Highway construction e-ticketing allows for a paperless process that provides all stakeholders with an electronic means to verify materials deliveries while enhancing safety, streamlining inspections, and improving contract administration procedures. This topic is explored in the the July-August 2022 edition (Issue 340) of  TR News , TRB's magazine. TR News  is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research practice in all modes of transportation....

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program held an ACRP Insight Event in March 2022 in Washington, DC, to discuss the future of aviation across multiple perspectives. Major topics included passengers and customers, workforce, new entrants, technology, and sustainability. The TRB ACRP's Conference Proceedings on the Web 29: The Future of Aviation is a compilation of the presentations and a factual summary of the ensuing discussions at the event.

Work-related traffic crashes remain particularly challenging to address. However, recent research and practice have shown that instilling an awareness of safety and fostering a corporate safety culture supportive of safety may prevent traffic crashes, reduce their frequency, and reduce their severity. The TRB Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program’s BTSCRP Web-Only Document 3: Developing Employer-Based Behavioral Traffic Safety Programs for Drivers in the Workplace  reports on a stud...

The TRB Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program’s BTSCRP WebResource 1: Employer-Based Driver Safety Programs is based on an assessment of what elements in employer-based traffic safety programs and other behavior change programs are likely to change driver behavior and workplace safety culture. The WebResource includes an introduction to behavioral change theory, overviews of academic studies and measures of program effectiveness, and a logic model template to aid employers in planning, i...

Manufacturers and hardware suppliers use significant time and resources to provide guardrail materials according to one state agency’s design and material standards, only to start the process all over again to satisfy another state’s specifications. Such inconsistency often leads to increased fabrication costs for hardware suppliers that are ultimately passed along to transportation agencies. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 1020: Investigation of Material Req...

Dynamic lane-use control has been in use for over 50 years on arterial streets, freeways, toll plazas, bridges, and tunnels. One could say lane-use control signals were the first form of active traffic management. And yet, they are one of the least-researched traffic control devices in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices . The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 1021: Application of Dynamic Lane-Use Control: Proposed Practices presents a comprehensive, huma...

State transportation agencies (STAs) may need to focus their strategic planning and programmatic initiatives over the next two decades to mitigate threats to, and take advantage of, opportunities for system performance and agency effectiveness. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 346: Programmatic Issues of Future System Performance details a unified framework for characterizing the interests of STAs related to the issues and recommendations in two major TRB re...

Airports across the United States are owned and operated by a wide variety of governance structures, each with their own features and historical legacies. As the common refrain from airport professionals goes, if you’ve seen one airport, you’ve seen one airport. Similarly, if you’ve seen one airport’s governance structure, you’ve seen one airport’s governance structure. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Research Report 245: Guide to Evaluating Airport Governance Structures provides valu...

Many state transportation organizations are searching for new technologies to provide quick and accurate collection, verification, and analysis of data to fill the void caused by reductions in staff and increases in work load. Digital twins analyze how assets work together to provide insights on how to intervene to improve outcomes. This topic is explored in the the July-August 2022 edition (Issue 340) of  TR News , TRB's magazine. TR News  is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles ...

The U.S. energy generation portfolio remains considerably dependent on fossil fuels. A key piece of the solution to both increasing power needs and further decarbonization may come, in part, from growth in transportation electrification. This topic is explored in the the September-October 2022 edition (Issue 341) of  TR News , TRB's magazine. TR News  is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research practice in all modes of transportation. It als...