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Pedestrian and Bicyclist 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 pedestrians and bicyclists. In addition, it includes links to selected pedestrian and bicyclist 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 programs and activities, which are the source of most of TRB’s pedestrian and bicyclist-related research products. |
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TRB Pedestrians and Bicyclists-Related Programs and Activities
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 2018 TRB Annual Meeting: Plan Now to ExhibitAugust 16, 2017 Act now to secure your exhibit space at the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting, January 7-11, 2018, in Washington, D.C. All indications are that attendance at the meeting will be the largest ever. Don't miss this opportunity to demonstrate your organization's support for transportation research and innovation, and to showcase your products and services to more than 13,000 transportation professionals. Mor... |
 TR News May-June 2017: Valuing a Mature Highway System: In Search of the Holy GrailAugust 15, 2017 A featured article in the May-June 2017 issue of the TR News examines how to develop appropriate evaluation frameworks that account for the integration of new technologies into the infrastructure in order to accurately value the current highway system. 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 trans... |
 Traffic Monitoring: Automobiles, Trucks, Bicycles, and Pedestrians August 12, 2017 TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2644 consists of 13 papers exploring traffic monitoring, including: Sensor Location Decision Model for Truck Flow Measurement Bicycle and Pedestrian Counts at Signalized Intersections Using Existing Infrastructure: Opportunities and Challenges Quality Assurance and Quality Control Processes for a Large-Scale... |
 TRB Webinar: Development of Crash Modification Factors for Pedestrian Crossing TreatmentsAugust 10, 2017 TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, August 23, 2017 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Report 841 : Development of Crash Modification Factors for Uncontrolled Pedestrian Crossing Treatments. This webinar will discuss the effort to quantify the relationships between pedestrian safety and crossing treatments at u... |
TRB Webinar: Designing Multimodal Roundabouts: Making Them Safe and Efficient for AllAugust 9, 2017 TRB will conduct a webinar on Monday, September 11, 2017, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET that will address the misconceptions and misinformation about modern roundabouts, which inhibits their implementation. Presenters will discuss state-of-the-art roundabout design procedures that make roundabouts safe and efficient for all modes of travel, including transit, trucks, bicycles, and pedestrians. Thi... |
TRB Webinar: Innovative Statewide Partnerships for Active Transportation PlanningAugust 3, 2017 TRB conducted a webinar on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that highlighted three statewide approaches to planning for pedestrians and bicyclists that include innovative partnerships between state departments of transportation, state departments of health, and metropolitan planning organizations or local governments. The presenters discussed the approaches to collecting and ... |
2018 TRB Annual Meeting: Feature Your Organization at the Careers in Motion Networking FairJuly 25, 2017 TRB's inaugural Careers in Motion Networking Fair takes place on January 7, 2018 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center during the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The event provides an opportunity for prospective employers from a wide range of sectors and modes to meet with transportation professionals interested in working for their organizations. TR... |
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Statewide Analysis of Bicycle CrashesJuly 7, 2017 The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that summarizes the bicycle safety literature, and identifies contributing causes, patterns, and potential countermeasures of bicycle crashes. In addition, the report develops a Florida-specific Crash Modification Factors to assess the safety effects of common engineering treatments on bicycle safety. http://www.fdot.gov/research/Co... |
Traffic Impacts of Bicycle FacilitiesJuly 6, 2017 The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released a report that details interactions between vehicles and bicyclists to facilitate the safe, efficient design of transportation systems. Methods included a review of design guidelines for bicycle facilities, and observations of bicycle-vehicle interactions at roadways with different types of bicycle facilities. |
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Synthesis of Information Related to Transit Problems
TRB's Synthesis of Information Related to Transit Problems searches out and synthesizes useful knowledge from all available sources and prepares concise, documented reports on specific topics. Reports from this endeavor constitute an Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) report series, Synthesis of Transit Practice. |
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. |
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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