TRB’s Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Transit Project 75: Intercity Transit Trip Planning Web Application summarizes a tool that facilitates the planning of intercity travel by integrating data from passenger bus and rail services.

TRB’s Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Safety Project 20: Materials with Improved Absorption of Collision Forces for Railroad Cars examines the potential applications of Composite Metal Foams (CMFs) to improve the crashworthiness of railroad cars.

TRB’s Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Transit Project 72: Handheld Wheel Flaw Detection Device: Noncontact Electronic Wheel Gauge (NEWG) summarizes the development of a prototype handheld, self-contained wheel gauge to address limitations measuring and tracking aspects of transit wheels.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 125: Balancing Airport Stormwater and Bird Hazard Management help airports identify and evaluate stormwater management and bird mitigation practices. An accompanying CD-ROM tool is aimed to assist airports with evaluating bird strike risks and stormwater management decisions. The CD is also available for download from TRB’s website as an ISO image. Links to the ISO image and instructions for burning a CD-ROM from an ISO image are provided below. He...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 467: Visualization of Technical Data for Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Response evaluate the tools and techniques used for mitigating geotechnical hazards and responding to geotechnical disasters such as landslides, rockfalls, settlement, sinkholes, and other events.

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 174: Improving Safety Culture in Public Transportation presents research on the definition of safety culture within public transportation, presents methods and tools for assessing safety culture, and provides strategies and guidelines that public transportation agencies may apply to initiate and build a program for improving safety culture.

TRB’s Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program (HMCRP) Report 14: Guide for Communicating Emergency Response Information for Natural Gas and Hazardous Liquids Pipelines provides guidance on responding to a pipeline emergency. Report appendices are available on the project website.

TRB’s Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Transit Project 63a: Improving Bus Transit On-Time Performance through the Use of AVL Data develops a set of desktop tools to analyze archived fixed-route transit automatic vehicle location (AVL) data. The purpose of these tools is to measure on-time performance and develop schedule times between timepoints.

TRB’s Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Transit Project 67: Diesel-Electric Locomotive Energy Recovery and Conversion explores efforts to optimize Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) technologies for minimally invasive retrofitting of large internal combustion engines equipping locomotives. WHR technologies aim at recovering at least a portion of the high grade wasted thermal energy and converting it to useful power, resulting in lower fuel consumption and pollutant emissions.

On January 20, 2015, TRB’s Committee on Implementing the Research Results of the Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) sent its seventh and final letter report to Gregory Nadeau, acting administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and Bud Wright, executive director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). The committee is charged with providing policy and technical advice to the U.S. Department of Transportation and AASHTO on recommen...