• Attend the New Attendee Engagement Session on Sunday, January 5 whether it's your first TRB Annual Meeting or you've experienced it before. Learn how to navigate the meeting, along with ways to get involved with TRB year-round to enhance your professional development.

• What do all these organizations exhibiting know that yours doesn’t? Select booths are still available.

Congratulate the new appointments to the TRB Marine Board! Sandra Knight is the new Chair, James Watson is Vice Chair, and Paul Bingham, Brian McNamara, and Karrie Trauth began as members on November 1. Their expertise in maritime economics, law, and safety, along with offshore energy, will assist the board in identifying research needs and providing a forum for exchange of information on issues affecting the marine transportation system.

There are currently several TRB job openings.

• Deputy Division Director - Technical Activities Division. This position oversees the planning and coordination of TRB’s Annual Meeting at a programmatic level throughout the year, among many other responsibilites.
• Senior Program Officer. This position is responsible for developing and managing highly complex programs or projects in TRB's Technical Activities Division.
• Program Coordinator. This position coordinates and oversees the work of support staff handling clerical, administrative, and logistical aspects of meetings under direct supervision of the Operations Manager of TRB's Cooperative Research Program.
• Sponsorship and Exhibit Sales Manager. This position raises revenue through the sale of sponsorship and exhibit packages for TRB conferences among other responsibilities. 

There are many other job opportunities at the National Academies. Plus, find featured transportation research jobs beyond the National Academies at TRB's Career Center.

This time of year is especially difficult, with days getting darker earlier, for roadway safety for pedestrians and bicyclists. The number of bicyclists killed in traffic crashes has been steadily increasing since 2010 with an average of 779 killed between 2012 to 2016, 890 from 2017 to 2021, and peaking at 966 killed in 2021. NCHRP Research Report 1125: Reducing Conflicts Between Turning Motor Vehicles and Bicycles: Decision Tool and Design Guidelines and NCHRP Web-Only Document 408: Design Options to Reduce Conflicts Between Turning Motor Vehicles and Bicycles: Conduct of Research Report were released this week by TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program. They present a decision tool and design guidelines to help highway safety practitioners reduce turning motor vehicle–bicycle conflicts at intersections.

National Academies: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

The Oregon Department of Transportation Statewide Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan documents how the agency performed a statewide systemic safety analysis on its highway network. This work followed the seven-step systemic safety process outlined in one of TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program reports. The results of the Oregon project provided lessons learned for other states and local agencies. These and other impacts demonstrating the value of transportation research are detailed in "From Concept to Practice: NCHRP's Implementation Support Program," an article in TR News 351, the latest issue of TRB's quarterly magazine.