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TRB Weekly
TRB Weekly is a free weekly email newsletter designed to keep you up-to-date on TRB activities and to highlight select transportation research-related activities taking place at the federal and state levels, and within the academic and international transportation communities. Subscribe to have the latest version delivered to your inbox.
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Exhibiting Opportunities
Act now to secure your exhibit space at the 2023 TRB Annual Meeting. Don't miss this opportunity to demonstrate your organization's support for transportation research and innovation, and to showcase your products and services.
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Warning: Mailing List Solicitations
If you receive a solicitation to purchase a mailing list of TRB Professionals or Annual Meeting attendees, it is not coming from us. TRB does not sell the email addresses of its volunteers or Annual Meeting attendees.
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Join the Experts on All Things AV
TRB's Automated Road Transportation Symposium program is filling up fast with expert speakers. Representatives from Waymo, Apex.AI, Honda, Edge Case Research, the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium, the International Association of Public Transport, state and regional transportation agencies, and academia will speak on the latest tech, the behavior of people interacting with automation, and policy. Register today and don't miss a moment of the action!
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Improving Equity in Transportation
TRB Volunteers who are members or friends of various TRB standing technical committees answered our question, "During LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, what relevant resources and research needs do you find most valuable to improving equity in transportation?" Read important insights from Clinton Bench of the Fleet & Transit University of California, Los Angeles. Thank you, Clinton!
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DeFazio Hails National Academies Aviation Safety Report
A new report from the National Academies, Evaluation of the Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology, was lauded last week in a press release from the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. In the release, Chairman Peter DeFazio noted that the report will help the Federal Aviation Administration "effectively and consistently collect and use data to advance passenger safety."
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Improving Health Care through Transportation
Decisions about your health and medical care are complicated and consider a number of factors. It should come as no surprise that transportation is one of these. Read our updated blog post for more resources at the nexus of health and transportation.
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Guide to Implementation of the Toward Zero Deaths National Strategy on Highway Safety (NCHRP Web-Only Document 324). Toward Zero Deaths is a strategy focused on national highway safety. TRB has developed guidelines to help transportation agencies with more advanced implementation.
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Make Your Voice Heard
The "Volunteer Voices" feature in TR News, TRB's bimonthly magazine, lets your colleagues get to know you in a fun and informative way. Send your answer to this week’s question and your name, title, affiliation, affiliation city and state (even if teleworking), and the names of the TRB committees and panels you volunteer with to TRNews@nas.edu. We might feature your answer in TR News, social media, or both. This week, we're asking If you could go back in time, what would you change about transportation and why?
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Seeking Nominations for Electric Vehicle Working Group
The Joint Office of Energy and Transportation is now accepting nominations for committee members who will make up the Federal Advisory Committee Act Electric Vehicle (EV) Working Group, which aims to make recommendations regarding EV development, adoption, and integration across the U.S. The office seeks nominations for individuals representing EV, battery, and charger manufacturers; labor organizations; public utilities and regulators; state and tribal governments; the trucking industry; and other groups. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law authorized the creation of the EV Working Group.
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TRB's Partnership with ECTRI Renewed
TRB recently renewed its Memorandum of Understanding with the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI). Executive Director Neil Pedersen (pictured above, left) joined ECTRI President Evangelos Bekiaris in Leipzig, Germany to reiterate mutual objectives to foster progress and information exchange on transportation research.
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No TRB Weekly Next Week
There will not be a TRB Weekly newsletter next Tuesday. We're taking a break to celebrate the 4th of July. Enjoy the holiday and we'll see you again for the July 12 issue.
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- Four students at the American University in Cairo presented their idea at the TRB Annual Meeting to create an energy efficient glow-in-the-dark concrete, reports Al-Monitor.
- A TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program report is noted in an article by Yahoo! Finance about electricifation of airports.
- Electric-vehicle safety issues are detailed in an article in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Nebraska Today, including a mention of the upcoming TRB roadside safety subcommittee summer meeting.
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