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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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Urban Motorcycle Design HandbookJune 23, 2017 Transport for London has released a report that lays out the key highway design requirements for motorcycle safety in London. The report may enhance the understanding of the issues involving the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of London’s streets or highways. |
Roadway Lighting’s Impact on Altering Soybean GrowthJune 23, 2017 The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has released a report that studies roadway lighting’s impact on altering soybean growth and development. The research provides an initial assessment of the effects of lighting level on soybean growth for both overhead lighting and vehicle headlamps. |
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 2017 Pocket Guide to Large Truck and Bus StatisticsJune 22, 2017 The U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has released a report that provides crash, census, inspection, and investigation statistics for large trucks and buses. The report highlights the FMCSA’s role in collecting and analyzing crash data and statistics to prevent commercial motor vehicle-related fatalities and injuries. |
 Updating Fuel Factors for Today’s Construction ProjectsJune 22, 2017 TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) latest 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. |
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2018 TRB Annual Meeting: Register Today for Annual Meeting Online TutorialsJune 17, 2017 TRB is hosting a series of webinars for participants of the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting, which takes place January 7-11, 2018 in Washington, D.C. There is no fee to attend the webinars; however participants must register in advance. Webinar recordings will be posted for those who cannot attend the live session. The following webinar schedule is posted: TRB Paper Author Webinars: July 7, 2017 at 1:0... |
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National Road Safety Partnership Program Newsletter: June 2017June 16, 2017 Australia’s National Road Safety Partnership Program has released the latest edition of its newsletter that features its news briefs, events, and reports. This edition features information on wet weather driving, autonomous emergency breaking, car-to-car crash test results, and more. |
The Relationship Between Vehicle Axle Loadings and Pavement Wear on Local RoadsJune 16, 2017 The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that provides evidence on the wear characteristics of New Zealand local road pavements from accelerated pavement loading studies at an indoor testing facility. The research measures the number of wheel loads to fail a rutting pavement; validates the accelerated pavement testing with field data; determines how to take account of the environm... |
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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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