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 ...

TRB’s National Cooperative Rail Research Program (NCRRP) has issued a request for proposals to prepare an inventory of existing state passenger and freight rail programs; identify innovative funding mechanisms in this inventory; and conduct an analysis of targeted innovative funding programs extracted from this inventory that may be of use to other state or local governments. Proposals are due ...

TRB is sponsoring the TRB International Transportation Finance Conference on July 9-11, 2014, in Irvine, California. The conference will focus on the latest research and practice in transportation finance, with an emphasis on innovative ideas from around the world. The goal is to share new ideas and practices to facilitate improved financing of transportation projects in anticipation of th...

The Bipartisan Policy Center has released a report that outlines possible consequences, including those to the national transportation investment, if a 35 percent budget cut were made to the federal surface transportation program.

On April 18, 2012, the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security held a hearing to examine the use of tolls on U.S. bridges and tunnels; efforts made by entities that set rates to remain transparent and accountable about setting rates; and, equity among commuters, businesses, and ...

The U.S. Department of Treasury has released a report that explores the potential economic affects of infrastructure investment.

TRB is sponsoring the 14th International Managed Lanes Conference on May 22-24, 2012, in Oakland, California. The conference is designed to help advance the state-of-the-art related to managed lanes and pricing strategies. The conference theme will focus on the evolution of high-occupancy-vehicle (HOV) lanes into high-occupancy-toll (HOT) and managed lanes using pricing and other strategie...

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released the latest update to its conditions and performance report series. The biennial report to Congress provides an appraisal of the physical conditions, operational performance, and financing mechanisms of highways, bridges, and transit systems based on the current state of these systems and on the projected future state of these systems under a ...

The Colorado Department of Transportation has released a report that explores a cost-benefit analysis of constructed hot mix asphalt projects using three and five-year warranty specifications.