TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 522: Managing State Transportation Research Programs identifies the current state of practice of managing state transportation research programs. The report highlights existing resources, desired individual skill sets, core competencies, and structures that are in place for departments of transportation (DOTs) to manage and c...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Results Digest 28: Though Leader Forum Summary—Emerging Issues for ACRP summarizes a January 30, 2019, forum to identify the most important issues facing the airport industry within the next 5 to 10 years. The goal of this exercise was to engage the ACRP’s Airport Operations Committee (AOC) directly with other thought leaders in the ind...

Papers released the week of April 15 through the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board OnlineFirst portal include the following: Electric Transit Route Network Design Problem: Model and Application - Christina Iliopoulou, Ioannis Tassopoulos, Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou, Grigorios Beligiannis Framing the Bicyclist: A Qualitative Study of Media Discourse abou...

TRB's Transit Research Analysis Committee (TRAC) has delivered a letter report to Mr. Vincent Valdes, Associate Administrator for Research, Demonstration, and Innovation at the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The April 12, 2019 letter report provides feedback to FTA on its innovation initiatives that are a focus of the administration’s research plan. TRAC, an interdisciplinary committee o...

Papers released the week of April 8 through the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board OnlineFirst portal include the following: Demand Calibration of Multimodal Microscopic Traffic Simulation using Weighted Discrete SPSA - Simon Oh, Ravi Seshadri, Carlos Lima Azevedo, Moshe E. Ben-Akiva Comparison of Traffic Conflict Indicators for Crash Estimation using P...

Papers released the week of April 1 through the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board OnlineFirst portal include the following: Use of Open Data to Assess Cyclist Safety in London - Daniel J. Collins, Daniel J. Graham Toll Choice and Stochastic User Equilibrium: Ticking All the Boxes - Jan C. Zill, Pedro Camargo, Naznin Sultana Daisy, Tim Veitch Pasadena’s...

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation has released the latest edition of its newsletter that highlights recent accomplishments and products from university transportation centers (UTCs). This edition features the University of Maryland. It describes a smartphone app that uses personalized incentives to nudge commuter behavior ...

Papers released the week of March 25 through the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board OnlineFirst portal include the following: Smart Signal Control System for Accident Prevention and Arterial Speed Harmonization under Connected Vehicle Environment - Xianfeng (Terry) Yang, Gang-Len Chang, Zhao Zhang, Pengfei (Taylor) Li Children’s Independent Trips on Wee...

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Planning, Environment and Realty has released its quarterly newsletter that highlights new events and research. This edition features: Public transportation investments Right-of-way planning cost estimator Research highlights Upcoming events

Papers released the week of March 18 through the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board OnlineFirst portal include the following: A Balanced Mix Design Method for Selecting the Optimum Binder Content of Cold In-Place Recycling Asphalt Mixtures - Ahmed Saidi, Ayman Ali, Wade Lein, Yusuf Mehta Analysis of Crash Rates at Freeway Diverge Areas using Bayesian T...