After an all-virtual conference in 2021, TRB’s 101st Annual Meeting welcomed transportation professionals in person to Washington, D.C., January 9–13, 2022. A smaller but motivated—and masked and vaccinated—crowd convened for committee meetings, poster and lectern sessions, and a keynote address from U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The March-April  2022 issue of...

The November-December 2021 issue of TR News —with a cover feature on collaboration and innovation at the MnROAD Research Facility—is available in full online. Other feature articles in the issue include Airport Cooperative Research Program guidance on best design practices for service animal relief areas, worship spaces, lactation areas, and more; developing the transportation workforce; and in...

The International Bridge, Tunnel, and Turnpike Association is hosting the Road Use Charging and Finance Conference on May 15-17, 2022 in Denver, CO. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. States are moving to alternative methods of paying for road infrastructure, including tolling and road usage charging (also known as VMT or MBUF). The policies, technology, marketing, communications, public a...

The September-October 2021 issue of TR News —with a cover feature on what the transportation industry learned from 9/11—is available in full online.  Other feature articles in the issue focus on how, since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/11), transportation has broadened its role to include response and operations—from traffic incident management as a multiagency function to...

The International Transport Forum (ITF), together with the European Commission (EC), the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI), and the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) will host a Research Day on “Transport for Inclusive Societies ” before the International Transport Forum on May 17, 2022 in Leipzig, Germany. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. ...

The 2021 Annual Report summarizes TRB’s accomplishments in each of its major program areas and how TRB has served the nation and the global transportation professional community throughout the year. TRB provides leadership in transportation improvements and innovation through trusted, timely, impartial, and evidence-based information exchange, research, and advice regarding all modes of transpo...

In the past 20 years, assessments of 9/11's impacts on supply chains have informed responses and transformed the movement of goods. Some of the key changes and effective practices that have emerged are highlighted in this article, along with the ways in which this tragic event has influenced planning and responses to major disruptions. The article appears in the September-October  2021 iss...

Sessions at TRB's 2022 Annual Meeting focused on transformational technology (as of December 1, 2021) Day Time Session: Number and Title Sunday 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 1004 - Transforming Big Data to Answer Transportation Planning Questions for Statewide and National Applications 1017 - Airport Electrification and Automation for Emerging Aerial Mobility 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM 1021 - Facilitating Accessib...

Sessions at TRB's 2022 Annual Meeting focused on health and safety issues (as of December 8, 2021) Day Time Session: Number and Title Sunday 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM 1003 - Making Safe Systems a Reality: Planning to Implementation 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM 1021 - Facilitating Accessible, Continual Driver Training for Users of Automated Vehicles Monday 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM 1037 - Driver Support and Training Acro...

Sessions at TRB's 2022 Annual Meeting focused on research, innovation, the workforce, and for students (as of December 2, 2021)  Day Time Session: Number and Title Sunday  9:00 AM - 12:00 PM 1001 - Coordinating and Innovating at Both the Rural and City Level  1010 - 3-Minute Thesis Competition: Effective Communication of Research Findings to a General Audience  1:30 PM – 4:3...