Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

WTKN Seminar: Planning for Historical Resources Digitization Projects Join us for a Webinar on June 20 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/301929944 What are some factors to consider prior to digitizing historical resources in transportation libraries? This webinar covers basic information about implementing digital projects from an archivist’s perspective. Join instructor [...]

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Please join the WTKN (Western Transportation Knowledge Network) for our Webinar on November 16, titled “7 Strategies for Search ” presented by A.J. Million, Librarian at Missouri Dept. of Transportation. The registration link is given below. WTKN Seminar Series: 7 Strategies for Search (Transportation Edition) Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Time: 10:00 AM – 10:45 [...]

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TRB will be conducting a web seminar or “webinar” on August 11, 2011, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM EDT that will enable individuals to become familiar with entering and managing project records in the Research in Progress (RiP) Database. Registration is free for all attendees. Register now at http://trb.org/ElectronicSessions/Blurbs/TRB_Webinar_Entering_and_Managing_Project_Records_165692.aspx The Transportation Research Board’s RiP [...]

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Free FHWA sponsored webinar: Title: Statewide Opportunities for Integrating Operations, Safety, and Multimodal Planning Date/Time: 8/2/2011 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Eastern Time Description: This webinar showcases the FHWA reference manual: “Statewide Opportunities for Integrating Operations, Safety, and Multimodal Planning.” The webinar is designed for State DOTs and their partner agencies to help them in [...]

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- Are you & your colleagues interested in a user-friendly forecasting TOOLKIT to examine the BENEFITS AND COSTS of new congestion-abating transportation projects and policies? – Are you ready for a methodologically sound process to evaluate TRAVEL TIME, RELIABILITY, SAFETY, and EMISSIONS impacts of CAPACITY expansion and OPERATIONAL improvement projects? Please have your top planning [...]

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On June 22, I attended an introductory webinar sponsored by TRB and several state DOTs on knowledge management practices. Speakers provided information on how knowledge management practices are being used in federal and state transportation organizations today and discussed how these practices help preserve instituitonal knowledge. We also shared several resources including these resources…… Virginia [...]

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TRB is holding a Webinar on “Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety 101: A Primer on Grade Crossing Safety” on September 16th, 2010. Many local planning officials are not familiar with addressing safety needs at highway-rail grade crossings. Collisions between trains and highway users at highway-rail crossings claim several hundred lives and injure almost a thousand people [...]

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It pays to do the right thing(Youtube/Google Video) Youtube/Google posted the Tech Talk, “It Pays To Do The Right Thing: Incentivizing Responsible Commuting.” Video shows traffic congestion around the world and proposed solutions from researchers from Stanford University. We describe a different approach to combat road congestion: Rather than just charging congestors, we advocate paying [...]

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