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 sponsoring workshops and the Midyear Meeting of the TRB Policy, and Social and Economic Factors Sections on July 22-23, 2013, in Washington, D.C. The program will include specialty sessions and workshops on finance, policy, environmental justice, and relationships between health and transportation. The conference’s closing session will feature an international session on sustainability that will include U.S. officials and directors of the European Transport Research Institutes. In addition to the ...

TRB is cosponsoring the Shared-Use Mobility Summit on October 10-11, 2013, in San Francisco, California. The summit is designed to bring mobility providers, policymakers, stakeholders, and interested members of the public together to explore media and public outreach on the state of the growing shared-use economy; issues pertaining to the various fields of shared-use services; and shared-use system integration.

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,...

On February 27, 2013, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Aviation held a hearing to examine the impact of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Reauthorization and Reform Act in the year since its passage.

The latest issue of the Federal Highway Administration's Public Roads magazine has been released. The magazine highlights developments in federal highway policies, programs, and research and technology.

On December 6, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a hearing that focused on the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration’s management of the rail program, the status of projects, and possible ways to improve the program.

On December 13, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a hearing to examine options for High-Speed Rail Development and Opportunities for Private Sector Participation. Additional information on the hearing and a video of the hearing are available online.

The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held a hearing that focused on the ongoing reorganization of Amtrak, specifically, what prompted the reorganization and goals of the reorganization.