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The Transportation Research Board, 1920â¬"2020
In 1920, state highway engineers, federal officials, and experts from academia were among a small group convened by the National Academy of Sciences to confront the problems of the highway. The public was entrusting them with billions of dollars for good roads, and World War I had proved the feasibility of moving freight long distances by truck. But even new highways were crumbling. They turned to research for solutions. The founders of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the generations that followed took on problems such as safety, social equity, and environmental issues. They embraced "total transportation," adapting their highway research model to urban transportation and then ap...
Transportation Research Board
Presents information on the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council. The Board stimulates research concerning the nature and performance of transportation systems and encourages the application of appropriate research findings. Discusses the organizational structure of the Board, research opportunities, and the annual meeting. Contains a calendar of events and links to other transportation-related sites.
Informing Transportation Policy Choices
Committees of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) have played a major role in the transportation policy arena. Their work has generated findings and recommendations that have helped frame the issues, shape the debate, and inform the policy-making process. The following sections present highlights of the reports produced by the committees to address eight overarching objectives of transportation policy: improving passenger travel, delivering goods to market, managing risk, providing for security against terrorism, protecting the environment, achieving energy conservation, managing human resources, and conducting public-sector research and development (R & D). Interested readers will find much greater detail in the reports themselves.
Transportation Research Record
"This CD-ROM contains abstracts and text (including graphics) of the 832 papers published in Volumes 1901-1941 and CD 11-S of the 2005 series of the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. Papers were selected for publication from those presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and at the 6th International Bridge Engineering Conference. The papers, related to research, practice, and policy in all modes and subject areas of transportation, are maintained in their complete form as published and are displayed as Adobe® Acrobat® files."--Title screen.
Adequacy of Research Funding for Transportation Management and Administration Research
This Circular contains an edited transcript of the Group 1 Council session on research needs at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in January 1988, along with selected charts used at that session, updated information on the NCHRP 20-24 project taken from the final report of October 1988, and the Executive Summary of a Task Force Report on the status of the NCHRP program completed in February 1988.
Transportation Trends and Current Research Activities
Each year, Transportation Research Board (TRB) staff members visit every state highway and transportation department, many universities, transit and other modal agencies, and industry. The objectives of the field visit program are (a) to learn of problems facing the visited organization and to pass on information pertinent to the solution of these problems (information that is based on research or the experiences of other states, industry, or educational institutions); (b) to learn of research activities in progress or contemplated in order to inform the visited organization of similar research being carried out elsewhere, thus preventing duplication of effort; and (c) to identify new methods and procedures that might have application elsewhere. These annual visits provide the opportunity to collect and share transportation research information through direct personal interaction of TRB staff and the individuals visited. This Circular contains a summary of transportation trends and research activities identified during the FY '88 field visits. Eleven TRB staff members conducted these visits reaching hundreds of transportation professionals in all modes and subject areas.
