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7th Annual Competition and Call for Communications Concepts with John and Jane Q. Public: Transportation Modeling and Simulation |
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The TRB Technical Activities Division’s Planning and Environment Group is holding its seventh annual competition to find top methods for communicating transportation concepts to non-professional audiences. Entries, which should focus on best practices in communicating transportation modeling and simulation to the public, are due by... |
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TRB Webinar: Subsurface Drainage for Slope Stabilization, Part 2 of 2 |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on June 25, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. ET that will present the results of a recently completed pooled fund research project on subsurface drainage for slope stabilization. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. A certificate for 2 Professional... |
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TRB Webinar: DOT and Railroad Collaborations: Best Practices for Expediting Agreements and Successfully Delivering Projects (R16) |
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As part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays Webinar Series, TRB will conduct a webinar on July 9, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will explore how streamlining the coordination of public agency and railroad procedures may avoid delays, find solutions to conflict, and improve outcomes for both parties. There is no fee to attend this webinar and other... |
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TRB Webinar: Airport Planning with Uncertainty in Traffic and Fuel Price Forecasting |
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TRB will conduct a webinar on July 10, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will feature research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) on providing airport operators and planners with tools and methodologies designed for incorporating uncertainty into air traffic and fuel price forecasting methods. Participants must... |
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Innovations in Freight Modeling and Data: Integrating Supply-Chain Models and Data into Public-Sector Freight Demand Modeling |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) is holding a symposium on October 21-22, 2013, in Herndon, Virginia (near Dulles Airport) that will provide a forum to explore how transportation planners , in focusing on freight flows, can benefit from using private-sector techniques to amplify existing freight-demand forecasting models,... |
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RFI: NCHRP FY 2014 Projects: Oversight Panel Nominee Solicitation |
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) is soliciting nominees to serve on oversight panels for new projects being established under the NCHRP's FY 2014 program. Nominees should have expertise directly relevant to the proposed project topic. To help identify nominees who are members of historically underrepresented groups, TRB... |
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RFP: Freight Research to Support MAP-21 Implementation |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) has issued a request for proposals to create a web-based tool that identifies how the findings and conclusions of NCFRP products can be used as input to the successful implementation of the freight provisions of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) Act. The project... |
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Procuring and Managing Professional Services for Airports |
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TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 87: Procuring and Managing Professional Services for Airports provides guidance for procuring and managing professional services at airports for use by airport owners and operators. For the purposes of this report, professional services include planning, environmental, architectural and... |
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Repairing and Maintaining Airport Parking Structures While in Use |
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TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 47: Repairing and Maintaining Airport Parking Structures While in Use provides information on developing and implementing successful maintenance and repair strategies for in-use airport parking structures that involve the least impact on the airport patrons, revenue stream, and facility... |
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Nondestructive Testing to Identify Delaminations Between HMA Layers, Volume 1 |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R06D-RR-1: Testing to Identify Delaminations Between HMA Layers, Volume 1 describes development of nondestructive testing (NDT) techniques capable of detecting and quantifying delaminations in HMA pavements. The NDT techniques should be applicable to construction, project design,... |
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Nondestructive Testing to Identify Delaminations Between HMA Layers: Volume 2 |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R06D-RW-2: Testing to Identify Delaminations Between HMA Layers, Volume 2 describes the theoretical models used in the development of nondestructive testing (NDT) techniques capable of detecting and quantifying delaminations in HMA pavements. SHRP 2 Report S2-R06D-RW-2 was... |
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Performance Specifications for Rapid Highway Renewal |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Renewal Project R07 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled Performance Specifications for Rapid Highway Renewal that describes suggested performance specifications for different application areas and delivery methods that users may tailor to address rapid... |
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Implementation Guidelines: Volume I: Strategies for Implementing Performance Specifications: A Guide for Executives and Project Managers |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Renewal Project R07 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled Implementation Guidelines: Volume I: Strategies for Implementing Performance Specifications: A Guide for Executives and Project Managers that is designed to provide a broad overview of the benefits and... |
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Implementation Guidelines: Volume II: Developing and Drafting Effective Performance Specifications: A Guide for Specification Writers |
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TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Renewal Project R07 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled Implementation Guidelines: Volume II: Developing and Drafting Effective Performance Specifications: A Guide for Specification Writers that presents a flexible framework that specifiers may use to assess... |
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Guidelines for the Use of Mobile LIDAR in Transportation Applications |
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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 748: Guidelines for the Use of Mobile LIDAR in Transportation Applications presents guidelines for the application of mobile 3D light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technology to the operations of state departments of transportation. Mobile LIDAR uses laser scanning equipment... |
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Glossary of Transportation Construction Quality Assurance Terms: Sixth Edition |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Circular E-C173: Glossary of Transportation Construction Quality Assurance Terms: Sixth Edition is a reference document for usage of transportation construction quality assurance (QA) terminology. The publication is designed to help foster improved communications among those who are involved in transportation... |
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Creating Productive Roadways |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a fact sheet that summarizes possibilities for renewable electric power production as a means to reduce energy consumption for highway maintenance and critical systems. |
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Curl and Warp Analysis of the Long-Term Pavement Performance Specific Pavement Studies-2 Site in Arizona |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that explores analyses for quantifying the effect of curl and warp on the roughness of jointed Portland Cement Concrete pavements by using profile data. |
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Pavement Remaining Service Interval |
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The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a tech brief that introduces the remaining service interval concept and implementation process for use in pavement management decisions. |
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Review of Federal-Aid Highways: States’ Use of Life-Cycle Cost Analysis in Pavement Selection |
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The U.S. Government Accountability has released a report that describes state transportation agencies' use of life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) for pavement selection and assesses the U.S. Federal Highway Administration's LCCA guidance. |
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Analysis of Movable Bus Stop Boarding and Alighting Areas |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that explores the feasibility of using movable and reusable boarding and alighting pads at bus stops. |
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Stormwater Reuse Using Retention and In-Line Pipes for Treatment Consistent with the New Statewide Stormwater Rule |
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The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that discusses detention ponds collection runoff from highways as possible candidates of using media mixes and methods to filter water for reuse. |
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Adaptive Collective Routing Using Gaussian Process Dynamic Congestion Models |
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The Technologies for Safe and Efficient Transportation Center at Carnegie Mellon University has released a report that explains a model for characterizing congestion conditions that facilitates real-time adaptive routing. |
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Experimental Investigation of the Seismic Response of Bridge Bearings |
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The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois has released a report that validates and calibrates the Illinois’s Department of Transportation implementation of design practice for its earthquake resisting system. |
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Fatigue Testing of Wood-Concrete Composite Beams |
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The Mountain-Plains Consortium, part of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University, Fargo, has released a report that describes attempts to establish the S-N curve for fatigue loading of notched wood-concrete connections, all based on repeated loading tests. |
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Improvement for Determining the Axial Capacity of Drilled Shafts in Shale in Illinois |
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The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois has released a report that describes development of Illinois-specific design procedures for drilled shafts founded in weak shale.as a way to reduce costs for bridges as a way to reduce costs for bridges. |
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Marketing Implications of the Changing Age Composition of Vehicle Buyers |
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The Transportation Research Institute at the University of Michigan has released a study that estimates relative and absolute probabilities between drivers’ age and their propensity to purchase a new light-duty vehicle. |
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Swelling of Highly Plastic Clays Under Centrifuge Loading |
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The Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas at Austin has released a report that details the use of centrifuge technology in characterizing expansive clays in the Austin district. |
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An Analysis of the Swedish Heavy Goods Vehicles Fleet with Driving Resistance in Focus: Vehicle Parameters as a Basis for the Handbook on Emission Factors for Road Traffic Emission Factor Estimation |
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VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that discusses how to estimate representative road emissions factors by using representative driving resistance factors which include rolling resistance, gradient forces, and acceleration forces. |
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Australia’s National Road Safety Partnership Program |
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The Australian National Transportation Commission has released a report that describes its National Road Safety Partnership Program, which is a collaborative network for businesses, governments and researchers to share information and good practice regarding road safety. |
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Key Transportation Statistics: 2012 Data |
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The International Transport Forum has released a summary report that details transportation statistics of its member countries in the areas of rail, road, inland waterways, and the economy. |
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Rural Young Drivers |
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The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety has released a report that considers differences in rates of auto collisions among rural young drivers, urban young drivers, rural adult drivers, and urban adult drivers. |
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Stability of Motorcycles on Audio Tactile Profiled (ATP) Roadmarkings |
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The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that discusses research gaps in the raised-profile type of audio tactile profiled road markings on the stability of motorcycles when travelling on the road markings. |
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Update of Double/Double Design for Austroads Sprayed Seal Design Methods |
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Austroads has released a report that updates design procedure for double/double sprayed seal surfacing. |
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An Updated Analysis of Transport Effects of the International Marine Organization’s Emission Requirements |
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VTI, the Swedish National Road and Research Institute, has released a report that analyzes the impact of the International Maritime Organization’s sulfur regulations, which will be applicable in 2015 in the sulfur emission control area . The report is written in Swedish and contains a summary in English. |
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Cognitive Distraction: Something to Think About from Recent Studies |
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The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has released a report that introduces its study ofexplores drivers performing secondary tasks such as listening to the radio, conversing with a passenger, conversing on a cell phone, and interacting with an advanced speech-to-text system. |
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Measuring Cognitive Distraction in the Automobile |
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The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has released a report that establishes describes a systematic framework for measuring and understanding cognitive distraction in a vehicle. |
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Summary Statistics of Americans’ Support for Public Transportation |
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The American Public Transportation Association has released a summary of its survey that assesses Americans’ attitudes and opinions toward public transportation in their communities and around the country. |
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