TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2252 contains 19 papers that explore economic and environmental optimization of vehicle fleets, driver response to energy information feedback, California's low-carbon fuel standard, feebates and fuel economy standards, energy use for transport in 27 European Union countries through 2030, and a comparison of diesel and hybrid models in the United States in 2010. This issue of the TRR also examines plug-in ...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 56: Handbook for Considering Practical Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Strategies for Airports is designed to assist airport operators in identifying, evaluating, prioritizing, and implementing practical, low-cost strategies to reduce and manage greenhouse gas emissions. AirportGEAR, an interactive decision support tool developed as a companion to the handbook, considers a range of strategies that can be implemented by all types of ai...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2217 consists of 20 papers that explore travel behavior and demand potential of tram- and bus-based neighborhoods, impact of gasoline prices on transit ridership, cost-effective approaches to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through public transportation, predicting the mean and variance of transit segment and route travel times, complexity of transit tours, real-time transit information, and cost-effective...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2244 consists of 14 papers that examine state climate action plan strategies, fair share regional targets for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from transportation and land use, commuting times based on the jobs–housing balances, context-sensitive multimodal road planning, and integrating travel demand model and benefit–cost analysis. This issue of the TRR also explore surface transportation vulnerabil...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2233 consists of 21 papers that explore integrated bus information systems, the effects of operational efficiency on pollutant emissions, corridor-level air quality analysis of freight movement, comparison of greenhouse gas and criterion pollutant emissions, and operating variables on particle number emission rates. This issue of the TRR also examines coordinated signal control, the Port Authority of New Y...

TRB Special Report 307: Policy Options for Reducing Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Transportation examines the potential for policies to yield major changes in transportation energy use and emissions trends by policy measures targeting cars and light trucks, medium and heavy trucks, and commercial airliners. These three modes are by far the largest users of energy by U.S. transportation because they account for the vast majority of passenger trips and freight. Accordin...

The latest issue of TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Impacts on Practice describes how officials at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) used ACRP Report 11: Guidebook on Preparing Airport Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories to develop a GHG emissions inventory for DFW.

TRB Transportation Research E-Circular E-C152: Adapting Transportation to the Impacts of Climate Change: State of the Practice 2011 focuses on transportation adaptation practices that can be implemented to yield potential benefits now and in the longer term. The document highlights what climate change adaptation means for the transportation industry. E-C152 was produced under the auspices of the TRB Special Task Force on Climate Change and Energy and is a companion to TR News May–Ju...

The Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, part of the National Academies' Division on Earth and Life Studies (DELS), has released booklet that helps quantify the outcomes of different stabilization targets for greenhouse gas concentrations using analyses and information drawn from the scientific literature. Based on a report produced by DELS in 2010, the booklet is geared to help policymakers, students, and the general public better understand the original report's important scientific i...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2191 contains 22 papers that explore the effect of wide-based single tires on truck fuel efficiency; miles per gallon illusions and corporate average fuel economy distortions; freight transport, energy use, and emissions trends in Spain; diesel truck activity and fuel economy based on electronic control module data; cost of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; electric vehicle charging impact on electricity costs;...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2166 contains 14 papers that explore ship-based greenhouse gas reduction negotiations; supply chain coordination for port sustainability; the berth-scheduling problem; a web-based foreign waterborne cargo data system; global port operations and their influence on port labor; measuring the concentration degree of container port systems; and the resilience framework for ports. This issue of the TRR also exam...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 21: Airport Energy Efficiency and Cost Reduction explores energy efficiency improvements being implemented at airports across the country that are low cost and short payback.

TRB’s National Freight Cooperative Research Program (NFCRP) Report 4: Representing Freight in Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Models explores the current methods used to generate air emissions information from all freight transportation activities and their suitability for purposes such as health and climate risk assessments, prioritization of emission reduction activities, and public education. The report highlights the state of the practice, and potential gaps, strengths, and limitations of ...

A featured article in the May-June 2010 TR News provides an overview of the articles in this issue, which collectively explore the body of evidence, the mix of transportation strategies, potential regulatory approaches, modal initiatives, and opportunities for innovation that encompass transportation's role in addressing climate change.

Energy and climate change are the focus of articles assembled for the May–June 2010 issue of TR News under the auspices of the TRB Special Task Force on Climate Change and Energy. Articles assess transportation’s current and anticipated contributions to emissions of greenhouse gases and fossil energy use, the challenges and opportunities to reduce emissions by freight carriers, the transition to low-carbon nonpetroleum fuels, operational issues for reducing carbon emissions, plus findings and...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 84: Current Practices in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Savings from Transit explores the role of transit agencies in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and examines the current practice of a sample of transit agencies.

TRB’s Transportation Research Circular E-C144: Research Needs Statements for Climate Change and Transportation includes a series of specific research needs statements on climate change and transportation designed as a resource to be used by universities, students, research organizations, government agencies, and other interested parties as they contemplate and fund research in this area.

TRB Transportation Research Circular E-C143: Modal Primer on Greenhouse Gas and Energy Issues for the Transportation Industry is primer designed to provide transportation decision makers with an inclusive, educated, and objective overview of the current state of the transportation industry from a greenhouse gas and energy standpoint.

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 152: Assessing Mechanisms for Integrating Transportation-Related Greenhouse Gas Reduction Objectives into Transportation Decision Making examines alternative methods that state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations may use to manage greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2139 includes 21 papers that explore the impact of shifting to diesel-powered vehicles, estimating the fuel efficiency of road traffic, impacts of road grade on fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, fuel prices and consumer preferences for vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, hydrogen fueling, vehicle capacity and fuel consumption in household fleets, addressing climate change in transporta...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2132 includes 16 papers that explore transit, land use, and auto pricing strategies to reduce vehicle miles and greenhouse gas emissions; continuous departure time models; an artificial neural network delay model for traffic assignment; how travel attributes affect planning time horizon of activities; work departure time analysis; and adding mode choice to multiagent transport simulation. This issue of the...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2133 includes 14 papers that explore toll plaza delay estimation; anticipating welfare impacts via travel demand forecasting models, adapting travel models and urban models to forecast greenhouse gases, intrametropolitan location of business establishments, spatial equity analysis on expressway network development in Japan, and modeling location decisions of office firms. This issue of the TRR also examine...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2119 includes 16 papers that explore integrating climate change into transportation plans, visualizing long-range health of rural corridors, cap-and-trade, system-level performance measures and targets, evacuating the carless, application of TELUM (transportation, economic, and land use model software), and e-government service offerings and website content of metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs). Th...

A special feature article in the September-October 2009 issue of the TR News highlights the TRB Planning and Environment Group’s recent annual competition to recognize fresh and creative methods of communicating technical transportation issues and concepts to the public. The focus of the competition was energy and climate change in transportation. The top entries ranged from a book to multimedia presentations and interactive online games.

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation, No. 2114 includes 10 papers that explore increasing the efficiency of road development aid; bus rapid transit systems in India; citywide transit integration in Sao Paulo, Brazil; carbon dioxide emissions from land transport in India; and transportation greenhouse gas mitigation in Nanchang, China. This issue of the TRR also examines safety assessment of taxi drivers in Singapore, an evaluation of road safety actions promoted...

TRB Special Report 299: A Transportation Research Program for Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change and Conserving Energy suggests that federal, state, and local policy makers need informed guidance about the effectiveness, costs, feasibility, and acceptability of transportation strategies to mitigate transportation greenhouse gas emissions and conserve energy and to adapt to climate change. The report covers strategies affecting travel and mode choice, models and decision tools, infrastr...

TRB’s Transportation Research Circular E-C138: Critical Issues in Aviation and the Environment 2009 explores the major environmental media affected by aviation activities and the key processes that link aviation and the environment, including climate change, alternative fuels, and sustainability. The circular focuses on the state of science, rather than on policy, and the authors of various portions of the circular identify research that has the potential to yield benefits for both aviation a...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2100 includes the 2009 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture by Geraldine Knatz, which explores the evolution of U.S. seaports and the environmental initiatives enabling them to modernize and expand. This TRR also includes 10 additional papers that examine the impacts of climate change at U.S. ports, container terminal berth planning, the Lean Enterprise for improving seaport operations, performance indicat...

TRB Special Report 298: Driving and the Built Environment:  Effects of Compact Development on Motorized Travel, Energy Use, and CO2 Emissions examines the relationship between land development patterns and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the United States to assess whether petroleum use, and by extension greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, could be reduced by changes in the design of development patterns.  The report estimates the contributions that changes in residential and mixed-use ...

A featured article in the TR News: May-June 2009 issue explores the improved understanding and control of transportation-related air pollution as well as new challenges such as tightened standards for ozone and emissions of particulate matter and efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

   The March-April 2009 issue of TR News includes the following articles: The Equity Implications of Financing the Nation’s Surface Transportation System Libraries in a Digital Age: An Essential Resource for Research and Information The Momentum of Transportation Information: A History of TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services Making Transportation Libraries and Information Services a Priority Transportation, Energy, and Climate Change: Highlights from TRB’s 2009 Annual ...

A photo feature in the March-April 2009 issue of TR News highlights the five days in January when Washington, D.C., becomes the capital of transportation research—or at least the connecting hub—with more than 10,000 researchers, practitioners, and administrators representing government, industry, and academia gathering from the United States and abroad to network with peers, share information, and interact at sessions and workshops, committee meetings, commercial exhibits, and many additiona...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 11: Guidebook on Preparing Airport Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories explores a framework for identifying and quantifying specific components of airport contributions to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). The report is designed to help airport operators and others to prepare an airport-specific inventory of greenhouse gas emissions. Appendices A through F to ACRP Report 11 were published online as ACRP Web-Only Document 2 . The appendi...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Results Digest 89: Public Transportation’s Role in Addressing Global Climate Change provides an overview of an International Transit Studies Program mission that investigated public transportation’s role in addressing global climate change in several cities in Ireland, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

Each year, TRB’s Technical Activities Division staff visit state departments of transportation, as well as selected universities, transit and other modal agencies, and industry organizations, to determine the issues they are facing and how TRB can help in addressing those issues.  The 2008 field visits by TRB Technical Activities staff found that transportation agencies are addressing uncertainties about the economy, energy, climate change, funding, and national policies with new ...

A featured article in the November-December 2008 issue of the TR News explores the worldwide growth in car ownership and use, and its contribution to problems with energy resources, climate change, and congestion.  The article's authors, Daniel Sperling and Deborah Gordon, call on the transportation community to summon its ingenuity to improve vehicles and fuels, introduce new mobility, and develop ways to alter travel behaviors.  Daniel Sperling was recently interviewed by Jon Ste...

TRB has released the latest issue of the Intercity Rail Passenger Systems Update.  The online newsletter is published intermittently and is designed to disseminate information about current research and developments in intercity rail passenger systems.  Articles in this issue explore the growth of the European passenger rail systems, recent developments in the high-speed rail movement in the United States, and the potential role of energy-efficient trains in reducing greenhouse gas...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2053 includes 9 papers that explore frost and thaw depth predictors for variable load restrictions, climate change impact on low-volume roads, sensor technology for spring load restrictions, fly ash with calcium chloride for stabilization of base and subgrade courses, and time domain reflectometry and micromechanics for determining moisture content of soil layers.  This issue of the TRR also examines...

TRB Special Report 290: The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Transportation explores the consequences of climate change for U.S. transportation infrastructure and operations. The report provides an overview of the scientific consensus on the current and future climate changes of particular relevance to U.S. transportation, including the limits of present scientific understanding as to their precise timing, magnitude, and geographic location; identifies potential impacts on U.S. tr...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2017 includes 8 papers that explore policy making for sustainability in transport, indicators for comprehensive and sustainable transport planning, measuring sustainable accessibility, energy use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, attitudes of diesel and hybrid new car buyers, greenhouse gas emissions of the U.S. transportation sector, oil independence, and macroeconomic effects of climate policie...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1916 addresses customers’ reactions to the introduction of high-speed rail service in Korea, alternatives for railroad traffic simulation analysis, options for improving the energy efficiency of intermodal freight trains, the development of a new metric for release risk from a tank car, and methods for allocating costs of empty railcar movements. Individual TRR Journals, which are published on...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web Document 26: TravelMatters: Mitigating Climate Change with Sustainable Surface Transportation reviews TCRP Project H-21: Combating Global Warming with Sustainable Surface Transportation Policy, which created a research report (TCRP Report 93) and TravelMatters Website with information for individuals and transit agencies on the greenhouse gas reduction potential of the public transportation sector.  The report also summarizes TCRP Pr...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1842 describes how future technologies may improve fuel consumption of heavy-duty trucks; analyzes alternative forms of automotive fuel economy standards; summarizes the New York Greenhouse Gas Task Force recommendations for reducing the impacts of transportation on global warming; and considers transitions to alternative fuels and hybrid engines for light-duty vehicles. The TRR series is the Journal of ...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 93: Travel Matters - Mitigating Climate Change with Sustainable Surface Transportation presents information on climate change and examines how greenhouse gas emissions from transportation may be reduced. The report also looks at the capacity of public transportation to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. The "TravelMatters" website was developed as part of the same project that produced this report.

Transportation Research Record 1815 addresses greenhouse gas emissions, pollution reduction programs, platinum availability for fuel-cell vehicles, and more. Abstracts of papers that make up this TRR are available through TRB's Publication Index. In the Series field type "Record & 1815" (without the quotes). After reviewing the abstracts you will need to use your browser's "back" button to return to this screen in order to purchase the publication.