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2020 TRB Annual Meeting: Submit Your Associated Groups' Function Space Requests Now |
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TRB is taking requests from non-profit organizations and government agencies that would like function space to hold meetings in conjunction with TRB’s 99th Annual Meeting, which takes place January 12-16, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
Qualifying organizations wishing to hold meetings or food-and-beverage events at the Marriott Marquis or the Walter ...
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Contribute to TRB’s Centennial Activities Today: TRB History Book Recognition Opportunity Ends Sept. 30 |
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Individuals or organizations wishing to be recognized as a Century Club or Century Patron contributor in the TRB history book, Transportation Research Board 1920–2020: Everyone Interested Is Invited must make their contributions by September 30, 2019.
TRB’s history book will be made available to all full registrant attendees and your...
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TRB Centennial - “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story” - What was one of your “aha” moments as a result of TRB? |
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TRB officially turns 100 on November 11, 2020. To help celebrate, TRB is asking you to “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story.”
The TRB “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story centennial activity is designed to allow as many of you (TRB’s volunteers and friends) as possible to participate in the TRB Centennial Celebration through the submission of your stories. The “Tell Us ‘Our” ...
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“Tell Us ‘Our’ Story” August Responses - What do you believe is TRB's greatest strength? |
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The TRB “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story centennial activity is designed to allow as many of you (TRB’s volunteers and friends) as possible to participate in the TRB Centennial Celebration through the submission of your stories. The “Tell Us ‘Our” Story” Centennial activity consists of a series of monthly questions that will help capture your stories.
Here ...
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TRB Webinar: Implications of Technologies for Visually Impaired Pedestrians |
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Transportation technology developers are invited to a TRB webinar on Tuesday, September 17, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET. The webinar will provide an overview of the demographics and characteristics of the visually impaired population and discuss the implications of technologies developed to aid this population. Developers of wayfinding or...
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TRB Webinar: Emerging Technologies for Construction Delivery |
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Construction professionals are invited to a TRB webinar on Wednesday, September 18, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET. The webinar features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Synthesis 534: Emerging Technologies for Construction Delivery.
The webinar will provide an overview of the current practices state...
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TRB Webinar: Open Graded Pavements: A Primer with Emphasis on Water Quality Benefits |
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Pavement designers are invited to a TRB webinar on Thursday, September 19, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET. This webinar will describe open graded pavement designs for highways, including Permeable Friction Course (PFC) overlays. These overlays are thin-lift open-graded pavement sections placed over a conventional highway pavement section that...
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TRB Webinar: Practices for Stabilized and Recycled Base and Subgrade Materials |
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Road construction professionals are invited to a TRB webinar on Monday, October 7, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET. The webinar will provide an overview of practices used to achieve high quality subgrade and base material when using lower quality or recycled materials. Professionals used laboratory and field data to predict field performance of...
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TRB Webinar: Unclutter Your Processes – Simplifying Climate Risk Management at Airports |
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Airport personnel are invited to a TRB webinar on Tuesday, October 8, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET. The webinar features research from the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 188: Using Existing Airport Management Systems to Manage Climate Risk.
This webinar will identify airport-related climate and weather risks....
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TRB Webinar: Legal Issues Regarding NEPA Assignment for Federal Transportation Programs |
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Transportation attorneys are invited to a webinar on Wednesday, October 9, 2019 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. This webinar will provide an overview of legal issues associated with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Assignment Program for federal transportation programs. Currently, six state departments of transportation (DOTs) participate in...
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TRB Webinar: Design and Construction of Mechanically Stabilized Earth Structures |
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Design and construction professionals are invited to a TRB webinar on Thursday, October 10, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET. The webinar will provide an overview of Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) walls and ground improvement methods. MSE structures allow for stabilization in soil environments that typically are not conducive to settlement...
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ACRP FY 2020 Project Panel Nominations Due September 23, 2019 |
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) is soliciting nominations for members of panels who will provide technical guidance for individual ACRP research projects as part of its fiscal year 2020 activities. Descriptions of the projects that were selected are available online for review. Nominees should have expertise directly...
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RFP: Research Roadmap for the AASHTO Council on Active Transportation |
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program has issued a request for proposals to develop a research roadmap that can be used by the Council to focus its efforts to foster, support, monitor, disseminate, and implement research on active transportation. Proposals are due October 30, 2019.
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Special Report 332 - Review and Update of U.S. Coast Guard Vessel Stability Regulations and Guidance |
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U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) ship-stability regulations governing the ability of a vessel to return to an upright position after being disturbed by an outside force is the focus of a new TRB publication, Special Report 332 - Review and Update of U.S. Coast Guard Vessel Stability Regulations and Guidance. The authors recommend how...
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Attracting Investment at General Aviation Airports Through Public–Private Partnerships |
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Although general aviation airports have historically been funded by federal, state, and local entities, the private sector is increasingly playing a larger role. This involvement has ranged on a continuum from service and management contracts to singular projects at airports that involve leasing mechanisms to long-term leases and the whole-scale...
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Transportation Research Circular E-C249: Key Elements of Construction Quality Assurance for Implementation |
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TRB’s Technical Activities Division has released Transportation Research Circular E-C249: Key Elements of Construction Quality Assurance for Implementation, presenting a synopsis of "Quality Assurance: There’s Value in the Basics," held at the 2018
Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board.
In this session, four speakers with
a range ...
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Measuring, Characterizing, and Reporting Pavement Roughness of Low-Speed and Urban Roads |
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Pavement smoothness (or roughness) is used by state highway agencies for monitoring network condition and other purposes such as assessing construction quality and optimizing investments in preservation, rehabilitation, and reconstruction.
States are also required to report the International Roughness Index (IRI) as an element of the federal...
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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 September 2 through the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board OnlineFirst portal include the following:
For more than 50 years, the...
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Transportation planning tools for urban mobility |
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Planning cities of the future |
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Do you have questions about the current emission standards? |
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Addressing railroad safety culture |
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Shared traffic safety cultures |
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Using partially recycled asphalt |
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Preventing decay of wood guardrail posts |
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Wood guardrail posts are inspected in Field Analysis of Wood Guardrail Post Decay, a report from the Washington State Department of Transportation. This report analyzes available data to determine factors that may lead to increased wood decay rates.
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Better dynamic warning systems |
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Enhancing safety of a dynamic curve speed warning system is outlined in Cloud-Based Dynamic Warning System, a report from the Minnesota Department of Transportation. Transportation agencies employ dynamic warning systems that utilize roadside speed detection and warning equipment to provide drivers with a warning when they enter a curve at a speed ...
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Improving asphalt pavements |
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Optimizing design of low volume roads |
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Pavement design and asphalt mixtures for low volume roads (LVR) are examined in A Synthesis of Technical Needs of Asphalt Pavements for Local Roads, a report from the National Center for Asphalt Research at Auburn University. The network of LVRs is vast and relatively low-use, and as a result, they are often built with lower-than-conventional...
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Increasing safety of child pedestrians |
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The safety of child pedestrians is reexamined in Redefining the Child Pedestrian Safety Paradigm, a report from the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University. This report identifies locations in urban areas where child pedestrians are at particular risk for fatal collisions with vehicles and determines ways to...
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Testing e-ticketing in construction projects |
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Evaluating safety of innovative intersection designs |
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Charges associated with public-private partnerships |
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Regulating bikesharing and ridesourcing apps |
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App-based mobility services are discussed in Regulating App-Based Mobility Services: Summary and Conclusions, a report from the International Transport Forum. This report is based on a roundtable discussion that focused primarily on bikesharing and ridesourcing apps. This report identifies potential regulatory principles to optimize consumer...
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Recommendations sought for motorized mobility device specifications |
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Options for motorized mobility device specifications are discussed in Motorised Mobility Devices Discussion Paper, a report from Austroads. Austroads is accepting public comments on potential recommendations until September 16, 2019. The report is available for no fee after logging onto the site.
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Electric vehicle ordinances |
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Electric vehicle (EV) and EV supply equipment ordinances in the United States are outlined in Summary of Best Practices in Electric Vehicle Ordinances, a report from the Great Plains Institute. This report defines EV supply equipment in terms of permitted land use, make-ready standards, parking requirements, and signage.
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