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| NASEM Event and Webcast: Smart Cities and Communities |
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| The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is hosting a colloquium called Smart Cities and Communities on Friday, April 12, 2019. The colloquium will discuss technologies that may help communities improve traffic management, air quality control, emergency health, education access, and other social services. Presenters... |
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| TRB Webinar: Road Weather and Flood Monitoring with the National Water Model |
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| TRB will conduct a webinar on Monday, April 15, 2019 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET to discuss how state departments of transportation may utilize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Water Model. Accurate, timely, and reliable forecasts are necessary for transportation decision makers to make informed decisions on re-routing ... |
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| TRB Webinar: Taking Preparedness Seriously: Emergency Exercises for Any Airport |
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| TRB will conduct a webinar on Thursday, April 18, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 72: Table Top and Full-scale Emergency Exercises for General Aviation, Non-hub and Small Hub Airports and Research Report 187: Transportation Emergency Response Application (TERA) ... |
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| TRB Webinar: Priming the Pump: Cleaner Approaches to Airport Ground Transportation |
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| TRB will conduct a webinar on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)'s Synthesis 85: Alternative Fuels in Airport Fleets and Synthesis 89: Clean Vehicles, Fuels, and Practices for Airport Private Ground Transportation Providers. The research from these two ... |
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| NTI Webinar: TCRP Synthesis 127: Addressing Difficult Customer Situations* |
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| TRB is cosponsoring a webinar on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 from 2:00-3:30 PM ET that features the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)'s Synthesis 127: Addressing Difficult Customer Situations. This webinar will highlight issues surrounding difficult customers or passengers and the variety of circumstances that can arise when they utilize... |
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| 2019 World Transport Convention* |
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| TRB is cosponsoring the World Transport Convention on June 13-16, 2019 in Beijing, China. This conference provides an international platform to share ideas about transportation infrastructure connectivity. The conference will include technical sessions and workshops, plenary sessions, transportation expositions, and design competitions. |
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| International Conference on Advances in Materials and Pavement Performance Prediction (AM3P)* |
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| TRB is cosponsoring the International Conference on Advances in Materials and Pavement Performance Prediction (AM3P) on May 27-29, 2020 in San Antonio, Texas. This conference provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners involved in computational modeling, experimental characterization, and field testing for the prediction of... |
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| Southern African Transportation Conference (SATC)* |
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| TRB is co-sponsoring the Southern African Transportation Conference (SATC) July 8-11, 2019 in Pretoria, South Africa. This year’s theme is “Disruptive Transport Technologies - Is South and southern Africa ready?” The conference is South Africa’s longest standing transportation conference and has become an important contributor to and... |
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| 6th International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design: Abstracts due April 30* |
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| TRB is cosponsoring the 6th International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design on June 28-July 1, 2020, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The objective of this Symposium is to stimulate continued world-wide improvements to highway geometric design. The Symposium will focus on the latest breakthrough practices relating to highway engineering in their ... |
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| Resource Conservation and Recovery Committee Workshop |
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| TRB is sponsoring the Resource Conservation and Recovery Standing Committee’s workshop on July 14-16, 2019 in Washington, DC. This workshop will provide a forum to discuss systems-based solutions and research associated with resource efficiency-and contamination-related technical areas, including toxic and hazardous materials tracking; pollution... |
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| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2019 Airfield and Highway Pavements Conference* |
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| TRB is cosponsoring the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2019 Airfield and Highway Pavements Conference on July 21-24, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. The conference will bring together researchers, designers, project and construction managers, and contractors from around the world to discuss airfield and highway pavements. It will consider... |
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| TRB Workshop at the 69th Highway Geology Symposium* |
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| TRB is cosponsoring a workshop titled "Looking Ahead at Informed Decision-Making for Engineering Geologists" at the Highway Geology Symposium (HGS) on October 21, 2019 in Portland, Oregon. The symposium will focus on how engineering geologists may use large amounts of data to advance the practice of investigation, design, planning and... |
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| RFP: Legal Implications of Data Collection at Airports |
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| TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has released a request for proposals to provide guidance for collecting data at airports with respect to the applicable laws, including federal, state, and international, the compliance requirements, and the consequences of non-compliance. Proposals are due May 28, 2019. |
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| RFP: State and Local Impacts of Automated Freight Transportation Systems |
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| TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has released a request for proposals to develop a decision framework for state and local agencies to identify, evaluate, and address the potential impacts of connected and automated freight transportation movement technologies on policies and practices. The proposal should also identify... |
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| Building and Measuring Community Resilience: Actions for Communities and the Gulf Research Program |
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| 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 ... |
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| Microtransit or General Public Demand–Response Transit Services: State of the Practice |
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| TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 141: TCRP Synthesis 141: Microtransit or General Public Demand–Response Transit Services: State of the Practice provides an overview of the current state of the practice of transit systems that are directly providing general public demand–response or microtransit with their own vehicles... |
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| Defining the Boundary Conditions for Composite Behavior of Geosynthetic-Reinforced Soil Structures |
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| TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 260: Defining the Boundary Conditions for Composite Behavior of Geosynthetic-Reinforced Soil Structures explore the effect of adopting a closely-spaced reinforcement layout in geosynthetic-reinforced soil structures. While research since the early 1980s has... |
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| Advanced Neutral Temperature Estimation using Solitary Waves (ANTEUSW) |
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| TRB's Transit Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program Final Report 86: Advanced Neutral Temperature Estimation using Solitary Waves (ANTEUSW) explores a new nondestructive evaluation method able to determine the axial stress and the neutral temperature of continuous welded rails. Continuous welded rails (CWRs) are widely used ... |
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| Transportation Research OnlineFirst: This Week’s Update of Recently Released Transportation Research Record Papers |
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| Attaching a Price to Greenhouse Gas Emissions with a Carbon Tax or Emissions Fee: Considerations and Potential Impacts |
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| The U.S. Congressional Research Service has released a report that provides an overview about efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This report focuses on the policy considerations and potential impacts of using a carbon tax or GHG emissions fee to control GHG emissions. It also examines whether a carbon tax may be effective in... |
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| Safety Compass Newsletter: Spring 2019 |
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| The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released the latest issue of its Safety Compass newsletter. The purpose of the newsletter is to share news and information regarding the activities, policies, and programs of the NTSB. This edition features information about distracted driving. |
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| Traffic Safety Facts: Older Population |
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| The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a factsheet that investigates the number of older drivers’ fatal crashes in 2017. Older drivers are defined as 65 years and older. The report examines the incidents by states, age groups, restraint use, and environmental characteristics. |
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| Passenger Vehicle Occupant Fatality Rates by Type and Size of Vehicle (Updated) |
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| The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has released a report that outlines occupant fatality rates by passenger vehicle type and size. NHTSA routinely publishes passenger vehicle occupant fatality rates for four passenger vehicle types—passenger cars, SUVs, pickup trucks, and vans. |
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| UTC Spotlight: April 2019 |
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| The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation has released the latest edition of its newsletter that highlights recent accomplishments and products from university transportation centers (UTCs). This edition features the University of Maryland. It describes a smartphone app that uses... |
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| MnDOT Slope Vulnerability Assessments |
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| The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released a report that determines the risk of slope failure along state highways around Minnesota. Minnesota’s climate, geomorphology, and steep terrain along rivers has the potential to increase the incidence of slope failures such as rockfalls and landslides. |
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| Field Implementation and Monitoring of Behavior of Economical and Crack-Free High-Performance Concrete for Pavement and Transportation Infrastructure Constructions – Phase II |
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| The Missouri Department of Transportation has released a report that develops guidelines for the use of environmentally-friendly high-performance concrete (Eco-HPC) for sustainable transportation infrastructure construction. Eco-HPC is a new class of cost-effective HPC that is made of low binder content, high volume of supplementary cementitious... |
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| Premature Failure of Concrete Patching: Reasons and Resolutions |
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| The Virginia Department of Transportation has released a report that determines the causes of premature repair failure in continuously reinforced concrete pavement. The performance of concrete patches in continuously reinforced concrete pavement in Virginia can vary from less than one year to several years. |
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| Regionalized Urban-Suburban Collector Road Safety Performance Functions |
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| The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has released a report that estimates regionalized safety performance functions (SPFs) for urban and suburban collector roads in Pennsylvania. SPFs were developed to predict the total crash frequency while considering the differences in safety performance that might occur within individual counties. |
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| Pavement Rehabilitation Strategy Course Development |
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| The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has released a report that identifies proper materials and methodologies for pavement rehabilitation courses for Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) employees. The goal of this report is to develop training materials for IDOT personnel to enhance the... |
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| The ABC Parking Ramps in Minneapolis: A Unique Past, A Visionary Future |
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| The Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota has released a report that examines parking ramps in Minneapolis. Specifically, this report identifies programs, policies, and goals developed for the ramps to ensure they continue to address current transportation challenges. The report also seeks to pinpoint policies that align ... |
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| Evaluation of Adaptive Signal Control Technology— Volume 3: Comparison of TBC 2017 and ASCT 2017 |
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| The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has released a report that outlines the study methodology, data collection, data reduction, and data analysis of a specific adaptive signal control technology (ASCT) used in Illinois. Field evaluation of ASCT is important in understanding the system’s... |
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| Passenger Car Emissions in Turkey: A Baseline Analysis of Current Vehicle Taxation Policies in Turkey and their Impact on New and Used Passenger Cars |
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| The International Council on Clean Transportation has released a report that analyzes the Turkish passenger car market and the effect of the existing tax system on new and used cars. The goal of this report is to provide a report for the most recent developments in the Turkish passenger car market and to create a basis for further research on... |
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| Technology Verification Tool for Green Freight Programs: Application of Vehicle Simulation Tools to Accelerate Technology Uptake |
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| The International Council on Clean Transportation has released a report that outlines the application of existing vehicle simulation tools to streamline technology verification and accelerate technology uptake in green freight programs. This tool may be used by fleet or green freight program managers to estimate the potential fuel savings of truck ... |
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| A Risk-Based Approach to Regulating Heavy Vehicles |
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| The National Transport Commission in Australia has released a report that summarizes the Heavy Vehicle National Law. The goal of this report is to describe current regulation and options for regulatory approaches and seek preliminary views on how heavy vehicle regulation may be improved. |
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| Prevention and Mitigation of Tunnel-Related Collisions |
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| PIARC has released a report that identifies possible measures to lower the probability or consequences of tunnel-related collisions. Often, there are several causes that contribute to a specific collision within a tunnel, and this report focuses on narrowing in on such causes. The report is available for no fee after logging onto the site. |
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| Hearing: Perspectives on Overseeing the Safety of the U.S. Air Transportation System |
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| On March 27, 2019, General Calvin L. Scovel III, the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation, testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation and Space. The hearing focused on the state of aviation safety and the Federal Aviation Administration’s oversight of commercial... |
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