What's New in Planning and Forecasting

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) has released Final Report 181: Development of Small Specimen Geometry for Asphalt Mixture Performance Testing. The use of small specimen geometries in Asphalt Mixture Performance Tester (AMPT) offer a means to measure as-built pavement layers and may improve the efficiency of laboratory...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 234: Developing a Method Selection Tool for Travel Forecasting documents research undertaken to provide guidance on travel forecasting methods to agencies with diverse planning needs. This project sought to produce applicable methods by evaluating agencies’ planning programs, desired performance metrics, requirements,...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 852: Method Selection for Travel Forecasting presents guidelines for travel-forecasting practitioners to assess the suitability and limitations of their travel-forecasting methods and techniques to address specific policy and planning questions. The report also provides practitioners with the ability to scope model deve...

Time is running out for your organization to show its support for transportation research and innovation by becoming a 2018 Annual Meeting Patron. Signing up now will ensure your company can take advantage of all 2018 TRB Annual Meeting Patron benefits. To become an Annual Meeting Patron visit the online patron sales site or contact Patrice Davenport at (202) 334-2516 or Bradley Eubank at ...

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has released a report that discusses the electrification of government, commercial, and industrial fleets. The research provides a basic overview of transportation market segments that may potentially be involved in electrification beyond light duty highway vehicles and provides the background to understand the potential for electrification in these markets. Th...

The American Public Transportation Association has released a report that provides a framework for assessing what is commonly referred to as the public “return on investment” (ROI) associated with high-speed and intercity passenger rail (HS&IPR) projects. The research considers the full range of local community effects, regional connectivity and global competitiveness effects, and broader c...

TRB has released  Access Management Manual and Applications Guidelines USB Edition  that provides the complete text of both the Access Management Manual, Second Edition (AMM2) and the Access Management Application Guidelines (AMAG). Links between the volumes enable you to directly connect the access management concepts discussed in the AMM2 with the strategies for implementing those c...

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has released a report that supplements a set of technology-neutral cost curves published by the ICCT in November 2016 that describe the cost of carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction technology as applied to the European Union (EU) passenger car and light commercial vehicle (LCV) fleet in the 2025–2030 time frame. The research quantifies the exte...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 514: Statewide and Megaregional Travel Forecasting Models: Freight and Passenger documents current practices and emerging trends with travel forecasting models. The report explores the motivation for and capabilities of statewide and megaregion models, options for extending them and challenges states face doing so, ...

Act now to secure an advertisement in the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting Printed Program. Advertising space must be secured by Friday, October 20, 2017, and artwork must be submitted by Friday, November 3, 2017. Advertising in the Annual Meeting Printed Program--circulation more than 13,000 --allows your organization to showcase its products and services, and to show support for transportation researc...

TRB is sponsoring the 16th National Tools of the Trade Transportation Planning Conference on August 22-24, 2018 in Kansas City, Missouri. The conference will share research and best professional practices in the planning, development, and implementation of multimodal transportation for small and medium sized communities. The conference will also discuss future research and implementation needs ...

On October 11, 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Subcommittee on Highways and Transit held a hearing that received testimony from highway and transit stakeholders regarding infrastructure in the twenty-first century. Witnesses included officials from state departments of transportation, professional organizations, and the private sector. Witness...

TRB recorded a series of videos in October 2017 that features information about how the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority reviewed their internal processes and structures to consider long-range issues and trends in order to plan and implement strategic change in their agencies. Through this case study, presenters will share the strategies that wo...

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...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2661 consists of 14 papers that explore pedestrian issues, including: Comparison of Analytical Methods on Staged Pedestrian Crossings at Crosswalks with a Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon Using Embodied Videos of Walking Interviews in Walkability Assessment Comparison of Time-Proximity and Evasive Action Co...

TRB will conduct a webinar on Thursday, November 16, 2017, from 2:00PM to 3:30PM ET that features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s  Web-Only Document 239 : Impacts of Laws and Regulations on CV and AV Technology Introduction in Transit Operations. This webinar will discuss the changes in the way public transit agencies will approach operating policy...

The Urban Transportation Center at the University of Illinois has released a report that summarizes the results of a statewide engagement process intended to improve its public engagement program. The process seeks to capture ideas from Illinois residents in order to inform the development of the department’s 2017 Long-Range Transportation Plan.

TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, November 8, 2017, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET that features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Research Report 845 : Advancing Automated and Connected Vehicles: Policy and Planning Strategies for State and Local Transportation Agencies, which is accompanied by Strategies to Advance Automated and Connected Vehicles: B...

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...

TRB will conduct a webinar on Tuesday, October  17, 2017, from 2:00PM to 3:30PM ET that features research from the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)’s Synthesis 18 : Aviation Workforce Development Practices and   Web-Only Document 28 : Identifying and Evaluating Airport Workforce Requirements. This webinar will discuss what types of skilled professionals are needed to ensur...

TRB will conduct a webinar on Tuesday, November 14, 2017 from 1:00PM to 2:00PM ET and Tuesday, December 19, 2017 from 1:00-2:00PM ET that will help both new and returning Annual Meeting attendees get the most out of their meeting experience. The webinar will review issues related to planning for the meeting, including hotel reservations, airline reservations, and other basics; help attendees pl...

TRB is sponsoring the Applying Census Data for Transportation on November 14-16, 2017, in Kansas City, Missouri. The workshop will focus on the use of census data for transportation applications by exploring the results of current research, sharing experiences of practitioners who are using census data, and defining potential strategies for practical improvements in data use for current and eme...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Legal Research Digest 75: Legal Requirements for State Departments of Transportation Agency Participation in Conservation Plans describes Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs) and their relation to wetland mitigation banking, regional planning, and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Purchase and sale of wetland banks, habitat, a...

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a primer that discusses the key elements of successful transportation systems management and operations (TSMO) program planning. This primer is meant to serve as a practical resource to help state and local departments of transportation integrate TSMO within their organizations.

TRB is sponsoring I-TED 2018: International Transportation and Economic Development Conference on June 6-8, 2018 in Washington, D.C. The conference will focus on economic development and its social impacts; transit-oriented development; linkages of international trade, economic development, and transportation corridors; and transportation improvements and market competitiveness.  Registrat...

The Victoria Transport Policy Institute in Canada has released a report that evaluates criticism of transit-oriented development (TOD). This report is geared toward transportation professionals, public transit advocates, and anybody interested in determining optimal investments in transit service improvements and TOD.

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2665 consists of 9 papers that explore travel behavior and values, including: Modeling Individual Preferences for Ownership and Sharing of Autonomous Vehicle Technologies Integrated Agent-Based Travel Behavior and Dynamic Traffic Microsimulation for Ramp-Metering Analysis Optimization Method to Improve Ecodr...

TRB conducted a webinar on Wednesday, September 27, 2017 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Research Report 844 : Guide for Integrating Goods and Services Movement by Commercial Vehicles in Smart Growth Environments. This webinar focused on the report which provides a guide for proactive and reactive policy, plannin...

TRB conducted a webinar on Tuesday, September 26, 2017 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET that discusses research from 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. This webinar focused on the use of Freight Trip Generation (...

Moving research into practice is the theme of feature articles in the July–August 2017 TR News magazine. Authors describe today’s successes, present a systematic approach that has proved effective at a state department of transportation, describe federal programs encouraging innovations at the state level, discuss initiatives by research programs to promote and document the implementation of re...