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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.

Featured Publications

2025 Cooperative Research Programs Annual Report

2026

Reimagining Supply Chains for National Resiliency: Proceedings of a Forum

2025

Pay and Working Conditions in the Long-Distance Truck and Bus Industries: Assessing for Effects on Driver Safety and Retention

Consensus Study Report

2024

Long Freight Trains: Ensuring Safe Operations, Mitigating Adverse Impacts

Consensus Study Report

2024

Intermodal Chassis Provisioning and Supply Chain Efficiency: Equipment Availability, Choice, and Quality

Consensus Study Report

2024

Upcoming events

Featured work

Science and Technology for Resilience

Initiative

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Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Preparedness and Response: Harnessing Lessons from the Efforts to Mitigate the COVID-19 Pandemic

Initiative

Addressing Issues of Vaccine Distribution and Supply Chains to Advance Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Preparedness and Response

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Security of America’s Medical Product Supply Chain

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Safe Transportation of Liquefied Natural Gas by Railroad Tank Car

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Building Adaptable and Resilient Supply Chains after Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Truck Size and Weight Limits Research Plan

Consensus/Advisory Activity

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

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Domestic Transportation of Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Ethanol

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Commercial Aviation Supply Chain Resilience: Meeting of Experts

Meeting of Experts

Units

Transportation Research Board Executive Office

Oversight Unit

National Cooperative Highway Research Program

Oversight Unit

Airport Cooperative Research Program

Oversight Unit

Center for Advancing Science and Technology (CAST)

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

Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Preparedness and Response: Harnessing Lessons from the Efforts to Mitigate the COVID-19 Pandemic

Initiative

Science and Technology for Resilience

Initiative

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Resilient America Roundtable

Roundtable/Forum

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