TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) is holding a symposium on October 21-22, 2013, in Herndon, Virginia (near Dulles Airport) that will provide a forum to explore how transportation planners , in focusing on freight flows, can benefit from using private-sector techniques to amplify existing freight-demand forecasting models, data, and methods. Public-sector planners, modeli...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis Program has issued a request for letters of interest to describe the data acquisition, data management, and visualization capabilities of remote sensing and geotechnical instrumentation as part of the emergency response decision making process. Information on consultants letters of interest, qualifications, and the submission...

TRB's second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) will hold its Eighth Annual Safety Research Symposium on July 11, 2013, and a Safety Research Workshop on July 12, 2013. The concomitant events will take place in Washington, D.C. The symposium is designed to provide updates on SHRP 2 safety projects and to serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas among researchers and practitioners fro...

TRB standing committees have issued  calls for papers for the TRB 93rd Annual Meeting, January 12-16, 2014, in Washington, D.C, and the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR). While papers addressing any relevant aspect of transportation research will be considered, some committees are soliciting papers in specific subject areas to help potential...

The 2013 series marks the 50th year of TRB’s peer-reviewed journal, which debuted as the Highway Research Record in 1963; became the Transportation Research Record in 1974, with Number 480; and added the subtitle, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, in 2000, with Number 1653. In all, TRB has published more than 25,000 papers in volumes of the TRR Journal and continues to build on its ...

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.

TRB is sponsoring the 7th International Visualization in Transportation Symposium: Visualization for Big Data on October 23-25, 2013, in Irvine, California. The goal of the 2013 Symposium is to advance innovation in visualization for transportation applications through the exchange of information, to create a collaborative environment that promotes ideas for action that evolves our ability to a...

TRB is cosponsoring the International Symposium on Non-Destructive Testing in Civil Engineering (NDT-CE) on September 15-17, 2015, in Berlin, Germany. The symposium is designed to bring together experts from all areas in this fast developing area of research and application. Researchers; manufacturers; service providers; owners of structures; and those active in training, validation, and standa...

TRB is cosponsoring the Transit GIS Conference on October 16-17, 2013, in Washington, D.C. The mission of the biennial conference is to provide a forum for geographic information systems (GIS) in transit professionals and other key industry stakeholders to share innovative GIS solutions, industry best practices, and new technologies. The conference is also designed to explore ways to use GIS to...

TRB is sponsoring the Adapting Freight Models and Traditional Freight Data Programs for Performance Measurement Workshop on April 30 - May 1, 2013, in Washington, D.C. The workshop will explore the adequacy of freight data and modeling for supporting performance measurement in public and private sector decision making by examining the use of information from the Freight Analysis Frame...