Nuria Fernandez is the 2025 recipient of the Frank Turner Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Transportation. Ms. Fernandez, Principal Consultant/CEO, AMDC Consulting, LLC, is recognized for her significant contributions to the Nation’s public transportation landscape during her more than 35-year career. Her numerous accomplishments were forged through her ability to develop strategic partnerships, lead teams, and design value propositions which drove public policy and enhanced public transportation plann...

In recognition of his service to TRB, Dr. Chandra R. Bhat is the 2024 recipient of the W.N. Carey, Jr., Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Bhat, Joe J. King Endowed Chair Professor in Engineering, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, is recognized for his more than 30 years of service to TRB and for his significant engagement in the transportation research management field. The Carey Award—named...

Named for Roy W. Crum, who served as the Board’s director from 1928 until his death in 1951, the Crum Award recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of transportation research. Dr. Halil Ceylan, Pitt-Des Moines, Inc. Endowed Professor, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering Department, Iowa State University, is the 2024 recipient of the Roy W. Crum Award. He is recognized for his distinguished career in civil, transportation, and pavement engineering marked by exemplary leadership, nu...

Dr. Rolf R. Schmitt, Deputy Director, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation, is the 2024 recipient of the Robert E. Skinner, Jr. Distinguished Transportation Research Management Award for a 4-decade career devoted to conceiving, designing, establishing, sustaining, and managing a transportation statistical programs and a national library critical to fostering the nation's transportation research community and the advancement of transportation knowledge, practice, and pro...

Dr. Sandi Rosenbloom, Research Professor and Fellow of Hampton K. and Margaret Frye Snell Endowed Chair in Transportation, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin is the 2025 recipient of the Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lectureship. Dr. Rosenbloom, who is also Director of the University of Texas Austin’s Lab for Safe and Healthy Aging, is recognized for her pioneering research that has advanced our understanding of urban mobility and transportation equity. The Deen Lectureship recognizes ...

HGS is sponsoring the 72nd Highway Geology Symposium on August 13-15, 2023 in Tacoma, WA. TRB will cosponsor a workshop titled “ Geotechnical Data Sourcing and the Quality and Use of Models for Geotechnical Design ” on August 14, 2023. This session at HGS will highlight how though the application and use of new innovative sources of geotechnical data, engineers can increase reliability and certainty of various geotechnical design models. The use of these new, more readily-available data sources coupled w...

Sponsored by The University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of Engineering, ARRB, COTA, UNSW Sydney, and the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation, the Bridging Transportation Researchers (BTR) Conference will be held on August 9-10, 2023 online. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. The event is open to the public and there is no registration fee. This free conference will be hosted on multiple Zoom-based tracks to virtually and globally unite transportation engineers, planners, and p...

Organized by the Road Ecology Center (UC Davis), the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation will be held on June 4-8, 2023 in Burlington, VT and online. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. ICOET is the foremost interdisciplinary, inter-agency supported conference addressing the broad range of ecological issues related to transportation systems in all modes. It provides a venue for sharing information and for training across multiple disciplines related to transportation and ecology ,...

Arcadis and Association Infra Design are hosting the 6th International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design (ISHGD) on June 26-29, 2022 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. The symposium consists of informative podium sessions on geometric design issues from throughout the world. Registration is open .

China Highway & Transportation Society is hosting a series of Climate Change Challenges International Transportation Webinars . TRB is pleased to cosponsor these events. Register for Webinar 2: Resilience of Urban Transportation Systems – Strength in Diversification. The urban transportation network is an integrated network in which multiple transportation modes are intertwined. Presenters will decouple the resilience relationship between the multi-layer cyber-physical networks of urban transportatio...