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| TRB has selected Community Brands for the 2021 TRBAM online interface |
| TRB is pleased to announce that we have selected Community Brands to provide a high-functionality online interface for the all-virtual 2021 Annual Meeting. The platform will make it possible for TRB provide both live and recorded sessions, interactive chat texting between attendees and speakers, virtual exhibit booths, and online... |
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| Transportation helps fight back against human trafficking |
| Not on my bus. Not on my train. Not in my community. Across the country, hundreds of participants in a recent TRB webinar stood up and said this mantra out loud during a presentation by Kristen Joyner, executive consultant and trainer at South West Transit Association. Joyner and Margo Hill, a tribal attorney and tribal court judge,... |
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| Seeking panel nominations for FY 2021 projects in the Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (BTSCRP): Nominations deadline extended to September 1, 2020 |
| BTSCRP is seeking project technical oversight panel nominations for four projects in the FY2021 program. Nominations of members of historically underrepresented groups, including women, young professionals (age 35 and younger), and members of minority groups are encouraged. Panels for the new projects are scheduled to meet beginning in September... |
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| Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) seeking FY 2021 ACRP Legal Studies Program study topics: deadline October 2, 2020 |
| TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) is seeking ideas on candidate topics for the FY 2020 Legal Studies Program. The closing date for submission of topics for the FY 2021 program is October 2, 2020. Topic idea submission may be made through the online tool, ACRP's IdeaHub. |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Geometric Design and Operational Effects of Geometrics |
| The Standing Technical Committee on Geometric Design and the Standing Technical Committee on Operational Effects of Geometrics both trace their origins to the post-World War II era, coinciding with the Interstate era and an unprecedented transportation public works boom. From 1946 through 1973 there are various references to both Committees in... |
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| Featured Centennial Paper - Concrete Pavement Design and Rehabilitation: History and Evolution |
| The forerunner to the Standing Technical Committee on Design and Rehabilitation of Concrete Pavements was the Committee on the Structural Design of Roads designated as Research Committee Number 2 in the original by-laws of the Highway Research Board. As the need for focused research on the emerging range of technical issues in the highway... |
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| ACRP photo contest open until September 1 |
| ACRP is holding its first-ever call for photos! We are looking for high-resolution images that reflect the diverse range of activities that occur at airports (passengers passing through terminals, staff working in control rooms, technicians on the scene, etc.), photos of airport locales (curbside baggage drops, terminal vendors, boarding areas,... |
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| TRB Webinar: How Women Fare in the Transit Industry |
| What are transit agencies doing to attract, retain, and advance women in the industry? TRB is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, September 2, 2020, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern that will identify the barriers and solutions to including more women in the transit industry. Presenters will discuss strategies to support women in transit and will share ... |
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| TRB Webinar: Modeling Long-Distance Intercity Travel for Sustainable Global Travel |
| The majority of travel demand models are derived from daily home- and work-based travel. But modeling intercity travel is also important. TRB will host a webinar on Monday, September 21, 2020 from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Eastern that will discuss long-distance intercity travel models from Vermont, Florida, and Ontario. These models use integrated air... |
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| TRB Webinar: Designing Beyond - Improving Airport Operations through BIM |
| Airports can use Building Information Modeling (BIM) practices to improve their facility operations and asset management processes. TRB is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that will present data collected from a digital survey of over 60 airports, and interviews with airport staff, consultants, and... |
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| TRB Webinar: Stay Current on Research in Progress |
| All transportation researchers and students are invited to a TRB webinar on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET. The webinar will provide users of TRB's Research in Progress (RiP) Database with the latest information about RiP's search and data entry interfaces. The RiP Database is a leading tool for transportation... |
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| U.S.-China Mobility Management Meeting |
| China Highway and Transportation Society and TRB are jointly convening a U.S.-China Mobility Management Meeting on August 26, 2020 online. The theme is "Transit linkages with new mobility and micromobility, and the survival of both post COVID-19." COVID-19 has caused a severe decline in public ridership worldwide. This decline on ridership is... |
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| TRB Transit Safety and Security Conference and APTA Mid-year Safety and Security Seminar |
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| TCRP 2019 Annual Report of Progress |
| TRBs Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has released its annual report, which provides background and an overview of the program, status of each of TCRPs projects, and a summary of some of the program's accomplishments for the year. In FY 2019, TCRP produced 11 publications, including 5 research reports and 6 syntheses, bringing the... |
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| TRR: Automatic Background Filtering Method for Roadside LiDAR Data |
| The high-resolution micro traffic data (HRMTD) of all roadway users is important for serving the connected-vehicle system in mixed traffic situations. The roadside LiDAR sensor gives a solution to providing HRMTD from real-time 3D point clouds of its scanned objects. "Automatic Background Filtering Method for Roadside LiDAR Data" proposed an... |
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| Proposed AASHTO Guidelines for Performance-Based Seismic Bridge Design |
| Performance-based seismic design (PBSD) for infrastructure in the United States is a developing field, with new research, design, and repair technologies; definitions; and methodologies being advanced every year. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 949: Proposed AASHTO Guidelines for Performance-Based... |
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| Impacts on Practice: Ensuring Safe Paramotor Operations at Emmett Municipal Airport |
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| Shared Mobility and the Transformation of Public Transit |
| There are issues, opportunities, and challenges related to technology-enabled mobility services, and lots of ways that transit can learn from, build upon, and interface with new ways of traveling. The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Report 188: Shared Mobility and the Transformation of Public Transit examines the relationship... |
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| How can law enforcement assist in pedestrian and bicyclist safety? |
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| Evaluating truck platooning deployments |
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| Funding pipeline safety |
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| Mobility options for transportation equity |
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| Providing opportunities to learn about transportation-related careers |
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| Improving right-of-way efficiencies |
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| Operational safety of urban arterial networks |
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| Relationships between vehicles on shoulder, congestion, and crashes |
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| Effect of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on mobility services |
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| Relationships between ages of drivers, vehicle driven, and safety |
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| Hearing: Energy and Environmental Innovation: Wyomings Leadership in Using and Storing Carbon Dioxide Emissions |
| On August 19, 2020, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public works held a hearing to discuss carbon dioxide emissions in Wyoming. |
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