Meet the 2023 Minority Student Fellows

To ensure that solutions to the nation’s transportation problems address people from a variety of backgrounds, TRB's Minority Student Fellows Program actively explores research, ideas, and solutions from diverse perspectives. Meet the 24 students who have been selected to take part in the 2023 program.

Become a Patron

Is your company sending more than four people to the Annual Meeting? Then maximize your registration budget and the visibility of your organization to leaders and professionals in government, industry, and academia by becoming a 2023 TRB Annual Meeting Patron — available at all levels of investment.

Resources for Paper Review

Find instructions and the answers to your questions as you carry out your role in facilitating the Annual Meeting paper review process. We have both a Committee Guide and Reviewer Guide. If you have additional questions that are not answered on those pages, please consult with a fellow committee member, a TRB Senior Program Officer, or email trr@nas.edu.

Untangling Major Societal Issues on the Road to Environmental Health

Like a lot of issues around transportation, understanding environmental health requires taking on a lot of big topics. It starts with planning and designing innovations for equity, consistently revisiting the impacts of decisions, and restructuring the systems which harm both humans and the environment. Read our blog for new resources to help you get started.

Measuring and Understanding the Relationship Between Air Service and Regional Economic Development (ACRP Web-Only Document 53). Airport economic impact studies may now have a path to better capturing how air service supports business and employment throughout the region.

August 23 - TRB Webinar: Integrating Performance, Asset, and Risk Management is Value-Add

September 21 - TRB Webinar: Adaptive Flood Relief Techniques to Enhance Resiliency

Submit Your Research on Transport for Inclusive Societies

Policy makers need insights from researchers to understand and solve challenges around transportation for inclusive societies. Submit your paper by September 30 for inclusion in a special collection in Transportation Research Record (TRR). Papers on climate change mitigation and adaption, inclusive decision-making, accessible and safe digitally-enabled innovations, and funding public and active transportation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic will all be considered.

• Better lighting, rapid flashing beacons, and LED "crossing" signage could be a big safety help, especially for seniors. A Transportation Research Record journal article on the topic has been highlighted in lots of media coverage, including the Sioux City (Iowa) Journal.
• One special education bus in Hall County, Georgia has been retrofitted with an air-filtration system that includes an ultraviolet C light meant to deactivate the virus that causes COVID-19, as recommended by the National Academies, notes Government Technology.
• Why are bicycles the transportation mode of the future? TRB Volunteer Bahar Dadashova makes the case in this Texas A&M Transportation Institute podcast episode.