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Your gateway to the latest insights and innovations across the transportation industry. TRB’s webinar program connects you with experts sharing cutting-edge research from TRB Standing Technical Committees and Cooperative Research Programs. Plus, earn valuable professional development credits.

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The TRB Online Directory provides access to points of contact and information on TRB’s standing technical committees, project-based committees and panels, and governing committees, as well as to lists of TRB sponsors, affiliates, representatives, volunteers, and staff.

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A free, customizable email newsletter, TRB Weekly keeps readers up to date on TRB activities and highlights select transportation research initiatives at the federal and state levels, as well as within academic and international transportation communities.

TR News

The quarterly magazine of the Transportation Research Board, TR News publishes research-based articles written by and for transportation professionals. Topics cover applied and timely research and development across all the transportation modes.

TRB Publications

TRB disseminates transportation research results and technology information through an extensive array of publications

Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS)

Your gateway to the world’s most comprehensive transportation research resources is TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services program. Explore essential information on current, completed, and needed research, as well as the Transportation Research Thesaurus—a tool that provides a common and consistent language for producers and users of transportation information.

Research Needs Database

TRB’s standing technical committees spot emerging issues and develop research needs statement designed to spark studies that tackle real-world challenges in transportation.

Research In Progress

The Transportation Research Board's Research in Progress (RIP) Database contains information on more than 10,000 current or recently completed transportation research projects. RIP records primarily are projects funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation and State Departments of Transportation. University transportation research also is included in the database.

Transportation Research Information Documentation (TRID) Database

Comprising approximately 1.5 million records—including journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports, and books—the Transportation Research Information Documentation (TRID) database stands alone as the most comprehensive bibliographic resource for transportation research. It provides a single, organized source for discovering information on published and ongoing research worldwide.

TRB Job Center

Offering services to candidates and employers TRB’s Job Center connects transportation professionals and organizations. Candidates gain access to industry employment opportunities and career coaching services, while employers benefit from state-of-the-art job postings and access to a database of transportation professionals.

InSight Data Access Website

Developed because of TRB’s landmark Second Strategic Highway Research Program, the InSight Data Website is the gateway to one of the most comprehensive naturalistic driving studies ever conducted. The site offers information on participating drivers and vehicles, trip summaries, records of crash, near-crash, and baseline driving events, and more. Visitors can explore project background, learn about the datasets, and engage with the research community through interactive forums.

Transportation Research Record

Transportation Research Records contain technical papers that have been accepted for publication through a rigorous peer-review process referred by TRB standing committees.

Transportation Research Record

Transportation Research Records contain technical papers that have been accepted for publication through a rigorous peer-review process referred by TRB standing committees.

InSight Data Access Website

Developed because of TRB’s landmark Second Strategic Highway Research Program, the InSight Data Website is the gateway to one of the most comprehensive naturalistic driving studies ever conducted. The site offers information on participating drivers and vehicles, trip summaries, records of crash, near-crash, and baseline driving events, and more. Visitors can explore project background, learn about the datasets, and engage with the research community through interactive forums.

Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT)

The Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) is a tool to provide a common and consistent language between producers and users of transportation information.

Research Funding Guide

Transportation research needs cut across modes, geographic levels, and types of research. The organizations conducting transportation research and the research programs themselves are diverse.

TRB Publications

TRB disseminates transportation research results and technology information through an extensive array of publications

TRB Webinars

Your gateway to the latest insights and innovations across the transportation industry. TRB’s webinar program connects you with experts sharing cutting-edge research from TRB Standing Technical Committees and Cooperative Research Programs. Plus, earn valuable professional development credits.

TR News

The quarterly magazine of the Transportation Research Board, TR News publishes research-based articles written by and for transportation professionals. Topics cover applied and timely research and development across all the transportation modes.

Transportation Research Information Documentation (TRID) Database

Comprising approximately 1.5 million records—including journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports, and books—the Transportation Research Information Documentation (TRID) database stands alone as the most comprehensive bibliographic resource for transportation research. It provides a single, organized source for discovering information on published and ongoing research worldwide.

Research Needs Database

TRB’s standing technical committees spot emerging issues and develop research needs statement designed to spark studies that tackle real-world challenges in transportation.

Research In Progress

The Transportation Research Board's Research in Progress (RIP) Database contains information on more than 10,000 current or recently completed transportation research projects. RIP records primarily are projects funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation and State Departments of Transportation. University transportation research also is included in the database.

Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS)

Your gateway to the world’s most comprehensive transportation research resources is TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services program. Explore essential information on current, completed, and needed research, as well as the Transportation Research Thesaurus—a tool that provides a common and consistent language for producers and users of transportation information.

TRB Job Center

Offering services to candidates and employers TRB’s Job Center connects transportation professionals and organizations. Candidates gain access to industry employment opportunities and career coaching services, while employers benefit from state-of-the-art job postings and access to a database of transportation professionals.

TRB Directory

The TRB Online Directory provides access to points of contact and information on TRB’s standing technical committees, project-based committees and panels, and governing committees, as well as to lists of TRB sponsors, affiliates, representatives, volunteers, and staff.

MyTRB

Connect to, engage in, and support various TRB activities; attend TRB webinars; take full advantage of your attendance at the TRB Annual Meeting; and much more through the MyTRB portal. Create your MyTRB account today and get started!

TRB Weekly

A free, customizable email newsletter, TRB Weekly keeps readers up to date on TRB activities and highlights select transportation research initiatives at the federal and state levels, as well as within academic and international transportation communities.

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Critical Issues in Transportation for 2024 and Beyond calls for reassessing the role of transportation in addressing major societal challenges and the research that informs the choices that society will need to make in 2024 and coming years. This reassessment is driven by large-scale environmental, public health, and socioeconomic forces, including:

a massive shift away from fossil fuels to clean energy that requires a complete turnover of hundreds of millions of motor vehicles by 2050 to help meet national decarbonization goals;
threats to public transportation caused by COVID-19's enduring effects on commuting to work in urban areas;
reversal of the long-term downward trend in annual traffic fatalities that have resulted in 10,000 more motor vehicle deaths than a decade ago; and
society's grappling with the nation's history of racial discrimination and increasing disparities in wealth and incomes.

For the latest edition of Critical Issues in Transportation, the Transportation Research Board's Executive Committee chose to focus on five societal goals to address these and other dynamic forces and the challenges in accentuating transportation's role in achieving them.

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78 pages · 8.5 x 11 ·
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71416-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/27432

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Critical Issues in Transportation for 2024 and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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