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| 2011 TRB Joint Summer Meeting
Join more than 300 transportation professionals expected to participate in the TRB Joint Summer Meeting, July 10-13, 2011, in Boston, Massachusetts. Transportation professionals specializing in planning, finance, policy, economics, freight, data systems, and ports and waterways will share information in open committee meetings, joint collaborative discussions, and general sessions. Early Bird registration expires May 1, 2011.
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| 2011 International Visualization in Transportation Symposium
TRB is sponsoring 2011 International Visualization in Transportation Symposium on August 20-23, 2011, in Chicago, Illinois. The symposium is designed to highlight improving technologies and methods, feature case studies or successful practices, and illuminate the expanding role of visualization in transportation planning, design, construction, maintenance, and data management and analysis. Individuals or groups wishing to present at the symposium must submit an abstract by April 1, 2011.
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 Guidelines for the Preservation of High-Traffic-Volume Roadways
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 Intelligent Transportation Systems and Vehicle-Highway Automation 2010
TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2189 contains 12 papers that explore real-time parking information, capability-enhanced probe vehicle surveillance system with vehicle-to-vehicle communications, in-vehicle and infrastructure-based collision warnings to nonviolating drivers, emergency response technology and an integrated active transportation system, and a rural variable speed limit system.
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 Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics 2010
TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2188 contains 19 papers that explore freeway merging and diverging effects on traffic oscillations, mesoscopic modeling of bus transit operations, modeling the effect of weather on traffic flow breakdown, multiclass kinematic wave model, and car-following models.
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 Network Modeling 2010, Volume 2
TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2197 contains 14 papers that explore the vehicle routing problem for emissions minimization; allocating departure time slots to optimize dynamic network capacity; optimal all-stop, short-turn, and express transit services under heterogeneous demand; railway capacity model and decision support process for strategic capacity planning; and bilevel programming model for minimum-cost travel time data collection with time windows.
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 Lane Closure Policies and Management Systems
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration's Office of Operations has released a work zone safety fact sheet that highlights lane closure policies and systems to aid in the scheduling of work zone efforts in Colorado, California, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, and Wisconsin. [More]
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 States Across the Country Implement Accelerated Bridge Construction
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration's Office of Operations has released a work zone safety fact sheet that highlights accelerated bridge construction efforts in Utah, Florida, New York, Virginia, and Washington State. [More]
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Review of the Development of the Motor Carrier Safety Compliance, Safety, Accountability Program
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a letter report that explores the amount of actual and proposed funding that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has to develop and implement its Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) initiative and how the funding has been used. The report also examines the number of staff FMCSA has employed to develop and implement CSA, and the funding and staffing resources FMCSA anticipates it will need to fully implement CSA going forward. [More]
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 Effectiveness of Stability Control Systems for Truck Tractors
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has released a research note that explores the process used by NHTSA for deriving the effectiveness rates of electronic stability control systems and roll stability control systems in truck tractors. [More]
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Key Transportation Indicators: February 2011
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a part of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration, has updated its report that examines transportation indicators that provide context about the economy and society in which transportation functions, or that convey information about system-wide or specific aspects of transportation. [More]
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| Decision Support Tools to Support the Operations of Traffic Management Centers (TMC)
The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that explores a method to estimate traffic diversion based on the traffic detector and incident data; ways to determine the time lag between incident occurrence and database recording; processes to estimate freeway secondary crashes and potential incident impacts on mobility; and procedures to allow incidents to be classified into categories based on primary incident attributes and impacts. [More]
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Quantifying Incident-Induced Travel Delays on Freeways Using Traffic Sensor Data: Phase II
The Washington State Department of Transportation has released a report that explores development of a new approach to quantify incident-induced travel delays over a regional freeway network using existing traffic sensor measurements. [More]
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| Evaluation of Innovative Bicycle Facilities: SW Broadway Cycle Track and SW Stark/Oak Street Buffered Bike Lanes
The Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation at Portland State University has released a report that explores the impact of two bike lane configurations: a cycle track (a seven-foot bike lane separated from motor vehicle traffic by a row of parked cars and a painted three-foot pedestrian buffer) and a couplet of buffered bike lanes (six-foot bike lanes with a two-foot painted buffer on either side separating them from motor vehicle traffic). [More]
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University of Minnesota's CTS Research E-Newsletter: February 2011
The latest issue of the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies (CTS) Research E-Newsletter is now available. Policy and planning; inelligent transportation systems;safety and security; transportation infrastructure; and transit, bicycling, and walking are among the topics addressed in this issue of the CTS Research E-News. [More]
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Rail Safety and Standards Board Research and Development E-Newsletter: January 2011
The U.K. Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) has released the latest issue of its monthly electronic newsletter that provides information on current projects as well as access to completed research. RSSB manages a program of research and development on behalf of government and the railway industry. The program is funded by the Department for Transport and is designed to assist the industry and its stakeholders in improving performance (in terms of health and safety, reliability, and punctuality), increasing capacity and availability, reducing cost, and delivering a sustainable future for the railway. [More]
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On the Move for Safer Roads in Europe: Newsletter #5
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport has released the latest issue of its periodic newsletter that highlights programs, projects, and activities designed to help make roads safer in Europe. [More]
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TAC Transportation Intelligence Bulletin - February 2011
The Transportation Association of Canada has released the lastest issue of its monthly Transportation Intelligence Bulletin. The newsletter highlights innovative technologies and practices in the fields of traffic control, management, safety, and urban transportation. [More]
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Fix It First, Expand It Second, Reward It Third: A New Strategy for America's Highways
The Brookings Institution has released a report that explores a potential reorganization of the United States' national highway infrastructure priorities. [More]
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| IIHS Status Report: Vol. 46, No. 2, March 2011
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has released the latest issue of its Status Report magazine. The issue explores passenger vehicle and heavy truck underride crashes. [More]
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| ICADTS Reporter: Winter 2011
With support from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs, and Traffic Safety (ICADTS) has released the latest issue of its quarterly newsletter. [More]
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