Self-driving cars, rising temperatures and sea levels, increasingly strong weather events, changing citizen preferences, and innovations in technologies that are revolutionizing purchasing behavior, social interaction, financial transactions, communications, and travel—the transportation world is changing very rapidly. Transportation Research Circular E-C256: Managing Transportation Systems in ...

Recent studies show that organizations with the most diverse workforces realize better decision-making and more efficiency, innovation, and profitability than do their less-diverse peers. This article in TR News Issue 323 (September/October 2019) details demographic trends shaping the nation’s workforce—the large millennial population, the rise of neurodiverse workers, and dramatically increase...

Current public involvement in transportation decision-making is assessed in 2018 Assessment of the Practice of Public Involvement in Florida , a report from the Florida Department of Transportation. This report determines the current state of the practice regarding public involvement in transportation planning in Florida. It also identifies ways to improve public involvement.

The Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center has released its latest issue of Transfers Magazine , which features peer-reviewed research articles that cover a wide range of transportation topics. This issue provides information about: Whether ride-hailing results in equitable car access Transit for the twenty-first century Measuring curbside congestion The carless and mobility ...

States and localities are beginning to recognize and act on the connection between health and transportation. A growing number of entities have produced a number of resources, guidance documents, and strategic plans on the topic. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's pre-publication draft of NCHRP Research Report 932: A Research Roadmap for Transportation and Public Health Man...

A sustainable transit agency provides environmental, social, and economic benefits to the communities it serves. Transit agency efforts to quantify these benefits have focused primarily on environmental sustainability. The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) has developed guidance for transit agencies on how to use performance measures to quantify transit’s impact on environmenta...

A metric that quantifies mobility energy productivity is described in Measuring Mobility Potential , a research brief from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory at the U.S. Department of Energy. This metric tracks changes in mobility within a single city, location, or place over time. It aims to assess the impact of emerging mobility choices.

Factors that may affect personal mobility are explored in Insights into Future Mobility , a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The goal of this report is to navigate disruptions and changes that lie ahead and to determine how factors surrounding personal mobility may play a role in shaping its future.

The U.S. transportation system is developed, operated, and managed by private and public enterprises and, as of 2012, employs approximately 4.3 million people. This number is even larger when it accounts for people whose jobs are entirely dependent on the transportation system, from delivering fresh lettuce year-round to a fast response to a fire alarm to the reliable delivery of children to sc...

A methodology to improve tribal roadway safety is developed in Regional Implementation of Tribal Transportation Safety Program: Yankton Sioux Tribe Roadway Safety Improvement Program , a report from the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University. This report identifies how three tribes in North and South Dakota were affected by the program.