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About TRB Programs

ACRP
The Airport Cooperative Research Program

CTBSSP
The Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (CTBSSP) is a new cooperative research program sponsored by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and administered by the Transportation Research Board.

HMCRP
The Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program

IDEA
The Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis programs enourage investigation of innovative concepts with potential for technological breakthroughs in transportation.

Legal
The Legal Research Program currently consists of projects sponsored by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP).

LTPP
The goal of the Long Term Pavement Performance studies is to discover, through a series of rigorous long-term field experiments employing in-service highways, the causes of physical deterioration of highway pavements

NCFRP
The National Cooperative Freight Research Program was created in . . .

NCHRP
The National Cooperative Highway Research Program was created in 1962 as a means to conduct research in acute problem areas that affect highway planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance nationwide.

Policy Studies
Since 1982, TRB has conducted more than 70 Policy Studies in response to requests by Congress, executive branch agencies, and the states on a wide array of complex, often controversial, transportation topics.

SHRP II
The Strategic Highway Research Program II is a short-term program focused on reducing crashes, accelerating highway renewal, providing reliable travel times, and increasing capacity.

Syntheses
Under the sponsorship of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP), and the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP), TRB prepares Syntheses of current practice in the highway, transit, and airport fields.

TCRP
The Transit Cooperative Research Program serves as one of the principal means by which the transit industry can develop innovative near-term solutions to meet demands placed on public transit systems.


 

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