TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2611 consists of 7 papers addressing marine transportation and international trade, including: Modeling the Impacts of Free Trade Agreements on Domestic Transportation Gateways, Corridors, and Ports Agent-Based Model of Navigable Inland Waterway Tow Operation Procedures Transportation Cost Modeling of Contai...

The May-June 2017 edition of the TR News explores the role of transportation in economic development. Articles feature information about benefit-cost analysis, freight production models, transportation satellite accounts, and right sizing strategies. The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transpo...

On July 11, 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Polar Icebreaker Cost Assessment released a letter report that advises the U.S. Congress on strategies to minimize life-cycle costs of polar icebreaker acquisition and operations. The Committee recommends the number and type of polar icebreakers to fund and an acquisition strategy that achieves a lower ...

TRB has released its requirements for submitting papers for presentation at the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting and/or publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board . This guide covers the organization and formatting of manuscripts for peer review and for publication, as well as instructions for submission. Papers that do not follow the guidelines will ...

A featured article in the March-April 2017 issue of the TR News highlights photos from the 96th TRB Annual Meeting, January 8-12, 2017. The article features photographs of sessions, workshops, committee meetings, and awards. Bruce M. Smith, Apperson Crump PLC, and General Counsel, Memphis Area Transit Authority, delivered the delivered the 2017 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture on “Ethical I...

A featured article in the March-April 2017 issue of the TR News highlights photos from the 96th TRB Annual Meeting, January 8-12, 2017. The article features photographs of sessions, workshops, committee meetings, and awards. Bruce M. Smith, Apperson Crump PLC, and General Counsel, Memphis Area Transit Authority, delivered the delivered the 2017 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture on “Ethical I...

TRB's National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Research Report 37: Using Commodity Flow Survey Microdata and Other Establishment Data to Estimate the Generation of Freight, Freight Trips, and Service Trips: Guidebook provides policy makers with improved establishment-level models that estimate the Freight Trip Generation (FTG), the number of vehicle trips produced and attracted at ...

A featured article in the November-December 2016 issue of the TR News highlights the challenges of freight transportation with regards to meeting new emissions standards. The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation. It also includes brief news items of interest to the transportation com...

TRB Special Report 321: Strengthening the Safety Culture of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry offers recommendations to industry and regulators to strengthen and sustain the safety culture of the offshore oil and gas industry. A supplemental product titled  Beyond Compliance  provides an executive-level overview of the report findings, conclusions, and recommendations. The committee t...

Beyond Compliance: Strengthening the Safety Culture of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry summarizes recommendations to industry and regulators to strengthen and sustain the safety culture of the offshore oil and gas industry. The committee that prepared the report addresses conceptual challenges in defining safety culture, and discusses the empirical support for the safety culture definition of...

TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2549 consists of 12 papers addressing marine transportation and international trade, including: Approach Integrating Mixed-Integer Programming and Constraint Programming for Planning Rotations of Inland Vessels in a Large Seaport Use of Nationwide Automatic Identification System Data to Quantify Resiliency o...

TRB Special Report 322: Application of Remote Real-Time Monitoring to Offshore Oil and Gas Operations provides advice to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) of the U.S. Department of the Interior on the use of remote real-time monitoring (RRTM) to improve the safety and reduce the environmental risks of offshore oil and gas operations. The report also evaluates the role th...

A featured article in the March-April 2016 issue of the TR News highlights photos from the 95th TRB Annual Meeting, January 10-14, 2016. The article features photographs of sessions, workshops, committee meetings, and awards. Dr. Hani Mahmassani, William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation and professor, Northwestern University, and Director, Northwestern University Transportatio...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 823: Guidelines for Certification and Management of Flexible Rockfall Protection Systems provides advice on rockfall fence systems for transportation agencies. It also outlines data that are needed to evaluate the results of rockfall fence systems tested using the procedure recommended for acceptance. Finally, the report present...

TRB's Transportation Research E-Circular 208: Transformational Technologies in Transportation: State of the Activities explores the status and applications of transportation goods, services, and systems that fall under the umbrella of transformational techology. Key transformational technologies include connected and automated vehicles, including shared use services; unmanned aerial systems (dr...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released an abbreviated version of a restricted report that assesses the potential of unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) in enhancing future U.S. naval operations. The Department of the Navy has determined that the final report prepared by the committee is restricted in its entirety under exemption 3 of the Freedom of Information ...

TRB E-Circular 206: Trends and Issues in Marine Transportation and the Environment explores urgent and far-reaching research topics pertinent to marine transportation and environmental issues. Subjects explored in this E-Circular include marine emissions and air quality impacts, including alternative fuels, human health impacts, improving marine vessel emission inventory methods, emission reduc...

TRB's National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 36: Enhancing Sleep Efficiency on Vessels in the Tug/Towboat/Barge Industry provides best practices to improve an operator's sleep and reduce operator fatigue in the United States inland waterway industry, including the use of anchor-sleep/nap-sleep strategies. NCFRP Report 36 identifies and describes the metrics that could be u...

The June-July-August 2015 TR News featured search tips to navigate the TRID database . TRID holds more than 1.09 million records of published research covering all modes of transportation. More than 156,000 records contain links to full-text documents. TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from the Transportation Research Information Services and the Joint Transport Rese...

The full edition of the June-July-August 2015 TR News is now available. This edition explore the effects of the changing world energy market on the transportation industry, with deliveries of coal declining, natural gas use on the increase, and oil shipments from North American locations rising to challenge overseas sources. Authors examine the changing energy market by energy source, the ...

The full PDF of TRNews 297 is now available. This edition covers TRB’s 94th Annual Meeting, which featured U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony J. Foxx, more than 3,500 research papers, major professional awards, committee meetings, an active exhibit hall, and more. This Annual Meeting also achieved recordbreaking attendance at a new and more capacious venue. This edition of the TR News als...

TRB Special Report 315: Funding and Managing the U.S. Inland Waterways System: What Policy Makers Need to Know explores the role and importance of the federally funded inland waterways system, priorities for future investment, its beneficiaries, and sources of funding. In recent years, the inland waterways system has transported six to seven percent of all domestic ton-miles of cargo. The syste...

The full PDF of the January-February 2015 TR News is now available. With the Panama Canal celebrating its centennial in 2014 and scheduled to open new locks in 2016, this issue of the TR News explores the legacy and future of the canal and the probable effects the expansion will have on U.S. harbor infrastructure and supply chains. The January-February 2015 issue of TR News includes the fo...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) latest Impacts on Practice explores how NCHRP’s Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) program has helped finance promising but unproven ideas in transportation engineering.

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2479 consists of 11 papers covering the following topics relating to marine transportation, port operations, and intermodal freight: Development of the Adoption of Liquefied Natural Gas as a Fuel for Shipping on the Great Lakes Vessel Route Choice Theory and Modeling Big Data-Based Estimation for Ship Safety...

The latest edition of Research Pays Off explores a data analytics tool developed by the Florida Department of Transportation that combines archived intelligent transportation systems (ITS) data collected at the state’s regional transportation management centers (TMCs) with data from other sources to inform transportation planning and operation decisions. With traffic analysis, simulation modeli...

TR News 297 includes a feature article that provides highlights of the 94th TRB Annual Meeting, January 11-15, 2015. The article features photographs of sessions, workshops, committee meetings, and awards. The article provides a highlight of Daniel Sperling, Professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy, University of California (UC), Davis, as the 2015 Chair of the TRB Ex...

TRB’s National Freight Cooperative Research Program (NCFRP) Report 32: Integrating MTS Commerce Data with Multimodal Freight Transportation Performance Measures to Support MTS Maintenance Investment Decision Making investigates the feasibility of evaluating potential navigation operation and maintenance projects on the Marine Transportation System (MTS) as they relate to both waterborne commerc...

TRB’s Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program (HMCRP) Report 13: Test Procedures and Classification Criteria for Release of Toxic Gases from Water-Reactive Materials identifies a procedure for measuring the rate of gas production when a water-reactive material evolving either a flammable gas or a toxic gas is combined with water.

The National Research Council has released Gulf Research Program: A Strategic Vision that establishes the program's foundation and introduces its mission, goals, and objectives. It describes some initial activities and sets out the program's vision for contributing lasting benefit to the Gulf region and the nation. The Gulf Research Program grew in response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosi...