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Rail Research at TRB
 The mission of the Transportation Research Board is to provide leadership in transportation innovation and progress through research and information exchange, conducted within a setting that is objective, interdisciplinary, and multimodal. This page highlights recently released TRB reports, meeting announcements, requests for proposals, and other announcements related to railroads. In addition, it includes links to selected railroad research-related activities taking place at the federal and state levels, and within the academic and international transportation communities. Finally, this page also highlights and provides links to TRB railroads-related programs and activities, which are the source of most of TRB’s railroad-related research products. |
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TRB Railroad-Related Programs and Activities
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TRB Webinar: Transportation Resilience MetricsSeptember 22, 2021 Natural hazards, from hurricanes to earthquakes, too often become disasters that wreak havoc on transportation systems. TRB will host a webinar on Tuesday, October 19, 2021 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM Eastern to discuss transportation systems resilience, which is the ability to prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and to withstand and recover rapidly from disruption. Resilience is vitally impo... |
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Need Help with the Annual Meeting Paper Review Process?September 10, 2021 If you have questions or need procedural instructions while trying to carry out your role in facilitating this year's Annual Meeting paper review process, please visit these resource pages: Committee Guides and Reviewer Guides . If you have additional questions that are not answered on those pages, please consult with a fellow committee member or email trr@nas.edu , although responses may be de... |
 You Must Re-Subscribe to Receive Next Week's TRB NewsletterSeptember 9, 2021 This is TRB's final newsletter in this format. Next week, on September 21 , the first issue of TRB Weekly will launch on our new platform. Make sure you have re-subscribed through the MyTRB portal in order to receive your newsletter next Tuesday. To continue to get research news from TRB every Tuesday, you must re-subscribe at https://www.mytrb.org/Profile/MyAccount/TRBWeekly ... |
TRB Webinar: Workforce Management in TransportationSeptember 8, 2021 Sustaining a qualified workforce is an urgent issue for several state departments of transportation (DOTs). TRB will host a webinar on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 from 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern that will discuss innovative practices to address workforce challenges. Presenters will identify a strategic workforce management process and describe success stories about workforce management in the transport... |
 Transportation System Security Means Plan, Review, and RepeatSeptember 8, 2021 To commemorate of the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., here is a look at the ways transportation security has shifted in the following decades. Immediate responses with long-lasting impacts Life has changed for both transportation users and transportation professionals as policies and practices evolve. Published shortly after the attacks, TRB’s Deterrence, Protect... |
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ITS World Congress*September 8, 2021 In collaboration ITS Europe, ITS America, and ITS Asia Pacific are hosting the ITS World Congress from October 11-15, 2021 in Hamburg, Germany. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. The World Congress brings together brings together global leaders in intelligent and transformative transportation to showcase and evaluate the latest innovative concepts, active prototypes, and live systems. Dele... |
Conference on Transformative Times in Transportation Security - early bird through September 27September 6, 2021 Convened by Transportation Research Board, the Conference on Transformative Times in Transportation Security will now be held November 1-5 online. The safe and secure movement of people and cargo is essential to our economy and societal resiliency. The conference program will focus on surface transportation modes and the necessary coordination for multimodal mobility during disasters, includin... |
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Technical Activities Standing Committees
TRB's Technical Activities Division provides a forum for transportation professionals in all modes and functions to identify research needs and to share information on research and issues of interest. The Division's staff of specialists in each mode and discipline work with a network of volunteers to carry out activities on behalf of TRB sponsors and the transportation community, including the TRB Annual Meeting, conferences and workshops, publications, visits to each state, and responses to inquiries. This network includes members and friends of over 200 standing committees, supplemented by designated TRB representatives in each state, over 150 universities, and 35 transit agencies. |
Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2)
Congress established the SHRP 2 in 2006 to find strategic solutions to three national transportation challenges: improving highway safety, reducing congestion, and improving methods for renewing roads and bridges. Research was focused in four areas, which are described below. The program carried out 145 research projects and produced 130 products as well as 132 research reports. |
Safety Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program
TRB's Safety Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program is designed to provide an opportunity to investigate new and unproven concepts or to evaluate novel applications of technologies that have been tried, tested or used for safety systems practice.
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Research in Progress in this Subject Area
TRB's Research in Progress (RiP) Database now contains more than 11,900 current or recently completed transportation research projects. Most of the RiP records are projects funded by federal and state departments of transportation. University transportation research is also included. The RiP Database also serves as a clearinghouse of University Transportation Centers ongoing research. |
Research Needs in this Subject Area
An important function of TRB is to stimulate research that addresses concerns, issues, or problems facing the transportation community. In support of this function, TRB Technical Activities standing committees identify, develop, and disseminate research need statements (RNS) for use by practitioners, researchers, and others.
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Research Completed in this Subject Area
TRB's TRID is integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services ( TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation ( ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide. |
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