http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/ Transportation Research Board Construction publications http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/825e7c57-3b9a-4503-86d1-e86477001a20.aspx 825e7c57-3b9a-4503-86d1-e86477001a20 Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:18 GMT TRB will conduct a webinar on June 25, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. ET that will present the results of a recently completed pooled fund research project on subsurface drainage for slope stabilization. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. A certificate for 2 Professional Development Hours (PDH) will be provided to attendees who register and attend the webinar as an individual. This second webinar of a two-part series will introduce grou... http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/a6748d55-62f5-4aee-80ca-5e31cefea708.aspx a6748d55-62f5-4aee-80ca-5e31cefea708 Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:18 GMT TRB will conduct a webinar on May 29, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. ET that will present the results of a recently completed pooled fund research project on subsurface drainage for slope stabilization. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. A certificate for 2 Professional Development Hours (PDH) will be provided to attendees who register and attend the webinar as an individual. This first webinar of a two-part series will introduce the re... http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/79d2536c-3dd5-42c7-b989-bed6e768c9ed.aspx 79d2536c-3dd5-42c7-b989-bed6e768c9ed Sun, 19 May 2013 04:14:39 GMT TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 746: Traffic Enforcement Strategies for Work Zones presents guidance for the safe and effective deployment of traffic enforcement strategies in work zones on high-speed highways (those with speed limits of 45 mph or greater). The report discusses the planning, design, and operation of traffic enforcement strategies, as well as administrative issues that should be considered. The contractor’s final report providing background information f... http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/0d28eca4-fd91-4b17-a5ac-ee76f7242b0a.aspx 0d28eca4-fd91-4b17-a5ac-ee76f7242b0a Sun, 19 May 2013 04:13:39 GMT TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 194: Traffic Law Enforcement in Work Zones: Phase II Research is contractor’s final report providing background information for the project that produced NCHRP Report 746 Traffic Enforcement Strategies for Work Zones. NCHRP Report 746 presents guidance for the safe and effective deployment of traffic enforcement strategies in work zones on high-speed highways. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/f9cd5b81-e11b-44f3-a919-05e6fd80f45c.aspx f9cd5b81-e11b-44f3-a919-05e6fd80f45c Wed, 15 May 2013 12:52:59 GMT 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... http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/8014c717-a2bb-4db7-b6dc-1fb03384cd5a.aspx 8014c717-a2bb-4db7-b6dc-1fb03384cd5a Wed, 15 May 2013 05:29:56 GMT 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 ... http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/b249db17-073d-4d57-a504-0030d66d80dc.aspx b249db17-073d-4d57-a504-0030d66d80dc Mon, 13 May 2013 18:53:40 GMT The Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas-Austin has released a report that evaluates Texas U-Beams including measurements of their concrete curing temperatures in square and skewed end blocks and establishment of the vertical shear capacity of their standard section loads. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/001b64f1-783f-4ade-927b-646624b039e9.aspx 001b64f1-783f-4ade-927b-646624b039e9 Fri, 10 May 2013 17:41:59 GMT As part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays Webinar Series, TRB will conduct a webinar on June 11, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will explore the project Performance Specifications for Rapid Renewal, which addresses the obstacles of defining fair and meaningful specification requirements when implementing rapid renewal performance specifications . Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. A certificate for 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDH) w... http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/732b48d5-e4cb-47a2-b4d0-c7e367519fc0.aspx 732b48d5-e4cb-47a2-b4d0-c7e367519fc0 Wed, 08 May 2013 04:16:06 GMT TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Final Report for NCHRP-IDEA Project 145: Extraction of Layer Properties from Intelligent Compaction Data examines a methodology that was developed to extract layer elastic modulus/stiffness from composite soil stiffness and global positioning system-based location provided by currently available vibratory intelligent compaction rollers. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/080603af-f393-4687-821c-6af4ec28b25a.aspx 080603af-f393-4687-821c-6af4ec28b25a Fri, 03 May 2013 16:50:26 GMT TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a project brief that summarizes the results of SHRP 2 Renewal Project R15B: Identification of Utility Conflicts and Solutions Project, which explored best practices on the use of utility conflict matrices (UCM), developed and tested a standardized UCM concept, and developed training materials and implementation guidelines on the concept.