TRB congratulates Julie Lorenz as the recipient of the 2022 George S. Bartlett Award. Ms. Lorenz was recognized for her outstanding leadership as the Secretary of the Kansas Department of Transportation; her extensive service to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) as a member of its Executive Committee and Board of Directors as well as chair of AASHTO’s Council on Aviation; and for her service years of service to TRB. The George S. Bartlett Award was establishe...

In recognition of his outstanding service to TRB, Neil J. Pedersen is the 2022 recipient of the W.N. Carey, Jr., Distinguished Service Award. Mr. Pedersen will be retiring this fall as Executive Director of the Transportation Research Board, a position he has held since February 1, 2015. Pedersen is recognized for his more than 40 years of leadership service to TRB—30 plus years as a TRB volunteer and more than 10 years as a member of TRB’s staff--and for his integrity and continual pursuit of technical ...

Dr. Eugene R. (Gene) Russell, Sr., Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering, Kansas State University, is the 2022 recipient of the Robert E. Skinner, Jr. Distinguished Transportation Research Management Award for the indelible mark he has left on transportation through his 60 years of research management at Iowa State University, Purdue University, and Kansas State University. The Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Executive Committee established the Robert E. Skinner, Jr. Distinguished Transportation ...

Named for Roy W. Crum, who served as the Board’s director from 1928 until his death in 1951, the Crum Award recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of transportation research. Dr. Gongkang Fu, Professor of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago is the 2022 recipient of the Roy W. Crum Award. He is recognized for his significant, innovative, visionary, and practical contributions to bridge engineering research, implemented in practice of preserving and desig...

Lillian Borrone is the 2023 recipient of the Frank Turner Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Transportation. Mrs. Borrone is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a former assistant Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), and past chair of the TRB Executive Committee. The Frank Turner Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Transportation is a biennial award established in 1998 by a group of friends, colleagues, and admirers of Frances C. (Frank) Turner to honor ...

Mr. Charles A. Fuhs III, Principal, Chuck Fuhs, LLC is the 2023 recipient of the Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship. Fuhs is recognized for his contributions to the advancement of congestion management applications on urban freeways, with particular focus on managed lanes. Chuck Fuhs has nearly 50 years of public and private sector experience during which time he engaged in the planning, implementation, and operation of freeways throughout North America with specific interest in managed lanes since...

Arcadis and Association Infra Design are hosting the 6th International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design (ISHGD) on June 26-29, 2022 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. The symposium consists of informative podium sessions on geometric design issues from throughout the world. Registration is open .

China Highway & Transportation Society is hosting a series of Climate Change Challenges International Transportation Webinars . TRB is pleased to cosponsor these events. Register for Webinar 2: Resilience of Urban Transportation Systems – Strength in Diversification. The urban transportation network is an integrated network in which multiple transportation modes are intertwined. Presenters will decouple the resilience relationship between the multi-layer cyber-physical networks of urban transportatio...

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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville is hosting Summerrail 2022 on August 16-18, 2022 in Michigan City, IN. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. This conference brings together rail researcher and practitioners to discuss the latest issues in railroad engineering, equipment, operations and marketing with a particular emphasis on attracting students. Contact forrestvs@charter.net for registration information.