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 ...

TRB's Conference Proceedings on the Web 21: Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety: Summary of the 10th University Transportation Centers Spotlight Conference explores a conference held on December 1-2, 2016 in Washington, D.C. The conference highlighted research addressing issues associated with pedestrian and bicyclist safety. The conference included plenary sessions focused on the role of policy and ...

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) Research Report 844: Guide for Integrating Goods and Services Movement by Commercial Vehicles in Smart Growth Environments describes policy, planning, design, and operations practices considering the coexistence of moving goods and services in smart growth environments at both the design and implementation stages as well as retroactive...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has released a pre-publication, non-edited version of Research Report 855: An Expanded Functional Classification System for Highways and Streets. This report builds upon preliminary engineering of a design project, including developing the purpose and need. In particular, it provides additional contexts beyond urban and rural, facilita...

TRB's National Cooperative Research Program (NCHRP) Report 841: Development of Crash Modification Factors for Uncontrolled Pedestrian Crossing Treatments quantifies the safety benefits of four types of pedestrian crossing treatments—rectangular rapid flashing beacons, pedestrian hybrid beacons, pedestrian refuge islands, and advanced YIELD or STOP markings and signs—and presents a crash modific...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 229: Methods and Technologies for Pedestrian and Bicycle Volume Data Collection: Phase 2 explores automated count technologies that capture pedestrian and bicycle volume data. The publication focuses on technologies that came onto the market too late to be included in previous Phase 1 research. Findings from Phase 1 a...

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 ...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2587 consists of 17 papers that explore issues related to bicycles and motorcyles, including: Learning from Insurance Data: Injuries to Other Road Users in Motorcyclist At-Fault Crashes Modeling the Speed, Acceleration, and Deceleration of Bicyclists for Microscopic Traffic Simulation Revealed Bicyclist Rout...

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 National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 834: Crossing Solutions at Roundabouts and Channelized Turn Lanes for Pedestrians with Vision Disabilities: A Guidebook presents guidance on the application of crossing solutions at roundabouts and channelized turn lanes at signalized intersections for pedestrians with vision disabilities. This publication will be of in...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2586 consists of 14 papers that explore issues relating to pedestrians, including: Panic That Spreads Sociobehavioral Contagion in Pedestrian Evacuations Road User Behaviors at Pedestrian Hybrid Beacons Pedestrian Gap Acceptance Behavior in Street Designs with Elements of Shared Space Road, Traffic, and Huma...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 222: Guidelines for the Application of Crossing Solutions at Roundabouts and Channelized Turn Lanes for Pedestrians with Vision Disabilities provides guidance to engineers and planners on the design of roundabouts and channelized turn lanes for accessibility. NCHRP Web-Only Document 222 is the final report for NCHRP R...

TRB's NCHRP Synthesis 498: Application of Pedestrian Crossing Treatments for Streets and Highways compiles information on the state of existing practices regarding application of pedestrian crossing improvements, and does not produce new guidance. The report includes a survey of state departments of transportation (DOTs) and local transportation agencies, a synthesis of current recommended prac...

Now available to order from the TRB Bookstore, the Highway Capacity Manual, Sixth Edition: A Guide for Multimodal Mobility Analysis (HCM) provides methods for quantifying highway capacity. In its current form, it serves as a fundamental reference on concepts, performance measures, and analysis techniques for evaluating the multimodal operation of streets, highways, freeways, and off-street path...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released Exploring Data and Metrics of Value at the Intersection of Health Care and Transportation: Proceedings of a Workshop. The publication summarizes presentations and discussions from a June 2016 workshop that explored partnerships, data, and measurement at the intersection of the health care and transportation sectors. Evid...

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...

The complete edition of the 300th TR News is now available. This milestone edition features articles that present the results of pioneering research. One examines commercial spaceports and the endeavor of building the foundation for a commercial space transportation network; another presents an overview of the first year of research using the vast and valuable databases from the historic Natura...

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 Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2520, includes 19 papers that explore information related to bicycles and motorcycles, including: Electric Bicycle Use and Mode Choice in the Netherlands Evaluation of the Passing Behavior of Motorized Vehicles When Overtaking Bicycles on Urban Arterial Roadways Some Operational Features in Bicycle Traffic F...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2519, includes 20 papers that explore information related to pedestrians, including: Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons and Pedestrian Hybrid Beacons: Pedestrian and Driver Behavior Before and After Installation Countdown Pedestrian Signals: Legibility and Comprehension Without Flashing Hand Automated Pedest...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2527, explores 11 papers related to traffic monitoring, including: Need for National Standards in Transportation System Information, Acquisition, Processing, and Sharing Use of Support Vector Machines to Assign Short-Term Counts to Seasonal Adjustment Factor Groups Evolution and Usage of the Portal Data Arch...

The full edition of the September-October 2015 TR News is now available. This edition explores the interrelationships of public health and transportation. Articles cover health impact assessments and analyses, incorporating health into transportation planning and decision making, modeling the risk of infectious disease spread through the transportation system, transportation lessons learne...

The Food and Nutrition Board, part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Institute of Medicine has released the summary of an April 14-15, 2015, workshop that explored the state of the science regarding the impact of physical activity in the prevention and treatment of overweight and obesity.  The workshop also highlighted innovative strategies for promoting ph...

The latest edition of Research Pays Off examines how the Virginia Department of Transportation addressed highway pavement deterioration using recycled materials. The techniques involved a series of processes to reuse materials from the asphalt pavement during rehabilitation or reconstruction. The benefits included reductions in the consumption of raw materials, in the greenhouse gas emissions, ...

The feature article in the September-October 2015 edition of the TR News examines the impacts of transportation on public health in terms of safety, air quality, physical activity, equitable access to opportunities, and noise. The article also explores potential societal benefits of focusing on public health when investing in active transportation options like walking, bikin...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board No. 2490 consists of 14 papers that examine traffic flow theory and characteristics, including: Analysis of Driver Response and Traffic Evolution Under Variable Speed Limit Control Network Traffic Signal Control with Nonconvex Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers Formulations Fuzzy Cellular Automata Models...