http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/ Transportation Research Board Policy publications http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/fe7b6424-ccb1-45f2-9323-0db1128999c3.aspx fe7b6424-ccb1-45f2-9323-0db1128999c3 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:54:14 GMT The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General has released a report that reviews the Federal Highway Administration’s inspections of states’ compliance with federal requirements when administering American Recovery and Reinvestment Act payments. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/e024d0fd-e58f-4b2b-a552-5934676bb3e9.aspx e024d0fd-e58f-4b2b-a552-5934676bb3e9 Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:18 GMT TRB will conduct a webinar on May 23, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. ET that will explore the basics of an economic analysis tool called the Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) and how it can be used in the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) legislation. 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 indiv... 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/ea63772c-5335-4d75-8fd5-6f0e78ec8f8c.aspx ea63772c-5335-4d75-8fd5-6f0e78ec8f8c Mon, 13 May 2013 19:22:31 GMT The U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Human Environment has released the latest version of its quarterly online newsletter, which is designed to provide information about the office’s research products and resources. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/363fa08f-d296-4985-b541-4be104ff42ad.aspx 363fa08f-d296-4985-b541-4be104ff42ad Mon, 13 May 2013 19:10:24 GMT The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at the North Dakota State University has released a report that provides information about railroad fuel efficiency for evaluating transportation energy policies. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/cc516ffb-0121-4b44-a346-dfe85891ede6.aspx cc516ffb-0121-4b44-a346-dfe85891ede6 Thu, 02 May 2013 11:53:46 GMT 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 ... http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/2122eefa-fd12-424e-8bc4-ab801493b318.aspx 2122eefa-fd12-424e-8bc4-ab801493b318 Thu, 02 May 2013 04:13:04 GMT TRB will conduct a webinar on May 14, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. ET that will examine the funding and finance impacts of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) legislation, including its successes and shortcomings. Participants must register in advance of the webinar, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees. The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century surface transportation authorization bill ushered in noteworthy changes to federal transit and highway funding and f... http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/9466ce7e-de06-422a-8284-ffa19c204df2.aspx 9466ce7e-de06-422a-8284-ffa19c204df2 Wed, 01 May 2013 04:23:40 GMT TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 103: Transit Station and Stop Adoption Programs explores transit agency programs in which local organizations, individuals, or other partners “adopt” a transit station or stop and receive recognition or incentives in exchange for, periodically, performing duties such as removing litter, maintaining vegetation, or reporting suspicious activity. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/2c145000-5a82-4201-9a74-cf65ae07851c.aspx 2c145000-5a82-4201-9a74-cf65ae07851c Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:36:00 GMT TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Capacity Project C16 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of the SmartGAP User’s Guide. SmartGAP is a scenario planning software tool that synthesizes households and firms in a region and determines their travel demand characteristics based on their built environment and transportation policies. SHRP 2 Capacity Project C16 has also released has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled  The Effect of Smart G...