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Motor Carrier 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 motor carriers. In addition, it includes links to selected motor carrier 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 motor carrier-related programs and activities, which are the source of most of TRB’s marine transportation-related research products. |
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TRB Highway-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... |
Dec. 5 Truck Size and Weight Study Committee Meeting: Audio Webcast InformationDecember 2, 2013 The first meeting of the National Research Council’s Committee on Review of USDOT Truck Size and Weight Study will take place on Thursday, December 5, 2013, at the Keck Center of the National Academies, 500 Fifth Street NW, Washington, D.C. Those unable to attend may listen to the proceedings by audio webcast. Information on the audio webcast will be available on the National Academies homepage... |
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Automated Low-Cost and Real-Time Truck Parking Information SystemNovember 22, 2013 The Maryland State Highway Administration has released a report that explains an automated real-time parking information system developed to improve truck-parking safety through gathering and disseminating existing parking capacity information. |
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Health, Safety, and Bus DriversNovember 1, 2013 The Norwegian Centre for Transport Research has released a report that summarizes a literature review of work-related health problems in bus drivers and develops a model to predict the effect of these problems on driver, passenger, and bus safety. |
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 2011 Large Truck Crash OverviewOctober 27, 2013 The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has released a fact sheet that summarizes truck crash statistics in 2011 and trends in crashes from 2001 through 2011. |
 Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts 2011October 25, 2013 The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has released a report that contains descriptive statistics about fatalities, injuries, and property damage in crashes involving large trucks and buses in 2011. |
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Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program
TRB's Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program searches out and synthesizes useful knowledge from all available sources and prepares concise, documented reports on specific topics. Reports from this endeavor constitute an Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (CTBSSP) report series, Synthesis of Commerical Truck and Bus Safety 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. |
Safety Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program
TRB's Safety 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 safety systems practice.
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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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