Cooperative Research Programs Series
Periodicals and Other Documents
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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.
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 TR News March-April 2016: Technology-Enabled Transportation ServicesMay 14, 2016 This edition of the TR News documents an array of sessions, workshops, events, interactions, exchanges, awards, and more at TRB's 2016 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Feature articles present transportation-related findings from a series of policy studies by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the global connection to changes in the Arctic; plus results from...
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 TR News January–February 2016, Disruptions and Transformations: Findings from the StatesJuly 21, 2016 The full edition of the January–February 2016 TR News is now available. This edition features the annual overview of trends and developments in policy and practice at state departments of transportation and other agencies—particularly research needs, research in progress, and applied research—based on reports from the state partnership visits by TRB senior program officers in 2015. Other f...
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 TR News: November - December 2015, Commercial SpaceportsMay 23, 2016 The complete edition of the 300th TR News is now available. This milestone edition features articles that present the results of pioneering research. One examines commercial spaceports and the endeavor of building the foundation for a commercial space transportation network; another presents an overview of the first year of research using the vast and valuable databases from the historic Natura...
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 TR News June-July-August 2015: Moving EnergyDecember 1, 2015 The full edition of the June-July-August 2015 TR News is now available. This edition explore the effects of the changing world energy market on the transportation industry, with deliveries of coal declining, natural gas use on the increase, and oil shipments from North American locations rising to challenge overseas sources. Authors examine the changing energy market by energy source, the ...
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 TR News March-April-May 2015: Standing Ovations for TRB's 2015 Annual MeetingNovember 5, 2015 The full PDF of TRNews 297 is now available. This edition covers TRB’s 94th Annual Meeting, which featured U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony J. Foxx, more than 3,500 research papers, major professional awards, committee meetings, an active exhibit hall, and more. This Annual Meeting also achieved recordbreaking attendance at a new and more capacious venue. This edition of the TR News als...
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 TR News January-February 2015: Preparing for a New Panama CanalAugust 19, 2015 The full PDF of the January-February 2015 TR News is now available. With the Panama Canal celebrating its centennial in 2014 and scheduled to open new locks in 2016, this issue of the TR News explores the legacy and future of the canal and the probable effects the expansion will have on U.S. harbor infrastructure and supply chains. The January-February 2015 issue of TR News includes the fo...
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 TR News November-December 2014: Turning PointsJune 17, 2015 The full issue of TR News 295 is now available. This edition features articles that examine pivotal periods in transportation research, including a feature article that examines the contributions of the nine TRB Executive Directors, including Robert E. Skinner, Jr., who retired in January 2015 after 21 years at TRB’s helm. Other features include a review of the first 100 years of commercial avi...
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 TR News September – October 2014: Transportation in Tribal Lands: Challenges and InitiativesApril 5, 2015 The full issue of the TR News 294 has been posted. This issue features articles that explore the challenges facing tribal transportation and the accomplishments of programs serving the unique transportation needs of the 566 Indian tribes throughout the United States. Articles highlight the federal trust relationship and tribal sovereignty; a bridge replacement project in the Oneida Nation using...
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 TR News July-August 2014: Performance Management in PracticeFebruary 11, 2015 The full PDF version of the TR News July-August 2014 issue assembles a comprehensive how-to on performance management in transportation. Authors explore current thinking, lessons learned, tools and techniques, and issues related to performance management—what works and what does not. Features detail the experience of a CEO in championing performance management; how state DOTs are using performa...
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 TR News May–June 2014: Changing Energy Outlook; King Coal Highway; Automated Vehicles—and MoreNovember 17, 2014 The full PDF version of the May-June TR News examines the shift in the U.S. energy outlook, including the increase in domestic natural gas production, and the implications for energy security, transportation, and climate policies. Another article describes how public–private partnerships in West Virginia are used to build roads and other facilities. A third feature identifies ten research areas...
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 TR News March-April 2014: Annual Meeting on the Move: Highlights and HallmarksSeptember 14, 2014 The full PDF version of the March-April 2014 issue is now available. Photographic highlights of sessions, events, presentations, meetings, exhibits, awards, and more from TRB’s 93rd Annual Meeting—including a major policy address by U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx—is accompanied in the March–April 2014 issue of TR News by feature articles that explore the history and leg...
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 TR News January-February 2014: ABCs of Bridge RenewalJuly 18, 2014 The full PDF version of the January-February issue is now available. This issue of the TR News focuses on the effects the boom in the domestic energy industry is having on low-volume roadways in Texas; practical findings from a 26-state pooled-fund study on winter maintenance challenges; the mega-project under way to replace the Gerald Desmond Bridge in the Port of Long Beach, California;...
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 TR News November-December 2013: Designed for Implementation and Impact: SHRP 2 Products and ProceduresJune 11, 2014 The full PDF version of the November-December 2013 issue is now available. TRB policy is to release the full PDF version of a TR News four months after its release in print format. This issue of the TR News focuses on the impacts and implementation of products, tools, and research results and findings of the Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) are presented in the November–Decemb... |
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