TRB Annual Meeting

New TRB Publications

ACRP Research Report 273: Quantifying the Impacts of Delayed Maintenance of Airport Assets: A Guide

NCHRP Web-Only 416: LTPP Data Analysis: Improving Use of FWD and Longitudinal Profile Measurements

Rail Safety IDEA Final Report 46: Adaptive Prestressing System for Concrete Crossties: Prototype Development

Events

October 30 - TRB Webinar: Improving Seismic Bridge Design After the Northridge Earthquake

November 4 - TRB Webinar: Balanced Mix Design for Climate-Resilient Unpaved Roads

Industry, academia, and science and engineering labs have a stake in the policy surrounding additive construction. Mark Burnham of Additive Manufacturing Coalition will discuss his organization's support at TRB's Conference on Advancing Additive Manufacturing and Construction in Transportation in Irvine, CA. Attendees will be part of an effort to establish research needs and create a research agenda in this emerging field.

November 14 - TRB Webinar: Improving Geotechnical Asset Resilience—Design, Monitoring, and Modeling

November 15 - TRB Webinar: Staged Bridge Construction Goals and Challenges

November 15 - Deadline to submit your work for presentation at TRB's Conference on Accelerated Pavement Testing to be held next summer in Alabama. Submit full papers or abstracts on APT facilities, implementation, instrumentation, cost-benefit analysis, mechanistic-empirical models, and more.

RFPs

Toolkit to Support Implementation of the Safe System Approach proposals due December 2

Electric Vehicle Fire Mitigation and Response Toolkit proposals due December 5

Development of Modern Active Transportation Research Roadmap proposals due December 5

Using Data to Enable Community-Centered Transportation proposals due December 10

Best Practices Toolkit for Slow Down Move Over Laws proposals due December 11

A Guide to Assess, Measure, and Communicate the Public Value of Transportation proposals due December 11

Training Program to Apply Quantitative Highway Safety Analysis Methods proposals due December 13

News for You

Awarding Science Communicators

Clare Fieseler is awarded the top prize for a local or regional science journalist in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine awards for excellence in science communication. Spanning a wide range of topics, Fieseler tells strong, well‐written stories that are clear in their science and moving in their humanity. Her winning work includes “Lithium is driving the clean car revolution. Will the South pay a price?” published in The Post and Courier based in Charleston, SC.

Distracted Driving Resources Available from TRB

Buckle Up Phone Down Day is tomorrow (October 30), so it's a good time to take a look at TRB's Snap Search on distractions, which includes all the research you need on the topic from 2020 to now.

Submit Proposals for Rail Safety

TRB's Rail Safety Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) program provides funding at an early stage of the development process for promising but unproven innovative concepts and methods. Proposals are permitted up to $130,000. Follow the instructions and send in your proposal documents by December 15.

Find Timely Transportation Research

Advanced search filters in both the Transport Research International Documentation (TRID) and Research in Progress (RIP) databases offer enhanced searching by date. Use the new "Custom date range slider" to specify how far back you’d like to search with a wider range of selections now available. Alternatively, use the "before" and "after" boxes to indicate your date range.

In RIP, you can search by:
•    project start date
•    project created date
•    project completed date

Research Roundup

San José State University – Governing Structures for Successful Regional Transit Coordination and their Formation

Utah State University, Logan – Improved Sustainability and Efficiency of Partial-Depth Concrete Bridge Deck Repair

University of California, Davis – Democratization of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure: Analyzing EV Adoption by Vehicle and Household Characteristics Using Synthetic Populations

University of North Carolina, Charlotte – Countermeasures for Maintaining Safe and Effective Public Transit Service in the Post-covid-19 Era

European Union – Study on Passenger and Freight Rail Transport Services’ Prices to Final Customers

Union of Concerned Scientists – Freedom to Move: Investing in Transportation Choices for a Clean, Prosperous, and Just Future

U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – Assessment of Driver Monitoring Systems for Alcohol Impairment Detection and Level 2 Automation

U.S. Federal Highway Administration – 2024 Systemic Safety User Guide

U.S. Federal Highway Administration – Innovator October/November 2024

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