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TRB publishes transportation worker safety videos

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) published a series of videos approximately one hour long that highlight a transportation worker safety analysis done by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, according to Safety & Health. We’ve embedded each of the three videos below, but you can also check out the whole series at this link. Faculty members from the […]

October 30, 2017

Roadbuilding

TRB plans webinar covering pothole patching

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies will hold a webinar April 1 covering current practices for patching potholes, just in time for when many departments of transportation are beginning spring maintenance. The webinar, set for 1-2:30 p.m. ET, will cover: National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 463: Pavement Patching Practices. This covers […]

March 12, 2015

Roadbuilding

$163 billion needed annually to fix aging surface transportation system

It’s being estimated that an investment of $163 billion per year is needed in order to fix the nation’s deteriorating surface transportation system, according to the “2015 Bottom Line Report” on transportation investment needs, released by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the American Public Transportation Association. Currently only $83 billion […]

December 9, 2014

Roadbuilding

AASHTO, NCHRP seek 2014 Domestic Scan proposals

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) are seeking proposals for the U.S. Domestic Scan Program for 2014, according to AASHTO Journal. The Domestic Scan Program, developed by AASHTO and administered through NCHRP, allows state transportation departments to transfer technology on multiple topics, providing […]

August 5, 2013

Roadbuilding

Applications & Innovations

Creating mixtures for smoothness and low noise

December 1, 2012

Roadbuilding

Financial District: TRB Watch

Adhesive Anchors in Concrete under Sustained Loading Conditions  www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/ 162132.aspx  Adhesive anchor systems are commercial adhesives — often, but not exclusively, epoxy adhesives — used to anchor threaded metal rod and rebar into concrete. In many applications of these systems, the adhesive anchor is under a sustained tensile load, mandating the use of adhesives with […]

October 1, 2009