TRB Core Program Sponsors are the major source of financial support for TRB's core technical activities. Federal, state, and local government agencies, and professional societies and organizations that represent various industry groups are eligible to be TRB sponsors. Fees and services are negotiated with each sponsor to best serve its particular needs and to provide fundamental support for the Board's programs and activities of interest to the entire transportation community. Sponsors are represented on the TRB Executive Committee. In addition, the transportation departments of the 50 states and the District of Columbia each have an official representative to provide liaison with the Board. Organizations that are TRB sponsors are entitled to display educational, non-commercial exhibits at the TRB Annual Meeting.

State DOT Sponsors collectively contribute over $9 million annually to the TRB Core Programs. Our state sponsors include the highway and transportation departments of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Federal sponsors of TRB's Core Programs contribute various amounts ranging from $83,340 to $2.4 million per year. TRB's current federal sponsors include:

• Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)

• Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)

• Federal Transit Administration (FTA) 

• Maritime Administration (MARAD)

• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

• Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST-R)

• Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) 

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)

• U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

• U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of the Under Secretary for Policy

Other sponsors of TRB's Core Programs contributing at least $83,340 include:

• American Public Transportation Association (APTA)

• California Air Resources Board (CARB)

Major benefits of being a $83,340+ sponsor of TRB's Core Programs include:

• Unlimited registrations to the TRB Annual Meeting for all sponsor employees.

• Meeting facilities and an exhibit booth at the Annual Meeting (based on availability).

• Sponsors are represented on the TRB Executive Committee.

•  One hard copy of nearly all TRB publications (approximately 100 per year) will be provided to the sponsor library or other designate as identified. Sponsor employees are eligible to obtain print copies through the TRB Bookstore, although we encourage sponsor employees to take advantage of the electronic versions that will be readily available on our website.

•  Sponsor employees receive full online access to all the Transportation Research Record (TRR) papers published since 1999.

•  TRB maintains standing committees in subject areas of interest to our sponsors. TRB will also establish appropriate new committees as the need is demonstrated and to respond to changing issues facing the transportation industry.

•  Sponsor employees are eligible for discounted registration fees for many of these of TRB’s committee-sponsored conferences.

•  Sponsor employees are eligible for free registration for TRB sponsored webinars on a wide range of transportation topics.

•  Sponsor employees are eligible for free access to all collected Annual Meeting PowerPoint presentations and posters.

• TRB will continue to operate a staff Field Visit Program to facilitate the exchange of relevant information and increased participation of our sponsors on committees and programs of NAS/TRB. TRB will schedule visits with sponsors and establish liaison representatives as appropriate. 

•  Sponsor employees have access to TRB’s Library and to TRID. TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to over 1,000,000 records of transportation research worldwide – with more than 200,000 records linked to full-text documents. TRID is also indexed with a standardized vocabulary from the Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT). The Research in Progress (RiP) records in TRID are available as a separate searchable database through TRB.

Gary Walker
gwalker@nas.edu
202-334-1313