Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

Join the Transportation Librarians Roundtable (TLR) for their monthly web conference on July 8, 2010, at 2:00pm EDT. July’s TLR will serve as an open forum for discussion. For participation instructions and more information, visit the TLR website. The Transportation Librarians Roundtable, a monthly web conference series, is an initiative of the National Transportation Library [...]

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The June Research Digest highlights recent Transportation Research Board (TRB) Reports. The issue is available online as a PDF. Recent reports from TRB, ACRP, TCRP, HMCRP, and NCHRP are included in the digest.

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A Tennessee transportation research center conducted “Transportation Academy” to teach girls about transportation safety and careers, using items such as remote control cars and a driving simulator. The event is organized and sponsored by the University of Tennessee Center for Transportation (CTR) and the Southeastern Transportation Center. UT Knoxville is also a sponsor. “It’s a [...]

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Find out if your neighborhood scores high in “walkability” on WalkScore. The website was created to help users find a walkable place to live. By entering in an address, users will be able to find out the “walkability” of 2,508 neighborhoods in America’s 40 largest cities. According to Walk Score the factors that make a [...]

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Are you looking for contact information for various state highway and transportation libraries? The Minnesota Department of Transportation and Mn/DOT Library maintain the Directory of State Highway and Transportation Department Libraries. The directory is updated annually, and it contains information about primary DOT library contacts, phone, e-mail, and address. The site also provides some handy [...]

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Interested in a user-friendly forecasting tool to examine the benefits (and costs) of new, congestion abating transportation projects and policies? Ready for a methodologically sound process to evaluate travel time, reliability, safety, and emissions impacts of large-scale projects? Planning staff are invited to join TxDOT’s Project 0-6235 user workshop on “Comprehensive Evaluation of Competing Projects: [...]

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With the progress being made on alternative fuel vehicles along with more stringent emissions regulations, companies are looking to new ways to transport goods, ways that will reduce their environmental impact. photo: Valence Technology Driven in part by tougher federal and state emissions rules and in part by the recession and uncertain fuel prices, many [...]

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TRB has launched a new Practice-Ready Papers (PRP) database that allows users to search for papers by keywords, title, author, index term, subject area, and date of publication. The new database includes links to the full text of papers of interest to PRP database users. Practice-ready papers are identified by TRB standing committees and are [...]

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