http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/ Transportation Research Board Passenger Transportation 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/526862c2-83e3-4f19-838e-c6c75a8630d7.aspx 526862c2-83e3-4f19-838e-c6c75a8630d7 Wed, 01 May 2013 04:07:36 GMT TRB’s National Cooperative Rail Research Program (NCRRP) has issued a request for proposals to prepare an inventory of existing state passenger and freight rail programs; identify innovative funding mechanisms in this inventory; and conduct an analysis of targeted innovative funding programs extracted from this inventory that may be of use to other state or local governments. Proposals are due June 7, 2013. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/0b2a4deb-20f3-42ee-8b85-8f3844bfacba.aspx 0b2a4deb-20f3-42ee-8b85-8f3844bfacba Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:45:36 GMT The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a report that reviews the reliability of the project’s cost estimates, revenue and passenger rail ridership forecasts, risks of the funding plan, and the extent to which economic impacts were identified. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/3e62bcd0-cd17-4065-ae05-649ea1ba8e72.aspx 3e62bcd0-cd17-4065-ae05-649ea1ba8e72 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:17:01 GMT TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 102: Integrating Passenger Ferry Service with Mass Transit examines the integration between land- and water-based transit systems and explores successful aspects of seamless integration. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/99df6bae-5491-4bb9-8e87-e7be4f8ad4bb.aspx 99df6bae-5491-4bb9-8e87-e7be4f8ad4bb Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:00:30 GMT The Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium has released a report that explores the history of scholarly work on impacts of non-work travel along with consumer spending by mode of travel. This report is available for no fee after logging on to the site. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/1ee9ea5c-d55e-42ea-821d-cae6dba9cb3d.aspx 1ee9ea5c-d55e-42ea-821d-cae6dba9cb3d Wed, 06 Mar 2013 06:04:20 GMT Governors Highway Safety Association that examines trends in the numbers of 16- and 17-year-old driver deaths in passenger vehicles in the United States and proposes solutions to reduce that number. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/537a711f-a7c9-42ce-81b9-9afe025925b6.aspx 537a711f-a7c9-42ce-81b9-9afe025925b6 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 06:02:12 GMT The Transport Research and Innovation Portal has released a report that provides an overview of research on passenger transport focused on European Union-funded projects as well as an analysis and compilation of research findings and recommendations. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/221b2b9c-0d9b-4088-a90b-fb378dc8e47d.aspx 221b2b9c-0d9b-4088-a90b-fb378dc8e47d Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:48:24 GMT TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2322 contains 14 papers that address aspects of travel behavior including composition of vehicle occupancy for work trips; hybrid choice sets in semicompensatory models; integrating walkability with planning practices; the influence of environmentalism and variety on mode choice; behavioral insights models; activity duration, time-of-day, and planning time horizons of the elderly and baby boomers; value of life cycles... http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/648485fb-69f4-469e-9740-8e6f0fcd535d.aspx 648485fb-69f4-469e-9740-8e6f0fcd535d Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:06:44 GMT The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a summary of its briefing that describes collection options for passengers at airports, cost sharing methods for connecting traffic, and examples of airport charges that are not included in ticket prices.