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| | | |  2011 TRB 90th Annual Meeting: Exhibits and Additional Marketing Opportunities
TRB is offering four opportunities-commercial exhibits, exhibitor presentations, final program advertising, and the Annual Meeting Patron program-for businesses and other organizations to showcase their products and services, and to show their support for transportation research and innovation at the TRB 90th Annual Meeting, January 23-27, 2011, in Washington, D.C. [More] 
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| | | | | | | | International Conference on Commercial Driver Health and Wellness
TRB is sponsoring the International Conference on Commercial Driver Health and Wellness on November 8-10, 2010, in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference will feature papers, presentations, posters, and discussion panels concerning impacts of health factors on commercial driver job safety and performance. The conference is designed to examine what is known about the benefits and costs of driver health and wellness programs and to explore relevant case studies. Registration, agenda, and hotel reservation information is available online. [More]
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| 2011 Joint Rail Conference: Shared Corridors, Shared Interests*
TRB is cosponsoring the 2011 Joint Rail Conference: Shared Corridors, Shared Interests on March 16-18, 2011, in Pueblo, Colorado. With funding provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for high-speed and intercity passenger rail as the backdrop, the conference will focus on critical details related to improving existing services on the United States vast and largely private railroad network. The conference will explore railroad infrastructure, rail equipment, signal and train control engineering, service quality and operations research, planning and development, and safety and security. Individuals or groups wishing to present at the conference must submit an abstract by October 1, 2010. [More]
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| Combined 13th Annual Harbor Safety Committees and Area Maritime Security Committees Conference*
TRB is cosponsoring the Combined 13th Annual Harbor Safety Committee (HSCs) and Area Maritime Security Committees Conference (AMSCs) in May or June 2011, in Houston, Texas. The combined event provides an opportunity for the committees to engage in information exchange on current challenges, best practices, case studies, and lessons learned. The conference offers the opportunity for the committees to engage both public- and private-sector leaders on issues relating to marine transportation and harbor safety and security. [More]
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| | | | | | | | | The Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail At-Grade Crossing Crashes
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop a categorization scheme for comprehensively describing costs associated with highway-rail at-grade crossing collisions. The project will also estimate the cost magnitudes in recent experience and create an analytical framework for developing a model or set of models for forecasting these costs. Proposals are due October 11, 2010. [More]
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| | | | |  Construction 2010, Volume 1
TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2151 includes 12 papers that explore correlating bid price with the number of bidders, quantifying savings for rapid bridge construction technique, sliding-scale contingency for project development process, effects of project cost reduction methods, roadway construction sustainability impacts, performance-based contractor prequalification, coordination of design contract with preconstruction service contract, and optimization of equity capital structure in public-private partnership contracts. [More]
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| | | | |  Traffic Control Devices, Visibility, and Highway-Rail Grade Crossings 2010
TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2149 contains 13 papers that explore school traffic control devices, speed control at rural intersections, innovation in temporary pedestrian signing, chevrons with full retroreflective signposts on rural horizontal curves, protected-permissive left-turn signal control, reducing speed with converging chevron pavement markings on freeway ramps, rumble strips, and pedestrian countdown signals influence on vehicle speed. [More]
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| | | | | | | Information Sharing Guidebook for Transportation Management Centers, Emergency Operations Centers, and Fusion Centers
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a guidebook that includes an overview of the mission and functions of Transportation Management Centers, Emergency Operations Centers, and Fusion Centers. The guidebook focuses on the types of information these centers produce and manage and how the sharing of such information among the centers can be beneficial to both the day-to-day and emergency operations of all the centers [More]
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| | | | | | |  Assuring Bridge Safety and Serviceability in Europe
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration's Office of International Programs has released a report on a scanning study of Europe that focused on identifying best practices and processes designed to help assure bridge safety and serviceability. The scan team gathered information on safety and serviceability practices and technologies related to design, construction, and operation of bridges. [More]
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|  Innovator: June/July 2010
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released the latest issue of its Innovator newsletter, which is designed to help advance widespread implementation of innovations and technologies in the highway community and help chronicle a nationwide movement to improve the way highways are built. [More]
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| The Effectiveness of ABS in Heavy Truck Tractors and Trailers
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's National Center for Statistics and Analysis has released a report that explores crash data from seven states and estimates that antilock breaking systems (ABS) on the truck tractor unit reduces police-reported crashes involving air-braked tractor-trailers by about 3 percent. [More]
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| An Analysis of the Significant Decline in Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities in 2008
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a report that explores the current decline in highway fatalities and potential long-term changes that may be occurring. [More]
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| | | | | | | | | | | Automated Visual Inspection/Detection of Railroad Track
The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that explores the technical details behind the implementation of a visual inspection system for railroad tracks in Florida. The report also examines various algorithms used by the system to find defects in tracks including structural and geometric defects. [More]
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PIARC XXIV World Road Congress: Call for Abstracts
The World Road Association (PIARC) XXIV World Congress will be held on September 26-30, 2011, in Mexico City, Mexico. The meeting is designed to provide professionals in every facet of the development, management, and operation of roads and road transport an opportunity to share knowledge and discuss current issues and future challenges faced by the road sector. Individuals or groups wishing to present at the meeting must submit a paper by August 31, 2010. [More]
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