Photographic highlights of sessions, events, presentations, meetings, exhibits, awards, and more from TRB’s 92nd Annual Meeting—including valedictory speeches by two major transportation leaders—is accompanied in the March–April issue of TR News by feature articles on the promise of connected vehicle technology; the accomplishments and vision of more than two decades of TransTech Academy, preparing urban students for careers in transportation; and practical insights from TRB’s first-ever virtual conferen...

The January-February 2013 TR News includes articles that explore the vulnerability and adaptability of Alaska’s transportation system to climate change—and lessons for the rest of the nation; Northern European solutions for managing road condition in cold climates; ways to identify and map naturally occurring hazardous materials in Oregon in relation to transportation activities; and insights from a project of the second Strategic Highway Research Program on systems operation and management strategies fo...

The November-December 2012 TR News features articles that commemorate significant research and planning milestones. The National Cooperative Highway Research Program is celebrating its 50th anniversary and the Transit Cooperative Research Program its 20th in 2012; in addition, the Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) programs are completing their 20th year. 2012 also marks the 50th anniversary of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962, which established the practice of urban transport...

TRB policy is to release the full PDF version of a TR News four months after its release in print format.  The full PDF version of the September-October 2012 issue is now available. The September-October 2012 TR News features articles that address highway safety tools and procedures, including an overview of the Highway Safety Manual and its applications; a national strategy to prevent highway fatalities, Toward Zero Deaths; the expected safety benefits from TRB's second Strategic Highway Resea...

The July-August 2012 TR News present an array of climate change adaptation initiatives--the rationales, strategies, progress, and goals--including key facts that transportation leaders and professionals should know about climate change and transportation. The July-August 2012 issue of TR News includes the following articles: Implementing Climate Change Policies: State and Local Innovations to Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation in Michigan: Preparations, Strategies, a...

The May-June 2012 TR News features articles that address the planning, design, operation, and maintenance of pedestrian and bicyclist facilities, as well as efforts to integrate these modes into the transportation system.  Articles explore the health benefits of nonmotorized transportation; the business side of bicycling; measuring multimodal mobility; learning from trends in other nations and transferring designs and practices from other nations to the United States; and more. The Ma...

The March-April 2012 TR News includes a photo essay of highlights from the TRB 91st Annual Meeting's sessions, speakers, events, committee meetings, exhibits, awards, and more.  This issue of the TR News also features articles on the growing role of international cooperation and collaboration in TRB programs and activities; key findings from two recent National Cooperative Highway Research Program projects examining performance measures and management from network and practitioner per...

The January-February 2012 TR News includes a roundup of findings from TRB’s 2011 state partnership visits program—trends, problem-solving approaches, and emerging research needs and applications at transportation agencies throughout the country. In addition, the January-February issue of the TR News assembles feature articles that examine workforce management, including a practical toolkit and web-based knowledge-management system developed for transportation agencies through a National Cooperative ...

The November-December 2011 TR News assembles feature articles that explore the applications of nanotechnology in transportation, examine asset management for low-volume road systems, review the metamorphosis of traffic data from the Long-Term Pavement Performance studies, and more. The November-December 2011 issue of TR News includes the following articles: Nanotechnology in Transportation: Evolution of a Revolutionary Technology The Metamorphosis of Long-Term Pavement Performance Tra...

The September-October 2011 TR News assembles feature articles exploring the Next-Generation Air Transport System, which will transform U.S. air traffic control from a ground-based, human-centric system to a satellite-based, airplane-centric system; the future of aviation sustainability; commercial aviation’s pursuit of sustainable alternative fuels; aviation security; economics of the aviation industry; and more. The September-October 2011 issue of TR News includes the following articles: ...