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Research and innovation in the life sciences is driving rapid growth in agriculture, biomedical science, information science and computing, energy, and other sectors of the U.S. economy. This economic activity, conceptually referred to as the bioeconomy, presents many opportunities to create jobs, improve the quality of life, and continue to drive economic growth. While the United States has been a leader in advancements in the biological sciences, other countries are also actively investing in and expanding their capabilities in this area. Maintaining competitiveness in the bioeconomy is key to maintaining the economic health and security of the United States and other nations.
Safeguarding the Bioeconomy evaluates preexisting and potential approaches for assessing the value of the bioeconomy and identifies intangible assets not sufficiently captured or that are missing from U.S. assessments. This study considers strategies for safeguarding and sustaining the economic activity driven by research and innovation in the life sciences. It also presents ideas for horizon scanning mechanisms to identify new technologies, markets, and data sources that have the potential to drive future development of the bioeconomy.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-49567-9
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https://doi.org/10.17226/25525
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Safeguarding the Bioeconomy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The National Academies Food and Nutrition Board hosted a public workshop in May 2024 to explore the challenges and successes of bidirectional communication between producers of food and consumers about food sources, production, and composition. Speakers from a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture and nutrition researchers, journalists, social scientists, and more considered the health and nutrition needs of consumers across the food system. This proceedings summarizes the presentations and discussions that occurred at the workshop.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72881-9
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72882-7
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28024
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Communication to Bridge the Gap Between Food Production and Nutrition and Health: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Lagging indicators in occupational safety and health are required reporting figures that provide an industry-standard metric to measure the number of employees injured annually or impacted by a recordable injury. Recognizing the weaknesses of traditional lagging indicators to proactively manage occupational safety, many organizations and industries have emphasized safety leading indicators; that is, metrics to identify safety-related activities to consider before an incident occurs.
NCHRP Synthesis 637: Tracking Safety Leading Indicators to Improve DOT Employee Safety Performance, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, explores issues related to safety leading indicator practices used by state departments of transportation (DOTs) to track and prevent occupational injuries and other incidents. The synthesis also includes findings from a survey related to safety leading indicators of practices used by state DOTs.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73194-1
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28599
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Tracking Safety Leading Indicators to Improve DOT Employee Safety Performance. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Since 1959, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has engaged the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine annually to assess the quality, effectiveness, and resource adequacy of NIST's six measurement and standards laboratories. This report reviews the NIST Engineering Laboratory (EL), evaluating technical programs, assessing EL's portfolio of scientific and technical expertise, reviewing the adequacy of facilities, equipment, and human resources, and evaluating EL's effectiveness in disseminating its program outputs.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71457-5
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27444
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. An Assessment of Selected Research Programs and Goals of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2024. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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In 2024, the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions marked its 10th anniversary with a symposium that reviewed the roundtable's evolution over time and how it has informed research, policy, and practice, and its continued role in informing the field. This reaffirmed the roundtable's focus on a systems approach prioritizing equity and the lived experience of obesity in addressing obesity prevention, treatment, and management. The roundtable and its five innovation collaboratives also covered important and timely issues, including obesity and medications.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73465-7
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https://doi.org/10.17226/29049
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Year in Review 2024: Roundtable on Obesity Solutions. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Industry guidance on the planning, operation, and design of airfield vehicle service roads (VSRs) is limited and dispersed across multiple documents. For that reason, VSR systems vary across the industry and are usually influenced by an airport's unique operational demands, vehicle types, airfield and facility configurations, and other airport-specific characteristics.
ACRP Synthesis 139: Airfield Vehicle Service Road Design and Operations, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, describes planning, design, and operations for airfield VSR systems, including operations on apron, non-movement, and movement areas. The synthesis considers VSR issues such as maintaining the road, driver's training, safety concerns, and operational challenges of VSR layouts.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73253-0
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28811
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Airfield Vehicle Service Road Design and Operations. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Social determinants of health, including factors such as the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age; their education and income; and many other elements can influence their likelihood of developing cancer, the type of cancer, the cancer stage at diagnosis, the quality of care they receive, and their health outcomes. The National Cancer Policy Forum hosted a workshop in March 2024 to examine the complex interactions among biological variables and these factors and their impact on cancer-related health outcomes and health equity.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72906-8
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28034
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Biological Effectors of Social Determinants of Health in Cancer: Identification and Mitigation: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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A segmental bridge is constructed in short sections or segments that are either precast or cast-in-place concrete. Segmental bridges were first built in the United States in the 1970s and have proven to be an efficient design for long span bridges.
NCHRP Research Report 1128: Load Rating of Segmental Bridges, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, presents procedures for load rating of segmental bridges. The proposed recommendations were developed based on extensive review of the state of practice of the evaluation of segmental bridges and comprehensive analytical programs.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73186-0
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73187-9
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28597
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Load Rating of Segmental Bridges. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The National Academies Food Forum hosted a public workshop in September 2024 to explore science-informed hazard- and risk-based approaches to safeguarding both the domestic and global food systems. Speakers considered nutritional, economic, and equity implications in food safety decision-making, as well as strategies for communicating hazard and risk across sectors. Discussions also included national and international perspectives on risk assessment and public health, highlighting new tools utilizing technologies such as artificial intelligence.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73084-8
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28574
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Safeguarding the Food Supply: Integrating Diverse Risks, Connecting with Consumers, and Protecting Vulnerable Populations: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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As part of their ongoing work, the Board on Higher Education and Workforce and the Roundtable on Mentorship, Well-being, and Professional Development of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened an in-person and online workshop on Empowering Senior Higher Education Leaders in Developing an Equitable Research Ecosystem on April 30, 2024, on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The workshop sought to highlight the roles senior leaders (e.g., presidents, provosts, and deans) play in embodying an equitable research ecosystem - sharing strategies and resources and allowing participants to develop actionable plans that integrate mentorship, well-being, and professional development for graduate and professional students and postdoctoral scholars. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73373-1
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28908
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Empowering Senior Higher Education Leaders in Developing an Equitable Research Ecosystem: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Safe and efficient freight movement depends on sufficient and strategically located truck parking. Federal hours of service regulations require drivers to take breaks at defined intervals, leading to a search for parking ahead of their allowable drive time expires or while staging for their pick-up and delivery slots. This results in lost productivity, higher shipping costs, safety and environmental impacts of circulating trucks, and increased congestion.
NCHRP Web-Only Document 415: Developing a Guide for Truck Parking Information Management Systems, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, is supplemental to NCHRP Research Report 1137: Guide for Truck Parking Information Management Systems.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73236-0
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28758
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Developing a Guide for Truck Parking Information Management Systems. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The National Academies' Roundtable on Population Health Improvement hosted the third installment in their workshop series, Elevating the Structural Drivers of Population Health, focused on economic systems as a social determinant of health. Convened in September 2024, the event emphasized the importance of partnerships, highlighting three related concepts across three panels: solidarity, shared value, and movement building. Each contributes to a well-being economy that centers and protects vulnerable communities, offers resources to build infrastructure, and mobilizes systemic change. This Proceedings of a Workshop-in Brief highlights the presentations and discussions that occurred at the workshop.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73366-9
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28879
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Economic Systems as a Structural Driver of Population Health through the Lens of Partnerships: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Recent studies of truck parking demand and capacity constraints reflect a consensus that truck parking demand exceeds the available supply in many public rest areas and private truck stops nationwide.
NCHRP Research Report 1137: Guide for Truck Parking Information Management Systems, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, provides information on these systems that help address the need to provide safer parking options for commercial vehicle operators and reduce the time they take to search for parking through the collection and dissemination of real-time parking availability using a variety of technologies.
Supplemental to the report is NCHRP Web-Only Document 415: Developing a Guide for Truck Parking Information Management Systems.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73232-8
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73233-6
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28757
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Guide for Truck Parking Information Management Systems. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TR News 352 (January–March 2025)—the last print issue before the magazine goes all digital—features articles on mitigating injury and death in work zones, exploring the business jet industry in the United States, understanding how air service development supports regional economies, and reducing the use of salt for winter pavement maintenance.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73394-4
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28952
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. TR News January-March 2025: Mitigating Work-Zone Intrusion Risks. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The AASHTO Drainage Manual (ADM) (2014) provides a template and guidelines that facilitate state transportation agencies in the development of a highway drainage design manual.
NCHRP Web-Only Document 423: Development of a New Highway Drainage Manual, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, is a new, up-to-date highway drainage manual informed by the 2014 ADM and provides state and local transportation agencies with design guidelines, along with the technical background to support them.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73397-9
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https://doi.org/10.17226/29027
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Development of a New Highway Drainage Manual. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has released its annual report, which provides a concise list of research published in 2024 and a list of all active projects, projects completed in 2024, and projects that were approved in 2024 but are not yet under contract. The annual report also presents detailed information about how the NCHRP operates with oversight by the AASHTO Special Committee on Research and Innovation.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72891-6
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28027
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. NCHRP 2024 Annual Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The ACRP 2024 Annual Report describes the TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's activities and accomplishments over the past year. The annual report details how ACRP encourages collaboration to address emerging challenges and fosters professional networking across miles and generations. Program metrics and practitioner feedback are presented to highlight ACRP's accomplishments.
Since its establishment in 2005, the Airport Cooperative Research Program has helped foster and sustain these benefits by conducting applied research to help the airport industry address day-to-day challenges. In 2024, ACRP continued conducting high-quality, industry-driven research, disseminating the research to airport practitioners and other stakeholders, and engaging industry members in new and meaningful ways.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72893-2
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28029
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. ACRP 2024 Annual Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Significant economic and environmental benefits provide motivation to use more recycled asphalt materials in asphalt mixtures.
NCHRP Research Report 1130: Capturing the Durability of High Recycled Binder Ratio Asphalt Mixtures, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, provides a framework to facilitate the design of durable asphalt mixtures within the context of balanced mix design (BMD).
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72759-6
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72760-X
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27991
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Capturing the Durability of High Recycled Binder Ratio Asphalt Mixtures. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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National and international plans for halting and reversing climate change focus on reducing and eventually ending the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions: carbon dioxide (CO2) released by fossil fuel combustion. However, as the nation moves towards replacing many fossil CO2-emitting processes with zero- or low-carbon-emission alternatives, special attention is needed to eliminate net carbon emissions from the systems that cannot be fully "decarbonized", such as the production of aviation fuel, chemicals, plastics, and construction materials. For these systems, carbon will need to be managed and utilized effectively, in a way that either prevents CO2 from entering the atmosphere or reuses it through circular processes that do not contribute additional emissions.
Carbon Utilization Infrastructure, Markets, and Research and Development: A Final Report is the second report of a two-part study. The study's first report assessed the state of infrastructure for CO2 transportation, use, and storage, highlighting priority opportunities for further investment. This second report identifies potential markets and commercialization opportunities for CO2- and coal waste-derived products, examines economic, environmental, and climate impacts of CO2 utilization infrastructure, and puts forward a comprehensive research agenda for carbon utilization technologies.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-71775-2
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71776-0
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27732
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Carbon Utilization Infrastructure, Markets, and Research and Development: A Final Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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