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Public Transportation 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 public transportation. In addition, it includes links to selected public transportation 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 public transportation-related programs and activities, which are the source of most of TRB’s marine transportation-related research products. |
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TRB Public Transportation-Related Programs and Activities
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RFI: TCRP 2014 Synthesis Study Topics SoughtMarch 5, 2014 TRB is seeking potential synthesis study topics as part of the upcoming activities of the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP). Topics may be submitted at any time; however, the deadline for the upcoming submission cycle is March 17, 2014. All proposed new topics must be submitted online through the TRB Synthesis Topic Submittal website . Synthesis reports are most valuable when the... |
 Transit 2013, Volume 2February 28, 2014 TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2351 consists of 18 papers that explore transit fleet resource allocation; benchmarking disaggregate customer satisfaction scores of bus operators; statistical equivalence of onboard versus online surveys of transit customers; and the operational performance of public transportation agencies. This issue of t... |
Shaping the New Future of Paratransit: An International Conference on Demand Responsive TransitFebruary 27, 2014 TRB is sponsoring the Shaping the New Future of Paratransit: An International Conference on Demand Responsive Transit on October 29-31, 2014, in Monterey, California. The conference will focus on the future of open and integrated paratransit and explore the current state of practice worldwide. The event is designed to provide a forum for the cross-fertilization of research, innovation, and prac... |
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RFP: TRB Accepting Proposals for 2014 Transit IDEA Program FundingFebruary 12, 2014 TRB is accepting proposals for the Transit Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program. The Transit IDEA Program provides financial support of up to $100,000 for the early stage development and testing of innovative and unproven concepts and methods for advancing transit practice. The due date for submitting Transit IDEA proposals during this submission cycle is Ma... |
RFP: IDEA Program Announcement 2014: Funding Proposals Now Being Accepted February 9, 2014 TRB’s Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) annual program announcement solicits funding proposals for the upcoming review cycles. The announcement explains the IDEA programs, describes the types of eligible projects and their funding structures, suggests general areas for which IDEA proposals can be submitted, and provides guidelines and forms for submitting proposals. NCHRP ... |
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 Critical Issues in Transportation: 2013February 1, 2014 TRB’s Executive Committee periodically identifies a set of critical issues in transportation to focus attention on their likely impact on the nation’s economy and quality of life. The discussion of the critical issues identified in this document is intended to facilitate debate and to encourage research leading to their resolution. Previous editions of Critical Issues in Transportation have hig... |
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RFI: TCRP FY 2015 Research Problem Statements SoughtJanuary 31, 2014 TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program has issued a request for problem statements identifying research needed for TCRP’s FY 2015 program. Research problem statements for the TCRP FY 2015 program are due June 15, 2014. These submittals form the basis for selection of the annual TCRP research program. The TCRP undertakes applied research and technical activities focusing on the needs of tran... |
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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.
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Transit Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program
TRB's Transit Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program is designed to provide an opportunity to investigate new and unproven concepts or to evaluate novel applications of technologies that have been tried, tested or used for transit systems practice.
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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.
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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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