TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 800: Successful Practices in GIS-Based Asset Management provides guidance for state transportation agencies on using geographic information system (GIS) technologies in transportation asset management (TAM). In addition to the report, the Executive Guide and Implementation Guide are available online.  

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 115: Open Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Transit Agencies documents the current state of the practice in the use, policies, and impact of open data for improving transit planning, service quality, and treatment of customer information.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 128: Alternative IT Delivery Methods and Best Practices for Small Airports provides guidance and templates to help airport staff understand the appropriate IT delivery methods and best practices based on their unique strategic goals, requirements, and overall airport goals.

A slideshow summary of the Transportation Research Board's pre- and post-September 11, 2001, transportation security and resilience activities is updated monthly.

Since September 11, 2001, 145 security-, emergency management-, and infrastructure protection-related planning and implementation projects have been initiated through programs managed by the Transportation Research Board (TRB). One hundred eleven of these projects have been completed; 24 projects are in progress; and 10 projects have contracts pending or are currently in development. This report, updated monthly, provides information on about $20 million worth of completed and ongoing TRB security resear...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released report S2-S31-RW-1: Naturalistic Driving Study: Descriptive Comparison of the Study Sample with National Data that provides technical support to users of the SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) data. Specifically, the report provides guidance for analysts with weighting SHRP 2 NDS data so they may make comparisons with the U.S. population.

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 468: Interactive Training for All-Hazards Emergency Planning, Preparation, and Response for Maintenance and Operations Field Personnel identifies interactive emergency training tools and sources that may be applied by maintenance and operations field personnel of state departments of transportation and public works agencies. The report also identifies potential obstacles to their implementation and develops a toolkit of relevant traini...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record (TRR): Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2419 consists of 12 articles that explore the impacts of real-time passenger information signs in rail stations at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority; the performance of Australian light rail and comparison with U.S. trends; rail transit networks with ring lines; a study that informs the Chicago, Illinois Transit Authority’s future rail car seating design; accommodations for the long-term growth on N...

The latest edition of Research Pays Off included in the November–December 2014 edition of the TR News explores how the Nebraska Department of Transportation applied a precast concrete deck system to improve constructability and cost-effectiveness. Research Pays Off is a regular series highlighted in TRB’s bimonthly magazine, TR News. TR News features timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation. It also includes brief news items of interest to th...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 470: Maintenance Quality Assurance Field Inspection Practices summarizes practices used by state transportation agencies to support maintenance investments. Appendices A and B are only available through the online PDF document.