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TCRP Annual Report of Progress 2019 (2019)

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Suggested Citation:"Notice to Readers." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. TCRP Annual Report of Progress 2019. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25898.
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131 NOTICE TO READERS Information about project status and detailed project write-ups are available on the TCRP website: www.trb.org/TCRP. HOW TO ORDER TCRP PUBLICATIONS TCRP publications are listed in Table 4. TCRP reports, syntheses, research results digests, legal research digests, and CD- ROMs can be ordered with a credit card through the online TRB bookstore (www. mytrb.org/store), by telephone (202-334-3213), or by fax (202-334-2519). We accept Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. TRB uses a secure web server; credit card numbers are encrypted for transmittal and erased from the system as soon as an order is processed. To pay with a check, make your check payable to TRB and mail it with your order to: National Academy of Sciences—TRB PO Box 936135 Atlanta, GA 31193-6135 Payment must accompany all orders. Payments made by international check or money order must be payable in U.S. funds drawn on a U.S. bank. All taxes and duty are the responsibility of the customer.

130 PROJECT NUMBER TITLE ALLOCATION NEW PROJECTS A-46 Ferry Transit Operations and Capacity Guidebook $100,000 B-48 Assessment of Transit Agency – Sponsored Alternative Services $350,000 Offered to ADA Paratransit Customers: The Intersection of Regulation and Program Objectives B-49 Design Guide for Rural Deviated Fixed-Route Transit Systems $100,000 C-25 Bus Driver Security Barrier Design – The Challenges and Solutions $350,000 D-18 Detecting and Mitigating Low Level DC Fault Currents in Transit Systems $250,000 Thus Eliminating Electrical Fires in Tunnels and Rights-Of-Way (Phase II) F-28 Practitioner’s Guide to Bus Operator Workforce Management $200,000 *J-11/Task 39 An Evaluation of Fare-Free Public Transportation’s Impacts on ($100,000*) Greenhouse Gas Emissions *J-11/Task 40 The Urban Homelessness Epidemic’s Relationship to Public Transit ($100,000*) Total New Studies $1,350,000 CONTINUED PROJECTS J-01 Dissemination and Implementation of TCRP Research Findings $393,600 J-04 Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis—The Transit IDEA Program $205,000 J-05 Legal Aspects of Transit and Intermodal Transportation Programs $150,000 J-07 Synthesis of Information Related to Transit Problems $315,000 J-11 Quick-Response Research on Long-Term Strategic Issues $300,000 Total Continuations $1,363,600 TABLE 14 NEW PROJECTS AND CONTINUATIONS SELECTED FOR THE TCRP FISCAL YEAR 2020 PROGRAM Note: These projects are funded separately under the TCRP Project J-11, “Quick-Response Research on Long-Term Strategic Issues,” and will be conducted as expedited research projects.

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TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has released its annual report, which provides background and an overview of the program, status of each of TCRP’s projects, and a summary of some of the program's accomplishments for the year.

In FY 2019, TCRP produced 11 publications, including 5 research reports and 6 syntheses, bringing the total to more than 699 publications since the inception of the program. In the period from August 1992 (when the first TCRP grant was received) through December 2019, approximately 803 study activities have been authorized and more than 699 publications have been issued.

TCRP focuses on issues significant to the public transportation industry, with emphasis on developing near-term research solutions to a variety of transit problems involving facilities, vehicles, equipment, service concepts, operations, policy, planning, human resources, maintenance, and administrative practices.

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