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The National Academies Forum on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) hosted a hybrid public workshop in May 2023 to explore what is needed to better serve adult TBI patients who require follow-up care in support of their recovery at home. Speakers discussed when and how to follow up with less-severe TBI patients who have been discharged to their homes after a brief period of acute care, and the varied needs, issues, and considerations that relate to outpatient care and at-home symptom management during the approximately 6-month period following injury.This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-70826-5
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-70827-3
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27205
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Improving Systems of Follow-Up Care for Traumatic Brain Injury: Proceedings of a Workshop. 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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At the request of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, Strategic Report on Research and Development in Biotechnology for Defense Innovation provides an overview of the current landscape of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)-enabled biotechnology, the opportunities it presents, and the challenges it poses. This report offers a strategic vision for connecting scientists and technologists to build on, leverage, and tailor advances at the intersection of AI/ML, automated experimentation, and biotechnology to drive innovation in defense-related biotechnologies. Strategic Report on Research and Development in Biotechnology for Defense Innovation makes recommendations to address long-standing challenges that have limited research, development, prototyping, testing and evaluation, and eventual use of biotechnologies. Addressing these challenges will help to advance U.S. national security and defense by improving the performance of existing capabilities, enabling the creation of domestic supply chains of valuable products, reducing reliance on processes and chemicals that are harmful to the environment, and/or adding new capabilities not currently possible with established technologies.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72673-5
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72674-3
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27971
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Strategic Report on Research and Development in Biotechnology for Defense Innovation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has released its annual report, which provides an overview of the program, status of each of TCRP's projects, and a summary of some of the program's accomplishments for the year.
TCRP focuses on issues significant to the public transportation industry, with emphasis on developing near-term research solutions to a variety of transit problems involving facilities, vehicles, equipment, service concepts, operations, policy, planning, human resources, maintenance, and administrative practices.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72885-1
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28025
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. TCRP 2024 Annual Report of Progress. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The United States Department of Agriculture's Contingency Planning and Training of Personnel Rule, which went into effect on January 3, 2022, mandates that all regulated institutions that do not meet di minimis exemptions for implementing emergency plans must ensure the humane care of their animals during emergencies or disasters as specified in its regulations.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Science and Welfare of Animals Involved in Research convened a public workshop on June 4-5, 2024 to examine the successes, challenges, and lessons learned from the first year of the Rule's implementation. The workshop included representatives from various sectors of the research community who shared their experiences, strategies, achievements, obstacles, and insights about the Rule. This Proceedings of a Workshop-in Brief provides an overview of the workshop.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71798-1
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27738
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Contingency Planning and Training of Personnel Rule: One Year of Implementation: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Ensuring every child is on an optimal trajectory to a healthy and productive adulthood is imperative for the nation's future. Investments in children and families improves child health, but also health equity, education outcomes, workforce productivity, and cost-effectiveness in public spending. Despite advances in health care, children, especially those from historically marginalized groups, face rising rates of chronic diseases, obesity, and mental health challenges.
Launching Lifelong Health by Improving Health Care for Children, Youth, And Families presents a vision for transforming the child and adolescent health care system. This report also examines how the health care system can be better positioned to equitably address the needs of all children and families and leverage community supports. This requires transforming key components, such as health care financing, public health investment, community partnerships, and accountability strategies, to encourage team-based care delivery models and attention to and health promotion, prevention, and root causes of health disparities.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72194-6
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72195-4
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27835
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Launching Lifelong Health by Improving Health Care for Children, Youth, and Families. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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2023 shattered global climate records as the warmest year in the modern record, bringing with it devastating impacts on human and natural systems. Methane emissions, about 60% of which come from human activities, are a major contributor to global warming, second only to carbon dioxide (CO2). Methane is relatively short-lived in the atmosphere but is 80 times more potent than CO2 at trapping heat over a 20-year period. Together with reducing CO2 emissions, rapid and sustained reductions in methane emissions are critical to limit both near- and long-term warming in future decades. But given the many barriers to achieving needed emissions reductions at scale, researchers are exploring the potential of technologies to remove methane from the atmosphere.
A Research Agenda Toward Atmospheric Methane Removal is the first report of a two-phase study to assess the need and potential for atmospheric methane removal. This report identifies priority research that should be addressed within 3-5 years so that a second-phase assessment could more robustly assess the technical, economic, and social viability of technologies to remove atmospheric methane at climate-relevant scales. The research agenda presented in this report includes foundational research that would help us better understand atmospheric methane removal while also filling knowledge gaps in related fields, and systems research that seek to address what developing and/or deploying atmospheric methane removal at scale would entail. A Research Agenda Toward Atmospheric Methane Removal also assesses five atmospheric methane removal technologies that would accelerate the conversion of methane to a less radiatively potent form or physically remove methane from the atmosphere and store it elsewhere.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-70665-3
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-70666-1
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27157
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. A Research Agenda Toward Atmospheric Methane Removal. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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TRB's Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (BTSCRP) has released its annual report. BTSCRP provides practical, ready-to-implement solutions to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce the costs of road traffic crashes associated with unsafe behaviors. The BTSCRP 2024 Annual Report highlights current and pending projects, sponsors, publications, and other details about the program.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72888-6
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28026
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. BTSCRP 2024 Annual Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Airports are committing to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, some by as soon as 2050. Part of that commitment can include carbon dioxide removal (CDR), a segment of the industry that is rapidly changing; new technology, science, and best practices are constantly being discovered and published. With CDR pathways, there are many details, opportunities, constraints, and application guidelines for airports to consider.
ACRP Research Report 270: Carbon Removal at Airports, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Board, aims to define the terms related to CDR and potential applications and discusses the need for carbon reduction, the different pathways for removing carbon, a process for evaluating CDR, and airport-specific considerations.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73047-3
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73048-1
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28458
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Carbon Removal at Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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