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TRB Weekly
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Register Early to Save
Don’t miss out on over 4,000 presentations, over 650 workshops and sessions, and 3 days of exhibits. Register now to take advantage of the early bird registration discounts. Rates go up after November 20. And don’t forget to make your hotel reservation when you register. Hotels are already starting to sell out.
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Join a Workshop
More than 80 workshops will be featured on the first and last days of the meeting. Find workshop information now! The full program, including complete details on sessions and workshops, will be on the Annual Meeting program page in November.
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Airport Challenges Will Demand Strong Vision for the Future
Over the next several decades, airports must confront diverse challenges that span factors such as operations, environmental sustainability, and integration with broader intercity and local transportation networks. Airports must also confront these challenges within the context of their local communities. They are expected to be economic engines, good neighbors, and resilient in response to natural or man-made disasters.
Envisioning the Future of U.S. Airports (ACRP Research Report 271), from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, was released this week. It is based on a visioning exercise conducted with a wide variety of airport stakeholders and identifies potential future outcomes and the issues and challenges that will need to be addressed to achieve the desired future.
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Transportation Networks and Supply Chains Increasingly Need to Plan for Resilience
Transportation agencies have been presented with increased disruptions to supply chains and other transportation networks caused by naturally occurring and other unanticipated events, such as extreme weather events and the COVID-19 pandemic. These disruptions can substantially affect the resilience of the supply chain against unanticipated disruptions and ultimately affect the economic vitality of the industries and communities involved.
Incorporating Resilience into Transportation Networks (NCHRP Research Report 1118), from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, was released this week and provides a guide for state departments of transportation and other transportation agencies seeking to define and strategically integrate resilience into transportation networks and network planning.
Also just released and related are NCHRP Web-Only Documents 391: Resilience in Transportation Networks, Volume 1: Resilience Case Studies and Resilience in Transportation Networks, Volume 2: Network Resilience Toolkit and Techniques.
For more, read TRB's blogs Building Transportation Supply Chain Resilience After a Pandemic and Resilience Research Becoming a Bigger Part of Transportation Planning.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory integrates multi-disciplinary expertise to rapidly advance materials and manufacturing technologies to support U.S. economics and security. Opening plenary speaker Craig Blue directs ORNL's Defense Manufacturing Program Director and will present "Building a Future-Ready Manufacturing Innovation Ecosystem." Register today to hear Blue at TRB's Conference on Advancing Additive Manufacturing and Construction in Transportation in Irvine, CA.
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Submit NCHRP AASHTO Problem Statements
The AASHTO Special Committee on Research and Innovation is soliciting candidate research problems for the fiscal year 2026 National Cooperative Highway Research Program. Submit your problem statement by November 1. NCHRP problem statements may only be submitted by employees of state departments of transportation, FHWA staff, or AASHTO staff on behalf of an AASHTO Committee or Council.
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"For too long there has been a focus on physical infrastructure itself when it comes to sustainability. Now we understand the interdependence of infrastructure, government agencies and policies, a nation’s health, access to education, and much more," reports ITS International in covering TRB Executive Director Victoria Sheehan's keynote presentation last week at the IRF World Congress in Istanbul, Turkey. World Highways also covered her talk.
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) will mean the end of public transportation … or will they? A recent study in TRB's Transportation Research Record journal finds that fears of a mass transition away from transit to AVs may be limited by the level of people’s willingness to use AVs, at least in the short term. Sage Perspectives featured the research.
Recent TRB consensus reports have been in the news a lot lately. The Thinking Transportation Podcast dives into a study about long trains. Transport Topics writes about the need for tighter intermodal chassis regulations. A study on long-distance truck- and bus-driver compensation is covered in a Land Line podcast, a separate Land Line article, another angle on whether there are driver shortages from Land Line, and Motor Biscuit.
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