TR News November-December 2010: TRB 90th Anniversary Perspectives
The Transportation Research Board is celebrating its 90th Anniversary, and the November–December 2010 TR News inaugurates the occasion with a feature article by former Executive Director Thomas B. Deen, who reviews the organization’s history and characteristics while focusing on developments and trends in the past 15 years.
Supplementary features and sidebars include selected major milestones in TRB’s evolution, a look forward to the next 10 years and TRB’s centennial, summary comments from some of TRB’s significant players, and a review of the first 5 years of the Airport Cooperative Research Program. Other features present state department of transportation experiences with public communication through social networking media, policy lessons for today from medieval bridge builders, and more.
TRB's 2010 Annual Report is also included in this issue of the TR News as a special insert.
The November-December 2010 issue of TR News includes the following articles:
Trends and Fundamentals: Guiding TRB to Its 2020 Centennial—and Beyond
The Transportation Research Board at 90: Everyone Loves It, but No One Can Explain Why
Web 2.0 Tools for Customer Communication: Strategies and Practice at the Washington State Department of Transportation
Medieval English Bridges and Modern Transport Policy: A Distant Mirror?
Research Pays Off: Implementing the Mechanistic–Empirical Pavement Design Guide for Cost Savings in Indiana
The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation. It also includes brief news items of interest to the transportation community, research pays off articles, profiles of transportation professionals, workshop and conference announcements, new book notices, and news of TRB activities. Submissions of manuscripts for possible publication are accepted at any time.
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