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TRB Weekly
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TRB Weekly covers the latest in transportation research.
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Celebrate the TRB awardees at the Chair's Plenary session of the TRB Annual Meeting on Wednesday, January 14. Awards will be presented to (pictured in left to right above):
- Chris Hendrickson, recipient of the 2025 Roy W. Crum Award
- Christopher Barkan, recipient of the 2025 Robert E. Skinner, Jr. Distinguished Transportation Research Management Award
- Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti , recipient of the 2026 Sharon D. Banks Award
- Wayne Kittelson, recipient of the 2025 W.N. Carey, Jr. Distinguished Service Award
Register today to be there!
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Diagram depicting mowing and herbicide application areas along the TDOT right-of-way. Copyright Texas Department of Transportation, Landscape Design Guidelines, 2010
You may not think of fescue grass as an asset, but when vegetation fails, it can lead to pavement or bridge failure as the ground supporting the overall structure erodes. NCHRP Research Report 1155: Tools and Technology for Roadside Vegetation Asset Management: A Guide, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, describes ways to promote and implement roadside vegetation asset management (RVAM). The guide offers suggestions, including support for promoting and updating plans.
Supplemental to the report is NCHRP Web-Only Document 429: Investigation of Tools and Technology for Roadside Vegetation Asset Management details both available and emerging tools and technology.
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December 9 – TRB Webinar: Environmental Stewardship and Compliance Training for Airport Employees
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December 15 – TRB Webinar: Guiding Truckers to Safe and Available Parking
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December 10 -Join a free National Academies webinar on Mathematics in Flight: Innovation by the Numbers. Panagiotis Tsiotras of Georgia Institute of Technology and Karen Marais of Purdue University will discuss the mathematics of flight mechanics, controls, and decision-making. Jordan Ellenberg of University of Wisconsin–Madison will moderate the discussion.
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Do you have an idea for research that could provide practical solutions to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce costs of road traffic crashes associated with unsafe behaviors? Submit your problem statements for TRB's Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program by January 16.
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Are you interested in performing the research for TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program? You'll synthesize information that may be fragmented, scattered, and unevaluated to create consise resources available to the full airport community. Subawardees will be paid $75,000 on a fixed-price basis. Submit a letter of interest by February 2.
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Nominate yourself or others for TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program synthesis project panels. These panels will finalize the scope of work, select contractors, and review draft deliverables prepared by the contractors. Nominations are due January 19 via MyTRB.org.
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