TRB Annual Meeting

New TRB Publications

Integrating Resilience Concepts and Strategies into Transportation Planning: A Guide (NCHRP Research Report 1052)

Practices to Motivate Safe Behaviors with Highway Construction and Maintenance Crews (NCHRP Synthesis 608)

Enhancement of the Practice for Certification of Inertial Profiling Systems (NCHRP Research Report 1057)

Development of an Automated and Rapid Conditioning and Testing Device for Cracking and Rutting (NCHRP IDEA Final Report for Project 224)

Events

August 8 - Join the open sessions of the Impacts of Trains Longer Than 7,500 Feet meeting focused on grade crossings.

August  10 - Join the open sessions of the Impacts of Trains Longer Than 7,500 Feet meeting for a presentation on derailments by the Federal Railroad Administration.

August 30 - TRB Webinar: Accelerated Bridge Construction Programmatic Implementation

News for You

Get Involved as an NCHRP Synthesis Project Principal Investigator

TRB's National Highway Cooperative Research Program needs potential principal investigators for 21 new synthesis topics. Lend your expertise to one of these impactful projects. The fixed price-fee is $55,000. Submit your Letter of Interest for one of these topics by August 28. 

Get Involved with ACRP

Share your expertise! Diverse panelists are welcomed for Airport Cooperative Research Program projects on accommodating travelers with wheelchairs or differing cognitive needs, financing for small airports, virtual queuing and augmented reality, weather and energy resiliency, hydrogen-powered aircraft and more. Nominate yourself or a colleague no later than September 18.

AV-ailable Now!

Cruise through the presentations uploaded by speakers at TRB's Automated Road Transportation Symposium. View Sessions to find the materials from the online program. 

An Environmentally Sustainable Future

Get a holistic view of pavement sustainability and interactions between the correlated components of performance, environmental, economic, and social aspects. Join presenter and TRB volunteer Chaitanya Bhat (Asphalt Institute) for a detailed discussion on moving towards an environmentally sustainable future through a standardized methodology called Life Cycle Assessment. Register for the August 17 TRB webinar! 

Catch Up on Maritime Sustainability

Recordings from the Conference on the Marine Transportation System Innovative Science and Technologies Toward Greater Sustainability are now available. The conference identified research needs, barriers and potential progress related to overall environmental sustainability and decarbonization strategies. Particular emphasis was placed on lifecycle impacts, infrastructure requirements, vessel fleet considerations, and the necessary collaboration required among all MTS-related stakeholders and sectors.

TRID and RIP Enhancements

Optimize your searches! The Source menu in both TRID and Research In Progress’ Advanced search now provides checkboxes for each Source so you no longer need to execute multiple searches and combine them. All Sources are searched by default when no selection is made. When printing, emailing, or saving Marked Records from TRID or RIP, results can now be sorted by date or title.

The Result Type menu in TRID also provides checkboxes, and two or more Result Types can be selected in a single search. As with the Source menu, the default operator is OR and all Result Types are searched by default.

An icon now accompanies project records in TRID result lists to make them easier to distinguish between records describing publications or datasets.

Research Roundup

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville – Performance-Based Asphalt Mixture Design (PBD) for Arkansas

Iowa State University, Ames – Shrinkage and Temperature Forces in Frame Piers

University of North Dakota, Grand Forks – Performance Evaluation of Low Permeable Concrete Bridge Deck

Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities – Framework for the Development and Deployment of a Culvert Asset Management Plan in Alaska

U.S. Chamber of Commerce – Innovation Highway: Unlocking the Social and Economic Benefits of Autonomous Vehicles

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency – Research to Support the Application of a Risk-based Approach to Temporary Traffic Management

U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – Comparative Study of Communities With High Rates of Pedestrian Injuries

U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – Increasing Seat Belt Use Amongst Rural Populations

U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – Analysis of Ground Ambulance Crash Data From 2012 to 2018

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