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2023-2024 University Design Competition awardees

Congratulate the winners of TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program latest University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs. This annual competition encourages students to design innovative and practical solutions to challenges at airports. Four first-place winners were chosen across the technical challenge areas: Airport Environmental Interactions; Airport Safety, Operations, and Maintenance; Passenger Experience and Innovations in Airport Terminal Design; and Airport Management and Planning.

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If you registered for the 2026 TRB Annual Meeting, you can continue to view content. Any posters, papers, or visual aids uploaded by the presenters are now available to all registrants via the online program.

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Texas A&M Transportation Institute's researchers Eva M. Shipp and Emily Martin draw on BTSCRP Web-Only Document 3: Developing Employer-Based Traffic Safety Programs for Drivers in the Workplace. Looking to applied research and practice, their TR News article shows how a safety culture may reduce or prevent the severity and frequency of traffic crashes.

Read NCHRP Research Report 1163: Assessing Safety Effectiveness of Treatments and Technologies at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings


If your research focuses on improving highway-rail grade crossings, submit a proposal for researching the project Guide for Roadway Material Designs for Public At-Grade Highway-Railroad Crossings by Feb 25.

RFP - Improving Crash Data for Active Transportation Users proposals due March 13

Events

February 5 - 6 - Register for the public sessions of the National Academies Study on Data, Metrics, and Analytic Tools for Transportation Investments that Support Family Quality of Life and Communities in Evanston, IL at Northwestern University.

February 9 – TRB Webinar: Incorporating Technology into Airport Concessions

February 9 - TRB Webinar: Six Steps to Advance State DOT Connected and Automated Vehicle Programs

March 6 - Submit an abstracts to the Research Spotlight Sessions as part of the ITF 2026 Annual Summit in Leipzig, Germany in May. TRB is pleased to partner on these sessions.

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Nominate yourself or others to serve on a TRB National Highway Cooperative Research synthesis project oversight committee. Explore the projects to see if your practical experience or research expertise on planning, design, safety, operations and maintenance, or program delivery qualify you to serve.

Research Roundup

Minnesota Department of Transportation - Residential Roadway Widths: Best Practices Guidebook

Bureau Transportation Statistics - Transportation Statistics Annual Report 2025

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration CrashStats - Overview of the 2024 Crash Investigation Sampling System

TRL - Cost and Benefit Analysis of New Vehicle Safety Technologies

Center for Transportation Studies - A Computational Tool for the Reliable Prediction of Pavement Performance based on Temperature Data

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