TRB’s Conference Proceedings 48: Financing Surface Transportation in the United States: Forging a Sustainable Future—Now summarizes a May, 2010 conference that focused on developments in innovative funding techniques and options for securing continued revenue to support national infrastructure and mobility needs. Views presented in Conference Proceedings 48 reflect the opinions of the individua...

TRB Conference Proceedings 47: Research on the Transmission of Disease in Airports and on Aircraft is the summary of a September 2009 symposium. The symposium examined the status of research on or related to the transmission of disease on aircraft and in airports, and the potential application of research results to the development of protocols and standards for managing communicable disea...

Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 2: Technical Papers includes 27 full peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the October 2009 conference. The conference highlighted the latest research on changing demographics that affect transportation planning, programming, and policy making, as well as the latest research on crash and injury preventio...

TRB’s Conference Proceedings 46: Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 1: Conference Overview and Plenary Papers includes an overview of the October 2009 conference and six commissioned resource papers, including the two keynote presentations. Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 2: Technical Papers...

TRB Conference Proceedings 45: U.S. Marine Salvage Assets and Capabilities in a Maritime Disaster is the proceedings of a September 2008 workshop that focused on a scenario involving an incident that shuts down the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.  The proceedings examine the threat and explore key issues relating to an efficient, effective, and coordinated U.S. salvage industry respo...

TRB Conference Proceedings 44: U.S. and International Approaches to Performance Measurement for Transportation Systems is the proceedings of a September 2007 conference that explored opportunities for and experiences in using performance measurement as a strategic tool to better communicate goals, objectives, and results to a wide range of stakeholder groups.

TRB Conference Proceedings 43: Key Issues in Transportation Programming summarizes plenary and breakout sessions of a November 2006 conference that explored the current state of the practice and long-term implementation experience associated with the programming process, successful practices in linking planning and programming, and the linking of programming processes to the development of per...

TRB Conference Proceedings 42, Innovations in Travel Demand Modeling, Volume 2: Papers includes the papers that were presented at a May 21-23, 2006, conference that examined advances in travel demand modeling, explored the opportunities and the challenges associated with the implementation of advanced travel models, and reviewed the skills and training necessary to apply new modeling technique...

TRB Conference Proceedings 42, Innovations in Travel Demand Modeling, Volume 1: Session Summaries summarizes the sessions of a May 21-23, 2006, conference that examined advances in travel demand modeling, explored the opportunities and the challenges associated with the implementation of advanced travel models, and reviewed the skills and training necessary to apply new modeling techniques.

TRB’s Conference Proceedings 41: Interagency–Aviation Industry Collaboration on Planning for Pandemic Outbreaks summarizes a September 5-7, 2007, workshop that took place in Washington, D.C.  Among the issues explored in the proceedings are the current state-of-the-practice for pandemic planning by airports and airlines, coordination among various agencies and the aviation sec...

TRB Conference Proceedings 40, Freight Demand Modeling: Tools for Public-Sector Decision Making, summarizes a September 25–27, 2006, conference held in Washington, D.C. that focused on freight modeling methodologies, applications of existing models, and related data needed to support modeling efforts.  The proceedings also includes five papers prepared in connection with the conference.

TRB’s Conference Proceedings 39: The Metropolitan Planning Organization, Present and Future summarizes an August 2006 conference that explored the organizational structure of metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), the current state of the practice for regional decision making among MPOs of various sizes, and approaches to integrating a wide array of additional considerations into th...

TRB’s Conference Proceedings 38: Future Truck and Bus Safety Research Opportunities are the proceedings from a conference held on March 23-24, 2005, in Arlington, Virginia.  The purpose of the conference was to ponder the future of the commercial vehicle industry and to explore the types of research needed to meet the challenges of the future.  These proceedings summarize the issues,...

TRB Conference Proceedings 37: Integrating Sustainability into the Transportation Planning Process summarizes a July 11-13, 2004, conference in Baltimore, Maryland, that examined whether and how sustainability objectives can be introduced into the planning process for surface transportation facilities and operations.  The report explores issues associated with sustainability, the vision o...

TRB’s Conference Proceedings 36, Performance Measures to Improve Transportation Systems: Summary of the Second National Conference are the proceedings from a conference held on August 22-24, 2004, in Irvine, California.  The purpose of the conference was to explore the implementation and use of performance measures and to discuss how to monitor the impact of performance measures on the de...

TRB’s Conference Proceedings 35: Research on Women’s Issues in Transportation – Volume 2: Technical Papers contains peer-reviewed breakout and poster papers and several abstracts of papers presented at the November 18–20, 2004, conference in Chicago, Illinois. The conference was designed to identify and explore additional research and data needed to inform transportation policy decisions that ...

TRB’s Conference Proceedings 35, Research on Women’s Issues in Transportation, Volume 1: Conference Overview and Plenary Papers contains the conference summary, the four peer-reviewed overview papers presented by the topic leaders, and a list of conference participants from a November 18–20, 2004, conference held in Chicago, Illinois.  The conference was designed to iden...

TRB Conference Proceedings 34: International Perspectives on Road Pricing is the proceedings of the International Symposium on Road Pricing held on November 19-22, 2003, in Key Biscayne, Florida.  The event was a collaborative effort of TRB, the Florida Department of Transportation, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the federal Highway Administration.  Th...

TRB Conference Proceeding 33--Transportation Finance: Meeting the Funding Challenge Today, Shaping Policies for Tomorrow summarizes the Third National Conference on Transportation Finance, held October 2002 in Chicago, Illinois and includes committee findings and recommendations developed largely on the basis of information presented and discussion held at the conference.  The conference ...

TRB’s Conference Proceedings 32: Smart Growth and Transportation: Issues and Lessons Learned summarizes the highlights of a conference—Providing a Transportation System to Support Smart Growth: Issues, Practice, and Implementation—held September 8-10, 2002, in Baltimore, Maryland.  The conference was designed to address how transportation policy makers and frontline professionals can supp...

TRB Conference Proceedings 31: Geospatial Information Infrastructure for Transportation Organizations -- Toward a Foundation for Improved Decision Making summarizes the importance of geospatial information in decision making and the committee’s recommendations resulting from three workshops held in 2002.  Also included are selected current practices, trends in decision-making tools, and a...

TRB Conference Proceedings 30: Marine Salvage Capabilities: Responding to Terrorist Attacks in U.S. Ports—Actions to Improve Readiness is the report of the TRB Marine Board Workshop on Marine Salvage Response Capability held on August 5-6, 2003, in Washington, DC.  The workshop addressed economic, legal, forensic, environmental, and human casualty issues related to salvage. The report con...

TRB has published the proceedings from the Conference on Remote Sensing for Transportation Products and Results: Foundations for the Future. The conference, held December 10-12, 2001, was the second in a series of three on the subject of remote sensing in transportation. The objectives of the conference were to enhance communication between the transportation and remote sensing communities, dev...

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH NEEDS IN TRANSPORTATION: REPORT OF A CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 21-23, 2002: Every 5 years the Transportation Research Board conducts a Transportation Environmental Research Needs Conference to select and draft top-priority statements of environmental research needs. This report contains the proceedings of the most recent of these conferences which was held in M...

TRB's Conference Proceedings 27 -- Transportation in an Aging Society: A Decade of Experience includes the technical papers and reports from a 1999 conference that examined issues associated with achieving safer mobility for older persons. The issues discussed and papers presented at the meeting are judged to be important to the field and are being published so they are available to a broader a...

TRB Confernce Proceedings 26: Performance Measures to Improve Transportation Systems and Agency Operations: Report of a Conference addresses the following: organizational approaches to implementing and using performance measures in transportation systems, including the connection between performance measures and decision making; implementation experience regarding the state of the practice as ...

TRB Conference Proceedings 25: Global Intermodal Freight -- State of Readiness for the 21st Century includes conference presentations and the following appendices: (A) Intermodal Freight Transportation Report Card; (B) Summary of U.S. Department of Transportation Actions on Recommendations of the National Commission on Intermodal Transportation; (C) Conference Exhibits and Posters; and (D) Lis...

TRB Conference Proceeding 24: Second National Conference on Transportation Finance examines legislative developments since the 1998 enactment of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century,the implementation of state and local programs that did not even exist at the time of the first conference (April 1997), and matters for consideration in the 2003 reauthorization of the nation's highw...

With support from the U.S. Coast Guard and the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, the Marine Board hosted a symposium in March 1999 on the application of risk management in the marine transportation system. The symposium brought together risk assessment experts, port representatives, and marine transportation managers to examine ways to integrate risk assessment methodologies into t...

The goal of the symposium was to promote discussion of the issues raised and recommendations presented in the National Research Council (NRC) report "Contaminated Marine Sediments in Ports and Waterways: Cleanup Strategies and Technologies," released in March 1997. Appendix D of the proceedings provides an Executive Summary of this NRC report. Although there are no simple solutions to the probl...

TRB's report, Moisture Sensitivity of Asphalt Pavements, documents the work accomplished during the national seminar held in San Diego, California, on February 4-6, 2003. The proceedings identify best practices, gaps in knowledge, and research needs on moisture damage in asphalt pavements. Moisture damage in asphalt pavements is a national concern. Correctly identifying the problem and isolatin...