TRB Transportation Research E-Newsletter - 06-14-2011

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June 14, 2011 Customize   |  Search   |   Contact Us   |   Subscribe TRB News Help Support TRB's Minority Student Fellows Program TRB is inviting additional organizations to support the TRB Minority Student Fellows Pilot Program, which is intended to promote minority participation in transportation and in TRB. Now in its third year, the program provides financial assistance for minority students from a number of historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions to attend and present a research paper at the TRB Annual Meeting. [More] | [Share]      Improving Roadway Safety Programs Through University-Agency Partnerships: A Conference TRB with the support of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration is sponsoring Improving Roadway Safety Programs Through University-Agency Partnerships: A Conference on November 2-3, 2011, in Washington, D.C. The focus of this conference will be university-transportation agency partnerships for safety and the role these partnerships can play in helping to develop the analytical and workforce expertise needed to support new roadway safety analysis, research, programs, and cultural tools The conference's planning committee is seeking poster proposals to highlight current successful partnerships, explore innovative models for collaboration, and review new safety tools and concepts. The poster submission deadline is June 21,2011. [More] | [Share]        HCM2010 Webinar Series: New Material on the Use of Alternative Tools: Micro-Simulation Models TRB is cosponsoring a webinar on June 21, 2011, from 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EDT, which is being conducted by the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), that will examine new material in the Highway Capacity Manual 2010 (HCM2010) related to the use of alternative traffic analysis tools. The HCM2010 is the first capacity manual to offer guidance on the use of alternative tools based upon the research produced by TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program.  Participants must register in advance of the webinar, space is limited, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. [More] | [Share]        HCM2010 Webinar Series: New Freeway Weaving Methodology TRB is cosponsoring a webinar on June 23, 2011, from 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EDT, which is being conducted by the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), that will examine the new methodology in the Highway Capacity Manual 2010 (HCM2010) on freeway weaving analysis based on research completed by TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, space is limited, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. [More] | [Share]        TRB/AASHTO Joint Geometric Design Meeting 2011 TRB is sponsoring the TRB/AASHTO Joint Geometric Design Meeting on July 25-28, 2011, in Irvine, California. The meeting is designed to explore and update the national geometric design research program. The meeting's draft agenda is available online. Advance registration expires June 30, 2011. [More] | [Share]        3rd International Conference on Road Safety and Simulation (RSS2011) TRB is sponsoring the 3rd International Conference on Road Safety and Simulation (RSS2011) on September 14-16, 2011, in Indianapolis, Indiana. The conference is designed to explore technical developments and new and improved simulation equipment as well as examine the application of simulation research results to road safety issues. [More] | [Share]       SHRP 2 Tool to Estimate the Economic Impact of Proposed New Highway Projects: Beta Testers Needed TRB's second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a beta version of a new tool designed to help estimate the economic impact of proposed new highway projects. Transportation  practitioners are invited to begin beta testing of the new Transportation Project Impact Case Studies (T-PICS) web-based tool. [More] | [Share]        Recent Publications Costs of Alternative Revenue-Generation Systems TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 689: Costs of Alternative Revenue-Generation Systems presents a framework for analysis of the direct costs incurred in generating the revenues that support federal-aid and state highway construction, operations, and maintenance and uses that framework to estimate unit costs for fuel taxes, tolling, vehicle-miles of travel fees, and cordon pricing schemes. [More] | [Share]        Federal Research News Transportation Services Index: April 2011 The U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics' Transportation Services Index (TSI) fell 0.7 percent in April, the latest month available, to 109.0. The TSI April 2011 level of 109.0 was 3.2 percent higher than the April 2010 level. The index, which is seasonally adjusted, combines available data on freight traffic, as well as passenger travel, that have been weighted to yield a monthly measure of transportation services output. [More]   Transportation Statistics Annual Report: 2010 The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), a part of the U.S. Research and Innovative Technology Administration, has released its annual transportation statistic report. [More]   State Research News Enabling Cost-Effective Multimodal Trip Planners through Open Transit Data The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that examines whether multimodal trip planners can be developed using open-source software and open data sources. [More]   University Research News Potential Viability of Automated Rapid Transit at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport The Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota has released a report that investigates the status of personal rapid transit (PRT) applications in airport environments. The report discusses the characteristics and attributes of PRT systems and explores the viability of a PRT system in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. [More]   Behavior Study of Merge Practices for Drivers at Work Zone Closures The Institute of Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that explores which driver behaviors result in the greatest reduction of capacity with highway work zone lane closures. [More]   International Research Road Safety at Work Zones The European Transport Safety Council's PRAISE (Preventing Road Accidents and Injuries for the Safety of Employees) program has released a thematic report that highlights ways to potentially improve the safety for both employees and road users in relation to work zone areas on and adjacent to roads. [More]   Quantifying and Forecasting Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Urban Passenger Transportation The Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) has released the proceedings of a March 25, 2010, conference in Ottawa, Ontario on quantifying and forecasting greenhouse gas emissions. [More]   The TRB Transportation Research E-Newsletter regularly covers transportation research developments in the United States and abroad. This document is not a report of the National Research Council or of the National Academies. The opinions expressed in reports highlighted in TRB's Transportation Research E-Newsletter are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Transportation Research Board or the National Academies. Unsubscribe To unsubscribe from this email list please go here or reply to this message with "unsubscribe" in the subject line. To manage your subscriptions and account preferences go here. Copyright © 2011. Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth St. N.W., Washington, DC 20001. Privacy Statement