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| Emerging Issues in Safe and Sustainable Mobility for Older People
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 Findings from the Transportation Research Board's 2010 State Partnership Visits Program
Each year, TRB's Technical Activities Division staff visit state departments of transportation, as well as selected universities, transit and other modal agencies, and industry organizations, to determine the issues they are facing and how TRB can help in addressing those issues. The 2010 field visits by TRB Technical Activities staff reveal that despite diminished resources, the efforts of dedicated staff at transportation agencies--with support from their colleagues in industry, consulting, contracting, universities, and research--are progressing toward key goals, ranging from reducing traffic deaths to improving the environment. [More] | [Share]    
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 Freight Transportation Surveys
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 Vehicle Safety: Truck, Bus, and Motorcycle
TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2194 contains 13 papers that explore hours of service and truck crash risk, freeway truck lane restriction and differential speed limits, the condition of trucks and their crash involvement, noise level, whole-body vibration and air quality inside cabs of heavy-duty diesel trucks, type of motor carrier and driver history in fatal bus crashes, and the safety benefits from a heavy-vehicle forward collision warning system. [More] | [Share]
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 Developing Countries 2010
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 Survey of Minimum Standards: Commercial Aeronautical Activities at Airports
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Legal Research Digest 11: Survey of Minimum Standards: Commercial Aeronautical Activities at Airports explores source material for adopting and enforcing minimum standards that airport owners and operators commonly impose on businesses that perform commercial aeronautical activities that occur at airports.
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 Freeway Geometric Design for Active Traffic Management in Europe
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration's International Technology Scanning Program has released a report that explores the results of a scanning study of England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain that examined the use of innovative geometric design practices and techniques to improve the operational performance of congested freeway facilities without compromising safety. [More]
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Transportation Services Index: January 2011
The U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics' Transportation Services Index (TSI) rose 0.9 percent in January, the latest month available, to 109.6. The TSI measures the movement of freight and passengers. 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]
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 Innovator: December2010/January 2011
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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Position Available: Director, Iowa Department of Transportation
The Governor of the State of Iowa is seeking candidates for the position of Director of the Iowa Department of Transportation. This position is responsible for directing all operations of the Department of Transportation, including program administration, the budget, and personnel. Additional detail on the position, preferred qualifications, and the application process are available online. The application deadline is March 28, 2011. [More]
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Methods for Identifying High Collision Concentration Locations (HCCL) for Potential Safety Improvements - Phase II
The California Department of Transportation has released a report that compares the performance of methods for identifying HCCL based on various methods and procedures. [More]
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Wireless Data Collection System for Real-Time Arterial Travel Time Estimates
The Oregon Department of Transportation has released a report that explores the implementation and testing of a Bluetooth-based system to collect travel time data. [More]
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Evaluation of Sensys Wireless Vehicle Detection System: Results from Adverse Weather Conditions
The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has released a report that explores the performance of the Sensys wireless vehicle detection system under adverse weather conditions (winter and rain) at a signalized intersection and in close proximity to railroad tracks at a grade crossing. [More]
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Cycling Aspects of Austroads Guides
Austroads has released a guide that addresses the planning, design, and traffic management of cycling facilities. [More]
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| External Factors Affecting Motorway Capacity
The U.K.'s Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) has released a report that explores an approach taken to characterize the variability in traffic throughput prior to the onset of congestion by investigating factors that could potentially affect capacity, such as merge and diverge flows upstream and downstream of the congestion seedpoint, precipitation, and lighting conditions. [More]
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Hearing on Finding Ways to Encourage and Increase Private Sector Participation in Passenger Rail Service
On March 11, 2011, the U.S. House of Representatives' Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials held a hearing to receive testimony on intercity passenger rail in the United States, and to explore how to make intercity passenger rail more effective and less expensive, particularly through competition in providing these services. Additional information and a video of the hearing are available online. [More]
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Safe Routes Scoop: Winter 2011
The Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University has released the latest edition of its semiannual newsletter that explores issues related to safe routes to school projects. [More]
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| IATTSS Research: March 2011
The International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences (IATTSS) has released the latest issue of its bi-annual journal that highlights traffic-related research results drawn from a wide range of academic fields. [More]
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| Roadway Safety E-Reporter: March 2011
The Road Safety Foundation (RSF) has released the latest issues of its periodic newsletter that highlights recent activities of the foundation. RSF is an educational organization dedicated to improving roadway design to help reduce the number of highway and road fatalities. [More]
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Highway Capacity Manual 2010
