News to Know

HCM Analysis Can Improve Safety, Equity, and Environmental Issues in Your Community

Watch Behzad Aghdashi of the University of Florida’s McTrans Center discuss his vision of how TRB's Highway Capacity Manual, Seventh Edition: A Guide for Multimodal Mobility Analysis can improve our transportation infrastructure to be more equitable for all users.

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Get the Resources You Need for Bike to Work Day

This Friday (May 20) is Bike to Work Day. But don't limit yourself or your transportation network to biking just one day. Read our updated blog post for the resources you need to make your community friendlier for cyclists and pedestrians.

New TRB Publications

NCHRP Synthesis 581: Rehabilitation of Culverts and Buried Storm Drain Pipes

TCRP Web-Only Document 75/NCHRP Web-Only Document 321/ACRP Web-Only Document 52: Command-Level Decision Making for Transportation Emergency Managers

Events

May 17 - Join the open session of TRB's Review of ICCOPR 2022-2027 Research and Technology Plan information gathering session.

May 19 - Join the National Academies Climate Conversations: Agriculture webinar.

May 23-24 - Join the open sessions of TRB's New Coast Guard Authorities Meeting.

May 23 -24 - Join the open sessions of TRB's Research and Technology Coordinating Committee (Federal Highway Administration) Spring Meeting.

July 18-21 - Register today for TRB's Automated Road Transportation Symposium. Rates go up tomorrow!

July 24-27 - Register today for TRB's Annual Workshop on Transportation Law. TRB's Annual Workshop on Transportation Law. Rates go up next week!

September 19-21 - See speakers and topics for TRB's Conference on Scenario Planning in Transportation in our updated program.

November 3-4 - Submit abstracts for consideration for presentation at TRB's International Visualization in Transportation Symposium by May 31.

News for You

Challenge the Students in Your Life to Improve the Safety of Vulnerable Road Users

In collaboration with the American Traffic Safety Services Association, TRB announces the annual Traffic Control Device Student Challenge. “The TCD Student Challenge gives students an opportunity to tackle a real-world transportation issue and apply their knowledge and critical-thinking skills to a problem that can help save lives,” said ATSSA Director of Innovation & Technical Services Eric Perry. Read more and encourage the students you know to submit their entries by October 1.

RFPs

Guide to Identify and Mitigate the Negative Effects of Gentrification Caused by Transportation Investment proposals due June 30

Research Roundup

U.S. Federal Highway Administration – Integrated Data Collection Method for Tracking Freight Movement

U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – Traffic Safety Facts 2020 Data: Children

Infrastructure Partnerships Australia – Decarbonising Infrastructure

Texas A&M University – Economics of Transportation Research Needs for Rural Elderly and Transportation Disadvantaged Populations

University of Florida – Develop, Refine, and Validate a Survey to Assess Adult's Perspectives of Autonomous Ride-Sharing Services

Center for Advanced Transportation Mobility – Usability of Urban Air Mobility: Quantitative and Qualitative Assessments of Usage in Emergency Situations

University of Wisconsin-Madison – Evaluation of Winter Maintenance with Salt Brine Applications in Wisconsin

Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development – Determining the True Cost and Benefit for Collecting and Maintaining Non-Road and Non-Bridge Asset Data

University of Florida – Emerging Mobility Services for the Transportation Disadvantaged

Florida Department of Transportation – A Synthesis on Data Mining Methods and Applications for Automated Fare Collection (AFC) Data