TRB’s Conference Proceedings 48: Financing Surface Transportation in the United States: Forging a Sustainable Future—Now summarizes a May, 2010 conference that focused on developments in innovative funding techniques and options for securing continued revenue to support national infrastructure and mobility needs. Views presented in Conference Proceedings 48 reflect the opinions of the individual participants and are not necessarily the views of all conference participants, the planning committee, TRB, or...

Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 2: Technical Papers includes 27 full peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the October 2009 conference. The conference highlighted the latest research on changing demographics that affect transportation planning, programming, and policy making, as well as the latest research on crash and injury prevention for different segments of the female population. Special attention was given to pregnant and elderly transport...

TRB’s Conference Proceedings 46: Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 1: Conference Overview and Plenary Papers includes an overview of the October 2009 conference and six commissioned resource papers, including the two keynote presentations. Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 2: Technical Papers  includes 27 full peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the October 2009 conference. The conference ...

TRB Conference Proceedings 47: Research on the Transmission of Disease in Airports and on Aircraft is the summary of a September 2009 symposium. The symposium examined the status of research on or related to the transmission of disease on aircraft and in airports, and the potential application of research results to the development of protocols and standards for managing communicable disease incidents in an aviation setting. The symposium also explored areas where additional research may be needed. ...

TRB Conference Proceedings 45: U.S. Marine Salvage Assets and Capabilities in a Maritime Disaster is the proceedings of a September 2008 workshop that focused on a scenario involving an incident that shuts down the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.  The proceedings examine the threat and explore key issues relating to an efficient, effective, and coordinated U.S. salvage industry response to a worst-case marine casualty scenario.

TRB Conference Proceedings 44: U.S. and International Approaches to Performance Measurement for Transportation Systems is the proceedings of a September 2007 conference that explored opportunities for and experiences in using performance measurement as a strategic tool to better communicate goals, objectives, and results to a wide range of stakeholder groups.

TRB Conference Proceedings 42, Innovations in Travel Demand Modeling, Volume 2: Papers includes the papers that were presented at a May 21-23, 2006, conference that examined advances in travel demand modeling, explored the opportunities and the challenges associated with the implementation of advanced travel models, and reviewed the skills and training necessary to apply new modeling techniques.  TRB Conference Proceedings 42, Innovations in Travel Demand Modeling, Volume 1: Session Summaries is av...

TRB Conference Proceedings 43: Key Issues in Transportation Programming summarizes plenary and breakout sessions of a November 2006 conference that explored the current state of the practice and long-term implementation experience associated with the programming process, successful practices in linking planning and programming, and the linking of programming processes to the development of performance measures and asset management systems.  The conference also examined programming and politics, dat...

TRB Conference Proceedings 42, Innovations in Travel Demand Modeling, Volume 1: Session Summaries summarizes the sessions of a May 21-23, 2006, conference that examined advances in travel demand modeling, explored the opportunities and the challenges associated with the implementation of advanced travel models, and reviewed the skills and training necessary to apply new modeling techniques.

TRB’s Conference Proceedings 41: Interagency–Aviation Industry Collaboration on Planning for Pandemic Outbreaks summarizes a September 5-7, 2007, workshop that took place in Washington, D.C.  Among the issues explored in the proceedings are the current state-of-the-practice for pandemic planning by airports and airlines, coordination among various agencies and the aviation sector to implement these plans, and the potential areas for public–private sector cooperation in pandemic pl...