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TRB Annual Meeting

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Celebrate the TRB awardees at the Chair's Plenary session of the TRB Annual Meeting on Wednesday, January 14. Awards will be presented to (pictured in left to right above):

  • Chris Hendrickson, recipient of the 2025 Roy W. Crum Award
  • Christopher Barkan, recipient of the 2025 Robert E. Skinner, Jr. Distinguished Transportation Research Management Award
  • Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti , recipient of the 2026 Sharon D. Banks Award
  • Wayne Kittelson, recipient of the 2025 W.N. Carey, Jr. Distinguished Service Award

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New TRB Publications

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Diagram depicting mowing and herbicide application areas along the TDOT right-of-way. Copyright Texas Department of Transportation, Landscape Design Guidelines, 2010

You may not think of fescue grass as an asset, but when vegetation fails, it can lead to pavement or bridge failure as the ground supporting the overall structure erodes. NCHRP Research Report 1155: Tools and Technology for Roadside Vegetation Asset Management: A Guide, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, describes ways to promote and implement roadside vegetation asset management (RVAM). The guide offers suggestions, including support for promoting and updating plans.

Supplemental to the report is NCHRP Web-Only Document 429: Investigation of Tools and Technology for Roadside Vegetation Asset Management details both available and emerging tools and technology.

Events

December 9 – TRB Webinar: Environmental Stewardship and Compliance Training for Airport Employees

December 15 – TRB Webinar: Guiding Truckers to Safe and Available Parking

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Submit an abstract for presentation at the TRB Symposium on Aviation Innovation and Research by February 1. Preliminary session topics range from exploring new AI and AAM technologies to managing and designing airports.

December 10 -Join a free National Academies webinar on Mathematics in Flight: Innovation by the Numbers. Panagiotis Tsiotras of Georgia Institute of Technology and Karen Marais of Purdue University will discuss the mathematics of flight mechanics, controls, and decision-making. Jordan Ellenberg of University of Wisconsin–Madison will moderate the discussion.

RFPs

Cyber Resilience in Airport Operations: Addressing Emerging Threats proposals due January 12


Get requests for proposals issued for TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program directly in your inbox!

Advancing Cyber Resilience of Transportation System Management and Operation Programs proposals due January 13

A Guide for Airport Parking Operation and Revenue Management Models proposals due January 22

Impact Evaluation for Obstacles within Barrier's Working Width proposals due January 26

Friction and Texture Performance Evaluation for Asphalt Mixtures proposals due January 26

Design and Analysis of Bridge Foundations for Redundancy proposals due January 27

Traversable Postconstruction Stormwater Check Dams in Clear Zones proposals due January 27

Evaluating the Influence of Vehicle Active Safety Technologies on Roadway Departures proposals due January 28

Silo Storage Impact on Asphalt Mixture Performance proposals due January 28

Integrating Large Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety into State Freight and Safety Planning proposals due January 29

News for You

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Do you have an idea for research that could provide practical solutions to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce costs of road traffic crashes associated with unsafe behaviors? Submit your problem statements for TRB's Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program by January 16.

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Are you interested in performing the research for TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program? You'll synthesize information that may be fragmented, scattered, and unevaluated to create consise resources available to the full airport community. Subawardees will be paid $75,000 on a fixed-price basis. Submit a letter of interest by February 2. 

 

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Nominate yourself or others for TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program synthesis project panels. These panels will finalize the scope of work, select contractors, and review draft deliverables prepared by the contractors. Nominations are due January 19 via MyTRB.org. 

Research Roundup

Illinois Center for Transportation - Evaluation of Unbonded Jointed Concrete Overlays

Arizona Department of Transportation – State of the Practice of a Data Management Office within DOTs

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – Early Estimates of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities and Fatality Rate by Sub-Category for the First Half of 2025

National Bureau of Economic Research - The Social Rate of Return on Road Infrastructure Investments 

University of California Pavement Research Center - Cold Central Plant Recycling Study: First-Level Analysis of Heavy Vehicle Simulator Testing

TRL – A Review of Brake Performance Monitoring Systems

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