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Vehicles and Equipment 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 safety and human factors. In addition, it includes links to selected safety and human factors research-related 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 safety and human factors-related research products. |
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TRB Vehicles and Equipment-Related Programs and Activities
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Competition and Call for the Six Minute Pitch: A Transportation Startup ChallengeSeptember 23, 2016 TRB’s Young Members Council is sponsoring a competition for entrepreneurs with cutting-edge, research-based concepts for transportation product or service-based business. Selected presenters will have the opportunity to make a six minute, an interactive presentation to a panel of distinguished transportation industry investors and entrepreneurs at the TRB Annual Meeting , January 8-12, 2017, in... |
TRB Webinar: Improving Rear Seat Passenger Safety: Challenges and StrategiesSeptember 23, 2016 TRB will conduct a webinar on Thursday, October 27, 2016 from 2:00 to 4:00PM ET that summarizes recent research on rear seat safety and seat belt use. This webinar will enumerate the injury and fatality statistics of rear seat passengers with and without seatbelts, and how these passengers can contribute to the risk to other passengers in the vehicle. This webinar will also focus on challenges ... |
State Laws on Autonomous VehiclesSeptember 22, 2016 The Council of State Governments has released a report that outlines which states have enacted autonomous vehicle legislation. |
Synthesis on GPS/AVL Equipment Used for Winter MaintenanceSeptember 22, 2016 Clear Roads has released a report that examines how agencies are using global positioning systems (GPS) and automatic vehicle location (AVL) technology on winter maintenance vehicles, and developed an equipment guide for agencies that are looking to implement or expand their use of GPS/AVL. |
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TRB Straight to Recording for All: Planning and Design of Non-Traditional AirportsSeptember 15, 2016 TRB recorded a series of videos in August 2016 on the planning and design of non-traditional airports. In this series, "non-traditional airport" refers to any airport that faces specific or unusual challenges due to its environment, traffic, location, or purpose; includes innovative features and technologies; or is involved in emerging operations. The videos cover three different airport case s... |
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 TRB Webinar: Collecting Data for Airport Emissions ModelingSeptember 12, 2016 TRB will conduct a webinar on Thursday, November 17, 2016, from 2:00-3:30PM ET that features research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) on emission models relating to ground support equipment (GSE) and general aviation (GA) aircraft. This webinar can help airport operators, environmental and planning personnel, and other stakeholders understand and improve air quali... |
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Synthesis of Information Related to Transit Problems
TRB's Synthesis of Information Related to Transit Problems searches out and synthesizes useful knowledge from all available sources and prepares concise, documented reports on specific topics. Reports from this endeavor constitute an Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) report series, Synthesis of Transit Practice. |
Synthesis of Information Related to Airport Problems
TRB's Synthesis of Information Related to Airport Problems searches out and synthesizes useful knowledge from all available sources and prepares concise, documented reports on specific topics. Reports from this endeavor constitute an Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) report series, Synthesis of Airport Practice.
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Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program
TRB's Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program searches out and synthesizes useful knowledge from all available sources and prepares concise, documented reports on specific topics. Reports from this endeavor constitute an Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (CTBSSP) report series, Synthesis of Commerical Truck and Bus Safety Practice. |
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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. |
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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