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. Please contact us at TRBSALES@nas.edu for more information.
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 January-February 2018: Marine Transportation and the Environment: Trends and IssuesFebruary 21, 2018 The January-February 2018 edition of the TR News explores environmental issues in marine transportation, such as air pollution, vessel discharges, increased ship traffic in the Arctic, and the slow development of alternative fuels. Other articles describe a rapid response to marine oil spills, public-private partnerships in civil space, and how to quantify the effects of preservation treatments...
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 TR News March-April 2018: Test Track for New TechApril 19, 2018 The March-April 2018 edition of the TR News explores the creation and development of a new mode of transportation. Other articles describe 3-D printing in construction, strategic program delivery, and performance evaluation of guardrail end treatments. The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of trans...
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 TR News November-October 2017: Reenvisioning New York's Legendary Bus TerminalApril 11, 2018 The full edition of the November–December 2017 TR News is now available. This edition explores a design competition to re-envision the essential transportation facility. It also follows up on the innovations presented by participants in the TRB Six-Minute Pitch Competition since 2013 and finds inspiring successes. Other articles describe policy studies related to transportation by other units o...
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 TR News September-October 2017: Transportation Systems ResilienceFebruary 19, 2018 The full edition of the September-October 2017 TR News magazine is now available. Transportation systems' resilience is the theme of feature articles in this issue. Authors describe lessons learned in planning, engineering, and operations management with regards to resilience; discuss supply chain business continuity; identify techniques for evacuation and emergency transportation; examine the ...
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 TR News July-August 2017: Moving Research into PracticeDecember 20, 2017 The full edition of the July–August 2017 TR News magazine is now available. Moving research into practice is the theme of feature articles in this edition. Authors describe today’s successes, present a systematic approach that has proved effective at a state department of transportation, describe federal programs encouraging innovations at the state level, discuss initiatives ...
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 TR News March–April 2017: Freight Planning: Innovations, Scenarios, and Environmental JusticeSeptember 20, 2017 The full edition of the March–April 2017 TR News is now available. Photographic highlights from TRB’s 96th Annual Meeting are featured. This edition explores innovations in freight planning as well as insights into transportation safety culture from a recent policy study that focused on offshore oil and gas drilling, while another feature covers the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, ...
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 TR News January-February 2017: The Promises and Risks of InnovationJuly 19, 2017 The full edition of the January-February 2017 TR News is now available. This edition explores information about laws affecting driverless vehicles, the freight project selection process, environmental performance measures, and sharing operations data. The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transp...
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 TR News November-December 2016: Freight Transport in a Low-Carbon World May 26, 2017 The full edition of the November-December 2016 TR News is now available. This edition explores f reight transport in a low-carbon world. Articles cover information about shaping the federal aid road act, GIS asset management, cross-asset resource allocation, and long-term performances and life-cycle cost of stormwater management. The TRB 2016 Annual Report is included in this edition of the TR ...
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 TR News September-October 2016: Applying Knowledge ManagementMarch 10, 2017 The full edition of TR News 305 is now available. Knowledge management—subject of a recent domestic scan of transportation agencies—is the focus of feature articles in the September–October 2016 TR News. Authors present insights into the multidisciplinary approach that assembles, develops, shares, and applies organizational knowledge to achieve institutional objectives. Articles cover transport...
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 TR News July-August 2016: Flight Plans for Aviation ResearchJanuary 11, 2017 The full edition of the TR News is now available. The July-August 2016 edition addresses key issues in aviation: the workforce of the future—the needs to be filled and the sources of personnel; addressing the challenges of civil aviation safety; airline consolidation, competition, and the evolution of air service; optimizing cybersecurity for commercial aviation; the operation of unmanned aircr...
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 TR News March-April 2016: Technology-Enabled Transportation ServicesOctober 14, 2016 The full edition of TR News March-April 2016 has been released. This edition 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 conne...
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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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