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| 2022 TRB Annual Meeting: Plan Now to Exhibit |
| Act now to secure your exhibit space at the 2022 TRB Annual Meeting, January 9-13, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Join us as the meeting returns to an in-person format, after being held virtually in 2021. Don't miss this opportunity to demonstrate your organization's support for transportation research and innovation, and to showcase your products and... |
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| 2022 TRB Annual Meeting: Create or Update Your MyTRB Profile |
| You've heard the news that TRBAM is going to be in person for 2022. 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... |
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| Committee and Reviewer Resources for Annual Meeting Paper Review |
| If you have questions or need procedural instructions while trying to carry out your role in facilitating this year's Annual Meeting paper review process, please visit the following resource pages: Committee Guides Reviewer Guides If you have additional questions that are not answered on those pages, please consult with a fellow ... |
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| TRB's Transportation Explorers Podcast: Gloria Jeff and How Transportation Equity is a Pizza |
| Gloria Jeff, Director of Rethinking I-94 at the Minnesota Department of Transportation, discusses how transportation planners can learn from the past and bake equity into their processes moving forward. Listen to the podcast here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. |
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| Take Action Now to Keep Getting TRBs Newsletter in the Fall |
| By the end of September, TRBs weekly newsletter will take a new format. To continue to get outstanding research news from TRB every Tuesday in the new and improved TRB Weekly, you must subscribe to the new version. As a subscriber to our current TRB E-Newsletter, your subscription will not be moved automatically. Make sure youre subscribed... |
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| 2022 Traffic Control Device Student Challenge: Apply by October 1 |
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| Nominate Principal Investigators for FY 2022 National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis Topics by August 27 |
| NCHRP is seeking principal investigators for FY 2022 synthesis topics. The project numbers, titles, and preliminary scopes of work for 18 new FY2022 Synthesis Topics are available. Please submit a letter of interest to serve as a principal investigator for one or more of these studies online through the Letters of Interest Submission Portal.... |
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| Nominate Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Project Panels by September 21 |
| ACRP is seeking panel nominations for 18 new projects selected for the FY2022 program. These panels will develop requests for proposals, select contractors, and review draft deliverables. Please nominate yourself or other candidates to serve on the expert panels of these research projects online at MyACRP. If you have a MyTRB account, you may... |
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| Identifying Credible Sources in Social Media |
| People seek, share, and receive travel information from a wide variety of sources, such as transportation companies and agencies, insurance and manufacturing companies, family and friends, media, educational materials, advertisements, and the internetincluding social media. As with any other scientific research, transportation research is... |
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| TRB Webinar: Evaluating and Rating Unsurfaced Roads |
| As of 2008, 33% of roads in the U.S. are unpaved or unsurfaced, and evaluating these roads requires a different perspective than evaluating asphalt or concrete roads. TRB will host a webinar on Wednesday, August 25, 2021 from 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern that will present two methodologies for unsurfaced road evaluation and rating. One is the unsurfaced... |
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| TRB Webinar: Use and Design of Low-Density Cellular Concrete |
| Low-Density Cellular Concrete (LDCC) use has seen quite a rise among a multitude of transportation projects. TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, August 26, 2021 from 1:00-3:00 PM Eastern that will discuss the current uses and design techniques of LDCC. Presenters will examine how utilizing LDCC can speed up overall construction schedules and... |
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| TRB Webinar: Training Operations Personnel at Small Airports |
| Managers of airports of all sizes face a perennial dilemma: how to efficiently train operations personnel while simultaneously ensuring a safe and secure airport environment. TRB is hosting a webinar on Monday, September 13, 2021 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM Eastern that will focus on current training methods and programs to prepare new and existing... |
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| TRB Webinar: Chip Seals, Microsurfacing, and Fog Seals Specifications |
| Pavement preservation is a means of maintaining and improving the functional condition of an existing highway system, generally leading to improved pavement performance and longer service life. There are, however, considerable variations among states regrading specifications for construction of chip seals, microsurfacing, and fog seals. TRB will... |
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| TRB Webinar: Evaluating the Performance of Retaining Walls and Embankments |
| Ongoing performance evaluation and research in embankment earthworks and retaining wall support can have implications for several aspects of a project. TRB will host a webinar on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 from 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern that will introduce modeling and field instrumentation as well as describe how these tools inform design.... |
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| Drug-Impaired Driving Conference |
| Convened by Transportation Research Board, the Drug-Impaired Driving Conference will be held October 27-29, 2021 online. This conference will generate and inform new and innovative practices and strategies to reverse the trends in increasing drug-impaired driving on our roadways. Participants will discuss drug-impaired driving research and... |
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| International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring* |
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| TRANSED: Mobility, Accessibility, and Demand Response Transportation Conference - Accepting Abstracts Through October 29 |
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| Development of a Comprehensive Approach for Serious Traffic Crash Injury Measurement and Reporting Systems |
| The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) requires a set of performance metrics to include assessment of serious injuries in crashes. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 302: Development of a Comprehensive Approach for Serious Traffic Crash Injury Measurement and Reporting... |
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| Relationships Between the Fatigue Properties of Asphalt Binders and the Fatigue Performance of Asphalt Mixtures |
| Traffic-associated fatigue damage is one of the major distresses in which flexible pavements fail. This type of distress is the result of many thousandsor even millions of wheel loads passing over a pavement. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's pre-publication draft of NCHRP Research Report 982: Relationships Between the... |
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| Practices for Closing Out Highway Projects from Substantial Completion to Final Payment |
| Although project closeout only entails a small portion of actual construction work, closing out highway construction projects for state departments of transportation (DOTs) is a complex and vital process that is a part of project delivery for highway construction projects. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Synthesis ... |
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| TR News 332 March-April 2021 |
| The March - April 2021 issue of TR Newswith a cover feature on TRB's 100th Annual Meetingis available in full online. Other articles in the issue explore mobility and human trafficking, near-road air quality, and how to make safer roadway crossings for small wildlife. This is Issue 332. To subscribe to TR News, sign up through... |
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| Transportation Security Administration screening systems |
| A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office |
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| Energy justice |
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| Sharing real-time traffic data |
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| Older drivers perceptions toward automated vehicles |
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| Generational multimodality |
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| Testing polymer binders |
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| Eno Announces the Martin Wachs Memorial Centennial Essay Contest |
| The Eno Center for Transportation has announced it is holding an essay content that will offer both students and professionals an opportunity to get published in Eno Transportation Weekly, win a total of $12,000 in cash prizes, and build their reputation as an expert. Essays are due this Friday (August 20) and should be persuasive op-eds that... |
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