TR News Magazine
The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine, which features timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation. Also published are brief news items of interest to the transportation community, research pays off articles, profiles of transportation professionals, workshop and conference announcements, new book notices, news of TRB activities, and the TRB Annual Report.
Submissions of manuscripts for possible publication are accepted at any time. Copies of the TR News may be purchased individually or ordered on an
annual subscription basis.
A compilation of titles in the TR News series since January 2002, when TRB began posting complete issues of the magazine on the Web, is accessible by the link below. Full issues of TR News are posted to the Web four months after their publication. Each title includes a short description of articles included in the publication, a link to the full text of the issue (as it becomes available), and a link to
TRB's electronic bookstore.
 TR News March-April 2013: Deploying Transportation Research: TRB 92nd Annual Meeting HighlightsMay 15, 2013 Photographic highlights of sessions, events, presentations, meetings, exhibits, awards, and more from TRB’s 92nd Annual Meeting—including valedictory speeches by two major transportation leaders—is accompanied in the March–April issue of TR News by feature articles on the promise of connected vehicle technology; the accomplishments and vision of more than two decades of TransTech Academy, prepa...
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 TR News January-February 2013: Sharing the Spirit of Innovation: Examples from the StatesMarch 18, 2013 The January-February 2013 TR News includes articles that explore the vulnerability and adaptability of Alaska’s transportation system to climate change—and lessons for the rest of the nation; Northern European solutions for managing road condition in cold climates; ways to identify and map naturally occurring hazardous materials in Oregon in relation to transportation activities; and insights f...
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 TR News November-December 2012: From Vision to Practice: Productive ModelsJanuary 29, 2013 The November-December 2012 TR News features articles that commemorate significant research and planning milestones. The National Cooperative Highway Research Program is celebrating its 50th anniversary and the Transit Cooperative Research Program its 20th in 2012; in addition, the Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) programs are completing their 20th year. 2012 also mark...
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 TR News September-October 2012: Blueprints to Improve Highway SafetyNovember 1, 2012 TRB policy is to release the full PDF version of a TR News four months after its release in print format. The full PDF version of the September-October 2012 issue is now available. The September-October 2012 TR News features articles that address highway safety tools and procedures, including an overview of the Highway Safety Manual and its applications; a national strategy to preven...
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 TR News July-August 2012: Adapting to Climate Change: Building a Network of SolutionsSeptember 5, 2012 The July-August 2012 TR News present an array of climate change adaptation initiatives--the rationales, strategies, progress, and goals--including key facts that transportation leaders and professionals should know about climate change and transportation. The July-August 2012 issue of TR News includes the following articles: Implementing Climate Change Policies: State and Local Innova...
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 TR News May-June 2012: Active Transportation: Implementing the BenefitsJuly 5, 2012 The May-June 2012 TR News features articles that address the planning, design, operation, and maintenance of pedestrian and bicyclist facilities, as well as efforts to integrate these modes into the transportation system. Articles explore the health benefits of nonmotorized transportation; the business side of bicycling; measuring multimodal mobility; learning from trends in oth...
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 TR News March-April 2012: History in the Making: 91st Annual Meeting HighlightsMay 9, 2012 The March-April 2012 TR News includes a photo essay of highlights from the TRB 91st Annual Meeting's sessions, speakers, events, committee meetings, exhibits, awards, and more. This issue of the TR News also features articles on the growing role of international cooperation and collaboration in TRB programs and activities; key findings from two recent National Cooperative Highwa...
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 TR News November-December 2011: Charting Pathways into NanotechnologyJanuary 8, 2012 The November-December 2011 TR News assembles feature articles that explore the applications of nanotechnology in transportation, examine asset management for low-volume road systems, review the metamorphosis of traffic data from the Long-Term Pavement Performance studies, and more. The November-December 2011 issue of TR News includes the following articles: Nanotechnology in...
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 TR News September-October 2011: Positioning Aviation for Skies UnlimitedNovember 3, 2011 The September-October 2011 TR News assembles feature articles exploring the Next-Generation Air Transport System, which will transform U.S. air traffic control from a ground-based, human-centric system to a satellite-based, airplane-centric system; the future of aviation sustainability; commercial aviation’s pursuit of sustainable alternative fuels; aviation security; economics of the avia...
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 TR News July-August 2011: Security and Critical Infrastructure ProtectionSeptember 15, 2011 The July-August 2011 TR News assembles feature articles exploring the state of security and critical infrastructure protection, including an assessment of U.S. infrastructure resiliency, North American perimeter security and the movement of trade, the security of bridges and tunnels, measures to protect rail and transit from attacks, the effects of piracy on the global supply chain, a...
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 TR News May-June 2011: Public–Private Partnerships: Filling Funding Gaps for InfrastructureJuly 9, 2011 The May-June 2011 TR News explores issues related to public–private partnerships by examining how the model might help meet an agency's challenge to deliver transportation projects; the variety of arrangements to select from for projects; how to ensure value from the arrangements; ways to protect the public interest in long-term concessions; the appropriateness to U.S. contexts; how the mo...
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 TR News March-April 2011: Rebuilding Urban Interstates, Oklahoma and Missouri InitiativesMay 9, 2011 The March-April 2011 TR News examines the problem of young impaired drivers, including the effect of underage drinking laws on alcohol-related fatal crashes. Two other features report on innovative approaches applied in the reconstruction of an expressway through St. Louis, Missouri, and the construction of a crosstown expressway in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Photographic highlights present a sam...
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 TR News November-December 2010: TRB 90th Anniversary PerspectivesJanuary 7, 2011 The Transportation Research Board is celebrating its 90th Anniversary, and the November–December 2010 TR News inaugurates the occasion with a feature article by former Executive Director Thomas B. Deen, who reviews the organization’s history and characteristics while focusing on developments and trends in the past 15 years. Supplementary features and sidebars include selected major milestones i... |