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...

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 Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has released a pre-publication, non-edited version of Research Report 854. The report provides transportation agencies state-of-the-practice information on identifying, classifying, evaluating, and mitigating truck freight bottlenecks using truck probe data rather than traditional travel demand models. The report embraces a broad defin...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 231: Challenges to CV and AV Applications in Truck Freight Operations explores connected vehicle (CV) and automated vehicle (AV) technology, focusing on heavy trucking. The report identifies existing and emerging freight regulatory, planning, policy, and operational environments and challenges for connected and autono...

A March 13, 2017 letter report from TRB's Motor Carrier Safety Research Analysis Committee (MCSRAC) advises the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) Research and Technology (R&T) program on a number of topics. At the request of the FMCSA, this first letter report explores the goals and strategy of the FMCSA R&T Program as well as the recommendations regarding data made in...

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's Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program (HMCRP) Web-Only Document 3: Evaluation of Small Quantities of Class 3 and Class 9 Hazardous Materials in Transportation identifies the commodities comprising Class 3 (Packing Group II and III) and Class 9 liquid hazardous material (HAZMAT) (UN 3082) to determine the risks of transportation of the HAZMAT in commerce by motor carriers. The r...

The full edition of the May–June 2016 issue of the TR News is now available. This edition explores bus transportation in the United States. Articles include the intercity bus renaissance and curbside long-distance services; the myths, history, status, and future of bus rapid transit, with a case study of a newly launched service; technology-enabled bus services; the state of rural bus transit; ...

TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2547 consists of 13 papers addressing freight systems issues, including: Characterization of International Origin–Destination Truck Movements Across Two Major U.S.–Canadian Border Crossings Investigation of Commercial Vehicle Parking Permits in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Effects of Safety Chains on Dynamics of...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 830: Multi-State, Multimodal, Oversize/Overweight Transportation is a compilation of existing permitting requirements for the transportation of oversize/overweight (OSOW) freight throughout the United States. It identifies and presents information about state-by-state differences in OSOW road transportation regulations and permi...

The May–June 2016 issue of the TR News explores how curbside bus operators are rejuvenating a sector of transportation providing trip between 125 to 350 miles—distances considered too short for airline trips but uncomfortably long for driving. 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...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2593 consists of 9 papers exploring traffic monitoring, including: • Identifying Factors to Improve Transportation Asset Management Program Sustainment: Applying Implementation Research and Change Management Principles • Accuracy of Bicycle Counting with Pneumatic Tubes in Oregon • Battery-Saving Communicati...

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...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 120: Use of Automotive Service Excellence Tests Within Transit documents how the Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) program is accepted and used within the transit bus maintenance community. The ASE program is nationally recognized as the standard industry credential provider for automotive professionals. The report explores how a cro...

TRB Special Report 320: Interregional Travel: A New Perspective for Policy Making examines the demand for and supply of interregional transportation in the United States. Major additions to transportation infrastructure, including high-speed rail, are being considered for some of the country’s most heavily traveled 100- to 500-mile corridors. The availability and use of the automobile, airplane...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that assesses the state of knowledge about the relationship of such factors as hours of driving, hours on duty, and periods of rest to the fatigue experienced by truck and bus drivers while driving and the implications for the safe operation of their vehicles. The report evaluates the relationship of these facto...

The National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership has released a report that explores the research and development projects carried out by the 21st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP), which was formed in 2001 to reduce fuel usage and emissions in trucks of Classes 3 through 8. The third report of the review committee builds on ...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board No. 2478 consists of 14 papers that examine urban freight and trucking issues, including:  Sustainable Freight: Impacts of the London Congestion Charge and Low Emissions Zones Impacts of Environmental Access Restrictions on Freight Delivery Activities: Example of Low Emissions Zones in Europe Modeling Safety...

The Committee for Review of U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Truck Size and Weight Study has released its second of two reports. The committee concluded that while the USDOT report acknowledges gaps in addressing its legislative charge, a more comprehensive and useful response would have been possible. The USDOT Comprehensive Truck Size & Weight Limits Study lacks a consistent and ...

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 National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Results Digest 394: Estimating the Long-Term Impacts of MAP-21 on the Nation’s Local Rural Transit Bus Infrastructure explores an analysis of the long-term impacts of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) on the nation’s rural transit infrastructure. This analysis includes a review of funding levels be...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2410 consists of 17 papers that examine truck traffic related to petroleum well development and production in unconventional shale plays; a critical rural freight corridors designation; generation of reliable freight performance measures with truck GPS data; and a GPS and driver log–based survey of grocery t...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) S2-C06-RW-4: Manager’s Guide to the Integrated Ecological Framework is designed to provide a basic understanding of the Integrated Ecological Framework (IEF), a nine-step process for integrating ecological and transportation planning. It presents information about the relevant stakeholders and types of expertise needed to help ensure...

TRB’s National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 29: Making Trucks Count: Innovative Strategies for Obtaining Comprehensive Truck Activity Data develops and assesses strategies for obtaining comprehensive trucking activity data for making more informed public policy decisions at the national and regional levels.

The National Research Council has released a report that analyzes and provides options for improvements to the certification and compliance procedures for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles; reviews an updated analysis of the makeup and characterization of the medium- and heavy-duty truck fleet; examines the barriers to and the potential applications of natural gas in class 2b through class 8 vehi...