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What is happening now? What may come next? Staying in the know about our changing world and how we all get around it strengthens our ability to think comprehensively and collaborate effectively. From technical insights to firm and cultural news, sharing our innovations, evolutions, and advances as we experience and embrace them keeps us connected. We invite you to explore the very latest along with us.
CONNECTING VIRTUALLY AT TRB 2021
January 5-29, 2021
The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting looks a little different this year. We’ll miss the opportunity to meet in person, but if you’re headed there virtually, click here to check out the different ways we can
connect – let us know how we can be your eyes and ears!
Will AVs increase vehicular capacity and reduce delays on freeways? We conducted research to test this hypothesis using traffic simulation models with varying levels of congestion and AV fleets.
VTOL craft are likely to face regulatory and technological hurdles before moving from early testing to widespread use. Read on to explore the potential benefits and limitations.
Transportation Network Companies (TNCs)
Part of the magic of transportation network companies like Uber ...
Learn how we need to adapt policy and design to accommodate the changing transportation landscape.
Discover how to estimate a project’s VMT and GHG emissions using VMT+ designed to answer questions for both land use and infrastructure development projects.
Our Multimodal Level of Service (MMLOS) Toolkit provides qualitative measures to address client goals, as well as issues ignored in traditional vehicle LOS analysis.
MainStreet translates our ASAP tools to a web application with intuitive visualizations of outputs and provides a clear understanding of analysis.
PersonDelay+ builds upon previous MMLOS methodologies by increasing transparency in the analysis and better informing decision makers and stakeholders of trade-offs.
Ridership+ enhances system-level perspectives of regional travel models with a focus on station-level planning and design strategies, to integrate transit into the community.
MXD+ utilizes research that identifies key relationships between modes of travel and the built environment to more accurately predict vehicle trip generation from MXDs.
Reliability+ transforms data from a variety of transit data sets into versatile transit performance metrics used to inform agencies of segments for improvement along routes.
StreetScore+ calculates comfort for people bicycling and walking and allows users to easily compare designs and effectively convey project benefits to stakeholders.
The one-step 3D printing process could reduce the cost of manufacturing and need for extensive assembly work. Explore the potential benefits and drawbacks.
We developed an innovative, objective, GIS-based tool known as Active+ for project prioritization within bicycle and pedestrian planning.
Explore our findings from a recent operational simulation analysis of ART for the proposed conventional Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lanes in San Francisco.
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