Pictured clockwise from left: Lillian Borrone, Pam Keidel-Adams, Carol Lewis, Arlyn Purcell, Katie Turnbull, and Martha Grabowski

Employers are working hard to attract, retain, and advance women in various aspects of the transportation industry. TRB is honoring some of our outstanding volunteers for Women's History Month.

Katie Turnbull suggests volunteerism to develop a life-long network. She is a former chair of the TRB Executive Committe, a member of TRB's Technical Activities Council, 2014's TRB W. N. Carey, Jr., Distinguished Service Award recipient, and currently chairs a TRB consensus committee exploring the Coast Guard's program for gas carriers.  

Pam Keidel-Adams shares the names of mentors and young professionals who inspire her. She is Vice President of Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. and is also a member of TRB's Technical Activities Council, chairs TRB's standing technical committee Aviation Group, and serves on an ACRP project. 

Martha Grabowski offers advice to women in the transporation industry. She is a former TRB Executive Committee chair, Marine Board chair, 2020's W. N. Carey, Jr., Distinguished Service Award recipient, and served on a number of report committees.

Arlyn Purcell congratulates women who are allies to others. She currently chairs TRB's Standing Technical Committee on Environmental Issues in Aviation, is a member of the Aviation Group, and chairs ACRP panels.

Carol Lewis enthuses about the impressive work of her former students and also credits those who inspired her career. She is the current vice chair of the TRB Executive Committee, received 2016's TRB Sharon A. Banks Award, and served on additional TRB committees. 

Lillian Borrone credits her work with various committees and organizations as parts of her career highlights. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the first woman to chair the TRB Executive Committee, a former member of TRB's Marine Board, 2023 Frank Turner Medal awardee, has presented the TRB Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture, and has served as a member on more than 20 National Academies committees. 

The National Academies offers a special collection of resources to support the advancement of women in STEMM.

Fare-Free Transit Evaluation Framework (TCRP Research Report 237). Recognizing the strong recent interest throughout the United States to consider and implement fare-free transit, the decision-making tools in this report are designed to help public transit practitioners evaluate fare-free transit.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Action Plan, 2023-2028 (National Academies)

Managed Lanes Deen Lecture Transcript Now Available

The full transcript of Charles A. Fuhs III's 2023 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture from January's TRB Annual Meeting is now available online. Re-Envisioning Mobility on Urban Freeways: The Emergence and Evolving Roles of Managed Lanes is also available as a video online.

Appreciating 2022 Reviewers

The peer review process is critical to the advancement of our profession. The volunteers who review papers for the TRB Annual Meeting and/or Transportation Research Record (TRR) play a critical role in this process and make an important contribution to the transportation community. The TRR Editorial Board and TRB publications staff would like to thank these individuals who reviewed papers in 2022.

Job Openings at TRB

• Senior Program Officer, National Cooperative Highway Research Program. This position focuses on transportation system security and resilience, transportation system operations, intelligent transportation systems, and traffic operations.
• Editor. This position edits articles, manuscripts, reports, journals, magazines, and/or brochures.

There are many other job opportunities at the National Academies.

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.

March 22 - TRB Webinar: Career Series #3 – Transportation Equity: Community-Building in Action

March 27 - TRB Webinar: Bus Operators—New Strategies for Maintaining the Workforce

March 28 - TRB Webinar: Telecommuting and Transit Ridership in a Post-Pandemic Future

March 30 - Join the National Academies Managed Retreat in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region virtual focus group.

April 5 - TRB Webinar: Bridge Management Systems for Strategic Asset Management

April 11 - TRB Webinar: Planning and Assessing Ferry System Capacity

April 12 - TRB Webinar: Using Ultra-High Performance Concrete for Bridges

TRB's International Road Weather and Winter Maintenance Conference is coming up on May 9-10 in Washington DC. AASHTO's podcast has the preview, with a pair of TRB volunteers.

Colin Parris, a National Academy of Engineering member, has received the 2023 Black Engineer of the Year Award for his AI digital-twin research. The work is benefiting many sectors, including aviation and healthcare, notes The Stanford Daily.

Modest enrollment numbers in the New York Fair Fares transit program "can be tied directly to lack of public awareness," notes an op-ed in the Amsterdam (N.Y.) News. The article cites findings from TRB's Transportation Research Record.