TRB's Conference Proceedings 55: Airport Roles in Reducing Transmission of Communicable Diseases summarizes a 2-day Insight Event convened by the Airport Cooperative Research Program and its Insight contractor, Eastern Research Group, Inc., March 6 and 7, 2018, in Washington, D.C. The event addressed four subtopics: risk management, stakeholders, communications, and infrastructure. Discussions centered on the roles of airports in reducing transmission of communicable diseases. Speakers represented the fe...

TRB's Conference Proceedings 56: Socioeconomic Impacts of Automated and Connected Vehicles summarizes a symposium held in June 26–27, 2018, in Brussels, Belgium. Hosted by the European Commission and TRB, it was the sixth annual symposium sponsored by the European Commission and the United States. The goals of these symposia are to promote common understanding, efficiencies, and trans-Atlantic cooperation within the international transportation research community while accelerating transportation sector ...

TRB's Conference Proceeding 54: Decarbonizing Transport for a Sustainable Future: Mitigating Impacts of the Changing Climate documents a symposium held May 17–18, 2017, at the National Academies of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C. Hosted by the European Commission and the Transportation Research Board (TRB), part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, it was the fifth annual symposium sponsored by the European Commission and the United States. The goals of these symposia a...

Transportation Resilience: Adaptation to Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events summarizes a symposium held June 16–17, 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. The fourth annual symposium promotes common understanding, efficiencies, and trans-Atlantic cooperation within the international transportation research community while accelerating transport-sector innovation in the European Union (EU) and the United States. The two-day, invitation-only symposium brought together high-level experts to share their views on ...

TRB Conference Proceedings 52: Towards Road Transport Automation: Opportunities in Public-Private Collaboration summarizes the Towards Road Transport Automation Symposium held April 14-15, 2015, in Washington, D.C. The third of four symposiums in a series, this event aimed to share common practices within the international transportation research community to accelerate transport-sector innovation in the European Union and the United States. This symposium convened experts to share their views ...

TRB Conference Proceedings 51: Transportation Research Implementation: Application of Research Outcomes summarizes the Second EU-U.S. Transportation Research Symposium held April 10–11, 2014, in Paris, France. The Symposium shared common practices for implementing surface transportation research at the local, state, national, and international levels.

TRB Conference Proceedings 50: City Logistics Research: A Transatlantic Perspective is a compilation of the presentations and a summary of the ensuing discussions at a May 2013 international symposium held in Washington, D.C. The May 2013 symposium was the first in a series of four symposia that will be held from 2013 to 2016. The series is supported and conducted by an international consortium consisting of the European Commission, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technolo...

TRB Conference Proceedings 49: Performance Measurement of Transportation Systems: Summary of the Fourth International Conference is the proceedings of a May 2011 conference. These proceedings follow the conference format, with the plenary sessions and the breakout sessions for each of the five tracks--driving forces for change; performance-based decision making--the bucks start here; data collection and analysis technologies; drivers and applications; and capturing system performance: new measures for di...

TRB’s Conference Proceedings 48: Financing Surface Transportation in the United States: Forging a Sustainable Future—Now summarizes a May, 2010 conference that focused on developments in innovative funding techniques and options for securing continued revenue to support national infrastructure and mobility needs. Views presented in Conference Proceedings 48 reflect the opinions of the individual participants and are not necessarily the views of all conference participants, the planning committee, TRB, or...

Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 2: Technical Papers includes 27 full peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the October 2009 conference. The conference highlighted the latest research on changing demographics that affect transportation planning, programming, and policy making, as well as the latest research on crash and injury prevention for different segments of the female population. Special attention was given to pregnant and elderly transport...