The Center for the Commercialization of Innovative Transportation Technologies has released a report that develops a framework for estimating the emissions of freight transport operations using a software tool.

The Maryland State Highway Administration has released a report that explains methods for using biological control as a means to provide a sustainable, cost effective, and beneficial method for dealing with noxious and invasive weeds on highway rights-of-way.

VTI—the Swedish National Road and Research Institute, has released a report that calculates the environmental impacts of traffic by using a computational model as a means to slow climate change and improve energy efficiency, air quality, noise, and other environmental impacts. The report is written in Swedish and contains a summary in English.

VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Institute, has released a report that describes a series of measurements and calculations for determining expected rumble strip hits and sound levels.

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...

The METRANS Transportation Center has released a report that models noise of container terminals at the Port of Los Angeles as a way to predict future noise levels of the area.

The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois has released a report that analyzes monitoring data to examine the influence of flooding on ecological mechanisms that lead to variations in floodplain compensatory mitigation wetlands.

The World Road Association has released a report that explains the conceptual framework for managing road noise, fundamentals of tire-pavement noise, and strategies for pavement-noise reduction. This report is available without a fee after logging on to the site.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 39: Airport Wildlife Population Management provides direct wildlife population control techniques for reducing wildlife collisions with aircraft. In addition, the report summarizes the ecological foundation of wildlife population control and management. ACRP Synthesis 39 is designed to supplement ACRP Synthesis 23 : Bird Harassmen...