacks are an eminent threat. This webinar will explore...
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TRB Webinar: Predicting Deformations of Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil for Bridge Support |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on Monday, September 17, 2018 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET that will present design equations for predicting the maximum lateral deformation and settlement of geosynthetic reinforced soil (GRS) under various configurations and service loads. This webinar will examine both bridge abutments and reinforced soil foundation for ...
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TRB Webinar: How to Process AIS Data to Maximize Utility and Overcome Data Challenges |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on Tuesday, September 18, 2018, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET that examines how to process large marine vessel automatic identification system (AIS) datasets in order to maximize their usage. AIS data has evolved from simple tasks, such as mapping port traffic patterns, to more complex tasks, such as assessing locations for ...
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TRB Webinar: Continuous Access Priced Managed Lanes – What Have We Learned So Far? |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on Thursday, September 20, 2018 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that will share case studies from the operations of continuous access priced managed lane projects in California, Washington, and Minnesota. Continuous access priced managed lanes, which contain only a dashed-stripe separating the managed lanes from the general...
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Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties |
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Legal Research Digest 34: Airport Public Health Preparedness and Response: Legal Rights, Powers, and Duties addresses the legal issues concerning the measures to detect communicable diseases, regulations to control communicable diseases, methods for decontamination, emergency legal preparedness,...
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Microgrids and Their Application for Airports and Public Transit |
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) and Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) have released a joint report, ACRP Synthesis 91 / TCRP Synthesis 137: Microgrids and Their Application for Airports and Public Transit. The report describes microgrids that airports and public transit agencies can implement to increase resilience of...
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Sustainability's Role in Enhancing Airport Capacity |
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 93: Sustainability's Role in Enhancing Airport Capacity compiles information and examples that successfully demonstrate the value of building sustainability concepts into capacity-enhancing projects. The report describes additional resources and tools that provide guidance on how to...
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Traffic Control Devices and Measures for Deterring Wrong-Way Movements |
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 881: Traffic Control Devices and Measures for Deterring Wrong-Way Movements provides an analysis of factors associated with wrong-way movements on unsignalized divided highways and freeways. The divided highway analysis focuses on design, signage, and roadway markings,...
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TR News March-April 2018: Test Track for New Tech |
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The full edition of March-April 2018 TR News is now available. This TR News explores the creation and development of a new mode of transportation. Other articles describe 3-D printing in construction, strategic program delivery, and performance evaluation of guardrail end treatments.
The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely...
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Nighttime Visibility |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has released educational modules to accompany the FHWA Lighting Handbook. The modules help transportation agencies make decisions about appropriate roadway lighting and provide assistance in using the handbook.
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Noise Measurement Handbook |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that provides guidance on recognizing which noise measurement methodologies apply to which project types. This report also explains how to plan a noise measurement program and describes measurement methodologies and related considerations related to highway noise.
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UTC Spotlight: July 2018 |
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The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation has released the latest edition of its newsletter that highlights recent accomplishments and products from university transportation centers (UTCs). This edition features North Carolina A&T State University with consortium members...
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Evaluating the Success of Meeting Design Objectives on Previously Constructed OOS Stream Stability Projects |
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The Maryland Department of Transportation has released a report that determines the success of stream channel transition designs through bridge reaches and the suitability of these designs to transport sediment through the bridge opening. This report also develops a methodology to guide the design type selection process of new bridges or new...
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Implementation of a Precast Inverted T-Beam System in Virginia: Part II: Analytic and Field Investigations |
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The Virginia Department of Transportation has released a report that presents the results of three phases of a comprehensive research project to develop and implement an inverted T-beam system for Virginia. The inverted T-beam superstructure is a bridge system that provides an accelerated construction alternative for short-to-medium-span bridges....
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Remaining Service Life Asset Measure, Phase 1 |
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has released a report that examines MnDOT’s use of the remaining service life (RSL) measure for pavement condition. This report also identifies what tools and methodologies are available nationally and internationally to measure infrastructure assets.
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Balanced Design of Asphalt Mixtures |
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has released a report that develops a balanced mix design (BMD) for MnDOT and identifies how it evaluates materials from four Minnesota projects. A BMD sets a maximum asphalt content based on the rutting criterion and a minimum asphalt content based on cracking criterion.
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Testing, Evaluation, and Specification for Polymeric Materials Used for Transportation Infrastructures |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that evaluates sunlight degradation of polymeric products used in transportation-related applications. This report also recommends test protocols for quality assurance measurements.
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Long-Term Behavior of Precast Concrete Bridges |
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The Upper Great Plains Institute at North Dakota State University has released a report that investigates the differences in prestress losses and temperature gradients in a concrete deck bulb tee girder bridge. This report also monitors the prestress loss effects from the friction in the casting bed.
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Review of Initial Service Life Determination in Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) Procedures and in Practice |
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The National Center for Asphalt Technology at Auburn University has released a report that identifies current methods that state departments of transportation (DOTs) use to determine initial service life for use in life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) for both asphalt and concrete pavements. This report also determines actual service life of these...
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Portable Multi-Sensor System for Intersection Safety Performance Assessment |
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The Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that investigates the use of surveillance cameras as a sensor for traffic state estimation. Most of the cameras installed on freeways and arterials are still used for manual surveillance purposes only.
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Visualization and Communication in Pavement Performance |
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The Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that develops visualization techniques and methods of pavement performance data in a communication-friendly format. For the purposes of this report, end users were thought to be either county office administrators examining the status of the roads in their counties and ...
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Design of Buried Flexible Pipes |
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Austroads has released a report that amends the former Buried Flexible Pipes: Structural Design. This update addresses the issues of traffic loads, sufficient safety margins, membrane hoop strains, and local instability. The report is available for no fee after logging onto the site.
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Guide to Road Tunnels Part 3: Operations and Maintenance |
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Austroads has released a report that describes key issues and considerations related to the operation and maintenance aspects of road tunnels, including the factors necessary in setting appropriate performance standards. It is the third in a series of guides to road tunnels. The report is available for no fee after logging onto the site.
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Low-Level Cycle Signals: On-Street Observations of Early Release and Hold the Left |
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TRL in the United Kingdom has released a report that presents the findings of research about new infrastructure innovations for cyclists called Early Release (ER) and Hold the Left (HTL). ER refers to a separate set of traffic signals for cyclists along with an Advanced Cycle Stop-line and lead-in cycle lane. HTL provides a cycle lane (or fully...
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Recommendations for the Proposed Heavy-Duty Vehicle CO2 Standards in the European Union |
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The International Council on Clean Transportation has released a report that provides recommendations to improve the environmental outcomes of the proposed standards from the European Commission (EC). In May 2017, the EC issued a regulatory proposal that would set initial carbon dioxide (CO2) emission standards for new heavy-duty vehicles sold in...
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Lessons Learned on Early Electric Vehicle Fast-Charging Deployments |
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The International Council on Clean Transportation has released a report that summarizes lessons learned from fast-charging deployments in many markets around the world. This report also reviews recent developments in fast-charging technology and their impacts on the electric grid, as well as planning issues related to fast-charging station use.
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Hearing: Pipeline Safety in the Great Lakes: Incident Prevention and Response Efforts in the Straits of Mackinac |
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On August 20, 2018, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing to discuss federal oil spill prevention efforts, preparedness and response capability in the event of an oil pipeline break in the Straits of Mackinac. Line 5, the 65-year-old pipeline crossing the Straits of Mackinac, has been the subject of...
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