News to Know

Update Your Work with the New HCM7

All across the world, roadways are analyzed and designed to enhance safety, operations, and capacity for all road users. This latest edition of the Highway Capacity Manual, Seventh Edition: A Guide for Multimodal Mobility (HCM7) will significantly update how engineers and planners conduct multimodal mobility analysis. Use the HCM7 to assess the impact of geometric and operational improvements. Or forecast the effects of connected and automated vehicles on the capacity of freeways, signalized intersections, and roundabouts, and on  travel time reliability. 

Reducing the Complexity of Decision Making Through a Roundabout Renaissance

We're rounding up all our resources on roundabouts. Read our updated blog post to find events, reports, and other ways you can get involved with TRB. 

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New TRB Publications

Events

April 21 - Join the National Academies Climate Conversations: Sea Level Rise webinar.

April 25-26  -  Join the National Academies Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States: Technology, Policy, and Societal Dimensions: Just Transition Webinar Series - Non-profit Perspectives two-day webinar.

April 26-27 - Join the open sessions of TRB's Criteria for Installing Automatic and Remote-Controlled Shutoff Valves on Existing Gas and Hazardous Liquid Transmission Pipelines meeting.

May 31-June 1 - Join TRB's Sustainability and Emerging Transportation Technology Conference in Irvine, CA. Registration rates increase after April 22.

July 24-26 - Organized by Beihang University, Beijing Jiaton University, and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory will be in Beijing, China. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. 

November 3-4 - Submit your abstract for presentation at International Visualization in Transportation Symposium by May 6. 

RFPs

Guide for 3D Model Viewers for Construction Inspection proposals due May 27

Guide on Truck Rest and Service Areas for Critical Supply Chain Delivery proposals due June 3

Preparing the Transportation Workforce for the Deployment of Emerging Technology proposals due June 9

Cultivating Accountability Through Meaningful Public Engagement proposals due June 15

Research Roundup

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – Achieving the Vision of Zero Roadway Deaths Through the Safe System Approach

Virginia Department of Transportation – Identification of Locations and Causes of Unreliable Travel Times on Virginia Freeways

U.S. Federal Railroad Administration – Effect of Concrete Composition on Splitting Cracks in Prestressed Concrete Railroad Ties

U.S. Federal Highway Administration – The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Federally Supported Surface Transportation 2022 Updates

U.S.  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – Evaluating High-Visibility Enforcement of Bicycle Passing Laws

International Transport Forum – Streets That Fit: Re-allocating Space for Better Cities

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration – Construction Cycle 9 (CC9) Construction Report

International Transport Forum – Reporting Mobility Data: Good Governance Principles and Practices

Maryland Department of Transportation – An Integrated Intelligent Intersection Control System (III-CS) for Safety Improvement and Delay Minimization

North Carolina Department of Transportation – Calibration of Structural Layer Coefficients for North Carolina Asphalt Pavements

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