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The Effects of Left-Turn Traffic-Calming Treatments on Conflicts and Speeds in Washington, D.C. , released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

Guide to Traffic Management: Set , released by Austroads

Coincidental to TRB's 1982 promotion to a stand-alone unit within the NRC and its acceptance of the responsibility to oversee consensus studies, Congress was working on an update to surface transportation legislation. The timing meant that TRB was not going to be able to ease into its new responsibilities. To learn the whole story, check out the latest release in the TRB History Highlights series. As part of the Centennial Celebration, TRB has initiated the History Highlights series that will regularly r...

Research problem statements are now being accepted for the FY 2021 Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP). To submit a problem statement, first review and follow  the format in this outline . Problem statements may be submitted electronically . Previously submitted proposals may be resubmitted. The deadline for consideration is June 19, 2020.   TCRP is managed by TRB and sponsored by the U.S. Federal Transit Administration (FTA). TCRP works in partnership with the American Public Transport...

The Marine Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) is seeking nominations for new members to be appointed to three-year terms that would commence on November 1, 2020. There will be five (5) vacancies on the Board in 2020 and there is particular interest in candidates with expertise in the following areas: Naval Architecture and Naval Engineering Shipbuilding/Shipyard Operations Vessel Pilotage and Harbor Operations Seaport Administration, Planning, and ...

Long-awaited details for Ohio’s plan to at least partially lift the stay-at-home order and reopen the state could come as soon as Monday. Gov. Mike DeWine said last week that a “breakthrough” in the state’s testing capacity for COVID-19 will help ensure the state can reopen safely.

This episode originally aired on March 26, 2020. When the coronavirus became a pandemic, people swamped grocery stores wiping out things like toilet paper and hand sanitizer. However, as Ohio's stay-at-home order drags on there is growing concern for the food supply as the supply chain shows signs of stress. In Ohio, which ranks 11th in the country for milk production, the coronavirus has been so disruptive that dairy farmers have had to dump milk that can’t be sold.

More than 155,000 people born in countries such as Somalia, Bhutan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, and Mexico now call Columbus home. Their struggles are many, from employment to language to education and mental health. All of that has been exacerbated by COVID-19.

Central Ohio television viewers who use antennas had to rescan their television sets to comply with the Federal Communications Commission roll out of 5G technology. Local numbers aren’t available, but nationally, 16 million households or 14% of Americans, use an antenna to watch TV free over-the-air. That number continues to grow in the age of cord cutting.

Ohioans bought 1.36 million gallons of liquor in March, a nearly 25 percent increase over the same period last year. More of us are leaning on alcohol to beat quarantine doldrums and stress, but experts warn that extended overindulging could make it harder to put down the bottle when the lockdown is lifted.

Across the United States, about 7 million children, or 14 percent of all public school students, receive special education services because of their disabilities. Closed schools mean children lose the aides and therapists who provide daily support, leaving parents and teachers to shoulder multiple challenges.

This episode originally aired on April 24, 2020. Ohio’s unemployment rate has reached 11.6% due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 10th worst in the nation. Laid-off workers should be on the lookout for scams and schemes trying to swindle away unemployment benefits and federal stimulus checks.

Today is the day Ohio hospitals can resume nonessential medical procedures that don’t require an overnight hospital stay, which were postponed last month as part of the state’s pandemic response. The Ohio Hospital Association estimates hospitals lose $1.2 billion every month that elective procedures are canceled.

The restaurant industry has lost $80 billion dollars during the pandemic. May 15 is the date restaurants in Ohio want to reopen , yet Gov. Mike Dewine has yet to say when that can happen.

Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday extended what he called “Stay Safe Ohio” measures until May 29, restricting residents’ movements as the state begins to reopen. The state’s death toll passed the 1,000 mark, with an increase in hospitalizations, too.

This episode originally aired on April 24, 2020. Ohio’s unemployment rate has reached 11.6% due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 10th worst in the nation. Laid-off workers should be on the lookout for scams and schemes trying to swindle away unemployment benefits and federal stimulus checks.

President Donald Trump maintained over the weekend that it’s safe for states to reopen during the pandemic and voiced support for anti-lockdown protesters that have rallied at statehouses in Ohio and Michigan. Former Vice President Joe Biden breaks weeks of silence and flatly denied the sexual assault allegation brought against him by former Senate aide Tara Reade, telling MSNBC “it never, never happened.”

In the Columbus City Schools, Ohio's largest school district, 62% of students have the required technology to learn online. The district is not alone. Schools around the state are on the hunt for online resources to close the gap -- and turning to corporate America and the public for help.

Gov. Mike DeWine included dental offices in the first round of businesses that could reopen on May 1. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Dental Association, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have all issued warnings that non-emergency dental procedures should wait for now.

The Trump administration has continued to weaken air pollution regulations despite warnings that long-term exposure to dirty air relates to higher COVID-19 death rates. Harvard researchers made the first statistical link between the two last month, just before the administration loosened some clean air regulations and failed to tighten others.

Just as the Columbus real estate market entered its busiest months, COVID-19 struck. The National Association of Realtors reported that pending home sales dropped 20 percent in March. Nationwide, nearly 4 million homeowners have sought mortgage relief and were not paying their mortgage in April.

By early May, more than 270,000 people have died around the world from the disease attributed to the new coronavirus. First identified in Wuhan, China in December, the virus has infected nearly four million worldwide, including well over a million in the U.S., which now lays claim to one in every four deaths.

This episode originally aired on April 30, 2020. Across the United States, about 7 million children, or 14 percent of all public school students, receive special education services because of their disabilities. Closed schools mean children lose the aides and therapists who provide daily support, leaving parents and teachers to shoulder multiple challenges.

TRB's “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story" challenge is now looking into the future. What impact do you hope to have on the world and how is the Transportation Research Board helping you make that impact? What is your vision for the Transportation Research Board 100 years from now? What are solutions that you have identified as a result of research you learned about through TRB? TRB welcomes all stories: small or large, profound or light-hearted, sobering or humorous. In addition to posting responses to these questions...

Issue 324 of TRB's magazine (November-December 2019) focuses on climate change resilience. Along with several explorations within that topic, a short history of TRB is offered as well as all the usual standing features of the magazine. TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation. It also includes brief news items of interest to the transportation community, research pays off articles , profiles of tr...

TRB 2021 Committee Paper Review will go on as scheduled. The submission site will open June 1 and the deadline is August 1. We have learned a lot during this year’s transition to the TRR Editorial Board workflow for publication papers and have listened to your feedback. Important improvements this year include: • Committee review comments will go to authors by October 31. • Full papers will be posted in the interactive program unless the authors “opt out” because they wish to publish the paper elsewhere....

As all aspects of transportation deal with the unfolding effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, there are research needs, gaps, and potential ways to leverage innovation revealing themselves across all modes, systems, and disciplines in transportation. In keeping with the mission of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to provide trusted, timely, impartial, and evidence-based information exchange and research, TRB is issuing an urgent and directed call for Research Needs Statements sp...

Are you looking for specific phrases in transportation research? When submitting keywords or keyword phrases as part of any search in TRID , those words are now highlighted in yellow in both the results list and in individual records. You can turn this feature off in the Advanced Search Filters with the toggle just below the Keywords field.

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has issued a request for proposals to develop a comprehensive, evidenced-based guide for bus operator workforce management from pre-employment through retirement. The guide should present both best practices and innovative practices that enhance and sustain public transit and support bus operators who provide fixed-route, flexible-route, and on-demand services. Proposals are due August 11, 2020 at 5:00 PM Eastern.

Help those searching for transportation research on your site. If you have already implemented the TRIDGET (TRID Widget)  on your website or LibGuide, it will now take you to a result list in TRID based on the keyword(s) you entered into the TRIDGET keyword box.It is a widget that can be embedded on your own web platform and allows your customers to initiate a TRID search directly from your site. It is particularly easy to implement in LibGuides: just copy the TRIDGET code/markup into a Media/W...

The March-April 2020 issue of TR News (#326) - including a cover feature on TRB's "century of progress and foundation for the future" of transportation research - is available in hard copy and digital copy for subscribers. For those who are not subscribers, the table of contents is available. Other feature articles in the issue include ones on whether research processes can keep up, accessible rail sleeper compartments, drones and lasers for railroad bridges, implications of California wildfires, and muc...

According to Ken Murray, Sr. Landscape Architect, California Department of Transportation "TRB allows for expanding your influence and connections throughout the transportation world nationally. You're able to connect with fellow peers from different states and share experiences, discuss strategies for difficult situations, and solutions to issues that others may have already handled that you personally are dealing with. It expands your network that allows for more diverse information for other areas tha...

The National Academies/TRB Forum on Preparing for Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, May 13 at 2:00 – 3:30 PM Eastern to focus on the role of AV and Shared mobility in light of COVID-19. The online event is free and open to the public, but registration is required . Speakers include: Effect of COVID-19 on AVs , Annie Chang and Ed Straub of SAE International Effect of COVI19 on Shared Mobility , Susan Shaheen of University of California, Berkeley COVID-19 and New Par...

In 2017, when leadership at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) decided to build a new International Arrivals Facility (IAF), they knew they had to leverage airport resources in a cost-effective manner to enhance customer experience. At nearly 50 years old, the existing facility could no longer accommodate Sea-Tac’s demand for international travel, which grew 107 percent from 2007 to 2017. The latest issue of the  TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's (ACRP) Impacts on Practice serie...

Airports are using tools that help them identify risks within their environment. Most airports are providing a means to report risk. Smaller airports use low-cost options such as email, a 24/7 phone number, or a suggestion box. Larger airports have embraced safety management or enterprise risk management programs that include more expensive reporting and tracking systems. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Synthesis 106: Airport Risk Identification and Prioritization Practices provides i...

There are opportunities and challenges in implementing public–private partnerships at airports. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's Conference Proceedings on the Web 26: Public–Private Partnerships: What Are the Lessons Learned? is a summary of the presentations and discussions at an ACRP Insight Event held July 10-11, 2019, in Washington, DC.  These in-depth, face-to-face gatherings are designed to promote communication and collaboration, foster innovation, and help identify areas of fut...

There are opportunities and challenges in implementing public–private partnerships at airports. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's Conference Proceedings on the Web 26: Public–Private Partnerships: What Are the Lessons Learned? is a summary of the presentations and discussions at an ACRP Insight Event held July 10-11, 2019, in Washington, DC.  These in-depth, face-to-face gatherings are designed to promote communication and collaboration, foster innovation, and help identify areas of fut...

Within the academic aviation world, good textbooks can be hard to come by. Not only do few aviation textbook publishers exist, but the aviation industry is constantly changing. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's latest Impacts on Practice brief, ACRP in the Classroom: Reimagining the Textbook at the University of North Dakota Department of Aviation , details how Dr. Kim Kenville uses ACRP Research Report 16, Second Edition: Guidebook for Managing Small Airports , in her classes. “This publica...

Critical Issues in Trucking Workforce Development , released by the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University

Decarbonizing Argentina’s Transport System: Charting the Way Forward , released by the International Transport Forum

COVID-19 Impacts on the Trucking Industry , released by the American Transportation Research Institute

How do transportation agencies apply principles of green infrastructure (GI) to roadside water management? TRB is hosting a webinar on Monday, May 18, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that aims to answer this question. Presenters will identify how GI may be used to mitigate impacts of flooding, drought, and temperature extremes that affect infrastructure. This webinar draws on research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Domestic Scan Program 16-02: Leading Landscape Design Pr...

Field Monitoring of Erosion and Sediment Control Practices and Development of Additional Iowa DOT Design Manual Guidance , released by the Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University

International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastracture will host Tenth International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure on June 30 - July 2, 2021 in Porto, Portugal. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. The conference provides a forum for idea exchanges, knowledge sharing, and technology-need matchmaking in the global Structural Health Monitoring and Nondestructive Testing community. It serves as a unique venue to showcase U.S. and gl...