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 is cosponsoring the Seventh National Seismic Conference on Bridges and Highways (7NSC) on May 20-22, 2013, in Oakland, California. The conference is designed to increase awareness of seismic and geological hazards and to mitigate the risk of bridge and highway damage and failure through peer exchange and knowledge transfer. The conference will include presentations on studies of the perform...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop procedures to (1) determine the acceptable levels of bridge foundation movements based upon superstructure tolerance to total and differential movements considering service and strength limit states, and (2) propose revisions to the American Association of State Highway and Transportat...

TRB is cosponsoring the GeoShanghai International Conference 2014 on May 26-28, 2014, in Shanghai, China. The conference is designed to highlight recent developments and advances, and explore future challenges related to geotechnical engineering.

TRB is cosponsoring the International Symposium of Climatic Effects on Pavements and Geotechnical Infrastructure on August 4-7, 2013, in Fairbanks, Alaska. The symposium will focus on the effects of climatic factors on expansive soils, engineering behavior of transportation construction materials, properties of frozen and unfrozen materials, soil-pavement or structure interaction, pavement perf...

TRB is sponsoring a session on Site Characterization and Monitoring for Highway Engineering Problems on September 9, 2013, in North Conway, New Hampshire, as part of the Highway Geology Symposium, September 9-12, 2013.  The session will focus on case studies where site exploration, characterization, data analysis and/or instrumentation monitoring programs have been used to help solve engin...

The March-April 2012 issue of the TR News includes a photo essay that documents sessions, workshops, special events, poster presentations, awards, exhibits, committee meetings, and other highlights of TRB’s 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., January 22-26, 2012.

TRB conducted a webinar on April 4, 2012, that explored methods to reduce sediment erosion from native and aggregate surfaced low-volume roads. Contact Reggie Gillum at  RGillum@nas.edu  to request a recording of the webinar.  This webinar will explore research conducted in the Pacific Northwest and Pennsylvania that tested alternative unbound aggregate treatments for the road su...

The National Concrete Pavement Technology Center at Iowa State University has released a report that presents a review of literature on geosynthetic reinforced soil (GRS) bridge abutments, and test results and analysis from two field demonstration projects to evaluate the feasibility and cost effectiveness of the use of GRS bridge abutments on low-volume roads.