The latest issue of Ignition, a periodic news magazine from TRB's Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) programs, examines how ghostly images can identify aggregates and improve quality control/quality assurance; a warning system to help improve transit track safety; improved crack filling and joint sealant in pavements; the path for more innovations; railroad safety; driver behavior i...

The latest issue of Ignition, a periodic news magazine from TRB's Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) programs, examines a smart phone application designed to help reduce expensive paratransit trips; a laser-based system that can measure the shape, position, and dimension of bridge members; a prototype sensing platform that can detect driver drowsiness without physical contact; audio...

The latest issue of Ignition, a periodic news magazine from TRB's Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) programs, examines the automated computer-controlled image analysis systems and the asphalt binder cracking device that took the IDEA path to becoming American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials specifications, an innovative signal head vibration absorber, the ...

The latest issue of Ignition, a periodic news magazine from TRB's Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis programs, examines converting bus service data to near real-time information that transit system operators and passengers can use to make decisions, membership-based casual carpooling as a means to promote carsharing and transit use, the Independent Transportation Network, and more. Innovat...

The latest issue of Ignition, a periodic news magazine from TRB's Studies and Special Programs Division, examines a new tool that detects and recognizes street signs as a potential way to dramatically reduce the time and effort related to developing sign inventories.  The issue also explores a continuous on-board wheel monitoring system for railroad applications; a nondestructive and non...

The latest issue of Ignition, a periodic news magazine from TRB's Studies and Special Programs Division, examines new tools that monitor structural integrity and detect damage concealed by fiber-reinforced polymer wrapping; a quick, precise, and nondestructive technique for detecting chlorides; an improved diagnostic system for S-cam foundation air brakes used on trucks and buses; a mobile phone n...

The latest issue of Ignition, a periodic news magazine from TRB's Studies and Special Programs Division, examines the use of ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) technology in the transit bus environment to kill bacteria and germs, explores the application of time domain reflectometry (TDR) to measure a variety of properties related to the performance of fresh and early-stage concrete, and h...

The latest issue of Ignition, a periodic news magazine from TRB's Studies and Special Programs Division, examines three projects designed to make rail waysides and grade crossings safer, as well as machine-vision technology to automate rail care inspection, predicting and preventing rockfall, train location information for emergency responders, and technology for rail/wheel adhesion, and more. In...

The latest issue of Ignition, a periodic news magazine from TRB's Studies and Special Programs Division, examines the comments of IDEA committee members on how the program contributes to the nation’s economic vitality, a driver alertness indication system, the Dynamic Timetable Generator for transit agencies, a system for controlling construction quality and evaluating the performance of pa...

The latest issue of Ignition, a quarterly news magazine from TRB's Special Programs Division, examines innovations sponsored by the IDEA program on keeping seniors independent after they stop driving, sensors for highway-rail grade crossings, a non-nuclear way to test soil compaction, the application of stereovision techniques to collecting and analyzing pavement data at driving speeds, and non-d...

The latest issue of Ignition, a quarterly news magazine from TRB's Special Programs Division, examines innovations sponsored by the IDEA program on electric motor technology for railroad locomotives, a formula for reinforcing steel, railroad at grade crossing safety, low-temperature limits of asphalt binders, and video and data recorders for vehicles.  In recognition of the 50th anniversary ...

The latest issue of Ignition, a quarterly news magazine from TRB's Special Programs Division, examines innovations sponsored by the IDEA program in the areas of carbon-fiber I-beams, automated cleaning of third rail insulators, seismic stress reduction for bridges, the safety of wheelchairs on bus rapid transit system vehicles, and the detection of cracks in rail car axles.  Innovations Dese...

The latest issue of Ignition, a quarterly news magazine from TRB's Special Programs Division, examines a bridge beam system that combines the benefits of composite materials with the strengths of conventional components, tests to identify subsurface deterioration of bridge decks, mobile geophysical equipment that can acquire subsurface data, and efforts to identify lateral instability in rail car...

The latest issue of Ignition, a quarterly news magazine from TRB's Special Programs Division, examines the role of research in transportation security; sensor systems to detect chemical, biological, and radioactive hazards; a High-Speed Rail IDEA project that has developed into an entire line of railroad safety warning products; and more.  

The latest issue of Ignition, a quarterly news magazine from TRB's Special Programs Division, examines how innovation effects change in the cautious culture of a state department of transportation, selection of asphalt binders that resist thermal cracking, a one-step concrete slip form remover, a low-cost rail wheel gauge inspection technique that produces a digital profile of a train’s wheel at ...

The latest issue of Ignition, a quarterly news magazine from TRB's Special Programs Division, features insights into equipment that detects broken rail and occupied tracks ahead of a train, the relationship between vehicle seat design and driver fatigue, measuring the shear properties of asphalt concrete pavements in the field, keeping high-voltage third rail insulators clean, and more.

The latest issue of Ignition, a quarterly news magazine from TRB's Special Programs Division, features insights on an interactive transit ticketing system that utilizes spoken prompts and tactile guides, the Transportation Security Administration's new role in helping to guide Transit Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) security-related projects, techniques for improving the fatigue ...

The latest issue of Ignition, a quarterly news magazine from TRB's Special Programs Division, features insights on the role of technology in improving transportation safety, using bus performance data in maintenance scheduling, improved filtration of lead from wash water during bridge maintenance painting, and more.

The second edition of Ignition, a quarterly news magazine from TRB's Special Programs Division, features insights on video event data recording, horizontal wick drains, robotic highway safety barrels, relocatable traffic sensors, and more.

The first edition of IGNITION, a quarterly news magazine from TRB, features insights on metal foam technology, tracking trains, accessible fare machines, pavement condition data, and more.