http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/ Transportation Research Board Safety and Human Factors publications http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/0837a259-83cf-481d-8e64-2963faf95656.aspx 0837a259-83cf-481d-8e64-2963faf95656 Mon, 20 May 2013 18:08:41 GMT The Southwest University Transportation Center at Texas A&M University has released a report that evaluates the impact of voice-to-text mobile applications versus manual entry on driver behavior and safety. 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/7a7c141f-02c8-451e-b607-bbc7a6cb15a9.aspx 7a7c141f-02c8-451e-b607-bbc7a6cb15a9 Sat, 18 May 2013 09:23:51 GMT TRB’s Safety Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program Final Report for Safety-IDEA Project 18: DRIVE-SMART Driver Monitoring and Crash Risk Mitigation System describes the development and testing of a driver monitoring and crash risk mitigation system. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/1a24536d-af41-4566-b3e6-eb0227d831b9.aspx 1a24536d-af41-4566-b3e6-eb0227d831b9 Wed, 15 May 2013 20:04:31 GMT The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a fact sheet that details data on crashes involving single-unit trucks, as reported in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and General Estimates System. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/8fe2084e-20b2-446a-b494-65455c74daed.aspx 8fe2084e-20b2-446a-b494-65455c74daed Wed, 15 May 2013 20:03:40 GMT The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a fact sheet that details numbers of people injured and killed in crashes involving large trucks in 2011. http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/3f511b64-00c4-4e36-96fb-afb9bf96467e.aspx 3f511b64-00c4-4e36-96fb-afb9bf96467e Wed, 15 May 2013 20:01:40 GMT The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a fact sheet that estimates the annual economic cost to society of speeding-related crashes and the number of fatal crashes in which speeding was a factor. 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/caefd434-c93d-4dcd-9aab-576dad2335b9.aspx caefd434-c93d-4dcd-9aab-576dad2335b9 Wed, 15 May 2013 04:54:39 GMT TRB’s Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) annual program announcement solicits funding proposals for the upcoming review cycles.  The announcement explains the IDEA programs, describes the types of eligible projects and their funding structures, suggests general areas for which IDEA proposals can be submitted, and provides guidelines and forms for submitting proposals. NCHRP IDEA proposals are due September 1st and March 1st, depending on which of the two funding cycles is targeted. Th...