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General Transportation 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 general transportation research activities. In addition, it includes links to selected research 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 programs and activities, which are the source of most of TRB’s general transportation-related products. |
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TRB General Transportation-Related Programs and Activities
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 Research Pays Off: Effective Use of Chip Seals in MinnesotaApril 21, 2014 In the early 1990s, chip seal use throughout Minnesota declined to a historic low. State and local agencies were not obtaining a consistent quality of performance from the technique; however, long-term data show that successful application of chip seals extended service life of the state’s asphalt pavements by an average of 6 years. To address the problem, the Minnesota Local Road Researc... |
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 Robert E. Skinner, Jr., Executive Director, Transportation Research Board, Announces Retirement PlansApril 7, 2014 TRB’s Executive Director, Robert E. Skinner, Jr., has announced that he intends to retire after 30 years of service to the National Academies effective, at the end of January 2015. Skinner joined TRB as senior program officer in 1983. In 1986 he became the director of TRB’s Studies and Special Programs Division, and in 1994 he was appointed executive director of TRB. In this capacity, he has ad... |
 Developing Countries 2013April 1, 2014 TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2394 consists of 16 papers that explore travel time and space mean speed of nonmotorized vehicles; a review of India’s national urban investment program; assessment of public–private partnership in traveler information provision; low-mass urban microcars; transition Beijing, China to a transit city; and less... |
John Njord Receives ASCE Lifetime Achievement AwardMarch 18, 2014 John Njord, retired Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) Executive Director and former TRB Executive Committee Chair, has been named an Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Lifetime Achievement Award winner for 2014 by the America Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The award recognizes Njord’s extraordinary contributions to civil engineering throughout his 25-year career. ASCE notes that... |
 Manager’s Guide to the Integrated Ecological FrameworkMarch 13, 2014 TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Capacity Project C06 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled Manager’s Guide to the Integrated Ecological Framework that is designed to provide a basic understanding of the Integrated Ecological Framework (IEF), a nine-step process for integrating ecological and transportation planning. It presents information... |
 Transportation Research Board 2013 Annual ReportFebruary 1, 2014 The 2013 Annual Report provides a summary of the Transportation Research Board's (TRB's) programs and activities over the last year and an overview of the individual divisions within TRB. The mission of TRB is to provide leadership in transportation innovation and progress through research and information exchange, conducted within a setting that is objective, interdisciplinary, and multimodal. |
 Critical Issues in Transportation: 2013February 1, 2014 TRB’s Executive Committee periodically identifies a set of critical issues in transportation to focus attention on their likely impact on the nation’s economy and quality of life. The discussion of the critical issues identified in this document is intended to facilitate debate and to encourage research leading to their resolution. Previous editions of Critical Issues in Transportation have hig... |
 Transportation Statistics Annual Report: 2012August 16, 2013 The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), a part of the U.S. Research and Innovative Technology Administration, has released its annual transportation statistic report. |
 State Traffic DataJuly 25, 2013 The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a facts sheet that summarizes state-by-state trends in traffic fatalities using 2011 data. |
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Cooperative Research Programs
TRB's Cooperative Research Programs Division manages several cooperative research programs that frequently produces reports that have relevence to issues outside of the program's core focus areas.
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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. |
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.
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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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