Curated Annual Meeting Program Samples

Looking for some suggestions for navigating the nearly 800 sessions at the TRB Annual Meeting?

The charts below provide a “curated” representative sampling of available sessions, but are not meant to imply that the sessions listed are more worthwhile than others. You can carry out more-detailed personalized searches via the online Interactive Program.

Click on the links below to view and download these curated programs.

Spotlight and Hot Topic Sessions

The spotlight theme for the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting is A Century of Progress: Foundation for the Future. In addition, the TRB Executive Committee has identified twelve areas of critical issues in transportation (see Critical Issues in Transportation 2019). The links below provide charts displaying all the sessions that have been designated as spotlight theme sessions and examples of sessions in the critical issue areas.

Spotlight Sessions
Transformational Technologies: Automated Vehicles (All Modes)
Transformational Technologies and Services: Shared Mobility, Mobility as a Service, etc.
Transformational Technologies and Services: Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, and more
Serving a Growing and Shifting Population
Energy and Sustainability
Resilience and Security
Safety and Public Health
Equity
Governance
System Performance and Asset Management
Funding and Finance
Goods Movement
Institutional and Workforce Capacity
Research and Innovation

Selected Modal Sessions

The TRB standing committees in the transportation modes listed below have developed charts of sessions for their modes:

Aviation
Marine and Freight
Public Transportation
Rail

Additional Sample Sessions in Selected Areas

History
Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Results
International