TRB’s Transit CooperativeResearch Program (TCRP) Research Result Digest 107: Developing Partnerships between Transportation Agencies and the Disability and Underrepresented Communities includes best practices, and outreach strategies and suggestions that can be used by transit personnel to develop and maintain partnerships with the disability and underrepresented communities. The guide includes “how to” approaches and information in narrative and graphic form on developing these partnerships.

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Final Report for NCHRP-IDEA Project 155: Corrosion Resistant, Structurally Reinforced, Thermal Spray Coatings for In Situ Repair of Load Bearing Structures addresses the potential use of high-velocity thermal spray for in-situ reclamation of corroded components in load bearing infrastructures.

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Final Report for NCHRP-IDEA Project 153: Bridge Retrofit Laser System addresses development of an advanced laser measurement system to accelerate the bridge retrofit process in order to reduce the time between identification of repair needs for resumption of service for a bridge.

TRB has released the latest version of its information for authors guide . The guide is designed to help both new and veteran TRB paper authors navigate the paper submission process for TRB’s upcoming Annual Meeting and for TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. All authors should review all information in this guide before submitting papers for consideration for presentation or publication. The guide covers the organization and formatting of manuscripts for p...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 740: A Transportation Guide for All-Hazards Emergency Evacuation focuses on the transportation aspects of evacuation, particularly large-scale, multijurisdictional evacuation. The guidance, strategies, and tools in NCHRP Report 740 are based on an all-hazards approach that has applicability to a wide range of “notice” and “no-notice” emergency events. The report follows the basic planning steps of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 196: Final Research Report: A Transportation Guide for All-Hazards Emergency Evacuation documents the development of the  NCHRP Report 740 that focuses on the transportation aspects of evacuation--particularly large-scale, multijurisdictional evacuation.

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 197: Guidelines for the Load and Resistance Factor Design and Rating of Riveted and Bolted Gusset-Plate Connections for Steel Bridges explores the failure modes of steel truss bridge gusset plated connections. The report also includes a review of past literature on the strength of hot-driven rivets. The following appendices are not included in the PDF version of the report, but are available for download from the links below. A...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Reliability Project L32A has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a final report titled Train the Trainer Pilot Courses for Incident Responders and Managers that describes pilot tests of the national traffic incident management train the trainer course, the course's revised and finalized curriculum, and an evluation of its effectiveness.

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Final Report for NCHRP-IDEA Project 151: Development of a Simple Test to Determine the Low Temperature Strength of Asphalt Mixtures and Binders explores low temperature strength tests on asphalt mixture and asphalt binder beam specimens with the bending beam rheometer.

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Results Digest 382: Measuring Cement Particle Size and Surface Area by Laser Diffraction evaluates the practicality and effectiveness of the laser diffraction method to measure the particle size distribution and total surface area of cement powder.