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| COVID-19 trends impacting the future of transportation planning and research |
| TRB Executive Director Neil Pedersen recently shared insights on how the transportation industry has been impacted by and will continue to be shaped by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic. He presented Thursday, August 13 at the closing plenary session of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) virtual annual meeting.... |
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| 2021 TRB Annual Meeting: Create or update your MyTRB profile |
| You've heard the news that TRBAM is going virtual for 2021. In order to attend the meeting, be sure to create or update your MyTRB profile now. MyTRB allows TRB volunteers, contributors, and participants to maintain their own contact information. You can identify your areas of interest, upload your bio, become a friend of a standing... |
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| TRR special issue on COVID-19 and transportation: Deadline October 31 |
| If you have already submitted your COVID-19 research to the TRB 2021 Annual Meeting for presentation and publication, you do not need to resubmit your paper to be considered for this issue. However, if you have research that has not already been submitted for publication in Transportation Research Record (TRR) or elsewhere, we are keeping the... |
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| Seeking principal investigators for FY2021 NCHRP Synthesis Projects: Letters of interest due August 27, 2020 |
| TRB's National Highway Cooperative Research Program (NCHRP) has issued an invitation for letters of interest from those wishing to be considered as a principal investigator for one or more of the 19 new NCHRP synthesis topics. Letters of Interest must be submitted through the Letters of Interest Submission Portal by August 27, 2020. For the list... |
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| Seeking project panel nominations for FY 2021 Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP): Nominations due September 21, 2020 |
| ACRP is seeking panel nominations for 18 new projects selected for the FY2021 program. Please nominate yourself or other candidates to serve on the expert panels of these research projects online at MyTRB. These panels will develop requests for proposals, select contractors, and review draft deliverables. Nominations are welcome anytime... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Evolution and Impact of TRBs Rail Transit Committees on National Transit Research |
| More important than mere institutional history, the story of the beginning of a rail committee structure within TRB parallels major changes in national and state transportation and institutional policy. The Standing Technical Committee on Rail Transit Systems' paper reveals the people who had the vision and perseverance to initiate research that... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Managed Lanes: Celebrating a 50th Anniversary at the TRB Centennial |
| The Standing Technical Committee on Managed Lanes' legacy over the last 50 years reflects managed lanes practice evolving as an operational strategy to provide more vehicle and person throughput than general-purpose lanes, largely on controlled access facilities. While it is difficult to know exactly what future variant of roadway pricing will... |
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| TRB Webinar: Delivering Bridge Projects with Building Information Modeling (BIM) |
| Bridge owners are interested in scaling the benefits of digital delivery across their agencies programs. The application of BIM to infrastructure is growing in prominence nationally and internationally. TRB will host a webinar on Wednesday, August 26, 2020 from 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern that will discuss how to use BIM to deliver infrastructure... |
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| TRB Webinar: The Relationship between Bicycle Facilities and Increasing Bicycle Trips |
| How do cyclists use different bicycling facilities? Do certain facilities encourage more bicycle trips? TRB is hosting a webinar on Monday, August 31, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will discuss how current and potential cyclists perceive different types of facilities, and will identify how to quantify bicycle trips as a result of... |
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| TRB Webinar: Incentivizing Sustainable Air Service |
| Airports and the communities they serve have offered air service incentives to influence airline route decisions and encourage new services by mitigating some of the financial risks that new services can create for airlines. TRB is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will discuss the different types... |
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| TRB Webinar: On the Road Again--Engaging Students in Road Engineering Careers |
| Sustaining and improving the highway network requires a well-trained and highly skilled workforce. TRB will host a webinar on Wednesday, September 16, 2020 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern that will highlight successful programs and practices that have attracted people to careers in road maintenance, operations, and construction. Presenters will... |
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| TRB Webinar: Enhancing Pavement Foundation Resilience through Moisture Measurement |
| Accurate and timely moisture measurement is important for properly compacting geomaterials during construction and to understand the environment below existing pavements. TRB is hosting a webinar on Thursday, September 17, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern exploring newer, potentially less expensive and time-consuming methods that continuously... |
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| RFP: State Transportation Agency Multifaceted Decision-Making for Future System Performance |
| TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop and present an analytical framework and guidelines for multifaceted decision-making to support state transportation agencies in fulfilling their missions and ensuring that future system performance supports our nations prosperity and... |
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| RFP: Guideline for Decision-Making for Repair vs. Replacement of Highway Maintenance Equipment |
| TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop a guidebook for state transportation agency fleet managers and others, presenting a readily usable methodology, supportive computational tools, and examples of effective practices for (1) describing and evaluating repair and replacement... |
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| Minutes Matter: A Bus Transit Service Reliability Guidebook |
| Transit reliability is critical to the operation and attractiveness of public transportation services. With the current unprecedented evolution in transportation services, including new competition from mobility service providers such as Uber and Lyft, improving transit reliability has taken on an even greater level of importance. The TRB... |
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| Developing a Guide to Bus Transit Service Reliability |
| There are three major perspectives on transit reliability: from the customer, agency, and operator points of view. The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Web-Only Document Developing a Guide to Bus Transit Service Reliability finds, through a transit agency survey, that most agencies do not have a formal bus service reliability... |
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| Planning and Implementing Multimodal, Integrated Corridor Management: Guidebook |
| Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) is an operational concept that seeks to reduce congestion and improve performance by maximizing the use of available multimodal capacity across a corridor, including highways, arterial roads, and transit systems. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 287: Planning... |
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| Decision-Making Guide for Traffic Signal Phasing |
| Few resources provide information related to selecting the most appropriate traffic signal phasing for the various geometric and operational situations encountered in the field. This is especially true for left-turn signal phasing decisions with respect to the level of control for the left-turn movement and whether left turns should precede or... |
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| TR News May-June 2020 issue table of contents now online |
| The MayJune 2020 issue of TR News is a special edition illuminating the many hidden aspects of tunnels as well as the benefits of tunnel technology to modern transportation systems. Articles highlight the contribution of tunnels to the economy and how transportation operators use the best technology to keep tunnels efficient and safe. |
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| Public Roads: Summer 2020 |
| Latest edition of a magazine released by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration |
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| Accurately funding DOT programs |
| A report released by the U.S. Department of Transportations Office of the Inspector General |
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| How electric vehicles impact the electric grid |
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| Prioritizing federal transportation research |
| A report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office |
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| Modernizing high-altitude air traffic |
| A report released by the U.S. Department of Transportations Office of the Inspector General |
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| How a complete street reshapes a community |
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| Evaluating and comparing maintenance costs for bridge decks |
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| Monitoring risky driver behavior |
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| Managing congestion |
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| The relationship between transportation network companies and parking revenue |
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| Balancing the freight load network |
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| Rumble strip design |
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| Improving road safety through consistent standards |
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| Heavy vehicle road access guidelines |
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