Panel Members for Projects in the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) – SUPPLEMENTAL Announcement

09 Feb 2026

Immediate Action Requested by March 23, 2026

This is a SUPPLEMENTAL announcement for new projects. The main NCHRP program is announced in May of each year. Additional projects may be identified throughout the year, however, this SUPPLEMENTAL announcement is now soliciting panel nominations. We are asking for your help in identifying individuals with relevant expertise and experience to volunteer to serve on each panel.

The panel nomination announcement is available here.

Nominations should be submitted online from the TRB website at MyTRB at this link: https://volunteer.mytrb.org/Panel/AvailableProjects.

You will be asked to login to MyTRB. If you do not already have an account, you will be asked to quickly create one using your email and a password.

DEADLINE: March 23, 2026

Note to FHWA employees: Although you may be on the distribution list for this e-mail, assignment of FHWA liaisons is coordinated through Ms. Jean Landolt’s office. You will receive a separate e-mail from Ms. Landolt to initiate that process. As a reminder, FHWA employees may serve as liaisons to NCHRP panels but not as members.

Contacts to determine an individual's interest in serving will be made from this office after we have matched available expertise with that required by the nature of the project.

Before nominating yourself to serve as a panel member, please review our Conflict of Interest policy. Please be advised that if you are selected to serve on a panel and we receive a proposal for that project that presents a conflict of interest for you, we will reject the proposal. This also applies to liaisons.

We are grateful for your support of the NCHRP by providing nominees each year. With the nominees continuing to outnumber the available positions by about four to one, we have been able to establish panels outstanding in their ability to play a critical role in the accomplishment of successful research. Please realize that if your nominee(s) is not selected, there are several factors to be considered when forming well-balanced and objective panels. Although expertise is the primary factor, we also attempt a proper balance in terms of geographic areas, and organization or agency types (e.g., public and private agencies, universities, associations, local and state government).