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In this Issue: Transportation Research Board (TRB) Reports
Table of Contents Item 1. The Right to Self-Fuel (ACRP Legal Research Digest 8) ............................................................... 1 Item 2. Safety Management Systems for Airports. Volume 2: Guidebook (ACRP Report 1) ..................... 1 Item 3. Aircraft Noise: A Toolkit for Managing Community Expectations (ACRP Report 15) .................. 2 Item 4. Passenger Air Service Development Techniques (ACRP Report 18) .............................................. 2 Item 5. A Guidebook for Selecting Airport Capital Project Delivery Methods (ACRP Report 21) ............ 3 Item 6. Airport Passenger-Related Processing Rates Guidebook (ACRP Report 23) ............................... 3 Item 7. A Summary of How Proposed Firefighting Standards would Impact Airports (ACRP Research Results Digest 7) ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Item 8. Approaches to Integrating Airport Development and Federal Environmental Review Processes
(ACRP Synthesis 17) .................................................................................................................................. 4 Item 9. Hazardous Materials Transportation Incident Data for Root Cause Analysis (HMCRP Report 1) ...................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Item 10. National Cooperative Freight Research Program: A Status Report (NCFRP Research Results Digest 2) ...................................................................................................................................................... 5 Item 11. Record Keeping Requirements for State Departments of Transportation (NCHRP Legal Research Digest 52) ................................................................................................................................... 5 Item 12. Acoustic Beamforming: Mapping Sources of Truck Noise (NCHRP Report 635) .................... 5 Item 13. Guidance for the Design and Application of Shoulder and Centerline Rumble Strips (NCHRP Report 641).................................................................................................................................................. 5 Item 14. Guidelines for Conducting a Disparity and Availability Study for the Federal DBE Program
(NCHRP Report 644).................................................................................................................................... 6 Item 15. New Approaches to Ecological Surveys (NCHRP Synthesis 400) ............................................. 6 Item 16. Quality Management of Pavement Condition Data Collection (NCHRP Synthesis 401)........... 6 Item 17. Assessment of Hybrid-Electric Transit Bus Technology (TCRP Report 132) ............................ 7 Item 18. Guidebook for Rural Demand-Response Transportation: Measuring, Assessing, and Improving Performance (TCRP Report 136) ............................................................................................................... 7 Item 19. Improving Pedestrian and Motorist Safety Along Light Rail Alignments (TCRP Report 137) . 7 Item 20. Funding Options for Freight Transportation Projects (TRB Special Report 297) ......................... 8 Research and Technology Implementation Office June 2010
Research Digest Item 1 The Right to Self-Fuel TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD ACRP Legal Research Digest 8 • 2009 TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Legal Research Digest 8: The Right to Self-Fuel explores the meaning of and constraints involved with self-fueling at airports. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/acrp/acrp_lrd_008.pdf Item 2 Safety Management Systems for Airports. Volume 2: Guidebook TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD ACRP Report 1 • 2009 This report explores what constitutes an airport safety management system (SMS). The report examines SMS components and their interactions, and offers guidance in the planning, implementation, and operation of an airport SMS. It also provides detailed information on how to carry out each of the necessary SMS processes. This guidebook supplements ACRP Report 1: Volume 1, which provides an overview of SMS and explains how a systems approach to safety management can benefit both the safety and business aspects of airports. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/acrp/acrp_rpt_001b.pdf
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Research Digest Item 3 Aircraft Noise: A Toolkit for Managing Community Expectations TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD ACRP Report 15 • 2009 TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program(ACRP) Report 15: Aircraft Noise: A Toolkit for Managing Community Expectations explores ways to improve communications with the public about issues related to aircraft noise exposure. The report examines practices that characterize an effective communications program and provides basic information about noise and its abatement to assist in responding to public inquiries. ACRP Report 15 also identifies tools designed to help initiate a new or upgrade an existing program of communication with public and private stakeholders about noise issues. An accompanying CD-ROM with the printed version of the report contains a toolkit with examples of material that has been successfully used to communicate information about noise, as well as numerous guidance documents about noise and communications. The CD-ROM is also available for download as an ISO image online. Links to the ISO image and instructions for burning a CD-ROM from an ISO image are provided at: http://144.171.11.107/Publications/Blurbs/Aircraft_Noise_A_Toolkit_for_Managing_Community_Ex_162800.as px Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/acrp/acrp_rpt_015.pdf Item 4 Passenger Air Service Development Techniques TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD ACRP Report 18 • 2009 This report explores the underlying competitive challenges that small communities face in retaining or enhancing their commercial air service, examines how communities can address those challenges, and describes the basic components and tools of an air service development program. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/acrp/acrp_rpt_018.pdf
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Research Digest Item 5 A Guidebook for Selecting Airport Capital Project Delivery Methods TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD ACRP Report 21 • 2009 This report explores various project delivery methods for major airport capital projects. The guidebook also examines the impacts, advantages, and disadvantages of various project delivery methods including design-bidbuild, construction manager at risk, and design-build. A companion publication to this report, ACRP Web-Only Document 6: Evaluation and Selection of Airport Capital Project Delivery Methods (http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/acrp/acrp_webdoc_006.pdf), reviews pertinent literature and research findings related to various project delivery methods for airport projects. It contains definitions of project delivery methods and discusses the existing selection approaches commonly used by airports. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/acrp/acrp_rpt_021.pdf Item 6 Airport Passenger-Related Processing Rates Guidebook TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD ACRP Report 23 • 2009 This report is a guidebook that provides user-friendly guidance on how to best collect accurate passenger-related processing data for evaluating facility requirements to promote efficient and cost-effective airport terminal design. Often, significant amounts of data are required in accurate planning and design of airport terminal facilities. Furthermore, the dynamic nature of the airport industry necessitates an understanding of how rapidly changing passenger characteristics, processing technologies, and security protocols impact terminal development. This Guidebook will be of assistance and value to airport operators, planners, designers, and other stakeholders in planning these and future airport terminal facilities. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/acrp/acrp_rpt_023.pdf
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Research Digest Item 7 A Summary of How Proposed Firefighting Standards would Impact Airports TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD ACRP Research Results Digest 7 • 2009 This digest explores the potential cost implications for airports of implementing proposed airport rescue and fire fighting (ARFF) regulations that would be more closely aligned with voluntary consensus standards promulgated by the International Civil Aviation Organization and the National Fire Protection Association. Section 311 of H.R. 915 EH, the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2009, calls for more closely aligning ARFF regulations under part 139 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, Certification of Airports, with voluntary consensus standards. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/acrp/acrp_rrd_007.pdf Item 8 Approaches to Integrating Airport Development and Federal Environmental Review Processes TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD ACRP Synthesis 17 • 2009 This synthesis explores practices that airport sponsors and U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) planners and environmental specialists have used to integrate airport planning efforts and the FAA’s environmental review processes. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/acrp/acrp_syn_017.pdf Item 9 Hazardous Materials Transportation Incident Data for Root Cause Analysis TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD HMCRP Report 1 • 2009 Under HMCRP Project 02, Battelle Memorial Institute, along with the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Calspan, RA-LUX, Mark Abkowitz, and Christopher Barkan, examined the recent literature on hazardous materials transportation incidents; interviewed carriers, shippers, and federal database managers; conducted detailed database analyses; and provided suggested technical changes to the databases that could improve the availability and quality of hazardous materials transportation incident data. The report also describes a pilot program to link the Hazardous Materials Incident Reporting System (HMIRS) and the Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS) that could show how such an enhancement might more effectively identify root causes. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/hmcrp/hmcrp_rpt_001.pdf
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Research Digest Item 10 National Cooperative Freight Research Program A Status Report TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD NCFRP Research Results Digest 2 • 2010 This is a staff digest of the progress and status of the National Cooperative Freight Research program, which is administered by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/ncfrp/ncfrp_rrd_002.pdf Item 11 Record Keeping Requirements for State Departments of Transportation TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD NCHRP Legal Research Digest 52 • 2009 This digest examines applicable law and regulations pertaining to keeping, releasing, and destroying records within transportation agencies. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_lrd_52.pdf Item 12 Acoustic Beamforming: Mapping Sources of Truck Noise TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD NCHRP Report 635 • 2009 This report explores the acoustic beamforming technique in an attempt to pinpoint and measure noise levels from heavy truck traffic. The beamforming technique uses an elliptical array of more than 70 microphones and data acquisition software to measure noise levels from a variety of noise sources on large trucks—including the engine, tires, mufflers, and exhaust pipes. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_635.pdf Item 13 Guidance for the Design and Application of Shoulder and Centerline Rumble Strips TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD NCHRP Report 641 • 2009 This report explores explores the design and application of shoulder and centerline rumble strips as a crash reduction measure, while minimizing adverse effects for motorcyclists, bicyclists, and nearby residents. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_641.pdf _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Research and Technology Implementation Office June 2010 Page 5
Research Digest Item 14 Guidelines for Conducting a Disparity and Availability Study for the Federal DBE Program TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD NCHRP Report 644 • 2010 TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 644: Guidelines for Conducting a Disparity and Availability Study for the Federal DBE Program explores guidelines for state departments of transportation (DOTs) on how to conduct effective and legally defensible disparity and availability studies to meet the requirements of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program for federally funded projects. The report includes guidance designed to assist DOTs in determining when and if a disparity or availability study is recommended, a model scope of work that may be used in a request for proposals, and detailed recommendations on how to design and implement disparity and availability studies. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_644.pdf Item 15 New Approaches to Ecological Surveys TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD NCHRP Synthesis 400 • 2009 TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 400: New Approaches to Ecological Surveys explores ecological survey needs related to transportation activities and examines technologies, techniques, and innovative methods to fulfill those needs. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_syn_400.pdf Item 16 Quality Management of Pavement Condition Data Collection TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD NCHRP Synthesis 401 • 2009 This synthesis explores the quality management practices being employed by public highway agencies for automated, semi-automated, and manual pavement data collection and delivery. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_syn_401.pdf
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Research Digest Item 17 Assessment of Hybrid-Electric Transit Bus Technology TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD TCRP Report 132 • 2009 TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 132: Assessment of Hybrid-Electric Transit Bus Technology explores decision-making guidelines coupled with a comprehensive life cycle cost (LCC) model designed to assist transit managers in evaluating, selecting, and implementing hybrid-electric technology options for transit buses. The LCC model allows the user to compare the total life cycle costs across several cost categories for up to 6 different “purchase scenarios.” The LCC model is contained on the accompanying CDROM (CRP-CD-71), with the printed version of the report and available for download as an ISO image online. Links to the ISO image and instructions for burning a CD-ROM from an ISO image are provided at: http://144.171.11.107/Publications/Blurbs/Assessment_of_HybridElectric_Transit_Bus_Technolog_162703.aspx Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/tcrp/tcrp_rpt_132.pdf Item 18 Guidebook for Rural Demand-Response Transportation: Measuring, Assessing, and Improving Performance TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD TCRP Report 136 • 2009 This report explores the diversity of demand-response transportation (DRT) services and examines definitions of performance data and performance measures. The report also highlights the typology of rural DRT systems and includes examples of performance data from more than 20 representative rural systems. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/tcrp/tcrp_rpt_136.pdf Item 19 Improving Pedestrian and Motorist Safety Along Light Rail Alignments TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD TCRP Report 137 • 2009 This report examines pedestrian and motorist behaviors contributing to light rail transit (LRT) safety and explores mitigating measures available designed to improve safety along LRT alignments. The report also includes suggestions to facilitate the compilation of accident data in a coordinated and homogeneous manner across LRT systems. Finally, the report provides a catalog of existing and innovative safety devices, safety treatments, and practices along LRT alignments. Appendices B through E of TCRP Report 137 were published as TCRP Web-Only Document 42.. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/tcrp/tcrp_rpt_137.pdf _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Research and Technology Implementation Office June 2010 Page 7
Research Digest Item 20 Funding Options for Freight Transportation Projects NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD (TRB) TRB Special Report 297 • 2009 TRB’s Special Report 297: Funding Options for Freight Transportation Projects explores ways to pay for projects that expand freight capacity or reduce the costs of freight transportation. The committee that produced the report found that present finance arrangements are inadequate for maintaining and improving freight transportation system performance. The report calls for finance reforms that promote productivity gains by targeting investment to projects with the greatest economic benefit and by encouraging efficient use of facilities. Full-text PDF of this report is available for free download from http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/sr/sr297.pdf
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