Dorval R. Carter, Jr., President, Chicago Transit Authority, is the 2021 recipient of the Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship . Carter is recognized for his leadership in the transit industry and legal community, and for spearheading significant advances to public transportation. He delivered his lecture, “ Our Work is Never Done: Examining Equity Impacts in Public Transportation ,” on Mon...

The January 2021 TRB Annual Meeting is generating headlines from press and participants alike. Catch up on your reading, watching, and listening!       Video   Kittelson & Associates, Inc. TRB 2021 - Conversation with Kittelson Cambridge Systematics TRB 100th Anniversary Celebration         Podcast AASHTO's ETAP Podcast Environmental Topics at the Vir...

Resource pages for the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting are available. Visit this page for information about how to participate in the virtual meeting , the the online program , mobile app  (available in late December), and other information . The TRB 100th Annual Meeting will be conducted as a virtual event  throughout January 2021. Exact dates are January 5-8, 11-15, 21-22, and 25-29. Regis...

TRB thanks its  2021 Annual Meeting exhibitors . Please make sure to schedule time to visit some of the more than 130 virtual exhibits to learn about the goods, services, and potential solutions that are available to help address changes you are facing. Exhibit Hours “Live” Hours : Exhibits will be listed as “live” from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM Eastern Time each day, during the dates of the TRB...

Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx discusses growing up in Charlotte, N.C., where freeways that were essentially walls cut his neighborhood off from the rest of the world. Neighborhoods like this – “on the other side of the tracks” – all over the country saw their economic values decrease without any real restitution. Foxx talks about how the lessons of the past can inform how we...

The Transportation Research Board thanks its 2021 TRB 100th Annual Meeting Patrons who are showing their support for transportation research and innovation, and aiding TRB in its mission to provide leadership in transportation innovation and progress through research and information exchange. TRB's 100th Annual Meeting program will cover all transportation modes, addressing topics of interest t...

Are you curious about what a virtual TRB Annual Meeting might look like? Hear from TRB Executive Director Neil Pedersen, TRB Technical Activities Division Director Ann Brach, and TRB volunteer Sandra Larson of Stanley Consultants. From sessions to keynotes and everything in between, they give you the highlights of what's coming throughout January 2021. The meeting's exact dates are January 5-8,...

The TRB Minority Student Fellows Program, now in its twelfth year, promotes minority participation in transportation and in TRB. The program welcomes 25 students from 17 minority-serving institutions. Students in this cohort represent a range of engineering, planning, and social science majors and will present their research on a similar range of topics. Please stop by their presentations to of...

In a normal year, ITS America hosts a member cocktail reception one evening during the TRB Annual Meeting. Since the in-person meeting has gone virtual next month, the organization used part of what it budgets for the TRBAM event instead as a contribution to the TRB Minority Student Fellows Program . The TRB program seeks to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in the transportati...

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