Moving research into practice is the theme of feature articles in the July–August 2017 TR News magazine. Authors describe today’s successes, present a systematic approach that has proved effective at a state department of transportation, describe federal programs encouraging innovations at the state level, discuss initiatives by research programs to promote and document the implementation of re...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has released  Strategies to Advance Automated and Connected Vehicles: Briefing Document. It is intended for state, regional, and local agency and political decision makers who are framing public policy making for these transformational technologies. The briefing document makes the case for taking action in spite of uncertainties a...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 845: Advancing Automated and Connected Vehicles: Policy and Planning Strategies for State and Local Transportation Agencies assesses policy and planning strategies at the state, regional, and local levels that could influence private-sector automated vehicle (AV) and connected vehicle (CV) choices to positively affect s...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 85: Alternative Fuels in Airport Fleets is designed to assist airport operators in analyzing complex procurement, operational, and environmental decisions when considering alternative fuels in airport fleets. Airports own and contract fleets to transport passengers, staff, and goods by on- and off-road vehicles. Although most transport...

A featured article in the May-June 2017 issue of the TR News examines how to develop appropriate evaluation frameworks that account for the integration of new technologies into the infrastructure in order to accurately value the current highway system. The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of trans...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that examines the effectiveness of the use of the percentile ranks produced by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA’s) Safety Measurement System (SMS) for identifying high-risk carriers, and if not, what alternatives might be preferred. In addition, this report evaluates the accuracy and suff...

TRB's Transit Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) program has released Report 82: Active Safety-Collision Warning Pilot in Washington State that involved field testing and evaluation of the collision avoidance warning system placed on buses in revenue service over a three-month period. The system provides alerts and audible warnings to the driver about traffic conditions that coul...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2625, includes 7 papers that explore information related to connected and automated vehicles, including: Analysis of the Effects of Connected–Automated Vehicle Technologies on Travel Demand Driving Mode Decision Making for Intelligent Vehicles in Stressful Traffic Events Lane-Changing Feedback Control for Ef...

The May-June 2017 edition of the TR News explores the role of transportation in economic development. Articles feature information about benefit-cost analysis, freight production models, transportation satellite accounts, and right sizing strategies. The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transpo...

TRB has released its requirements for submitting papers for presentation at the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting and/or publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board . This guide covers the organization and formatting of manuscripts for peer review and for publication, as well as instructions for submission. Papers that do not follow the guidelines will ...

The latest of TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Ready Results examines an update to fuel usage factors. NCHRP Report 744 : Fuel Usage Factors in Highway and Bridge Construction provides guidance for more than 1,000 new fuel usage factors and guidance on implementing them, along with a tool for calculating factors for specific contracts and situations.

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2613 consists of 10 papers that explore traffic and equipment maintenance, especially with regards to weather, including: Use of Calorimetry to Measure Ice-Melting Capacity Investigating Safety Effectiveness of Wyoming Snow Fence Installations Along a Rural Mountainous Freeway Relating Public Opinions of Roa...

A featured article in the March-April 2017 issue of the TR News highlights photos from the 96th TRB Annual Meeting, January 8-12, 2017. The article features photographs of sessions, workshops, committee meetings, and awards. Bruce M. Smith, Apperson Crump PLC, and General Counsel, Memphis Area Transit Authority, delivered the delivered the 2017 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture on “Ethical I...

A featured article in the March-April 2017 issue of the TR News highlights photos from the 96th TRB Annual Meeting, January 8-12, 2017. The article features photographs of sessions, workshops, committee meetings, and awards. Bruce M. Smith, Apperson Crump PLC, and General Counsel, Memphis Area Transit Authority, delivered the delivered the 2017 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture on “Ethical I...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report provides an overview of the structure and management of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership as well as the major achievements associated with the goals of the Partnership. This report follows on four previous reviews of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership, which was the predecessor of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership. Since th...

TRB is sponsoring the 14th National Light Rail & Streetcar Conference on October 21-23, 2018 in Jersey City, New Jersey. This conference explores the latest issues and trends in both research and practice related to planning, design, construction and operations and maintenance of light rail and streetcars in the world. The theme of this conference is "Resurgence and Renewal." The conference...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 231: Challenges to CV and AV Applications in Truck Freight Operations explores connected vehicle (CV) and automated vehicle (AV) technology, focusing on heavy trucking. The report identifies existing and emerging freight regulatory, planning, policy, and operational environments and challenges for connected and autono...

TRB's National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Research Report 37: Using Commodity Flow Survey Microdata and Other Establishment Data to Estimate the Generation of Freight, Freight Trips, and Service Trips: Guidebook provides policy makers with improved establishment-level models that estimate the Freight Trip Generation (FTG), the number of vehicle trips produced and attracted at ...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2587 consists of 17 papers that explore issues related to bicycles and motorcyles, including: Learning from Insurance Data: Injuries to Other Road Users in Motorcyclist At-Fault Crashes Modeling the Speed, Acceleration, and Deceleration of Bicyclists for Microscopic Traffic Simulation Revealed Bicyclist Rout...

A featured article in the November-December 2016 issue of the TR News highlights the challenges of freight transportation with regards to meeting new emissions standards. The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation. It also includes brief news items of interest to the transportation com...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2559, includes 15 papers that explore information related to intelligent transportation systems, including: National Survey Identifying Gaps in Consumer Knowledge of Advanced Vehicle Safety Systems Capturing the Benefits of a Variable Advisory Speed System in Portland, Oregon: Empirical Before and After Eval...

TRB's Transportation Research E-Circular 213: 13th National Light Rail and Streetcar Conference: Transforming Urban Areas documents the papers and discussions from a conference that took place on November 15–17, 2015 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The conference focused on how investments in light rail and streetcars may strengthen the entire transit network, contribute to regional mobility, and in...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2551 consists of 16 papers that explore traffic and equipment maintenance, especially with regards to weather, including: Accuracy of Ice Melting Capacity Tests: Review of Melting Data for Sodium Chloride Superhydrophobic Coatings on Asphalt Concrete Surfaces: Toward Smart Solutions for Winter Pavement Maint...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2585 consists of 9 papers that explore truck and bus safety, including: Roundabouts in Northern New England, 1990 to 2010 Roundabout Accident Prediction Model: Random-Parameter Negative Binomial Approach Benefits of Metering Signals at Roundabouts with Unbalanced Flow: Patterns in Spain Analysis of Rear-End ...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program has released Project 177: Automated Turning Movement Counts for Shared Lanes Using Existing Vehicle Detection Infrastructure that explores the development of a proof-of-concept algorithm that produces reports of turning movement counts that use vehicle trajectory data extracted ...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 123: Onboard Camera Applications for Buses explores the current technologies, research, and opportunities for use. The report also provides examples of how surveillance systems are used to improve operations, safety, security, training, and customer satisfaction.

A featured article in the March-April 2016 issue of the TR News highlights photos from the 95th TRB Annual Meeting, January 10-14, 2016. The article features photographs of sessions, workshops, committee meetings, and awards. Dr. Hani Mahmassani, William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation and professor, Northwestern University, and Director, Northwestern University Transportatio...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 823: Guidelines for Certification and Management of Flexible Rockfall Protection Systems provides advice on rockfall fence systems for transportation agencies. It also outlines data that are needed to evaluate the results of rockfall fence systems tested using the procedure recommended for acceptance. Finally, the report present...

TRB's Transportation Research E-Circular 208: Transformational Technologies in Transportation: State of the Activities explores the status and applications of transportation goods, services, and systems that fall under the umbrella of transformational techology. Key transformational technologies include connected and automated vehicles, including shared use services; unmanned aerial systems (dr...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released an abbreviated version of a restricted report that assesses the potential of unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) in enhancing future U.S. naval operations. The Department of the Navy has determined that the final report prepared by the committee is restricted in its entirety under exemption 3 of the Freedom of Information ...