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2020 TRB Annual Meeting: Papers Due August 1! |
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TRB is accepting papers for consideration as part of the program for the 99th TRB Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2020, in Washington, D.C., and/or for publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR). All papers for presentation at the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting must be submitted to TRB’s paper...
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Call for Nominations: Sharon D. Banks Award for Humanitarian Leadership in Transportation - Nominations Due July 31! |
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The Transportation Research Board is seeking nominations for the Sharon D. Banks Award for Humanitarian Leadership in Transportation. This TRB award, which recognizes excellence in people-oriented initiatives throughout transportation, was inaugurated in 2002 and is presented biennially. The next presentation of the award will be made during the...
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TRB Seeking Consultants for New 2019 NCHRP Synthesis Projects - Letters of Interest Due August 27, 2019 |
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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 fiscal year 2019 NCHRP synthesis topics. Submit Letters of Interest online by August 27, 2019. For the list of new synthesis topics and for further information for...
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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. The conference provides a forum for idea exchanges, knowledge sharing, and technology-need matchmaking in the global structural health monitoring and nondestructive...
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TRB Webinar: Rapid Scenario Planning: Freeway Facilities Analysis Using the HCM |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on Monday, July 29, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that provides updates to the latest version of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM), Sixth Edition: A Guide for Multimodal Mobility Analysis, which will be released next year. HCM is commonly used by transportation agencies to evaluate and forecast operations of roadway...
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TRB Webinar: Toolkit for Measuring Public Involvement Effectiveness in Transportation |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on Tuesday, July 30, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Research Report 905: Measuring the Effectiveness of Public Involvement in Transportation Planning and Project Development.
This webinar will illustrate how transportation...
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TRB Webinar: Recent Developments in Cold Asphalt Recycling |
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Pavement designers are invited to a TRB webinar on Monday, August 26, 2019, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET. The webinar will discuss recent research and implementation efforts related to cold in-place recycling (CIR) and cold central-plant recycling (CCPR) technologies. Recently, CIR and CCPR research has addressed mixture design, material...
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TRB Webinar: Practices and Marketing to Increase Rural Transit Ridership and Investment |
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Transit marketing professionals are invited to a TRB webinar on Tuesday, August 27, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET. The webinar features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Project 20-65 Task 73: Best Practices And Marketing To Increase Rural Transit Ridership And Investment.
The webinar will explore...
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TRB Webinar: The Research in Progress Database: Entering Projects and Searching Records |
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All transportation researchers and students are invited to a TRB webinar on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET. The webinar will provide provides users of TRB's Research in Progress (RiP) Database with the latest information about RiP's search and data entry interfaces.
The RiP Database is a leading tool for transportation...
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TRB Webinar: Roundabout Implementation Experience - Overcoming Challenges |
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Traffic design engineers are invited to a TRB webinar on Thursday, August 29, 2019, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET. The webinar will provide guidance that overcomes challenges of roundabout implementation and provides successful outcomes. During the last ten years, the roundabout implementation experience started to show how transferable a concept or...
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Research Pays Off: High-Performance Thin Asphalt Overlay Rises to Challenge |
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This Research Pays Off article documents the use of high-performance thin overlay (HPTO) material to upgrade First Avenue in Manhattan, New York City by adding a dedicated bus lane and separated bike lanes. Project required the rehabilitation of 53 cityblocks—and 11,000 tons of asphalt mix.
The construction included micromilling the existing...
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Very Short Duration Work Zone Safety for Maintenance and Other Activities |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 533 identifies the current state of practice among state departments of transportation (DOTs) regarding selection and setup of very short duration work zone (VSDWZ).
The report presents case examples of four state DOTs are provided; these present an in-depth analysis of the ...
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Automated Pavement Condition Surveys |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 531 documents agency practices, challenges, and successes in conducting automated pavement condition surveys.
The report also includes three case examples that provide additional information on agency practices for conducting automated pavement surveys.
Pavement condition...
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Airport Design and Construction Narrative Research Roadmap |
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TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Web-Only Document 40 outlines the key research gaps and areas of topics of interest for airports in the design and construction field over the next five years.
The research ideas generated as part of this project are organized into seven high-level themes that represent the main areas and...
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Transportation Research OnlineFirst: This Week’s Update of Recently Released Transportation Research Record Papers |
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Papers released the week of July 15 through the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board OnlineFirst portal include the following:
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Building large scale resilience to natural disasters |
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Position available: Director, office of vehicle crash avoidance and electronic controls research |
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is seeking to fill the position of Director, Office of Vehicle Crash Avoidance and Electronic Controls Research. The incumbent is responsible for driving change, leading and influencing diverse teams, and implementing vehicle safety research programs related to electronics reliability,...
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Position available: Director, office of safety analysis |
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The U.S. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is seeking to fill the position of Director, Office of Safety Analysis. The incumbent serves as the primary advisor for the FRA safety regulatory program and works closely with executives other executive agencies to ensure effective and consistent coordination on rail safety regulatory development and ...
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Position available: Deputy associate administrator for railroad safety |
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The U.S. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is seeking to fill the position of Deputy Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety. The incumbent will plan and implement the execution of FRA safety policies, programs, and activities and advancing overall organizational excellence within the Office of Railroad Safety. The incumbent will also...
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Critical infrastructure and cybersecurity |
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Transportation infrastructure and the effects of Buy America |
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Proximity of sheet pile walls on driven displacement piles |
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Submerged road characteristics in Louisiana |
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Traffic speed deflectometer measurements |
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Effectiveness of noise barriers on Dallas highway |
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Analyzing animal-vehicle collisions in Texas |
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Driver performance in semi-autonomous vehicles |
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Measuring railway performance |
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The question of how to effectively measure railway efficiency is examined in Efficiency in Railway Operations and Infrastructure Management, a report from the International Transport Forum. This report determines the proper level of detail for analysis and identifies what data needs to be available for benchmarking railway performance.
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Polymer modified binder and sprayed seals |
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Sprayed seal performance of different polymer modified binders (PMBs) in Australia are compared in Performance of Asphalt and Spray Grade PMBs in Sprayed Seals, a report from Austroads, which can be accessed for no fee after logging onto the site. This report determines whether using different grade PMBs has a significant effect on sprayed seal...
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Heavy-duty vehicle safety |
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Heavy-duty vehicle requirements are described in Vehicle Standards and Safety, a report from the National Transport Commission in Australia. This report reviews the Heavy Vehicle National Law in order to identify the vehicle safety issues that a recast law should cover. Feedback from the public is welcomed.
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Regulating automated vehicle safety |
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Regulations for automated vehicles are outlined in In-service Safety for Automated Vehicles, a report from the National Transport Commission in Australia. This report seeks to develop a nationally consistent regulatory framework to support the safe commercial deployment of automated vehicles into Australia. Feedback from the public is...
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Connected vehicle technologies in other countries |
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Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) technologies are explored in Connected Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities for Road Operators, a report from the World Road Association (PIARC), which can be accessed for no fee after logging onto the site. This report outlines opportunities these technologies provide, as well as...
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Hearing: Implementation of the Capital Investment Grant Program |
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A hearing about the Federal Transit Administration (FTA)’s implementation of the Capital Investment Grant Program took place on July 16, 2019. The FTA and metropolitan planning organizations provided testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. Witness...
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Responding to natural disasters through resilient infrastructure |
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Infrastructure resilience is examined in the latest issue of The Bridge from the National Academy of Engineering. This issue identifies planning and design practices for climate-resilient infrastructure, determines how to explicitly account for resilience with risk-based pricing, and determines what it means to be a resilient community.
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