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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH E-NEWSLETTER
Transportation Research Board
of The National Academies
2/26/2008
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SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

***** TRB NEWS *****

* Upcoming TRB Webinar - Fast Lanes on the Transportation Information
Superhighway: Tips for Efficient, Comprehensive Internet Research

***** RECENTLY RELEASED TRB PUBLICATIONS *****

* Specification Criteria for Simple Performance Tests for Rutting,
Volume I: Dynamic Modulus (E*) and Volume II: Flow Number and Flow Time
* SHRP 2 Tackles the Human Side of Reducing Crashes and Congestion
* Use of Biodiesel in a Transit Fleet
* Statistical Methods, Safety Data, Analysis, and Evaluation 2007
* Incorporating ITS Into the Transportation Planning Process: An
Integrated Planning Framework (ITS, M&O, Infrastructure) Executive
Guidebook
* Incorporating ITS Into the Transportation Planning Process: An
Integrated Planning Framework (ITS, M&O, Infrastructure) Practitioner’s
Guidebook
* Highway Facility Design 2007

***** FEDERAL RESEARCH NEWS *****

* The Maritime Administration and the Marine Transportation System: A
Vision for the 21st Century
* Quick Response Freight Manual Second Edition
* Compilation of Pedestrian Safety Devices in Use at Grade Crossings
* Low-Cost Carbon Fiber Technology Development for Carbon Fiber
Composite Application: Phase I Final Report
* The Impact of Training on General Aviation Pilots’ Ability to Make
Strategic Weather-Related Decisions
* Field Evaluation of Whole Airliner Decontamination Technologies -
Wide-Body Aircraft with Dual-Use Application for Railcars

***** STATE RESEARCH NEWS *****

* Regional Stormwater Irrigation Facilities
* Evaluation of Procedure to Estimate Subgrade Resilient Modulus for Use
in Pavement Structural Design

***** UNIVERSITY RESEARCH NEWS *****

* HSRC Directions: Winter 2008
* The Retrofit Puzzle: Optimal Fleet Owner Behavior in the Context of
Diesel Retrofit
* Exploration of a Shift in Household Transportation Spending from
Vehicles to Public Transportation
* Go! - November-December 2007

***** INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NEWS *****

* Developing School-Based Cycle Trains in New Zealand
* Trends in Road Freight Transport 1999 - 2006
* Watercutting - Investigating the Lifecycle of Watercutter Rejuvenation
of Aggregates

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TRB News
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UPCOMING TRB WEBINAR - FAST LANES ON THE TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION
SUPERHIGHWAY: TIPS FOR EFFICIENT, COMPREHENSIVE INTERNET RESEARCH
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8698

TRB will be conducting a web briefing or “Webinar” on Wednesday,
February 27, 2008, from 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. EDT that will explore
techniques and tips on how to search on the Internet and find the
information you are looking for. The Webinar will focus in particular
on searching for transportation-related information. Participants must
register at least 24 hours in advance of the start of the Webinar, space
is limited, and there is a fee for non-TRB Sponsor employees.

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Recently Released TRB Publications
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SPECIFICATION CRITERIA FOR SIMPLE PERFORMANCE TESTS FOR RUTTING, VOLUME
I: DYNAMIC MODULUS (E*) AND VOLUME II: FLOW NUMBER AND FLOW TIME
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8708

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 580:
Specification Criteria for Simple Performance Tests for Rutting, Volume
I: Dynamic Modulus (E*) and Volume II: Flow Number and Flow Time,
explores three recommended simple performance tests for permanent
deformation of hot-mix asphalt.

SHRP 2 TACKLES THE HUMAN SIDE OF REDUCING CRASHES AND CONGESTION
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8608

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a
summary document that provides an overview of the program and explores
its four thematic research areas–safety, renewal, reliability, and
capacity. The research being undertaken in SHRP 2 is revolutionary in
many ways, aimed at gaining insights that will have significant and
innovative impacts on traffic congestion, highway fatalities, and
quality-of-life issues.

USE OF BIODIESEL IN A TRANSIT FLEET
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8697

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 72: Use of
Biodiesel in a Transit Fleet explores potential benefits offered by
biodiesel in order to help transit agencies make informed decisions
regarding its use.

STATISTICAL METHODS, SAFETY DATA, ANALYSIS, AND EVALUATION 2007
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8719

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation
Research Board, No. 2019 includes 30 papers that explore modeling crash
frequency by severity, time series analysis of road risk, crash data
analysis using bootstrapped maximum likelihood method, time series
analysis of the effect of holidays on daily traffic counts,
regression-to-mean effect in traffic safety evaluation, roundabouts, and
the safety impact of improved signal visibility. This issue of the TRR
also examines automated analysis of road safety with video data, route
safety assessment, crash prediction models, innovative time series
analysis of road marking retroreflectivity and crashes, prediction of
fatality rates, safety index of two-lane rural highways, safety planning
study of urban freeways, signalized intersection right-angle crashes,
and the impact of active speed limiters. In addition, this issue
reviews the identification of intersections for red light cameras,
animal-vehicle collisions, reliability of road safety estimates,
estimating safety benefits of shoulder rumble strips, identifying sites
with specific accident types, safety prediction models, the safety
effectiveness of changes in shoulder width, relationships between crash
involvement and temporal-spatial driving behavior activity patterns, and
digitizing information on crash locations.

INCORPORATING ITS INTO THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PROCESS: AN
INTEGRATED PLANNING FRAMEWORK (ITS, M&O, INFRASTRUCTURE) EXECUTIVE
GUIDEBOOK
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8695

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only
Document 118, Part I: Incorporating ITS Into the Transportation Planning
Process: An Integrated Planning Framework (ITS, M&O, Infrastructure)
Executive Guidebook explores factors that are pushing regions and states
towards integration of intelligent transportation systems in the
transportation planning process, including the institutional,
organizational, and technical processes that are included within it. In
addition, this report examines challenges, transition strategies, and
resources available to help agencies interested in adopting the
integrated framework concept. This report is summary of the full report
that was published as NCHRP Web-Only Document 118, Part I.

INCORPORATING ITS INTO THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PROCESS: AN
INTEGRATED PLANNING FRAMEWORK (ITS, M&O, INFRASTRUCTURE) PRACTITIONER’S
GUIDEBOOK
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8696

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only
Document 118, Part II: Incorporating ITS Into the Transportation
Planning Process: An Integrated Planning Framework (ITS, M&O,
Infrastructure) Practitioner’s Guidebook explores factors that are
pushing regions and states towards integration of intelligent
transportation systems in the transportation planning process, including
the institutional, organizational, and technical processes that are
included within it. In addition, this report examines challenges,
transition strategies, and resources available to help agencies
interested in adopting the integrated framework concept. A companion
overview of this report has been published as NCHRP Web-Only Document
118 Part II.

HIGHWAY FACILITY DESIGN 2007
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8686

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation
Research Board, No. 2025 includes 14 papers organized in four parts.
Part 1, roadside safety design, examines a guardrail for long-span
culverts; steel post, W-beam guardrail systems; low-tension three-strand
cable median barriers; and a guardrail W-beam-to-Thrie-beam transition.
Part 2, landscape and environmental design and context-sensitive design
and solutions, explores road design in small rural communities; a model
for freeway green landscape evaluation; context-sensitive solutions,
value engineering and asset management; integrating value engineering,
and context-sensitive solutions; use of context-sensitive methods to
influence operating speeds; and mainstreaming context-sensitive design
in Massachusetts. Part 3, hydrology, hydraulics, and water quality,
examines particle separation and hydrologic control by cementitious
permeable pavement, abutment scour prediction equations, and porous
asphalt overlay impact on storm water quality. Part 4, utilities,
contains one paper that reviews outsourcing utility coordination.

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Federal Research News
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THE MARITIME ADMINISTRATION AND THE MARINE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM: A
VISION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8740

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration has
released a report that provides background on the role of the maritime
industry in the nation’s economy, examines the recent realignment of the
Maritime Administration, and explores the Administration’s vision for
the future of the industry.

QUICK RESPONSE FREIGHT MANUAL SECOND EDITION
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8754

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that
explores information on the freight transportation system and factors
affecting freight demand. The report is designed to help planners
locate available data and freight-related forecasts compiled by others.
The report also examines how to apply this information in developing
forecasts for specific facilities and highlights techniques and
transferable parameters that can be used to develop freight vehicle trip
tables.

COMPILATION OF PEDESTRIAN SAFETY DEVICES IN USE AT GRADE CROSSINGS
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8750

The U.S. Federal Railroad Administration has released a report that
explores the state of the practice of pedestrian accommodation at rail
grade crossings, including pedestrian-only crossings.

LOW-COST CARBON FIBER TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE
APPLICATION: PHASE I FINAL REPORT
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8751

The U.S. Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has released a report that
explores the production of low-cost carbon fibers and examines the
development of specific carbon-based material technologies to meet
current and future high-performance fiber-reinforced composite needs of
FTA and other organizations.

THE IMPACT OF TRAINING ON GENERAL AVIATION PILOTS’ ABILITY TO MAKE
STRATEGIC WEATHER-RELATED DECISIONS
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8743

The Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Aerospace Medicine has
released a report that explores whether a graphical weather display
combined with an instructional training paradigm could improve a pilot’s
ability to maintain a safe flying distance from convective thunderstorm
activity.

FIELD EVALUATION OF WHOLE AIRLINER DECONTAMINATION TECHNOLOGIES -
WIDE-BODY AIRCRAFT WITH DUAL-USE APPLICATION FOR RAILCARS
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8744

The Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Aerospace Medicine has
released a report that explores decontamination technologies and the
efficiency of thermal decontamination.

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State Research News
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REGIONAL STORMWATER IRRIGATION FACILITIES
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8757

The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that
explores the use of water from detention ponds for irrigation.

EVALUATION OF PROCEDURE TO ESTIMATE SUBGRADE RESILIENT MODULUS FOR USE
IN PAVEMENT STRUCTURAL DESIGN
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8745

The Kansas Department of Transportation has released a report that
evaluates the procedures it uses to estimate effective subgrade
resilient modulus. To view a copy of the report, search on “KS-07-10″
without the quotation marks on the Kansas Research Reports Catalog page.

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University Research News
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HSRC DIRECTIONS: WINTER 2008
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8756

The University of North Carolina’s (UNC’s) Highway Safety Research
Center (HSRC) has released the latest edition of its newsletter.
Articles in this issue of Directions include the following:
* Highway Safety Research Center Contributes to International
Transportation Conference
* Center for the Study of Young Drivers Aids in National Research and
Policy Development
* HSRC Launches National Research Program to Measure the Impact of Safe
Routes to School

THE RETROFIT PUZZLE: OPTIMAL FLEET OWNER BEHAVIOR IN THE CONTEXT OF
DIESEL RETROFIT
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8748

The Region 2 University Transportation Research Center at the City
College of New York has released a report that examines optimization
models designed to support systematic diesel retrofit analysis. The
report also explores applications of the models in case studies.

EXPLORATION OF A SHIFT IN HOUSEHOLD TRANSPORTATION SPENDING FROM
VEHICLES TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8741

The National Center for Transit Research (NCTR) at the University of
South Florida has released a report that explores the level of transit
capacity and service that would be needed to reduced the level of
private vehicle ownership. The report also examines the potential
consequences of reduced vehicle ownership.

GO! - NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2007
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8742

The Center for Transportation Research and Education at Iowa State
University has released the latest issue of Go! magazine. Go! is an
online magazine for teens and young adults that explores the world of
transportation and careers they can find there.

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International Research News
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DEVELOPING SCHOOL-BASED CYCLE TRAINS IN NEW ZEALAND
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8739

Land Transport New Zealand has released a report that examines the
characteristics of cycle trains and explores the process for setting up
and operating them. A cycle train is similar in approach to the walking
school bus - adult volunteers, or conductors, cycle along a set route to
school, collecting children from designated ‘train stops’ along the way.

TRENDS IN ROAD FREIGHT TRANSPORT 1999 - 2006
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8749

The European Commission’s Eurostat has released a report that explores
European trends in road freight transport from 1999 to 2006. The report
covers national, international, cross-trade, and cabotage transport.

WATERCUTTING - INVESTIGATING THE LIFECYCLE OF WATERCUTTER REJUVENATION
OF AGGREGATES
-> http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=8752

Land Transport New Zealand has released a report that examines the
effect of ultra high-pressure watercutting on chipseal and hot-mix
asphalt surfacings with polished aggregate.

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RECENTLY ADDED PROJECTS TO THE RESEARCH IN PROGRESS DATABASE

The Research In Progress (RiP) Database contains more than 9,500 records
of current or recently completed transportation research projects.
-> http://rip.trb.org/browse/additions.asp?days=7
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