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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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Need Help with the Annual Meeting Paper Review Process?September 10, 2021 If you have questions or need procedural instructions while trying to carry out your role in facilitating this year's Annual Meeting paper review process, please visit these resource pages: Committee Guides and Reviewer Guides . If you have additional questions that are not answered on those pages, please consult with a fellow committee member or email trr@nas.edu , although responses may be de... |
 You Must Re-Subscribe to Receive Next Week's TRB NewsletterSeptember 9, 2021 This is TRB's final newsletter in this format. Next week, on September 21 , the first issue of TRB Weekly will launch on our new platform. Make sure you have re-subscribed through the MyTRB portal in order to receive your newsletter next Tuesday. To continue to get research news from TRB every Tuesday, you must re-subscribe at https://www.mytrb.org/Profile/MyAccount/TRBWeekly ... |
Innovations in Freight Data WorkshopSeptember 8, 2021 Convened by TRB, Innovations in Freight Data will be held September 21-23, 2021 online. The workshop will bring together freight data users and decision-makers to learn and share the latest applications of traditional and emerging freight data sources, development of value-added features, integration of data sets, and other innovations. |
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Conference on Transformative Times in Transportation Security - early bird through September 27September 6, 2021 Convened by Transportation Research Board, the Conference on Transformative Times in Transportation Security will now be held November 1-5 online. The safe and secure movement of people and cargo is essential to our economy and societal resiliency. The conference program will focus on surface transportation modes and the necessary coordination for multimodal mobility during disasters, includin... |
TRB Webinar: Air Quality Impact Models for Electric Vehicle FleetsSeptember 3, 2021 Are you familiar with the existing models for estimating the quantities of greenhouse gas, criteria pollutants, and toxins from gasoline or diesel-powered mobile sources? TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, October 21, 2021 from 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern that will provide a detailed framework for modeling the impact of electrifying the transportation fleet on air quality. Presenters will discuss e... |
 2022 TRB Annual Meeting: Begin Now to Secure Your VisaAugust 29, 2021 If you will require a visa to enter the United States to attend TRB’s 101st Annual Meeting, January 9-13, 2022, in Washington, D.C., begin planning for the application process now. Even if you didn't need a visa for a previous Annual Meeting, you are encouraged to re-check the current requirements. U.S. regulations require security checks for most visitor visas, resulting in a process that may ... |
 TR News 334 July-August 2021 issue table of contents now onlineAugust 26, 2021 The July-August 2021 issue of TR News —with a cover feature on research needs for the marine transportation system of the future—is available in hard copy and digital copy for subscribers. For those who are not subscribers, the table of contents is available. Other feature articles in the issue include members of the Marine Board and TRB’s Marine Group standing committees investigating critical... |
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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. |
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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