TCRP Annual Report of Progress 2021

The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has released its annual report, which provides an overview of the program, status of each of TCRP’s projects, and a summary of some of the program's accomplishments for the year.

In FY 2021, TCRP produced 21 publications, including 12 research reports, 5 syntheses, 2 legal research digests, 1 research results digest, and a web-only document, bringing the total to more than 741 publications since the inception of the program. In the period from August 1992 (when the first TCRP grant was received) through December 2021, approximately 852 study activities have been authorized.

TCRP focuses on issues significant to the public transportation industry, with emphasis on developing near-term research solutions to a variety of transit problems involving facilities, vehicles, equipment, service concepts, operations, policy, planning, human resources, maintenance, and administrative practices.