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, modeling researchers, and private-sector supply-chain practitioners are encouraged present at the symposium on their c...

TRB’s National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) has issued a request for proposals to create a web-based tool that identifies how the findings and conclusions of NCFRP products can be used as input to the successful implementation of the freight provisions of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) Act. The project will also identify future freight research needs that would support the development of a national freight strategy. Proposals are due July 31, 2013.

The 2013 Summer Meeting and Conference of TRB’s Freight, Marine, and Planning Committees will be July 17-19, 2013, in Washington, D.C. The conference will address freight mobility challenges and research needs through a blend of traditional mid-year business meetings of the standing committees with plenary and focus group sessions addressing topics related to multimodal freight planning, goods movement, and freight system resiliency. Committee meetings and conference sessions will be open to all registra...

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 authors identify topics for their papers. Committees will be producing calls for papers through June, so author...

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 tradition of disseminating research findings to advance transportation. The first Record addressed the topic of ...

TRB is cosponsoring the 2013 Barge and Rail Symposium: Moving Freight Between Multimodal Systems on August 14-16, 2013, in Louisville, Kentucky. The symposium will explore the movement of freight via the nation's inland waterway and rail systems, those systems' interactions and interdependencies, and options to improve the multimodal efficiency of both systems. Early bird registration expires August 1, 2013.

TRB is cosponsoring the NAFTANEXT: Energizing Sustainable Trade Corridors Across North America - The Intersection of Energy, Environment, Jobs, and Growth conference on April 22-25, 2014, in Chicago, Illinois. The conference is designed to provide a forum for both public and private sectors to share ideas and strategies for a long-term vision of sustainable freight transportation and supply chain energy independence for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) countries--the United States, Canada,...

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 Framework, other existing freight models, and traditional freight data programs as means to provide key measures for ...

The Institute for Trade and Transportation Studies has released the latest issue of its periodic newsletter that reports on the domestic and international infrastructure, transportation, and safety implications of commercial freight movements.

The Institute for Trade and Transportation Studies has released the latest issue of its periodic newsletter that reports on the domestic and international infrastructure, transportation, and safety implications of commercial freight movements.