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Video Recordings from TRB Annual Meeting Now Available

Announcement

The 2026 TRB Annual Meeting brought together thousands of transportation researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to share current research and discuss pressing issues across all transportation modes. Watch sessions featuring high-profile speakers focused on the surface transportation funding reauthorization bill, megaprojects, road safety, and modernizing transportation systems.

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Featured Publications

Strategies to Improve Reporting of Impaired and Distracted Driving in Motor Vehicle Crashes

2026

Evaluating the Safety Effects of Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures

2026

Crash Modification Factors for Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures

2026

Recycled Asphalt Materials: Binder Availability and Its Impact on Mix Performance

2026

Implementation of A Guide to Computation and Use of System-Level Valuation of Transportation Assets

2026

Featured work

Transit Research Analysis Committee

Other

Study on Data, Metrics, and Analytic Tools for Transportation Investments that Support Family Quality of Life and Communities

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Review of Approaches for Managing Pollutant Loads in Highway Stormwater Runoff

Consensus/Advisory Activity

A swale and a bioretention manage stormwater along a highway.

Review of Federal Highway Administration Infrastructure R&D

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Future Interstate Highway System Study

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Review of the Compliance, Safety, Accountability Program of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Review of Federal Highway Administration Infrastructure R&D - Expert Task Group on Pavements

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Upcoming events

Units

Transportation Research Board Executive Office

Oversight Unit

Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program

Oversight Unit

National Cooperative Highway Research Program

Oversight Unit

TRB Consensus and Advisory Studies Division

Oversight Unit

Technical Activities Division

Oversight Unit

Transportation Research Board (TRB)

Oversight Unit

Cargo train transportation - Freight railway. Used for TRB

Board on Human-Systems Integration

Standing Committee

Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering

Standing Committee

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