TRB has released Critical Issues in Transportation 2019 . In this report, which is updated periodically by the TRB Executive Committee, a series of challenging questions are posed to explore issues and opportunities that may arise 10 to 20 years into the future. These questions, 63 in all, have been organized into 12 topic areas and provide a way to frame future areas of research, policy analysis, and debate. Critical issues identified in this report deserve attention because of transportation’s central ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a summary the presentations and discussions from a June 28-29, 2016, workshop that explored the results of years of investment, experimentation, and research in building resilience and examined experiences in building more resilient communities. Over the past decade, resilience has gained significant traction across the nation and innovative programs are showing exciting progress in building resilient communities. For communities ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that examines the current state of U.S. graduate STEM education. The report explores how the system might best respond to ongoing developments in the conduct of research on evidence-based teaching practices and in the needs and interests of its students and the broader society it seeks to serve. The report is designed to be a resource for the primary stakeholders in the U.S. STEM enterprise, including federal and state po...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have released a report that explores the influence of sexual harassment in academia on the career advancement of women in the scientific, technical, and medical workforce. The report reviews the research on the extent to which women in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine are victimized by sexual harassment and examines the existing information on the extent to which sexual harassment in academia negatively impacts the recruitment,...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released its proceedings of a workshop hosted in January 2018 that explores best practices and lessons learned from other high-risk, high-reliability industries for the benefit of the research community and of citizens, industry practitioners, decision makers, and officials addressing safety in the offshore oil industry. Since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill, efforts to improve safety in the offshore oil industry have resu...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released Emergency Alert and Warning Systems. This consensus study considers new possibilities for realizing more effective alert and warning systems, explores how a more effective national alert and warning system might be created, and sets forth a research agenda to advance the nation’s alert and warning capabilities.  Congress passed the Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act in 2006 following a series of natural disasters...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that summarizes the high-level interdisciplinary discussions that took place during the Raymond and Beverly Sackler U.S.-U.K. Scientific Forum “The Frontiers of Machine Learning” took place on January 31 and February 1, 2017, in Washington, D.C. The field of machine learning continues to advance at a rapid pace owing to increased computing power, better algorithms and tools, and greater availability of data. Machine learn...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that identifies challenges to establishing a real-time system-wide safety assurance (RSSA) system and the high-priority research that should be implemented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other interested parties in government, industry, and academia to expedite development of such a system. RSSA is one of six focus areas for the NASA aeronautics program. NASA envisions that an RSSA system ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has summaries of the presentations and discussions from its June 13, 2017, workshop that explored the impacts of economic, demographic, and social issues in rural communities and to learn about asset-based approaches to addressing the associated challenges. The role of transportation is a major theme in the Proceedings’ focus on equitable access to health and health care. Rural counties make up about 80 percent of the land area of the United S...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that examines which interventions (programs, systems, and policies) are most promising to prevent injuries and death from alcohol-impaired driving, the barriers to action and approaches to overcome them, and which interventions need to be changed or adopted. This report makes broad-reaching recommendations that will serve as a blueprint for the nation to accelerate the progress in reducing alcohol-impaired driving fatalit...