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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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Years to First Rehabilitation of Superpave Hot Mix Asphalt August 1, 2014 The Colorado Department of Transportation has released a report that evaluates the performance of four roadway functional classes—interstates, principal arterials, minor arterials, and major collectors—so as to forecast their pavement life span. |
TRB Webinar: Best Practices for Crack TreatmentsJuly 31, 2014 TRB will conduct a webinar on August 25, 2014, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that will present the findings of the forthcoming NCHRP Report 784: Best Practices for Crack Treatment. The webinar will summarize practices used for crack sealing and crack filling in asphalt pavements. The presenter will highlight situations when state-of-the-art practices differ from the state of the practice, and will i... |
 2015 TRB 94th Annual Meeting: Plan Now to Exhibit at Our New VenueJuly 22, 2014 On July 24, 2014, all businesses and organizations will have the opportunity to register for exhibit space to showcase their products and services to nearly 12,000 transportation professionals in attendance at the TRB 94th Annual Meeting, January 11-15, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The meeting, to be held at a new venue, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, will provide new benefits to exhi... |
 Alternative Delivery Methods for Winter Maintenance OperationsJuly 21, 2014 TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Results Digest 387: Alternative Delivery Methods for Winter Maintenance Operations develops a decision-making framework to guide public road agencies’ delivery of winter maintenance operations. |
Full Closure Strategic Analysis July 18, 2014 The Colorado Department of Transportation has released a report that explains a full closure strategic analysis used to create a decision process for full roadway closures for construction and maintenance activities. |
Rural Connections: Challenges and Opportunities in America’s Heartland: 2014July 18, 2014 TRIP, a national transportation research group, has released a report that explores the condition, use, and safety of the nation’s rural transportation system, particularly its roads, highways, and bridges, in order to help identify areas where improvements to America’s rural transportation system may be needed. |
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TRB Webinar: Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events and the Highway SystemJuly 17, 2014 TRB will conduct a webinar on July 28, 2014, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that will cover the practitioners' guide portion of NCHRP Report 750: Strategic Issues Facing Transportation, Volume 2: Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events, and the Highway System: Practitioner’s Guide and Research Report . Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor or non-... |
TRB Webinar: Performance Measurement for Asset Management - MAP-21 and BeyondJuly 17, 2014 TRB will conduct a webinar on July 30, 2014, from 12:30pm to 2:00pm ET that will summarize how MAP-21 encourages state departments of transportation to develop and report on performance measures as part of their transportation asset management plan. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor or non-TRB Sustaining Affiliate employees. A certifica... |
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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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