COVID-19 and Transportation

Efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 are having noticeable impacts on the transportation system. Social distancing, teleworking, and travel bans are temporarily, and potentially permanently, remaking travel behaviors.  As transportation researchers and practitioners, we have a range of hypotheses we might want to test in these times. As several members of the committee were … Read more

Planning ahead for 2018?

If you have submitted a paper for the TRB Annual Meeting, you are probably well aware of when papers are due (August 1!), but many of us might not be aware of all the other deadlines that roll around the rest of the year for our committee activities. We have posted two new reference documents … Read more

2018 Annual Meeting Call for Papers

The committee’s call for papers for the 2018 Annual Meeting has been posted! We are a bit behind this year, so we know you probably will not start a new paper to respond. But if you already started a paper that is related, responding to our call will help direct the paper to our committee. … Read more

2017 Annual Meeting Call for Papers

The committee’s call for papers for the 2017 Annual Meeting has been posted! This year we have a set of topics under the general heading of “Transportation Issues in Major Cities.” You can find the call on the TRB site and in the committee documents (scroll down to paper calls). The topic areas we are … Read more