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TRB News
 TRB Webinar: Identifying Railroad-Highway Agency Institutional Mitigation Strategies - May 6, 2010
3rd Conference on Innovations in Travel Modeling - May 10-12, 2010
RFI: FY 2011 TCRP Research Problem Statements Sought
RFP: Current Hazardous Materials Transportation Research and Future Needs
RFP: Multimodal Freight Transportation Within the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence Basin
RFP: Improving Safety Culture in Public Transportation
Recently Released TRB Publications
Enhancing Airport Land Use Compatibility, Volume 1: Land Use Fundamentals and Implementation Resources
Enhancing Airport Land Use Compatibility, Volume 2: Land Use Survey and Case Study Summaries
Mixing and Compaction Temperatures of Asphalt Binders in Hot-Mix Asphalt
Performance Measurement and Outcomes
Federal Research News
Smart Growth: A Guide to Developing and Implementing Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programs
Transportation and Climate Change Newsletter - March 2010
Linking Transportation Performance and Accountability
Upward Trend in Vehicle-Miles Resumed During 2009
Public Roads: March/April 2010
Alternative Intersections/Interchanges: Informational Report
Review of State Traffic Safety Data Systems
Review of the 2010 Census
Evaluation of State Motorcycle Safety Programs
Proceedings of the Marine Safety and Security Council, the Coast Guard Journal of Safety at Sea: Spring 2010
Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress
Small Business Innovation Research Proposals Now Being Accepted
State Research News
A Safer Way Home: The Minnesota Safe Ride Guide
University Research News
Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation Newsletter: Spring 2010
Optimization and Management of Materials in Earthwork Construction
Ride or Relocate
Connecting (and Transforming) the Future of Transportation: A Brief and Practical Primer for Implementing Sustainable Door-to-Door Transportation Systems in Communities and Regions
Best Practice in Road Safety Mass Media Campaigns
Use of Rural Transportation Infrastructure in Evacuation Operations for the North Gulf Coastal Region
International Research News
Financing, Pricing and Taxation Thematic Research Summary 2010
In the Know
The Road to Livability
Transportation Reboot: Restarting America's Most Essential Operating System--The Case for Capacity: To Unlock Gridlock, Generate Jobs, Deliver Freight, and Connect Communities
State Human Service Transportation Coordinating Councils: An Overview and State Profiles
Hearing on NextGen: Long-Term Planning and Interagency Cooperation
Hearing on Pipeline Security
Hearing on the U.S. Department of Transportation's Oversight and Management of Hazardous Materials Special Permits and Approvals
Hearing on Securing the Nation's Rail and Other Surface Transportation Networks
National Transportation Operations Coalition Newsletter: April 21, 2010
Institute for Trade and Transportation Studies Newsletter: April 2010
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TRB Webinar: Identifying Railroad-Highway Agency Institutional Mitigation Strategies
TRB will conduct a web briefing or "webinar" on Thursday, May 6, 2010, from 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT that will explore a project from TRB's second Strategic Highway Research Program that developed strategies to improve the project-agreement process between railroads and highway agencies when coordinating on projects that cross or abut railways. Participants must register
at least 24 hours prior to the start of the webinar, space is limited, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. 
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3rd Conference on Innovations in Travel Modeling
TRB is sponsoring a conference on Innovations in Travel Demand Forecasting: 2010 on May 10-12, 2010, in Tempe, Arizona. Conference themes include activity-based model development, dynamic traffic assignment, data and information systems for modeling, reflecting reliability and uncertainty in travel models, freight travel modeling, integrated land use - transport models, and applying innovative modeling methods for addressing emerging policy issues.
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FY 2011 TCRP Research Problem Statements Sought
TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program has issued a request for problem statements
identifying research needed for TCRP's FY 2011 program. Research problem statements for the TCRP FY 2011 program are due June 15, 2010. These submittals form the basis for selection of the annual TCRP research program. [More]
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Current Hazardous Materials Transportation Research and Future Needs
TRB's Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program (HMCRP) has issued a request for proposals to review and compile current and proposed hazardous materials transportation research and prioritize future research needs for HMCRP. Proposals are due June 17, 2010. [More]
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Multimodal Freight Transportation Within the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence Basin
TRB's National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) has issued a request for proposals to describe the current multimodal freight transportation system and its performance in the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence basin, including the economic impact of the freight transportation system on regional, United States, and Canadian economies, and to identify opportunities and constraints in the basin for meeting projected freight flows. Proposals are due June 15, 2010.
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Improving Safety Culture in Public Transportation
TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop resources to assess, improve, and monitor organization-wide public transportation systems safety cultures that promote safety as a core value and top priority. Proposals are due July 28, 2010. [More]
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 Enhancing Airport Land Use Compatibility, Volume 1: Land Use Fundamentals and Implementation Resources
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 27: Enhancing Airport Land Use Compatibility, Volume 1: Land Use Fundamentals and Implementation Resources is part of a three-volume report that explores issues related to land use around airports. Volume 1 provides guidance designed to help protect airports from incompatible land uses that impair current and future airport and aircraft operations and safety.
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 Enhancing Airport Land Use Compatibility, Volume 2: Land Use Survey and Case Study Summaries
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 27: Enhancing Airport Land Use Compatibility, Volume 2: Land Use Survey and Case Study Summaries is part of a three-volume report that explores issues related to land use around airports. Volume 2 includes 15 case studies that targeted a wide range of airports and land use issues. The case study sites include large commercial service, military, and general aviation airports and are geographically diverse. Volume 2 also provides states and local governments with examples and a common basis for establishing zoning that protects the public interest and investment in airports.
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 Mixing and Compaction Temperatures of Asphalt Binders in Hot-Mix Asphalt
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 648: Mixing and Compaction Temperatures of Asphalt Binders in Hot-Mix Asphalt explores enhanced test methods for determining laboratory mixing and compaction temperatures of modified and unmodified asphalt binders. [More]
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 Performance Measurement and Outcomes
TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Results Digest 95: Performance Measurement and Outcomes explores how performance measurements are used to achieve organizational goals and enhance quality of service at public transport planning, funding, and operating agencies in Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China; in the city-state of Singapore; in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and in Taipei, Taiwan.
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 Smart Growth: A Guide to Developing and Implementing Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programs
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report that explores information on how local governments have planned, designed, and implemented approaches that encourage smart growth in their communities. [More]
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Transportation and Climate Change Newsletter - March 2010
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration's Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty has released the latest issue of its monthly newsletter designed to keep transportation stakeholders up-to-date on various issues related to transportation and climate change.
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 Linking Transportation Performance and Accountability
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that explores ways that transportation agencies in Australia, Great Britain, New Zealand, and Sweden use performance management systems to demonstrate accountability to elected officials and the public. In addition, the report examines how these transportation agencies use goal setting and performance measures to manage, explain, deliver, and adjust their transportation budgets and internal activities.
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 Upward Trend in Vehicle-Miles Resumed During 2009
The Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics has released a Transportation Trends in Focus that explores vehicle-miles traveled (VMT) on the nation's highways. According to the report, after a two-year interruption to a long-term upward trend, the number of vehicle-miles traveled (VMT) on the nation's highways appears to have resumed a pattern of upward growth in 2009. [More]
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Public Roads: March/April 2010
The latest issue of the Federal Highway Administration's Public Roads magazine has been released. The magazine highlights developments in federal highway policies, programs, and research and technology. [More]
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 Alternative Intersections/Interchanges: Informational Report
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that explores four intersection and two interchange designs that have potential advantages over conventional at-grade intersections and grade-separated diamond interchanges. Issues explored in the report related to each alternative treatment include geometric design, operation and safety, access management, costs, construction sequencing, environmental benefits, and applicability.
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Review of State Traffic Safety Data Systems
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a report that explores the extent to which state traffic safety data systems meet National Highway Traffic Safety Administration performance measures for assessing the quality of data systems. The report also examines the progress states have made in improving traffic safety data systems, and related challenges. [More]
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Review of the 2010 Census
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report that examines the status of the U.S. Census Bureau's Census Coverage Measurement (CCM) program planning. The report also explores the effects of design decisions since GAO issued its April 2008 report, which recommended that the Census Bureau identify how it would relate CCM results to census operations to improve future censuses. [More]
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Evaluation of State Motorcycle Safety Programs
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a report that explores the current efforts states are undertaking to promote motorcycle safety. [More]
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 Proceedings of the Marine Safety and Security Council, the Coast Guard Journal of Safety at Sea: Spring 2010
The U.S. Coast Guard has released the latest issue of this quarterly journal, which is described as the voice of the Coast Guard's Marine Safety and Security Council. This issue has a focus on the U.S. Coast Guard rulemaking process. [More]
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Changes in the Arctic: Background and Issues for Congress
A Congressional Research Service report explores the future impact of diminished Arctic sea ice including the potential for increased commercial shipping on two trans-Arctic sea routes. Current international guidelines for ships operating in Arctic waters are being updated, with a targeted completion date of 2010. [More]
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Small Business Innovation Research Proposals Now Being Accepted
The Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has released a solicitation for project proposals as part of its fiscal year 2010 program. Proposals are due May 14, 2010.
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A Safer Way Home: The Minnesota Safe Ride Guide
Minnesota's Toward Zero Deaths program has released a guide that provides step-by-step advice to individuals or groups wanting to start a safe ride service in their community.
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Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation Newsletter: Spring 2010
The Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation at Portland State University has released the latest issue of its quarterly newsletter that highlights efforts to help make communities safe, convenient, and accessible places to walk and bicycle. [More]
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Optimization and Management of Materials in Earthwork Construction
The Institute of Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that explores optimization and management of materials in earthwork construction designed to address pavement cracking due to improper management of pavement geotechnical materials, settlement of soil above a pipe due to improper compaction of the backfill, and permeability of mixed-subgrade soils.
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Ride or Relocate
The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University has released a report that explores the cost of living at home and riding transit in North Dakota versus relocating to an assisted living facility. [More]
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Connecting (and Transforming) the Future of Transportation: A Brief and Practical Primer for Implementing Sustainable Door-to-Door Transportation Systems in Communities and Regions
The University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute has released a report that explores integrative practices, guiding principles, and current cases that take a systems approach to urban mobility and accessibility.
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Best Practice in Road Safety Mass Media Campaigns
The Centre for Automotive Safety Research at the University of Adelaide has released a report that explores existing literature on road safety advertising design and evaluation.
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Use of Rural Transportation Infrastructure in Evacuation Operations for the North Gulf Coastal Region
The Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University has released a report that explores the use of rural transportation infrastructure in evacuation practices in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.
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Financing, Pricing and Taxation Thematic Research Summary 2010
The Transport Research Knowledge Center of the European Commission has released a report that explores the latest European Union research in the areas of transport financing, pricing, and taxation.
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The Road to Livability
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials has released a report that explores ways state departments of transportation are working to enhance a community's attractiveness, build its local economy, create a sense of place, preserve its character, enhance its safety, and improve the convenience of travel and access to services for all citizens.
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Transportation Reboot: Restarting America's Most Essential Operating System--The Case for Capacity: To Unlock Gridlock, Generate Jobs, Deliver Freight, and Connect Communities
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials has released a report-the first in a three-part series-that explores what is changing in America and the impact of those changes on the demand for new transportation capacity.
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State Human Service Transportation Coordinating Councils: An Overview and State Profiles
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has released a report that explores how state coordinating councils operate and that profiles the 25 existing state coordinating councils. According to NCSL, state coordinating councils are created by statute, executive order, or governor initiative to promote effective coordinated transportation for disadvantaged groups. [More]
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Hearing on NextGen: Long-Term Planning and Interagency Cooperation
On April 21, 2010, the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing to explore how the near- and mid-term targets of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) are being reconciled with long-term goals, and how the Federal Aviation Administration's Joint Planning and Development Office is leveraging, or plans to leverage, its agency partners' resources to achieve these goals. Additional background and a video of the hearing are available online.
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Hearing on Pipeline Security
On April 19, 2010, the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Management Investigations and Oversight held a hearing to explore the management of the nation's pipeline networks. Opening remarks and the submitted statements of witnesses are available online.
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Hearing on the U.S. Department of Transportation's Oversight and Management of Hazardous Materials Special Permits and Approvals
On April 22, 2010, the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a hearing to explore the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's oversight and management of its special permits and approvals program. Additional information and a video of the hearing are available online.
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Hearing on Securing the Nation's Rail and Other Surface Transportation Networks
On April 21, 2010, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing to explore security issues related to the nation's surface transportation systems. Opening remarks, witnesses' submitted testimony, and a video of the hearing are available online. [More]
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National Transportation Operations Coalition Newsletter: April 21, 2010
The National Transportation Operations Coalition (NTOC) has released the latest issue of its semi-monthly newsletter that highlights available information and resources designed to help improve management and operation of the nation's existing transportation system. NTOC is an informal alliance of organizations that are stakeholders in operations, planning, and public safety. Organizations involved in NTOC include the U.S. Federal Highway Administration, the U.S. Federal Transit Administration, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the American Public Transportation Association, and TRB.
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Institute for Trade and Transportation Studies Newsletter: April 2010
The Institute for Trade and Transportation Studies has released the latest issue of its periodic newsletter that reports on the domestic and international infrastructure, transportation, and safety implications of commercial freight movements.
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