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Bicycle Travel can be Faster than Transit: New Analysis Unveiled at TRF

O’Neil – van der Slot (2018) Bicycle Study For Immediate Release: April 10, 2018 Paper Presented at TRF Shows Bicycles in Chicago Offer Trip Times Faster than Transit Competitive with Uber, and More Predictable than Both A study presented at this week’s Annual Transportation Research Forum in Minneapolis finds that bicycles in Chicago offer trip times […]

July 2021

Joseph P Schwieterman, Ph.D. July 2021 Members and friends, Summer brings good news to the TRF community. Many members feel a great sense of relief—and excitement—about being able to freely travel again as pandemic health restrictions ease. Our organization finds itself in a position of financial strength due to the success of our 62nd International […]

Jill Bernard-Bracy

ST. LOUIS CHAPTER Jill Bernard-Bracy Greetings from St. Louis! I am faculty in the Department of Supply Chain & Analytics, and the Associate Director for the Supply Chain Risk & Resilience Research Institute at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. I enjoy teaching courses in Supply Chain Strategy and Quantitative Methods for Business; my […]

About our Chapters

About our Chapters Transportation Research Forum (TRF) chapters forge partnerships with universities, private sector providers, metropolitan planning agencies, and others to develop thought-provoking events, collaborate on research, and engage students in learning opportunities. Chapters host several events each year, participate in the annual forum, and contribute to the peer-reviewed Journal of the Transportation Research Forum. […]

What’s Ahead?

What’s Ahead? Tracking Impacts of COVID-19 in metropolitan Washington and public opinion on how the pandemic will influence future travel Chapter Host: Washington, D.C  |  June 2, 2021  |  55:40 minutes This presentation will be jointly delivered by Tim Canan and Stacy Cook of COG-TPB, the region’s Metropolitan Transportation Planning Organization. At the end of […]

The Once and Future State DOT: An Identity Crisis

The Once and Future State DOT: An Identity Crisis Chapter Host: Washington, D.C  |  April 14, 2021  |  64 minutes The traditional components of the vehicle Highway system structuring Highway transportation are undergoing radical and rapid change.  The source of improvements in mobility and safety now lies primarily within private sector vehicle-related technology initiatives such […]

Session 151: Graduate Student Mixer

8:00PM-8:45PM ET Session 151: Graduate Student Mixer A special virtual networking event. Converse with consultants, researchers, and fellow graduate students. E-mail [email protected] to receive the event details. Join the Mixer here!

Session 311: Transit and Ridesourcing

10:00AM-11:00AM ET Session 311: Transit and Ridesourcing No. Title Author Presenter Affiliation 154 Multimodal Public Transit Routing considering Travelers’ Risk-Preference Justice Darko and Hyoshin (John) Park Justice Darko Michael Hyland, Discussant North Carolina A&T State University University of California, Irvine 141 Going Beyond the Millennials: North Dakota Ridesourcing Survey (Poster) Kimberly Vachal, Narendra Malalgoda and […]

Session 312: Posters: Highways

10:00AM-11:00AM ET Session 312: Posters: Highways No. Title Author Presenter Affiliation 143 Using Location-Based Services Data to Evaluate Equity of a Proposed Road Usage Fee Christopher Porter and Mobashwir Khan Christopher Porter Cambridge Systematics 145 Congestion Reduction Using Information – Theoretic Multi-agent Decision-Making Larkin Folsom and Hyoshin Park Larkin Folsom North Carolina A&T State University […]

Session 321: Agricultural Transportation

11:10AM-12:10AM ET Session 321: Agricultural Transportation No. Title Author Presenter Affiliation 205 Agricultural Transportation Research Compendium Update Will Secor Will Secor University of Georgia 206 Central Plains Farm Truck Fleet Characteristics Alan Dybing and Kimberly Vachal Alan Dybing North Dakota State University 207 Agricultural Transportation Open Data Platform Update Peter Caffarelli Peter Caffarelli US Department […]