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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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What's New
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TRB Highway-Related Programs and Activities
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Exploring the Role of Natural Gas in U.S. TruckingFebruary 27, 2015 The Institute of Transportation Studies at University of California, Davis has released a report that investigates whether natural gas could provide fuel cost savings, geographic supply diversity, and environmental benefits for the heavy-duty trucking sector. |
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Hearing on the Surface Transportation Reauthorization BillFebruary 13, 2015 On February 11, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a hearing to explore the relationship of the proposed Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill to issues such as U.S. economic competitiveness and traffic congestion. Witness statements and a webcast of the hearing are available online. |
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 Review of DOT’s Performance-Based Approach to Surface TransportationJanuary 30, 2015 The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a report that examines the progress that the U.S. Department of Transportation has made in developing a national performance-based approach to surface transportation and the challenges states and other grantees report facing in implementing this approach. |
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Advances in State DOT Superload Permit Processes and PracticesJanuary 2, 2015 The U.S. Domestic Scan Program has released a report that explores leading practices for permitting overweight/oversize truck loads and presents opportunities for increased automation and uniformity among states. The U.S. Domestic Scan Program was developed by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and is administered the National Cooperative Highway Research Pro... |
Commodity Flow Survey WorkshopDecember 15, 2014 TRB is sponsoring the Commodity Flow Survey Workshop on October 29, 2015, in Washington, D.C. Conducted every five years, the workshop will explore the use of national- and state-level data on domestic freight shipments by American establishments in mining, manufacturing, wholesale, auxiliaries, and selected retail industries. For questions, contact Scott Babcock at SBabcock@nas.edu . |
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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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