• Erol Tutumluer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the 2026 recipient of the Roy W. Crum Distinguished Transportation Research Achievement Award. He is honored for pioneering research and leadership in transportation geotechnics, creating lasting benefits for transportation infrastructure. The award will be presented on January 13, 2027 during the TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

• Put your brand in front of thousands of transportation professionals and key decision makers through high-impact print and digital advertising at the TRB Annual Meeting. Increase your visibility with premium placements in the printed program and the AM Express daily newsletter, with advertising opportunities starting at just $930.

Aviation safety depends on more than preventing human error. People actively create safety every day by anticipating hazards, adapting to unexpected conditions, coordinating with others, and recovering from disruptions. As the aviation workforce changes from shifts in staffing, experience, training, and other characteristics, it is increasingly important to understand these human contributions and how they may affect safety. 

TRB Special Report 361: Emerging Hazards in Commercial Aviation—Report 3: The Human Contribution to Safety takes a look at these contributions and identifies opportunities to better measure and monitor them as the workforce evolves. 

November 20 - Submit an abstract for the TRB Conference on Smart Transportation: Data, Automation, and Intelligence! Abstracts that present original research, demonstrate innovative methods, share implementation experience with transferable lessons, identify unresolved challenges or future research needs, or describe practical experience that other agencies and organizations can apply are eligible for presentation. Presentations will focus on the broad topics of infrastructure intelligence and readiness; automation, AI, and connected operations; and systems integration, data, and implementation. The conference will be held in Pittsburgh, PA on June 7 - 9, 2027.

Transportation Research Record (TRR) consistently publishes research that regional and local government agencies can readily put into practice. Submit your research for publication! Tip from the editors: good research design pays attention to confounding variables, has appropriate statistical analyses, and focused literature reviews linking it to the findings.