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2014 TRB 93rd Annual Meeting and Transportation Research Record: Paper Submissions Due August 1, 2013 |
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TRB is accepting papers for consideration as part of the program for the TRB 93rd Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2014, in Washington, D.C, and for publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR).
The spotlight theme for the TRB 93rd Annual Meeting is Celebrating Our Legacy, Anticipating Our ...
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2014 TRB 93rd Annual Meeting and Transportation Research Record: Exhibits and Additional Marketing Opportunities |
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TRB is offering four opportunities—commercial exhibits, printed Final Program 4-color advertising, (NEW) Mobile App support, and the Annual Meeting Patron program with enhanced benefits—for businesses and other organizations to showcase their products and services, and to show their support for transportation research and innovation at the TRB...
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TRB Provides Tools to Help Authors Cite Past Research |
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If you are producing a paper or papers for consideration as part of the program for the TRB 93rd Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2014, in Washington, D.C, and/or for publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR) TRB has provided tools designed to help enhance your paper...
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TRB’s SHRP 2 Tuesdays Webinar: Establishing Monitoring Programs for Mobility and Travel Time Reliability (L02) |
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As part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays Webinar Series, TRB will conduct a webinar on August 6, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will explore the project Establishing Monitoring Programs for Travel Time Reliability, which provides concepts and procedures that public agencies can use to design systems to build, maintain, operate, and monitor...
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TRB Webinar: High to Low Speed Transition Zone Design and Mitigation |
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Potential Impacts of Federal Health Care Reform on Public Transit |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Results Digest 383: Potential Impacts of Federal Health Care Reform on Public Transit explores provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that are likely to have the largest and most direct impacts on public transit agencies and operations, particularly those in ...
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Model Mutual Aid Agreements for Airports |
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TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 45: Model Mutual Aid Agreements for Airports presents information on mutual aid agreements, addressing nearly every type of emergency that could affect airports and require outside resources. The report is designed to assist airport operators in creating and sustaining effective emergency ...
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Use of Advance Geospatial Data, Tools, Technologies, and Information in Department of Transportation Projects |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 446: Use of Advance Geospatial Data, Tools, Technologies, and Information in Department of Transportation Projects that explores the development, documentation, and introduction of advanced geospatial technologies within departments of transportation.
The report also...
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Composite Pavement Systems: Volume 1: HMA/PCC Composite Pavements |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R21-RR-2: Composite Pavement Systems: Volume 1: HMA/PCC investigates the structural and functional performance of surfacing a new portland cement concrete (PCC) pavement layer with a high-quality hot mix asphalt (HMA) layer.
The second report in the series, Composite...
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Composite Pavement Systems: Volume 2: PCC/PCC Composite Pavements |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R21-RR-3: Composite Pavement Systems: Volume 2: PCC/PCC Composite Pavements investigates the structural and functional performance of placing a relatively thin, high-quality PCC surface atop a thicker PCC layer.
The first report in the series, Composite Pavement Systems...
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Research and Technology Coordinating Committee Letter Report: July 2013 |
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A July 9, 2013, letter report from TRB's Research and Technology Coordinating Committee (RTCC) to the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) offers recommendations to the FHWA in the areas of research performance, evaluation of research programs, and coordination with stakeholders and related research programs.
The RTCC’s charge is to...
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Review of Risk-Based Reassessments for Gas Pipeline Safety |
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The Government Accountability Office has released a report that analyzes the impact of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s reassessment requirement on regulators and operators and the potential challenges of implementing risk-based reassessment intervals.
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Development of Risk Models for Florida's Bridge Management System |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that develops a framework and components of a risk model for hazards such as flooding, wildfires, and hurricanes.
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Effectively Managing Consumer Fuel Price Driven Transit Demand |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that evaluates changes in public transportation ridership as a result of consumer fuel price increases.
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Investigation into the Impact of Privatizing Civil Engineering Operations in Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development |
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The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development has released a report that investigates the impact of privatizing all of its civil engineering operations.
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Statistical Properties of Wave Crest Lengths in Hurricane Generated Seas |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that investigates wind wave crest lengths in coastal waters during tropical storms in order to compute wave loads on bridge superstructures and fishing piers.
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Driver Comprehension and Operations Evaluation of Flashing Yellow Arrows |
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The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois has released a report that discusses implementation of the flashing yellow arrow for the left-turn permissive interval at over 100 intersections with protected/permissive left-turn control .
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Dynamics of U.S.-Asian-South American Waterborne Trade and the Panama Canal Expansion: Their Anticipated Impacts on Texas Ports and the State's Economy |
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The Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas at Austin has released a report that examines aspects of U.S.-Asian and U.S.-Latin American trade to identify opportunities and challenges faced by Texas in competing with the Panama Canal for international trade.
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“Green-Friendly” Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Interstate Rest Areas: Phase II |
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The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois has released a report that discusses green-friendly management practices for interstate rest areas that have high energy consumption.
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Investigating Regional Dynamic Traffic Assignment Modeling for Improved Bottleneck Analysis: Final Report |
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The Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas at Austin has released a report that addresses dynamic traffic assignment modeling on roadway networks as a way to improve vehicular flow patterns.
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Commuting to Work |
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Statistics Canada has released a report that summarizes data about Canadians who commute to work and the mode of transportation that they use.
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Older People’s Travel Habits: Older Road Users as a Heterogenous Group and Future Research Needs |
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VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that presents findings on older people´s travel habits and how research on travel habits address the heterogeneity of the older population. This report is written in Swedish and contains a summary in English.
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Performance Indicator Analysis and Applying Levels of Service |
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The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that considers the effectiveness of performance indicators that may improve how the agency tracks money for finding fundable levels of service.
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Simulator Validation with Respect to Driver Sleepiness and Subjective Experiences |
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VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that assesses driving behavior related to sleepiness and drivers’ experience of the vehicle when sleepy. This report is written in Swedish and contains a summary in English.
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Committee on Ecology and Transportation Newsletter: July 2013 Special Edition |
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TRB’s Standing Committee on Ecology and Transportation has released a special edition of its periodic newsletter. The special edition that reports on the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation.
The online newsletter is published intermittently and is designed to disseminate information about current research and...
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