Make Your Next Career Move

Join us for TRB’s in-person Careers in Motion Networking Fair on Sunday, January 7. Be at this high-energy networking event to learn about available positions. Meet and chat with hiring managers, receive feedback on your qualifications, and learn about job opportunities first hand.

Comparing Regional Energy Consumption for Direct Drone and Truck Deliveries

Drone delivery, once thought of as fictitious, is becoming a reality with the efforts of both forward-looking enterprises and supportive government policies. In this recent study in Transportation Research Record, TRB's journal, the authors develop and apply methods to quantify the regional energy impacts of drone delivery, then assess these impacts and compare them with the impacts of truck delivery.

Read more about drones and uncrewed aircraft in a TRB blog post. Start your own research with the TRB Snap Search on UAS/UAV.

Recycled Plastics in Infrastructure: Current Practices, Understanding, and Opportunities (TRB Special Report 347)

Research Pays Off for Asphalt Cracking Test

Over the past five years, researchers at the Texas A&M Transportation
Institute developed and implemented a simple and practical indirect tension asphalt cracking test (IDEAL-CT) for use during asphalt balanced mix design and quality control/quality assurance (QC/QA) testing. "Indirect Tension Asphalt Cracking Test: Ensuring Asphalt Mix Designs for Durable Pavements," by Fujie Zhou and Kelly West, details the work in the "Research Pays Off" section of the May-June 2023 edition (Issue 345) of TR News, TRB's magazine.

TRB's Top Downloaded Publication (in August): Wrong-Way Driving Solutions Handbook (NCHRP Research Report 1050) (released August 3, 2023)

TRB Minority Student Fellows - Hispanic Heritage Month

"I started studying civil engineering and always was interested in urban planning. I found the sustainable built environments program and it was something I was passionate about. Growing up in Nogales, AZ I saw the unique social and environmental impacts that affected it as a border town. University of Arizona has a strong presence in Nogales. I ended up working with a local green infrastructure group. They had collaborated with U of A, and I saw that the university has a lot of Hispanic professors and is doing a lot of work in Hispanic communities," says Ash Avila, part of the 2021-2022 cohort.

Learn more about the students in this program during Hispanic Heritage Month. 

Watch Congressional Testimony by TRB Committee Member

Sean T. Pribyl, a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Coast Guard Maritime Domain Awareness, testified before the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee of House Transportation and Infrastructure on September 19. He based his testimony on the Academies/TRB report, Leveraging Unmanned Systems for Coast Guard Missions.