The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that summarizes research conducted on developing a strategic implementation plan for the management of right-of-way parcel and utility data.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General has released a report that reviews the Federal Highway Administration’s inspections of states’ compliance with federal requirements when administering American Recovery and Reinvestment Act payments.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released a report that evaluates the U.S. Office of Personnel Management qualification standard for air traffic controllers and provides recommendations to FAA human resources personnel for renewing the standard.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a preliminary report that discusses what is known about the conditions of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) facilities, common types of workplace injuries and illnesses reported by FAA employees, and FAA’s response to safety deficiencies identified through inspections.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 75: Airport Leadership Development Program is designed to assist existing and future airport leaders to assess, obtain, and refine airport-industry leadership skills. The program includes forms for a full 360-degree individual assessment of core leadership traits. A complete facilitator guide with Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and pa...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Results Digest 107: Developing Partnerships between Transportation Agencies and the Disability and Underrepresented Communities includes best practices and outreach strategies and suggestions that can be used by transit personnel to develop and maintain partnerships with the disability and underrepresented communities. The guide include...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 44: Environmental Management System Development Process provides background on the framework of an environmental management system (EMS), explores similarities and differences of the various approaches to an EMS, explains the EMS development process, and highlights lessons learned by airports that have developed an EMS.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 84: Guidebook for Preparing Airport Emissions Inventories for State Implementation Plans is designed to assist in the preparation of airport emissions inventory component of a State Implementation Plan. The Guidebook offers a basic, intermediate, and advanced approach for preparation of an airport emissions inventory. Each approach is pro...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Legal Research Digest 59: Enforceability of Local Hire Preference Programs highlights considerations that public agencies and community groups ought to take into account when contemplating what may be the best course of action when deciding whether to implement local hire programs. Local hire programs are generally defined as programs ...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a project brief that summarizes the results of SHRP 2 Renewal Project R15B: Identification of Utility Conflicts and Solutions Project, which explored best practices on the use of utility conflict matrices (UCM), developed and tested a standardized UCM concept, and developed training materials and implementation guidelines on ...