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TR News January-February 2010: Demographic Changes Driving Change: Ensuring Mobility for All--Safely, Efficiently, Equitably The January-February 2010 issue of TR News includes the following articles: Mutual Benefits and Close Connections: Baseball and America’s Streetcars in the 19th Century Creating Organizational Change in Departments of Transportation: Applying Self-Assessment Processes to Align Goals Making the Most of Available Funds: Findings from the Transportation Research Board’s 2009...

TRB is sponsoring the 10th International Conference on Low-Volume Roads on July 24-27, 2011, in Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida. The conference, held every four years, is designed to foster communication about new and innovative ways of building, maintaining, and managing low-volume road systems between practitioners worldwide in local, state, and federal agencies; universities; private firms; and international organizations. Papers from authors wishing to present at the conference are due by March 3...

TRB is cosponsoring the conference on Towards Zero Deaths: A National Strategy for Highway Safety on August 25-26, 2010, in Washington, D.C. The conference will explore strategies to significantly improve highway safety. For additional information contact  Richard Pain of TRB.

TRB is cosponsoring the National Road Pricing Conference on June 2-4, 2010, in Houston, Texas. The conference is designed to explore information related to implementing pricing projects. The event is designed for transportation policy makers and practitioners who are interested in pursuing pricing projects in their communities. A  preliminary program for the conference is available. Early bird registration ends April 16, 2010. 

TRB is sponsoring a conference on Visualization in Transportation: Expanding Uses and Technologies in April 2011, in Madison, Wisconsin. The conference is designed to highlight improving technologies and methods, feature case studies or successful practices, and illuminate the expanding role of visualization in transportation planning, design, construction, maintenance, and data management and analysis. For additional information contact  Richard Pain of TRB.

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program has released the latest version of its periodic newsletter. This issue highlights falling weight deflectometer calibration improvements.

Articles in the January/February2010 issue of the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) Focus magazine explore best practices in project delivery management, the Real Solutions and Innovations seminar series, accelerated bridge construction, and more.

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released the latest issue of its Successes in Stewardship monthly newsletter, which highlights current environmental streamlining practices from around the United States.

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty has released the latest issue of its monthly newsletter designed to keep transportation stakeholders up-to-date on various issues related to transportation and climate change.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released its statistical projections of traffic fatalities for 2009. The NHTSA estimates that 33,973 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2009. This represents a decline of about 8.9 percent as compared to the 37,261 fatalities that occurred in 2008.