TR News Magazine
TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine, which features 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, news of TRB activities, and the TRB Annual Report.
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May 26, 2022
After an all-virtual conference in 2021, TRB’s 101st Annual Meeting welcomed transportation professionals in person to Washington, D.C., January 9–13, 2022. A smaller but motivated—and masked and vaccinated—crowd convened for committee meetings, poster and lectern sessions, and a keynote address from U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The March-April 2022 issue of TR...
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May 05, 2022
The March-April 2022 issue of TR News —with a cover feature on trafficked, missing, and murdered indigeneous women—is available in hard copy and digital copy for subscribers. For those who are not subscribers, the cover and table of contents is available. Other feature articles in the issue include "2022 TRB Annual Meeting Highlights: Innovating an Equitable, Resilient, Sustainable, and Safe...
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April 22, 2022
For those with hearing loss, passage through a transportation terminal can be fraught with difficulty: Hearing aids often are unable to suppress background noise adequately, and the typical cacophony of a terminal can make speech comprehension anywhere from challenging to impossible. "Serving Passengers with Hearing Loss" is a feature article in the January-February 2022 issue of TRB's magazine,&n...
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April 06, 2022
Several complex intersection designs have emerged to improve efficiency and safety for drivers, but they don't always work so well for pedestrians and bicyclists. " Getting to the Other Side: Safe Navigation for Pedestrians and Bicyclists at Alternative and Other Intersections and Interchanges " is a feature article in the January-February 2022 issue of TRB's magazine, TR News (Issue 3...
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March 10, 2022
The January-February 2022 issue of TR News —with a cover feature on Preservation, Maintenance, and Renewal—is available in hard copy and digital copy for subscribers. For those who are not subscribers, the table of contents is available. Other feature articles in the issue include "Safe Navigation for Pedestrians and Bicyclists at Alternative and Other Intersections and Interchanges" and "Se...
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March 31, 2022
The November-December 2021 issue of TR News —with a cover feature on collaboration and innovation at the MnROAD Research Facility—is available in full online. Other feature articles in the issue include Airport Cooperative Research Program guidance on best design practices for service animal relief areas, worship spaces, lactation areas, and more; developing the transportation workforce; and infra...
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February 24, 2022
Transit agencies across the country continue to learn from one another’s experiences in planning and delivering bus network redesigns, advancing the state of the practice to deliver higher-quality transit services that are responsive to the travel needs of today’s public. "Redesigning Transit for the New Mobility Future" is a feature article in the November-December 2021 issue of TRB's magazine, T...
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February 17, 2022
MnROAD has flourished over the past three decades—in collaboration with the Transportation Research Board (TRB)—as a research site for many ideas conceived by TRB standing committees in their triennial strategic plans and research needs statements (RNSs). One example is the newly completed unbonded overlay pooled fund study, led by MnROAD staff, that was initiated by a TRB standing committee RNS i...
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January 28, 2022
The September-October 2021 issue of TR News —with a cover feature on what the transportation industry learned from 9/11—is available in full online. Other feature articles in the issue focus on how, since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (9/11), transportation has broadened its role to include response and operations—from traffic incident management as a multiagency function to av...
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December 09, 2021
In the past 20 years, assessments of 9/11's impacts on supply chains have informed responses and transformed the movement of goods. Some of the key changes and effective practices that have emerged are highlighted in this article, along with the ways in which this tragic event has influenced planning and responses to major disruptions. The article appears in the September-October 2021 issue ...
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November 15, 2021
The July-August 2021 issue of TR News —with a cover feature on research needs for the marine transportation system of the future—is available in full online. Other feature articles in the issue include members of the Marine Board and TRB’s Marine Group standing committees investigating critically important topics for innovation and research in, and transformation of, the marine transportatio...
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September 30, 2021
Transforming ocean and inland marine shipping is essential to achieving the low- or no-carbon supply chains needed to meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius. Shipping currently accounts for 2.9 percent of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and the industry has committed to halving overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. It ...
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September 10, 2021
The marine transportation system works mostly behind the scenes for the American public, but it is crucial for meeting the nation’s needs towards prosperity, sustainability, resilience, safety, and security. This article introduces high-priority research needed to achieve the necessary innovative strides in emissions reduction, automation, big data, and resiliency by 2050. It is from the July-Augu...
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July 21, 2021
The May - June 2021 issue of TR News —with a cover feature on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) in the transportation profession—is available in full online. Other articles in the issue highlight TRB’s initiatives addressing DE&I, along with programs within the larger transportation community, from the federal government to states to universities. This is Issue 333. To subscribe to T...
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July 14, 2021
The University of Arkansas and California State University, Long Beach diversity and inclusion programs have been built to foster enduring change with an eye toward seeing real benefits five to 10 years down the road. This feature article is from the May-April 2021 issue of TRB's magazine, TR News (Issue 333). TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and st...
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