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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report that discusses trends and relationships in land use, development, and transportation and their environmental implications.

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a report that quantifies the effects of aging and gender on fatality and injury risk of vehicle occupants.

TRB will conduct a webinar on June 19, 2013 from 2:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m. ET that will present basic concepts for implementing roundabouts to guide agencies in conducting community outreach during the implementation process. 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 provide...

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 t...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis Program has issued a request for letters of interest to synthesize problems that state departments of transportation face with design-build projects with setting disadvantaged business enterprise contract goals and monitoring compliance on those goals. Information on consultants letters of interest, qualifications, and the su...

The Texas A&M Transportation Institute has released a compilation of research papers about factors influencing run-off road crashes on horizontal curves and impacts of nighttime work zone lighting.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has released a report that summarizes strategies for increasing the use of bicycles as a mode of transportation.

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a fact sheet provides an overview of data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and General Estimates System for a variety of areas including restraint use, children pedestrians, and bicyclists.

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Results Digest 107: Developing Partnerships between Transportation Agencies and the Disability and Underrepresented Communities includes best practices and outreach strategies and suggestions that can be used by transit personnel to develop and maintain partnerships with the disability and underrepresented communities. The guide include...

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...

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 ...

The Governors Highway Safety Association has released a report that examines opportunities for and challenges of parental participation in engaging with their teen drivers.

The Institute of Transport Economics in the Norwegian Centre for Transport Research has released a report that reviews wayfinding and makes recommendations for its improvement in transport systems, with an emphasis on inclusive design and tactile paving.

The Institute of Transport Economics at the Norwegian Centre for Transport Research has released a report that explores characteristics of electric vehicle owners in Norway.

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a fact sheet that summarizes types of fatalities in school transportation-related crashes.

The Region 2 University Transportation Research Center has released a report that studies the driving capabilities of senior drivers by analyze the impact of supplementing traditional senior driver evaluations with state-of-the-art driving simulation technologies.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation has released a report that considers the decision-making processes of drivers’ route selections, such as using an alternate route instead of the highway network if faced with lane closures or restrictions.

The U.S. National Traffic Safety Highway Administration has released a fact sheet that details the numbers of 15- to 20-year-old drivers who were killed and injured in motor vehicle crashes in 2011.

The Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium has released a report that summarizes research conducted with a driving simulator and mobile eye-tracking equipment to study the effects that opposing traffic, walking direction of pedestrians, and the number of section heads with a flashing yellow arrow have on driver performance. This report is available without a fee after logging o...

The U.S. National Traffic Safety Highway Administration has released a fact sheet that focuses on the number of fatal and non-fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2011 for Americans age 65 and older.

The Center for Transportation at the University of Minnesota has released a report that estimates the accessibility to jobs by automobile in the U.S.’s 51 largest metropolitan areas for 2010, and compares results with 2000 and 1990.

Australian Policy Online has released a report that examines patterns of risky driving from the late teens to the late twenties and identifies factors associated with persistence and change in risky driving tendencies.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) has launched a new series of videos about women in transportation. The new series shares the stories of women who are working in the transportation field by focusing on what they do each day, how they’re making a difference, and how they got where they are today. According the U.S. DOT, “by showcasing the exciting career opportunities available, ...

VTI—the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that identifies difficulties associated with carrying out road safety and accessibility measures and with finding possible solutions, especially for those with disabilities. This report is written in Swedish with an English summary.

The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that develops an indicator framework for measuring the contribution of land transport to the aggregate wellbeing of New Zealanders.

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.

The University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies has released a report that explores the degree to which gestures impact collaboration effectiveness in the task of traffic incident management.

The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that considers land use and transport accessibility by drawing on international practices in order to define accessibility and propose a methodology for how it can be measured and quantified.

The World Road Association has released a report that analyses existing methods for sustainable development of road infrastructure and identifies social, environmental and economic criteria for winter road maintenance strategies and operations. This report is available without a fee after logging on to the site.

The National Science Foundation has released a report that provides statistical information about the participation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering education and employment.