Cooperative Research Programs Series
Periodicals and Other Documents
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Transportation Related Reports of the National Research Council
TRB is one of six major divisions of the National Research Council (NRC)—a private, nonprofit institution that is the principal operating agency of the National Academies in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The NRC is jointly administered by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. From time-to-time other divisions within the NRC will produce reports of interest to TRB's constituency.
 Racial Equity Addendum to Critical Issues in TransportationJuly 15, 2021 Racism has been overt in transportation. For example, the segregation of races on intercity trains led to the infamous 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” Supreme Court doctrine that stood for more than half a century. While many discriminatory policies have been reversed by the courts and in constitutional amendments, their impacts on society have not been fully remedied and persist. ...
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 COVID-19 Addendum to Critical Issues in TransportationJanuary 6, 2021 The year 2020’s raging coronavirus pandemic and reckoning with long-standing racial injustice led to widespread disruption and suffering, social unrest, and renewed calls for an accounting of our fragmented public health system and troubled history of racial inequity. The crises of 2020 transcend transportation yet also raise fundamental questions for it along with other sectors of our society ...
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 Critical Issues in Transportation 2019September 17, 2020 Critical Issues in Transportation 2019 now includes addendums focused on COVID-19 and racial equity . In this report, which is updated periodically by the TRB Executive Committee, a series of challenging questions are posed to explore issues and opportunities that may arise 10 to 20 years into the future. These questions, 63 in all, have been organized into 12 topic areas and provide a way to ...
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 Promising Practices for Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in Science, Engineering, and MedicineSeptember 14, 2020 Careers in science, engineering, and medicine offer opportunities to advance knowledge, contribute to the well-being of communities, and support the security, prosperity, and health in the United States. But many women do not pursue or persist in these careers, or advance to leadership positions - not because they lack the talent or aspirations, but because they face barriers, including: implic...
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 Minority Serving Institutions: America's Underutilized Resource for Strengthening the STEM WorkforceJune 10, 2020 The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that examines the nation’s minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and identifies promising programs and effective strategies that have the highest potential return on investment for the nation by increasing the quantity and quality MSI STEM graduates. This study also provides critical information and perspective abo...
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 Framing the Challenge of Urban Flooding in the United StatesApril 11, 2019 The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report Framing the Challenge of Urban Flooding in the United States examines real-world examples of the economic and social impacts of flooding in specific metropolitan areas. This report identifies commonalities and variances among the case study metropolitan areas in terms of causes, adverse impacts, unexpected problems in recovery, ...
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 Building and Measuring Community Resilience: Actions for Communities and the Gulf Research ProgramApril 5, 2019 The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report Building and Measuring Community Resilience: Actions for Communities and the Gulf Research Program summarizes the existing portfolio of relevant or related resilience measurement efforts and notes gaps and challenges associated with them. It describes how some communities build and measure resilience and offers four key actions ...
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 Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research AgendaMarch 22, 2019 The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda assesses the benefits, risks, and “sustainable scale potential” for “negative emissions technologies” (NETs) and sequestration. This report also defines the essential components of a research and development program, including its estimated costs and p...
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 Improving the EPA Multi-Sector General Permit for Industrial Stormwater DischargesMarch 19, 2019 The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that builds on a 2009 comprehensive report on the Environmental Protection Agency’s Stormwater Program that covered all sectors of the program. This report focus on industrial stormwater monitoring and management. Industrial stormwater is derived from precipitation and/or runoff that comes in contact with indust...
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 Frontiers of Materials Research: A Decadal SurveyMarch 5, 2019 The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that documents the status and promising future directions of materials research in the United States in the context of similar efforts worldwide. This third decadal survey in materials research reviews the progress and achievements in materials research and changes in the materials research landscape over the last...
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 Assessing the Risks of Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace SystemFebruary 25, 2019 The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released Assessing the Risks of Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System. This consensus study examines the various ways that risk can be defined and applied to integrating these Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System managed by the Federal Aviation Administration (F...
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 Data Matters: Ethics, Data, and International Research Collaboration in a Changing World: Proceedings of a WorkshopFebruary 4, 2019 The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released Data Matters: Ethics, Data, and International Research Collaboration in a Changing World: Proceedings of a Workshop. The publication summarizes an event held on March 14-16, 2018, in Washington, DC that explored the changing opportunities and risks of data management and use across disciplinary domains. The third worksho...
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 The State of Resilience: A leadership Forum and Community WorkshopJune 28, 2018 The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a summary the presentations and discussions from a June 28-29, 2016, workshop that explored the results of years of investment, experimentation, and research in building resilience and examined experiences in building more resilient communities. Over the past decade, resilience has gained significant traction across the ...
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 Graduate STEM Education for the 21st CenturyJune 25, 2018 The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a report that examines the current state of U.S. graduate STEM education. The report explores how the system might best respond to ongoing developments in the conduct of research on evidence-based teaching practices and in the needs and interests of its students and the broader society it seeks to serve. The report is de... |
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