The Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Arizona Department of Transportation is hosting the 2025 International Airfield and Highway Pavement Conference on June 8-11, 2025 in Glendale, Arizona.  TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. This conference will bring together transportation systems and infrastructure practitioners and researchers, operation managers, project/construction managers, academics, and transportation & develop...

Shawn Wilson, Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, discusses how his state is handling the effects of climate change and building more resilience. Listen to the podcast here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Please find this information on our updated website at https://www.nationalacademies.org/trb/blog/extreme-weather .

Gloria Jeff, Director of Rethinking I-94 at the Minnesota Department of Transportation, discusses how transportation planners can learn from the past and  bake equity into their processes moving forward. Listen to the podcast here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

People seek, share, and receive travel information from a wide variety of sources, such as transportation companies and agencies, insurance and manufacturing companies, family and friends, media, educational materials, advertisements, and the internet—including social media. As with any other scientific research, transportation research is susceptible to “misinformation” and “disinformation”. This is either information that conflicts with the best scientific evidence available at the time, or a coordinat...

Your search results in TRID will now be even more robust. TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation Database. Additional journals have been added to TRID for indexing. Your access to the article content is depended upon your organizational subscriptions. The newly added journals are: • Advances in Bridge Engineering (Springer) • Co...

A five-year memorandum of understanding has been signed by Latinos In Transit (LIT) and TRB/the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The focus of the MOU will be upon the shared interests of the two non-profit organizations, including working to bring more Latinos into leadership and workforce positions in TRB and throughout the global transportation industry.

The Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program is a full-time hands-on training and educational program that provides early career individuals with the opportunity to spend twelve weeks at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine  learning about science and technology policy and the role that scientists and engineers play in advising the nation. Erin Robartes is one of the fifteen Fellows and will be participating with Consensus and Advisory Stu...

The Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) has been updated. Six new TRT terms have been added to help your research: Accelerated bridge construction, aged pedestrians, discrete element method, heat islands, rejuvenators , and travel restrictions . The TRT Subcommittee continues preparations to reorganize the Information, data and knowledge (formerly Information organization ) facet of the TRT to ensure that the terminology reflects current usage and concepts.  To get your research off to a quick s...

Datasets are now indexed and easy to find in TRID! Datasets are organized collections of data produced by performed research in a fixed period of time. Datasets described in TRID frequently support a DOT-funded technical report, but can also describe a "standalone" dataset with no accompanying report ( see example ). From the TRID home page , select add additional filters under the Search by keyword box Using the Results Type dropdown menu, select Datasets Populate as many fields as necessary to focus yo...