http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/ Transportation Research Board Environment publications 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/792c617a-8d9a-4aba-b456-8e3b5c273140.aspx 792c617a-8d9a-4aba-b456-8e3b5c273140 Mon, 13 May 2013 19:20:59 GMT VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Institute, has released a report that describes a series of measurements and calculations for determining expected rumble strip hits and sound levels. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/1e81e6f2-5b48-4ec4-84c6-502a0c50443a.aspx 1e81e6f2-5b48-4ec4-84c6-502a0c50443a Thu, 09 May 2013 04:34:25 GMT TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 44: Environmental Management System Development Process provides background on the framework of an environmental management system (EMS), explores similarities and differences of the various approaches to an EMS, explains the EMS development process, and highlights lessons learned by airports that have developed an EMS. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/69cdeb9d-0991-4446-8f08-3d2bdf427e06.aspx 69cdeb9d-0991-4446-8f08-3d2bdf427e06 Tue, 07 May 2013 04:05:53 GMT TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 84: Guidebook for Preparing Airport Emissions Inventories for State Implementation Plans is designed to assist in the preparation of airport emissions inventory component of a State Implementation Plan. The Guidebook offers a basic, intermediate, and advanced approach for preparation of an airport emissions inventory. Each approach is progressively more complex, requiring increasingly detailed input data that generates greater airport specificity a... http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/20e08b85-4a69-40e8-af1a-06c1ba57490d.aspx 20e08b85-4a69-40e8-af1a-06c1ba57490d Thu, 02 May 2013 17:03:35 GMT The METRANS Transportation Center has released a report that models noise of container terminals at the Port of Los Angeles as a way to predict future noise levels of the area. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/aba0c4e6-56a9-4719-be98-9a0a77566aee.aspx aba0c4e6-56a9-4719-be98-9a0a77566aee Thu, 02 May 2013 17:01:13 GMT The Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois has released a report that analyzes monitoring data to examine the influence of flooding on ecological mechanisms that lead to variations in floodplain compensatory mitigation wetlands. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/aaf68304-944b-42a9-82c8-7366046ff9c9.aspx aaf68304-944b-42a9-82c8-7366046ff9c9 Thu, 02 May 2013 04:39:12 GMT As part of the SHRP2 Tuesdays Webinar Series, TRB will conduct a webinar on June 4, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will explore the SHRP 2 Report S2-C19-RR-1: Expedited Planning and Environmental Review of Highway Projects (C19) . The report identifies strategies that have been successfully used to expedite the planning and environmental review of transportation and some non-transportation projects within the context of existing laws and regulations. Participants must register in advance of the w... http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/40ed0e29-ecd8-42fe-b100-91c81c3077c7.aspx 40ed0e29-ecd8-42fe-b100-91c81c3077c7 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:07:56 GMT The World Road Association has released a report that explains the conceptual framework for managing road noise, fundamentals of tire-pavement noise, and strategies for pavement-noise reduction. This report is available without a fee after logging on to the site. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/03164900-38e7-4905-9a89-21f062656d77.aspx 03164900-38e7-4905-9a89-21f062656d77 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:23:25 GMT TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 39: Airport Wildlife Population Management provides direct wildlife population control techniques for reducing wildlife collisions with aircraft. In addition, the report summarizes the ecological foundation of wildlife population control and management. ACRP Synthesis 39 is designed to supplement ACRP Synthesis 23 : Bird Harassment, Repellent, and Deterrent Techniques for Use on and Near Airports. ACRP Synthesis 23 provides a synthesis of n...