Transportation and Sustainability
Committee of the TRB (ADD 40)
2019 Webinar Series – Passive Air Pollution Mitigation in the Built Environment
We would like to draw your attention to the 2019 Webinar Series on Passive Air Pollution Mitigation in the Built Environment – informing the global community on best practice for how green infrastructure, solid barriers, and urban design can combat air pollution exposure in urban spaces. This is an EU-US webinar series and is a partnership between Trinity College [more]
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Research Highlight – John MacArthur
John MacArthur, Research Associate at Portland State University’s TREC (Transportation Research and Education Center) – and ADD40’s Paper Review Chair – talks about his research on electric vehicle policies that target low-income drivers. Learn more more here.
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Transportation, Air Quality, and Health Symposium
For those interested in research, policy, and emerging issues related to transportation emissions, energy, air quality, exposures, and human health, please consider attending the Transportation, Air Quality, and Health Symposium from February 18–20, 2019. Keynote speakers will include: Daniel Greenbaum, president of the Health Effects Institute; and Neil Pedersen, executive director of the Transportation Research Board. Daniel and [more]
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Call for Papers – Advancing a Holistic View of Sustainable Transportation
The Standing Committee on Transportation and Sustainability (ADD40) is inviting the submission of papers that are aligned with its mission of advancing the state of the science of sustainability as it relates to the transportation sector. We are looking for papers that address sustainability in a holistic manner, i.e. taking into account the triple bottom [more]
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ADD40’s 2016-2019 Triennial Strategic Plan
With the 2018 TRB Annual Meeting about to start, we thought it would be helpful to post a link to the Transportation and Sustainability Committee’s 2016-2019 Triennial Strategic Plan. This plan will be discussed during the ADD40 Committee Meeting and will provide a useful framework for the small group discussions that will be held during the second part [more]
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Register Today for Live Webcasting
TRB is sponsoring the Transportation for Sustainability–An International Conference on May 7-8, 2015 in Washington, D.C. The conference is designed to draw attention to the global and international aspects of transportation and sustainability, including problems of transportation and sustainability that are common to many nations. The conference will provide an opportunity to showcase state-of-the-art solutions [more]
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NCHRP 25-25 – Fund Your Research Ideas
The AASHTO Standing Committee on Environment (SCOE) is looking for quick-response research ideas relating to environmental issues under the NCHRP Project 25-25. The funded research projects typically range in cost from $35,000 – $125,000 and must be completed in less than 15 months. The research can focus on the development of analytical methods, decision-support tools, procedures, and techniques to assist State [more]
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Sustainable Transportation Library
Over the past several weeks, ADD40 has started developing a website to index information on emerging sustainability papers, core/foundational papers, and tools. The site (with preliminary content) is available at: www.trbsustainability.org/library/ There are two bodies of content that we’d like to ask your help in populating: New papers or other material can be posted to the site [more]
See the full pageTransportation for Sustainability – An International Conference Keck Center of the National Academies, 500 Fifth St., N.W. Washington, D.C., USA. May 6 – May 8, 2015 Call for Student Posters About the Conference: Sustainability has emerged as an overarching concern for the transportation sector around the world. This international conference, supported by the Transportation Research Board of [more]
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Expert Survey on Sustainable Transportation
The National Center for Sustainable Transportation and Georgia Tech’s research team are leading the effort to develop a model transportation sustainability curriculum that is accessible to any university. The plan is to develop eight modular undergraduate and graduate courses. The modular design (five-week topic sequences) will allow materials to be mixed and matched as needed [more]
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