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| | | | | |  2011 TRB 90th Annual Meeting: International Participants' Reception and Sessions
International participants at the TRB 90th Annual Meeting, January 23-27, 2011, in Washington, D.C., are cordially invited to attend TRB's International Participants' Reception on Sunday, January 23, 2011, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Washington Hilton Hotel. The reception will allow attendees to meet delegates from the more than 70 countries and will feature the signing of an agreement between TRB and the Joint Transport Research Centre that will create TRID, the TRIS and ITRD Database of transportation research. TRB's 90th Annual Meeting will include some 140 sessions and meetings that will focus on the benefits of international research collaboration, technology transfer, global safety, and international trade or include an international component. Additional information on the international activities is available on the Annual Meeting's Interactive Program. [More] | [Share]    
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| 2011 TRB 90th Annual Meeting: SHRP 2 Updates
TRB's second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) will provide updates on the status of SHRP 2 activities in its four focus areas-Safety, Renewal, Reliability, and Capacity-at some 25 workshops, sessions, and committee meetings during the TRB 90th Annual Meeting, January 23-27, 2011, in Washington, D.C. [More] | [Share]
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| | | | | | | | | | | | |  Transportation Research Board 2010 Annual Report
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| | | | |  Bridge Engineering 2010, Volume 2
TRB Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2201 consists of 18 papers that explore bridge scour, nondestructive evaluation of bridges, bridge culverts and soil stabilization and analysis, bridge engineering case studies, and bridge structural health monitoring. [More] | [Share]
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|  Bridge Engineering 2010, Volume 3
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|  Microsurfacing
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 411: Microsurfacing explores highway microsurfacing project selection, design, contracting, equipment, construction, and performance measurement processes used by transportation agencies in the United States and Canada. [More] | [Share]
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|  Maintenance Services and Surface Weather
TRB Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2169 contains 19 papers that explore variable speed limit systems in work zones, the safety of mobile lane closures, temporary rumble strips for short-term work zones, the joint merge in construction zones, real-time measurement of travel time delay in work zones, short-term speed limit devices in work zones, simulation models for assessing the impacts of highway work zone strategies, and estimating operational impacts of freeway work zones on extended facilities. [More] | [Share]
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|  Operational Effects of Geometrics and Access Management 2010
TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2171 contains eight papers that explore acceleration and deceleration zones at traffic control intersections, using Global Positioning System data to model operating speed and deceleration on two-lane rural roads, interchange treatments to preserve service life of narrow overpass and underpass roadways, parallel flow intersection and displaced left-turn intersection designs, offset improvements for left-turn lanes, public transit provisions in a state highway access management code, safety impacts of access management features in the Las Vegas, Nevada, Valley, and access management at major arterial intersections. [More] | [Share]
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| | | | | | | | | | | Advancing Congestion Pricing in the Metropolitan Transportation Planning Process: Four Case Studies
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration's Office of Operations has released a report that examines how road pricing was incorporated into the long-range planning process at four metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs). [More]
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| | | | FAA Needs To Implement More Efficient Performance-Based Navigation Procedures and Clarify the Role of Third Parties
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General has released a report that evaluates the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's oversight of required navigation performance third-party agreements. The agreements are related to the development of the Next Generation Air Transportation System. [More]
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| | | Traffic Volume Trends: October 2010
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released the latest issue of Traffic Volume Trends, which is a monthly report based on hourly traffic count data reported by the states. According to the report, travel on all roads and streets increased by 1.9 percent (.49 billion vehicle miles) in October 2010 as compared with October 2009. Travel for the month is estimated to be 259.5 billion vehicle miles. Cumulative travel for 2010 is up by 0.6 percent (16 billion vehicle miles). The cumulative estimate for the year is 2,514.1 billion vehicle miles of travel. [More]
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| | Value Pricing Pilot Program Quarterly Report: July-September 2010
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration's Office of Operations has released its quarterly report on the Value Pricing Pilot Program, which was authorized by the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users. Value pricing encompasses a variety of strategies to manage congestion on highways, including tolling of highway facilities, as well as other strategies that do not involve tolls, such as mileage-based charges for insurance, taxes, leasing fees, and car sharing. [More]
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| | | Review of Statewide Transportation Planning: Surveys of State Departments of Transportation and Regional Planning and Development Organizations
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a supplementary product that contains the surveys used to evaluate the transportation planning practices initiated by states and rural planning organizations. [More]
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| FHWA R&T Now - November 2010
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released the latest issue of its Research and Technology (R&T) Now news update. The update reports on research, technology, and development activities taking place within the U.S. Department of Transportation. [More]
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| ITS Technology Adoption and Observed Market Trends from ITS Deployment Tracking
The U.S. Research and Innovative Technology Administration has released a report that examines the market dynamics and benefits associated with the deployment and diffusion of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies across the United States. [More]
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| | | | | | Promoting Centerline Rumble Strips to Increase Rural, Two-Lane Highway Safety
The Kansas Department of Transportation has released a report that explores potential adverse consequences related to the use of centerline rumble strips on rural two-lane roads. Some of the consequences examined include increased noise, decreased visibility of lane markings, pavement deterioration, erratic driver reactions, and the formation of ice in the grooves. [More]
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| | | | Pavement Markings and Safety
Iowa State University's Institute of Transportation has released a report that explores the potential correlation between pavement marking retroreflectivity and crashes. [More]
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| | | | | Young People's Attitudes Towards Acquiring a Driving Licence 2002-2009
The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) has released a report that explores factors that influenced young people's desire to acquire a driving license during the period 2002-2009. The report is written in Swedish with an English summary. [More]
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