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16 | TRB 2016 Annual Report and transit agencies serve as liaisons to the transportation community. The TRB Annual Meeting was held for the second time at the Walter E
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TRB 2016 Annual Report | 17 ▪ Committee members participated in the Resilient America Roundtable of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which sponsored the State of Resilience Leadership Forum and Community Workshop in Washington, D.C., in June. trAnsportAtion And public heAlth The relationship between transportation and public health goes beyond safety.
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18 | TRB 2016 Annual Report International TRB continued its international outreach efforts in 2016 and welcomed a record 2,160 international attendees to the Annual Meeting. ▪ The International Cooperation Committee's working group on international collaboration in transportation drafted two sections of a comprehensive report addressing China and Japan.
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TRB 2016 Annual Report | 19 System Resilience The Transportation System Resilience Section engaged in a variety of activities that reflect the broad interest in resilience and the need for coordination among stakeholders: ▪ TRB cosponsored the Second International Symposium on Disaster Prevention and Mitigation of Highway Infrastructure in Xi'an, China, in June. ▪ The TRB Standing Committee on Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
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20 | TRB 2016 Annual Report Focused on transportation equity and health issues, many committees are conducting webinars and attending meetings on smart cities, the new Transportation Health Tool developed jointly by U.S. DOT and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, policies supporting local and regional demand management and mobility, multiuse land development, and social sustainability.
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TRB 2016 Annual Report | 21 ▪ Advances in technology, such as remote sensing with interferometric synthetic aperture radar, for the networkwide monitoring of roads, bridges, slopes, and sinkholes; ▪ Three-dimensional geological and geotechnical digital data to improve communications between engineers, geologists, and users or owners; ▪ Advances in full-depth reclamation to rehabilitate deteriorated pavements, improve rapid construction, increase the use of in-place materials, and decrease costs; and ▪ Improved communication and sharing of knowledge through the Data Interchange for Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists, developed by a coalition of government agencies, universities, and industry partners to transfer transportation-related geotechnical data. operAtions And preservAtion Operations Few transportation issues are emerging more quickly or have more potential to spur revolutionary change than connected–automated vehicles.
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22 | TRB 2016 Annual Report ▪ Committee and Subcommittee midyear meetings focused on such topics as building the highway safety workforce, the potential for information technology to improve alternative mobility options for older people, individual variability in teenage driving performance and risk, police reluctance to engage in traffic enforcement, and child passenger safety. ▪ The Highway Safety Performance Committee midyear meeting reviewed the state of the practice and research related to development of the second edition of the Highway Safety Manual.
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TRB 2016 Annual Report | 23 ▪ The 16th Biennial National Harbor Safety Committee Conference, which gathered regional harbor safety committees to share best practices and to strengthen partnerships between the U.S. Coast Guard and waterways stakeholders; ▪ The Marine Board's Spring Meeting in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, which focused on navigation technology and autonomous vessels and marine vehicles; and ▪ The Marine Board's Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C., which addressed emergency preparedness, response, recovery, resilience, and risk analysis in maritime transportation.
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24 | TRB 2016 Annual Report ▪ The International Conference on DemandResponsive Transportation, a forum for operators, health administrators, transportation network companies, service brokers, and suppliers, included a transportation and health care track that built on the metrics workshop. ▪ The 22nd National Conference for Rural, Public, and Intercity Bus Transportation attracted more than 400 professionals and featured Public Broadcasting System news anchor Jim Lehrer, who grew up in the intercity motor coach business.
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TRB 2016 Annual Report | 25 articles in the TR News Research Pays Off series, promoting the value of research investments. Frederick D
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26 | TRB 2016 Annual Report Thomas B Deen Distinguished Lecture, "Micromodels and Megadata: Taming Complexity for Deep Insight and Robust Decisions," to a capacity crowd.
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