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Marine Transportation 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 marine transportation. In addition, it includes links to selected marine transportation 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 marine transportation-related programs and activities, which are the source of most of TRB’s marine transportation-related research products. |
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TRB Marine Transportation-Related Programs and Activities
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 Critical Issues in Transportation: 2013December 2, 2013 TRB’s Executive Committee periodically identifies a set of critical issues in transportation to focus attention on their likely impact on the nation’s economy and quality of life. The discussion of the critical issues identified in this document is intended to facilitate debate and to encourage research leading to their resolution. Previous editions of Critical Issues in Transportation have hig... |
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 Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Options for ImplementationOctober 28, 2013 The National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council have released the prepublication version of Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Options for Implementation. The report explores a range of options for improving the implementation of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI’s) congressional mandate to require the use of best available... |
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 2014 TRB 93rd Annual Meeting: Workshop InformationSeptember 21, 2013 Titles, times, hotel locations, and brief descriptions for each of the more than 130 specialty workshops being held on Saturday, Sunday, and Thursday as part of the TRB 93rd Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2014, in Washington, D.C., are now available. Annual Meeting registration, for at least the day of the workshop, is required. All workshops are included as part of the Annual Meeting reg... |
Alert to Security: Remembering September 11, 2001September 10, 2013 Since September 11, 2001, government agencies and the American public have looked to the scientific and engineering communities to develop faster, more efficient ways to detect, thwart, and respond to terrorist attacks on the transportation system. During the last 12 years, TRB committees and research programs have responded to this challenge and have developed a bookshelf of security resources... |
 Marine Transportation and Terminal Operations 2013August 25, 2013 TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2330 consists of 14 papers that address development of a motorways of the sea intermodal corridor and multicountry transportation network; liner shipping services; forecasting cruise ship arrivals; criteria for selection of European container terminals; selection of dredging projects; optimization of quay cr... |
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Marine Board
In response to requests from sponsoring agencies or on its own initiative, the Marine Board serves the national interest by providing evaluations and advice concerning the ability of the nation's marine and maritime industries to operate safely and efficiently and in an environmentally responsible manner. The Marine Board identifies research needs and provides a forum for exchange of information relating to new technologies, laws and regulations, economics, the environment, and other issues affecting the marine transportation system, port operations, coastal engineering, and marine governance.
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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. |
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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