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Meet the Winners of TRB's 2021-2022 Airport Cooperative Research Program Graduate Research Awards
9/8/2021 7:00:55 AM
The Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program today announced nine winners of its annual ACRP Graduate Research Awards . The prestigious awards focus on applied research on airport and related aviation system issues to help the public sector improve the quality, reliability, safety, and security of the U.S. civil aviation system. Now in its 15th year, the program is sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) through ACRP and managed by the Virginia Space Grant Conso...
Research-to-Practice Transit Symposium*
9/8/2021 4:00:34 AM
Caltrans, University of Florida Transportation Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology T-SCORE, and APTA are hosting Research to Practice Transit Symposium from October 12-14, 2021 online and in person. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. The online program will be from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM Eastern each day. The in-person component will be held October 12 and 13 in the morning before the Symposium broadcast. Topics covered will include: Digital Future and Digital Connectivity Travel Trends and COVI...
Identifying Credible Sources in Social Media
8/11/2021 4:49:23 AM
People seek, share, and receive travel information from a wide variety of sources, such as transportation companies and agencies, insurance and manufacturing companies, family and friends, media, educational materials, advertisements, and the internet—including social media. As with any other scientific research, transportation research is susceptible to “misinformation” and “disinformation”. This is either information that conflicts with the best scientific evidence available at the time, or a coordinat...
New Publications Indexed in TRID
7/28/2021 1:49:23 PM
Your search results in TRID will now be even more robust. TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation Database. Additional journals have been added to TRID for indexing. Your access to the article content is depended upon your organizational subscriptions. The newly added journals are: • Advances in Bridge Engineering (Springer) • Co...
TRB and Latinos In Transit Sign MOU
7/27/2021 12:00:18 PM
A five-year memorandum of understanding has been signed by Latinos In Transit (LIT) and TRB/the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The focus of the MOU will be upon the shared interests of the two non-profit organizations, including working to bring more Latinos into leadership and workforce positions in TRB and throughout the global transportation industry.
TRB Represented Among New Mirzayan Fellows
7/24/2021 7:08:18 PM
The Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program is a full-time hands-on training and educational program that provides early career individuals with the opportunity to spend twelve weeks at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine learning about science and technology policy and the role that scientists and engineers play in advising the nation. Erin Robartes is one of the fifteen Fellows and will be participating with Consensus and Advisory Stu...
TRR "Impact Factor" Takes a Major Leap Forward in Prestige
7/8/2021 5:19:30 AM
Transportation Research Record: The Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR) has taken a major leap in the newly released 2020 Impact Factors. Jumping to an impact factor of 1.56, this is the largest single jump in the history of TRR. Thank you to TRR Editors, Reviewers, and Authors for your contributions to this success. The impact factor is one of a few key measures of a journal’s prestige. For example, getting published in journals with higher impact factors is an important factor in tenure...
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