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 2012 TRB 91st Annual Meeting: Hotel Rooms Going Fast!
You are encouraged to register and make your hotel reservation online now ! Annual Meeting registration is required to secure a hotel reservation. At the time of registration, you will have the ability to make your hotel reservations. Room blocks at Annual Meeting hotels are selling fast. The TRB $183 single room rate is the Washington, D.C., prevailing federal per diem. Reserve your room early for the best availability. [More]
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TRB Webinar: 2012 TRB 91st Annual Meeting - How to Survive and Thrive
On October 20, 2011, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EDT, TRB will hold a webinar designed to help both new and returning Annual Meeting attendees get the most out of their meeting experience. The webinar will review issues related to personal planning for the meeting, including hotel reservations, airline reservations, and other basics; help attendees plan their schedules during the meeting; and explore ways attendees can optimize their Annual Meeting networking after they return home. [More]
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| 4th Urban Street Symposium*
TRB is cosponsoring the 4th Urban Street Symposium on June 24-27, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois. The symposium is designed to explore improvements in suburban and urban street design practices, foster discussions on alternative street design practices, examine alternative street designs, and facilitate the transfer of urban street research findings to state agencies and to local governments. Individuals or groups wishing to make presentation at the meeting must submit an abstract by October 31, 2011.
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| Work Zone Crash Characteristics and Countermeasure Guidance
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop comprehensive guidance on the characteristics of work zone crashes and the effectiveness of countermeasures in various categories to reduce work zone crash frequency and severity, and improve overall work zone safety. Proposals are due November 28, 2011. [More]
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 Investigating Safety Impacts of Energy Technologies on Airports and Aviation
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 28: Investigating Safety Impacts of Energy Technologies on Airports and Aviation explores physical, visual, and communications systems interference impacts from energy technologies on airports and aviation safety. [More]
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 Trade-Off Considerations in Highway Geometric Design
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 422: Trade-Off Considerations in Highway Geometric Design describes the processes that transportation agencies currently use to evaluate geometric design trade-offs between competing interests. [More]
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 A Focused Approach to Safety Guidebook
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has released a guidebook that outlines its focused approach to safety program's purpose, benefits, and history. The program is designed to help enhance safety through a more targeted delivery of technical assistance and resources to the states. [More]
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 2009 Traffic Safety Facts: Large Trucks
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a traffic safety factsheet that explores fatalities in crashes involving large trucks during 2009. [More]
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 Fatality Analysis Reporting System General Estimates System: 2009 Data Summary
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a summary booklet that provides a pocket-sized excerpt of the Traffic Safety Facts Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)/General Estimates System (GES) Annual Report. The tables included in the booklet are a summary of the most asked-for data available from FARS and GES. [More]
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 Proceedings of the Marine Safety and Security Council, the Coast Guard Journal of Safety at Sea: Fall 2011
The U.S. Coast Guard has released the latest issue of this quarterly journal, which is described as the voice of the Coast Guard's Marine Safety and Security Council. This issue has a focus on leveraging tools, technology, and teamwork to imporve response, save lives. [More]
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Passenger Boarding (Enplanement) and All-Cargo Data for U.S. Airports: 2010
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has released passenger (enplanement) and cargo data for calendar year 2010. The data are extracted from the Air Carrier Activity Information System (ACAIS), a database that contains revenue passenger boarding and all-cargo data. [More]
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2009 Traffic Safety Facts: A Compilation of Motor Vehicle Crash Data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the General Estimates System
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released the final version of its 2009 traffic safety facts report, which presents descriptive statistics about traffic crashes of all severities, from those that result in property damage to those that result in the loss of human life. [More]
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| CuseCar Community Car-Sharing Program: Car-Sharing Lessons Learned
The New York State Department of Transportation has released a report that summarizes the development and operation of CuseCar, a not-for-profit community car-sharing program in Syracuse, New York. [More]
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The Voice of the European Road: October 2011
The European Union Road Federation (ERF) has released the latest issue of its quarterly newsletter designed to enhance knowledge about European road transport issues. [More]
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Teen Driving: Graduate Driver's Licenses and More
The National Conference of State Legislatures has released an issue brief that highlights federal and state actions designed to promote periods of supervised training, passenger restrictions, and night driving restrictions in order to allow teens the opportunity to slowly become acclimated to the increased responsibilities and benefits of driving. [More]
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