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| Transportation Construction is Important to Consider When Travel Decreases |
| Construction projects are typically deemed essential services and have continued even as many people stay close to home during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. For transportation projects in particular, local and state departments of transportation have frequently been able to speed the delivery of improvements due to decreased traffic ... |
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| TR News: Influencer Nikola Ivanov |
| "I fell into transportation domain by chance, pursuing my interests in software and data. And although I kept working in these fields, TRB taught me about transportation and how my software and data expertise could help solve transportation problems," says Nikola Ivanov, Director of Operations at the University of Marylands Center for Advanced... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper: Bicycle Transportation Committee |
| The TRB Standing Technical Committee on Bicycle Transportation has been in existence for about 45 years, founded in 1974 as the Bicycling and Bicycles Committee. We had an early name change to the Committee on Bicycling and Bicycle Facilities shortly after our birth and became the Bicycle Transportation Committee in 1996. The committee's... |
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| History Highlights: Low-Volume Roads - A Path Around the World |
| They met in June 1975 in Boise, Idaho, for a workshop organized by the Transportation Research Boards (TRBs) Special Task Force on Low-Volume Roads. Although the field trip took them over humble forest roads, workshop participants had global ambitions. Among the workshops sponsors were the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and... |
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| Tell Us Our Story by Antoine Gergess |
| According to Antoine Gergess, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Balamand, Labanon "What drew my attention to the transportation community is the urgent need for reconstruction and rehabilitation of transportation systems in the world and specifically in my homeland of Lebanon." Antoine continues to partipcate in TRB "due to the... |
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| New Hot Topics in TRID and Snap Search |
| Two new Hot Topics related to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are featured on the TRID home page. Hot Topics are preconfigured searches that will always bring back the latest publications and projects indexed in TRID. You can copy these links to an email or embed them on a web site or anywhere else. Pandemics Communicable Diseases and... |
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| TRB Webinar: Steel Your bridges Preservation Practices for Steel Bridge Coatings |
| Does your organization manage steel bridges? TRB is hosting a webinar on Thursday, May 7, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will identify challenges of maintaining coating on steel bridges. Operating agencies must maintain the coating in order to protect the bridges from corrosion. This webinar will discuss coating and recoating methods that... |
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| TRB Webinar: Load-Carrying Geosynthetic-Reinforced Bridge Abutments |
| Construction of load-carrying geosynthetic-reinforced bridge abutments are surging worldwide. The design directly supports the load of bridge girders without the need of deep foundation. TRB is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, May 26, 2020 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM Eastern that will provide an overview, comparison, and discussion of methodologies used in... |
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| TRB Webinar: Evaluating Goals Under the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program |
| Is your organization aiming to increase the participation of minority-and women-owned businesses in state and local transportation projects? TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, May 27, 2020, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern to discuss how to meet the goals set by the U.S. Department of Transportation Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (USDOT... |
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| 24th National Conference on Rural Public and Intercity Bus Transportation - rescheduled from 2020 to 2021 |
| TRB has been closely monitoring the evolving situation related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. The health and safety of our volunteers, sponsors, meeting guests, staff, and the greater community are of utmost importance to us. In light of the current situation, the 24th National Conference on Rural Public and Intercity Bus... |
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| Bicyclist Facility Preferences and Effects on Increasing Bicycle Trips |
| Cyclists and noncyclists have a wide range of perceptions of on-street bicycling facility designs including sharrows, bike lanes, and buffered bike lanes along a variety of roadway types, with and without curbside automobile parking. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 941: Bicyclist Facility... |
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| Use of Weigh-in-Motion Data for Pavement, Bridge, Weight Enforcement, and Freight Logistics Applications |
| Most U.S. state departments of transportation (DOTs) are collecting weigh-in-motion data with a wide variety of sensor types and using them in a variety of applications. Many agencies use WIM data to aid in pavement design, although most are not currently using a Pavement ME (mechanistic-empirical) Design application. WIM for bridge and asset... |
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| Existing and Emerging Highway Infrastructure Preservation, Maintenance, and Renewal Definitions, Practices, and Scenarios |
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| Highway Capacity Manual, Sixth Edition: A Guide for Multimodal Mobility Analysis |
| Now available to order from the TRB Bookstore, the Highway Capacity Manual, Sixth Edition: A Guide for Multimodal Mobility Analysis (HCM) provides methods for quantifying highway capacity. In its current form, it serves as a fundamental reference on concepts, performance measures, and analysis techniques for evaluating the multimodal operation of... |
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| Evaluating the Suitability of Roadway Corridors for Use by Monarch Butterflies |
| The charismatic and familiar monarch butterfly serves as a flagship species for pollinator conservation, and gives rights-of-way entities opportunities to engage a diverse array of stakeholders who are invested in not only restoring monarch numbers to sustainable levels, but also mitigating many other environmental and economic issues. This... |
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| Position Available: Director, Western Federal Lands Highway Division |
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| The U.S. Federal Aviation Administrations DroneZone System |
| A report released by the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Inspector General |
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| Addressing the volume of renewable fuel in transportation fuel |
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| Weighing road diets |
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| Bettering data collection on bridges |
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| Refining beams on bridges |
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| Urban last mile delivery |
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| Improving capacity through smart corridors |
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| Decreasing car dependence |
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| PIARCs response to COVID-19 |
| Activities released by The World Road Association (PIARC) |
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| How new technology can guide vehicles to parking spaces |
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| National Academies Webinar: Pursuing Data on COVID-19: The Health Inequity Multiplier - April 28, 2020 |
| The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offer Pursuing Data on COVID-19: The Health Inequity Multiplier on April 28 from 12:00 to 1:30 PM Eastern. The webinar is free and registration is open to all. As we learn more about coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the information about the pandemic we receive is fluid. Most... |
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| PIARC has a new webinar, in Spanish, on roads and COVID-19 |
| The road sectors response to COVID-19 is the topic of a new webinar, in Spanish, from PIARC, The World Road Association. The full recording is online and free. Speakers include experts from PIARC member countries, including road infrastructure administrations, ministry of interior and authorities in charge of traffic management, private... |
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| Maintaining public transportation safety during COVID-19 |
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| COVID-19 impacts on U.S. travel |
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| NADO COVID-19 resource center |
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