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| | | | | | | | | | | TRB Webinar: Toward Zero Deaths
TRB is conducting a webinar or "web seminar" on August 25-26, 2010, of a stakeholder workshop that will gather input for developing and implementing a national strategic highway safety plan. Registration is free; however, participants must register in advance of the workshop. In preparation for the workshop, various experts on highway safety prepared white papers. For questions, please contact Kelly Hardy at khardy@aashto.org or 202-624-5868. [More] 
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| | | TRB Webinar: Mitigating the Impacts of Weather on Surface Transportation: New Techniques and a Case Study
TRB will conduct a web briefing or "webinar" on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 from 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT that will explore winter weather and the impact on drivers and transportation operations. Participants must register at least 24 hours prior to the start of the webinar, space is limited, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. [More]
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| TRB Webinar: Institutional Architectures to Advance Systems Operations and Management
TRB will conduct a web briefing or "webinar" on Wednesday, October 13, 2010 from 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT that will explore a project developed by TRB's second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2). The findings of this project will enable organizations to perform self assessments to determine the maturity of business processes, in order to better streamline highway system operations. Participants must register at least 24 hours prior to the start of the webinar, space is limited, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. [More]
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| | Transportation Systems for Livable Communities Conference
TRB is sponsoring the Transportation Systems for Livable Communities Conference on October 18-19, 2010, in Washington, D.C. The conference is being supported by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration. The livability concept embraces cognate notions such as sustainability, quality of life, the character of place, the health of communities, and more. The conference is designed to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in this topic and will provide a timely opportunity to share research results, explore practical challenges, and identify potentially promising directions for future research. Space for this confernece is limited. Early bird registration ends August 26, 2010. [More]
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| | | 3rd International Conference on Roundabouts
TRB is sponsoring the 3rd International Conference on Roundabouts on May 18-20, 2011, in Carmel, Indiana. The conference will focus on research, design, operation, safety, evaluation, and practical experience related to the roundabout form of intersections. For additional information contact Richard Pain. [More]
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| | | Using Census Data for Transportation Applications Conference
TRB is sponsoring the Using Census Data for Transportation Applications Conference in the fall of 2011, in Irvine, California. The workshop will focus on the use of census data for transportation applications by exploring the results of current research, providing an opportunity for the sharing of experiences of practitioners who are using census data, and by examining potential strategies for practical improvements in data use for current and emerging data needs. For additional information contact Thomas M. Palmerlee. [More]
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| | | | | | | | | Analytical Travel Forecasting Approaches for Project-Level Planning and Design
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop a guidebook describing methods, data sources, and procedures for producing travel forecasts for highway project-level analysis. Proposals are due September 30, 2010. [More]
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| | | | |  Highway Safety Data, Analysis, and Evaluation 2010, Volume 2
TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2148 contains 14 papers that explore the full Bayes approach to before-and-after safety evaluation with matched comparisons, the impact of rumble strips on collision reduction, logistic models in crash severity classification, county-level crash risk analysis, safety performance dispersion parameters for two-lane rural roads, ordinal discrete choice analyses of cross-median crash severities, and model-based applications of Abbreviated Injury Scale to police-reported crash injuries. [More]
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| | |  Transit, Volume 3
TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2145 contains 13 papers that explore a direct ridership model of bus rapid transit; bus network planning for transfers; citywide bus network restructuring; developing a bus rapid transit strategic plan; select bus service on Bx12 in New York, New York; a coordinated and conditional bus priority approach; and a method for determining bus route passenger origin-destination flows. [More]
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| | |  Bus and Rail Transit Preferential Treatments in Mixed Traffic
TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 83: Bus and Rail Transit Preferential Treatments in Mixed Traffic explores the application of different transit preferential treatments in mixed traffic. The report also examines the decision-making process that may be applied in deciding which preferential treatment might be the most applicable in a particular location. [More]
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| | | | |  Statewide Opportunities for Integrating Operations, Safety, and Multimodal Planning: A Reference Manual
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration's Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty has released a reference manual that is designed to provide "how to" information on integrating operations, safety, and multimodal transportation planning activities. [More]
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| | | | | | | Review of US-VISIT Pilot Evaluations
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a report that explores an evaluation report of a Department of Homeland Security pilot test of air exit scenarios under its U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program. US-VISIT is designed to control and monitor the entry and exit of foreign visitors by storing and processing biometric and biographic information. According to the GAO, the entry capability has operated since 2006; an exit capability is not yet implemented. [More]
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|  Transportation Energy Data Book: Edition 29
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has released the latest issue of its annual statistical compendium designed to characterize transportation activity and explore data on other factors that influence transportation energy use. Information on ordering printed copies of the report is available online. [More]
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Heavy Vehicle Pricing Options: Development and Assessment Framework
The Australian National Transport Commission has released a report that explores alternative forms of pricing for road infrastructure access for heavy vehicles. The report focuses on estimating road costs, outlining options for heavy vehicle pricing, describing the methodology for how prices might be developed, and detailing the economic assessment framework that will be used to compare the options. [More]
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| Intelligent Transport Systems - Thematic Research Summary (2010)
The Transport Research Knowledge Centre has released a report that explores the results of completed European research projects and policy developments regarding intelligent transportation systems. [More]
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