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Maintenance and Preservation Research at TRB
The mission of the Transportation Research Board is to provide leadership in transportation innovation and progress through research and information exchange, conducted within a setting that is objective, interdisciplinary, and multimodal. This page highlights recently released TRB reports, meeting announcements, requests for proposals, and other announcements related to maintenance and preservation. In addition, it includes links to selected maintenance and preservation research-related activities taking place at the federal and state levels, and within the academic and international transportation communities. Finally, this page also highlights and provides links to TRB programs and activities, which are the source of most of TRB’s maintenance and preservation-related research products. |
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TRB Maintenance and Preservation-Related Programs and Activities
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TRB Webinar: Transportation Asset Management Implementation Tips and TricksMarch 2, 2014 TRB will conduct a webinar on May 15, 2014, from 12:30pm to 2:00pm ET that will discuss various aspects of Transportation Asset Management (TAM) implementation at five state departments of transportation. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor or non-TRB Sustaining Affiliate employees. A certificate for 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PD... |
Evaluation of Winter Pothole Patching MethodsFebruary 28, 2014 The Ohio Department of Transportation has released a report that evaluates the performance and cost-effectiveness of the tow-behind combination infrared asphalt heater/reclaimer patching method and compares it to the throw and roll and spray injection methods. |
 FHWA LTBP Bridge Performance PrimerFebruary 28, 2014 The U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has released a tech brief that defines long-term bridge performance (LTBP) and discusses the importance of measuring bridge performance and practices. |
9th International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets (ICMPA9)*February 28, 2014 TRB is cosponsoring the Ninth International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets on May 18-22, 2015, in Alexandria, Virginia. The conference is designed to focus on the problems and issues of managing and preserving pavement assets, as well as the trend toward integrated transportation asset management that incorporates private sector business principles. The theme of the conference is “Movin... |
LTPP International Data Analysis ContestFebruary 27, 2014 TRB’s Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) Committee will host the 2014 International Data Analysis Contest award presentation during the 2015 TRB 94th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The contest is designed to encourage university students, professors, and highway agency engineers to get involved in using the LTPP database. This year’s theme is “Use LTPP InfoPave to Evaluate a Question or ... |
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RFP Reissued: Guide for Optimal Replacement Cycles of Highway Operations EquipmentFebruary 22, 2014 TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program has reissued a request for proposal to produce a guide that includes processes and tools to assist state highway agencies with making decisions about the optimal replacement cycles of on- and off-road highway operations equipment. Proposals are due April 15, 2014. A request for proposals for this project was originally released on October 28, ... |
TRB Webinar: Rockfall – Mitigation and ManagementFebruary 18, 2014 TRB will conduct a webinar on April 30, 2014, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm ET that will explore current topics on rockfall mitigation and management. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor or non-TRB Sustaining Affiliate employees. A certificate for two Professional Development Hours (PDHs) will be provided to attendees who register and attend the ... |
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Synthesis of Information Related to Highway Problems
TRB's Synthesis of Information Related to Highway Problems searches out and synthesizes useful knowledge from all available sources and prepares concise, documented reports on specific topics. Reports from this endeavor constitute an National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) report series, Synthesis of Highway Practice.
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Highway Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program
TRB's Highway Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program is designed to provide an opportunity to investigate new and unproven concepts or to evaluate novel applications of technologies that have been tried, tested or used for highway systems practice.
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Cooperative Research Programs
TRB's Cooperative Research Programs Division manages several cooperative research programs that frequently produces reports that have relevence to issues outside of the program's core focus areas.
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Technical Activities Standing Committees
TRB's Technical Activities Division provides a forum for transportation professionals in all modes and functions to identify research needs and to share information on research and issues of interest. The Division's staff of specialists in each mode and discipline work with a network of volunteers to carry out activities on behalf of TRB sponsors and the transportation community, including the TRB Annual Meeting, conferences and workshops, publications, visits to each state, and responses to inquiries. This network includes members and friends of over 200 standing committees, supplemented by designated TRB representatives in each state, over 150 universities, and 35 transit agencies. |
Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2)
Congress established the SHRP 2 in 2006 to investigate the underlying causes of highway crashes and congestion in a short-term program of focused research. To carry out that investigation, SHRP 2 targets goals in four interrelated focus areas--Safety, Renewal, Reliability, and Capacity.
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Research in Progress in this Subject Area
TRB's Research in Progress (RiP) Database now contains more than 11,900 current or recently completed transportation research projects. Most of the RiP records are projects funded by federal and state departments of transportation. University transportation research is also included. The RiP Database also serves as a clearinghouse of University Transportation Centers ongoing research.
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Research Needs in this Subject Area
An important function of TRB is to stimulate research that addresses concerns, issues, or problems facing the transportation community. In support of this function, TRB Technical Activities standing committees identify, develop, and disseminate research need statements (RNS) for use by practitioners, researchers, and others.
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Research Completed in this Subject Area
TRB's TRID is integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services ( TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation ( ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide. |
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