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2019 TRB Annual Meeting: Registration is Open |
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Register and make hotel reservations today for the TRB 98th Annual Meeting, January 13-17, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Registration is required for all Annual Meeting attendees, including session speakers, poster presenters, and those who attend the exhibit hall, career fair, or any workshops.
Full Registration also includes full access to:...
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Submit Interest in Participating in the 2019 TRB Annual Meeting Strategic War Games by September 15, 2018 |
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Submit your interest in participating in the 2019 TRB Strategic War Games by September 15, 2018. War games are fast-paced simulations involving teams that represent a market or customer, a set of competitors, and a series of other uncontrollable factors or entities. This event, which will take place during 2019 TRB Annual Meeting, focuses on how...
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17th National Transportation Planning Applications Conference - Submit Abstracts by September 7 |
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TRB is sponsoring the 17th National Transportation Planning Applications Conference on June 2-5, 2019, in Portland, Oregon. The conference focuses on providing opportunities to showcase new transportation planning techniques and methods emphasizing practical, innovative, and timely technical and policy approaches to transportation planning. Submit ...
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FY 2019 ACRP Synthesis Topics Sought: Submissions Due September 21, 2018 |
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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 21, 2018.
This year, submit topics through ACRP’s IdeaHub. Sign into IdeaHub using a previously...
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International Conference on Demand Responsive and Innovative Transportation Services - Submit Abstracts by October 15, 2018 |
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TRB is sponsoring the International Conference on Demand Responsive and Innovative Transportation Services on April 15-17, 2019, in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference will provide a chance to exchange knowledge with international operators; learn from suppliers and academics about advances in information technology, vehicles, and equipment;...
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TRB Webinar: Performance-Based Mix Design of Porous Friction Courses |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on Monday, September 10, 2018, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Research Report 877: Performance-Based Mix Design for Porous Friction Courses.
This webinar will provide guidelines for a performance-based mix design procedure for porous...
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TRB Webinar: Passenger Value of Time, BCA, and Airport Capital Investment Decisions |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on Thursday, September 13, 2018, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)’s Web-Only Document 22: Passenger Value of Time, Benefit-Cost Analysis, and Airport Capital Investment Decisions. The webinar will focus on Volume 1: Guidebook for Valuing User Time...
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Construction and Rehabilitation of Concrete Pavements Under Traffic |
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 530: Construction and Rehabilitation of Concrete Pavements Under Traffic identifies practices from projects representing a wide range of conditions and techniques. The current state of the practice in constructing or rehabilitating concrete pavements under traffic relies...
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TR News July-August 2018: Risk Sharing and Transfer Using Alternative Project Delivery Methods and Contracting |
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A featured article in the July-August 2018 issue of the TR News investigates how risk is addressed in both the traditional project delivery method and in alternative project delivery methods used by departments of transportation across the country.
The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and...
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Research Pays Off - Georgia’s Path to Innovation: Alternative Delivery Breathes Life into State Transportation Infrastructure |
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The latest edition of Research Pays Off explores the Georgia Department of Transportation (DOT)'s use of alternative delivery methods to compress and accelerate
the delivery of projects from engineering through construction
through public–private partnerships (PPPs)
and design–build (DB) methods.This article discusses the legislation that allowed...
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Review: U.S. Department of Transportation Criminal Violation Reporting |
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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has released a report that examines the DOT’s policies and procedures for prompt referral of potential criminal violations to the OIG office. The OIG detects and prevents fraud, abuse, and mismanagement, and provides criminal enforcement for violations of law.
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Effects on Intelligent Transportation Systems Planning and Deployment in a Connected Vehicle Environment |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that analyzes the impacts of connected vehicle (CV) technology on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) planning processes and implementation. This report investigates the need for new or enhanced tools, techniques, and data to support ITS planning and operations activities with...
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Successes in Stewardship Newsletter: July 2018 |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released the latest issue of its Successes in Stewardship bi-monthly newsletter, which highlights current environmental streamlining practices from around the United States. This edition features information about multimodal roadway design and green infrastructure.
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UTC Spotlight: August 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 the University of New Orleans Transportation Institute as part of the...
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Kansas Department of Transportation Column Expert: Shear Capacity of Circular Bridge Piers Confined with Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Wrapping |
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The Kansas Department of Transportation has released a report that reviews various procedures for computing the shear strength of circular bridge piers. Analyzing circular columns may accurately predict their ultimate confined capacity under shear-flexure-axial force.
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Comparison of NU I-Girders and K-Girders for Use in Kansas Pretensioned Concrete Bridges |
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The Kansas Department of Transportation has released a report that provides an overview of University of Nebraska (NU) girders, including data to determine whether or not wide-scale adoption is warranted. Prestressed concrete bridge girders have evolved from traditional bulky shapes to efficient girder cross-sections with long spans and wide, thin ...
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Research Management Database Business Analysis |
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The Washington State Department of Transportation has released a report that analyzes business needs for state departments of transportation (DOT) research projects and program management databases. The goal of this report is to provide foundational information for agencies wishing to develop or improve existing research programs and project...
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Re-tightening the Large Anchor Bolts of Support Structures for Signs and Luminaires |
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released a report that investigates causes of loose anchor bolts in support structures such as overhead signs, high-mast light towers, and tall traffic signals. This report proposes solutions for the loose bolts based on site surveying, field monitoring, laboratory study, and numerical analysis.
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Improving the Quality of Bridge Inspections Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) |
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released a report that explores using drones (UAS) as a tool for improving the quality of bridge inspections. This report represents the third phase of the research, and identifies new drone technology and methods to address limitations identified in Phase II of the project.
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Performance and Life-Cycle Cost Benefits of Stone Matrix Asphalt |
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The National Center for Asphalt Technology at Auburn University has released a report that compares the performance and life-cycle cost benefits of stone matrix asphalt (SMA) to those of polymer-modified Superpave dense-graded mixtures used on similar trafficked highways. SMA uses higher asphalt contents than conventional Superpave dense-graded...
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Early-Age Fiber-Reinforced Concrete Properties for Overlays |
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The Upper Great Plains Institute at North Dakota State University has released a report that analyzes the age-dependent changes in flexural and fracture properties of fiber-reinforced concrete (FRC) used in the design of thin overlay pavements. FRC has the potential to improve performance over unreinforced plain concrete with regards to crack...
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Risk and Failure Resilience of Interdependent Transportation Systems |
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The Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that explores the gap between quantitative and qualitative assessment of engineering resilience in complex transportation infrastructure systems. Complex interdependencies between critical infrastructure systems may exacerbate the consequences of initial failure events ...
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Intelligent Highway Management System for the City of Wichita |
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The Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that discusses the development of a new Intelligent Highway Management System (IHMS). The IHMS can extract specific incident-relevant record data from high-dimensional, high-volume time series datasets. It can also analyze online traffic-related data for incident...
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Great Kiwi Road Trips: Enhancing New Zealand’s Tourism Industry through Better Visitor Journeys |
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The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that identifies the expectations, motivations, experiences, information preferences, and behavior of domestic and international visitors travelling on New Zealand’s transportation network. The transportation network has the capacity to open up or limit wider exploration across a region,...
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Post-Impact Care: How Can New Zealand Address the Fifth Pillar of Road Safety? |
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The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that seeks to codify the role of the government and the transportation sector regarding improving outcomes for crash victims in New Zealand. The World Health Organization and United Nations have identified post-crash response for victims as one of the five pillars of road safety.
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Environmental Performance of Emerging Supersonic Transport Aircraft |
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The International Council on Clean Transportation has released a report that assesses the environmental performance of new commercial supersonic transport (SST) aircraft. Several startup companies in the U.S. are working to develop new SSTs, and there are currently no international environmental standards for such aircraft.
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Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) Open Data Recommendations |
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Austroads has released a report that determines a strategy for supplying road operator data for use by connected and automated vehicles (CAV) in Australia. CAVs are expected to rely heavily on data from their sensors for vehicle control actions such as acceleration and braking. The report is available for no fee after logging into the site.
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Guide to Pavement Technology Part 4K: Selection and Design of Sprayed Seals |
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Austroads has released a report that provides guidance for selecting and designing sprayed seals. This guide is an update of the previous Guide to Pavement Technology Part 4K: Seals to incorporate sprayed seal design. The report is available for no fee after logging into the site.
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PHMSA’s 2009 Gas Distribution Rule Should It Stay or Should It Go? |
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Resources for the Future has released a report that analyzes the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)’s Integrity Management Program for Gas Distribution Pipelines rule, which was implemented in 2009 to require gas pipeline operators to develop integrity management programs. The report explores any economic and/or safety...
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