Agenda Book - TRB Executive Committee Meeting January 26-28, 2021

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January 11, 2021

MEMORANDUM

To: TRB Executive Committee

From: Neil J. Pedersen, Executive Director

Subject: Agenda Book - TRB Executive Committee Meeting January 26-28, 2021

Attached is the agenda book for your review prior to our virtual Executive Committee meeting on January 26- 28, 2021.

All of you are receiving this information electronically. We will not be providing hard copies, since the meeting is going to be held virtually. Chair Carlos Braceras urges all members to review the agenda material prior to the meeting, so that time spent in oral briefings can be reduced to a minimum. This will also expedite the handling of the more routine items on the agenda, allowing more time for discussion of substantive transportation issues. I especially ask that you read the Executive Director’s Report ahead of time, since I will not have time to cover all of the material in the report, and it provides an executive summary of material that is presented in more detail elsewhere in the agenda book.

Please note that the electronic PDF version of the agenda book includes bookmarks. In the left column, please click the “Bookmark” icon to find tabs that will take you directly to each agenda item.

You should all have received separate Zoom invitations for each of the three days of the meeting, plus a fourth Zoom invitation for the Executive Committee reception, which will be held on Monday, January 25 from 6:45 to 8:00 pm Eastern time, and a fifth Zoom invitation for the Executive Director’s reception, which will be held Wednesday, January 27 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. If you have not received your invitations, please e-mail Cindy Baker at [email protected], and she will resend you the invitations.

If you have not done so already, please also make sure that you register for the TRB Annual Meeting. Registraton for Executive Committee members is complimentary. If you are registered for the meeting, you will receive instructions on how to access sessions for the Annual Meeting early in the week of January 18, 2021.

While you are attending the Annual Meeting, please consider logging on to some technical sessions or committee meetings. The program is quite interesting and full this year. For those of you who are relative newcomers to TRB, attending sessions and committee meetings will give you a better understanding of the day-to-day activities of the Board. We have also included a list of activities related to the Executive Committee immediately following the agenda.

I especially recommend that you consider attending the Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture, "Our Work is Never Done: Examining Equity Impacts in Public Transportation" by Dorval R. Carter, Jr., President of the Chicago Transit Authority. The lecture will be followed by a discussion between Dorval Carter and former USDOT Secretary Anthony Foxx. The lecture and discussion will take place Monday, January 25 from 5:30 to 6:45 pm Eastern time and will be accessed through your Annual Meeting registration. The Executive Committee Virtual Reception will take place immediately after the lecture and will be accessed 500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 Phone 202.334.2936 Fax 202.334.2920 E-mail [email protected] www.TRB.org TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 2 of 228

through the Zoom invitation that you should have received for the reception. We want to use the reception as an opportunity for each committee member to update the other committee members on what has happened in their lives since our last meeting and for the veteran committee members to meet the new members of the Executive Committee. Please plan to attend if possible.

I also recommend that you plan to attend the Chair’s Plenary Session on Wednesday, January 27 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm Eastern time. In addition to honoring the winners of TRB’s highest awards, we will be hearing the keynote address of the Annual Meeting by Dr. Marcia McNutt, President of the National Academy of Sciences, who will speak on “Delivering Science in a Crisis: Our critical role in helping society build back and forge a more resilient, sustainable future.” This session will be accessed through the main TRB Meeting IT platform, so you will not receive a separate Zoom invitation for this session.

I encourage you to visit the Exhibit Hall. We depend on revenues from our patrons and exhibitors, and they appreciate meeting Executive Committee members.

You are also invited to attend the Executive Director’s Reception on Wednesday, January 27 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm Eastern time. It will be a very informal Zoom meeting where anyone who wants can join in the discussion. You should also have received a separate Zoom invitation for this reception.

If you have any questions about any of this information, or if you are unclear about how to access any of the meetings or sessions, feel free to e-mail Cindy Baker at [email protected]. You can also always e-mail me anytime at [email protected] or call me at 240-723-9572.

I look forward to seeing each of you virtually and to our having a productive meeting.

Attachment TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 3 of 228 Events for Executive Committee Members

Special Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – Wednesday 1/6, 2:00-3:30 pm EST (Zoom invitation sent to committee members only)

SC001 – TRB Division Committee – Tuesday, 1/19, 1:30-2:45 pm EST (Zoom invitation sent to Committee members only)

TRB Executive Committee Orientation for new members – Tuesday, 1/19, 3:00-3:45 pm EST (Zoom invitation sent to new members)

TRB Subcommittee on FHWA and State DOT Funding – Tuesday, 1/19, 4:00-5:00 pm EST (Zoom invitation sent to subcommittee members only)

Exhibit Hall - The exhibits are scheduled Thursday 1/21, 11:00am-3:00pm EST (Virtual Meeting Platform)

Exhibit Hall - The exhibits are scheduled Friday 1/22, 11:00am-3:00pm EST (Virtual Meeting Platform)

Exhibit Hall - The exhibits are scheduled Monday 1/25, 11:00am-3:00pm EST (Virtual Meeting Platform)

Thomas B. Deen Lecture – Monday. 1/25, 5:30pm-6:45pm (Virtual Meeting Platform)

Executive Committee Reception/Light Dinner – Monday 1/25, 6:45-8:00 pm (Zoom invitation sent)

Exhibit Hall - The exhibits are scheduled Tuesday 1/26, 11:00am-3:00pm EST (Virtual Meeting Platform)

E0000 – TRB Executive Committee Meeting – Tuesday. 1/26, 11:30am-1:00pm EST (Zoom invitation sent)

E0000 – TRB Executive Committee Meeting – Tuesday. 1/26, 1:30pm-3:00pm EST (Zoom invitation sent)

Exhibit Hall - The exhibits are scheduled Wednesday 1/27, 11:00am-3:00pm EST (Virtual Meeting Platform)

Chair's Plenary Session – Wednesday. 1/27, 11:30am-1:00pm EST (Virtual Meeting Platform)

E0000 – TRB Executive Committee Policy Session – Wednesday. 1/27, 1:30pm-3:30pm EST (Zoom invitation sent)

Executive Director’s Reception – Wednesday, 1/27, 5:30-7:00 pm EST (Zoom invitation sent)

Exhibit Hall - The exhibits are scheduled Thursday 1/28, 11:00am-3:00pm EST (Virtual Meeting Platform)

E0000 – TRB Executive Committee Meeting – Thursday. 1/28, 11:30am-1:00pm EST (Zoom invitation sent)

E0000 – TRB Executive Committee Meeting – Thursday. 1/28, 1:30pm-3:00pm EST (Zoom invitation sent)

Exhibit Hall - The exhibits are scheduled Friday 1/29, 11:00am-3:00pm EST (Virtual Meeting Platform) TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 4 of 228 AGENDA FOR JANUARY 2021 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING

MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021

5:30-6:45 p.m. Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture

"Our Work is Never Done: Examining Equity Impacts in Public Transportation" Dorval R. Carter, Jr., President, Chicago Transit Authority, including a discussion between Dorval Carter and former USDOT Secretary Anthony Foxx

6:45-8:00 p.m. Executive Committee Virtual Reception, an opportunity for committee members to update other members on what they have been doing since our last meeting

TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2021

Item Time Page Speaker Type 1. Introductions and Announcements 11:30 a.m. Braceras Information a. Cover Memo 1 b. Agenda 4 c. Zoom Instructions 7 d. Policy Statement on Preventing 11 Discrimination, Harassment, and Bullying e. Bias and Conflict Discussion 12 2. Approval of August 17-19, 2020 11:50 13 Braceras Action Minutes 3. Approval of Consent Agenda 11:55 Braceras Action a. Conference Approvals 20 b. Subcommittee on Planning 31 and Policy Review Report 4. Executive Director’s Report 12:00 p.m. 48 Pedersen Information a. Finances b. TRB Annual Report 189 5. TRB Division Committee Report 12:20 63 Hendrickson Presentation 6. Technical Activities Update 12:30 77 Brach/Park Presentation 7. Break 12:50 8. Marine Board Update 1:10 82 Grabowski Presentation 9. Emerging Trends in Goods 1:20 89 McClellan Discussion Movement Kruger Grabowski TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 5 of 228 Evans 10. Conversation with Biden 2:00-3:00 90 Braceras Discussion Transition Team 11. Adjournment 3:00

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2021

Item Time Page Speaker Type 12. Chair’s Plenary Session 11:30 a.m. Braceras a. Keynote Speaker, Dr. Marcia McNutt, President, National Academy of Sciences 13. Break 1:00 14. Policy Session on COVID-19 1:30-3:30 pm 91 Braceras Presentations/ Impacts on Mobility and Equity Discussion Panelists: Susan Shaheen, Katie Turnbull, Nat Ford, Shawn Wilson 15. Executive Director’s Reception 5:30-7:00p.m. All

THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2021

16. Discussion of Implications of 11:30 a.m. 93 Braceras Discussion COVID-19 for TRB 17. Future Policy Sessions 12:00 p.m. 94 Houston Discussion 18. Final Report of TRB’s Centennial 12:20 105 Larson Presentation Task Force 19. Implications of Biden 12:30 111 Braceras Discussion Administration Priorities for TRB 20. Break 1:00 21. Cooperative Research Program 1:30 112 Hedges Presentation Update 22. Committee on Diversity, Equity, 1:40 118 Lewis Presentation and Inclusion Update 23. Minority Student Fellows Program 1:50 131 Febey Presentation Update 24. Young Member’s Coordinating 2:00 136 Ivanov Presentation Council Update 25. International Subcommittee 2:10 137 Ford Presentation Update 26. Communications Update 2:20 141 Mackie Presentation 27. Consensus and Advisory Studies 2:30 149 Menzies Presentation/ Update Discussion TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 6 of 228 a. Potential Self-Initiated Study 28. Other Business and 2:50 Braceras Discussion Announcements 29. Adjournment 3:00

Next Summer Meeting: June 10 & 11, 2021 (Thursday & Friday) J. Erik Jonsson Study Center, Woods Hole, MA (TBD) June 16 & 17, 2021 (Wednesday & Thursday) NAS Building, Washington, D.C.

Reference D. Purposes and Duties of Executive Committee A. Rosters and Staff E. TRB Policy on Executive Committee Participation B. Organization Charts F. Standing Oversight Committees C. Division Descriptions G. Project Approval Processes

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TRB EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ZOOM MEETING INSTRUCTIONS

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TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 11 of 228 PREVENTING DISCRIMINATION, HARASSMENT, AND BULLYING EXPECTATIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS IN NASEM ACTIVITIES

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Executive Committee Meeting Minutes August 17-19, 2020 Online, Zoom

August 17, 2020, Monday

1:00 p.m. Introductions and Announcements (Braceras) Information a. Braceras discussed how transportation research will need to evolve to meet the challenge of COVID-19 and will keep this week’s discussion broad in light of the shortened, virtual timeframe of this summer’s virtual meeting. b. Policy Statement on Preventing Discrimination, Harassment, and Bullying was noted. c. Bias/Conflict of Interest Discussion – There were no conflicts of interest reported.

1:32 p.m. Discussion with Greg Symmes, NRC Chief Program Officer (CPO) • Symmes introduced himself as a long-time Academies employee but began this year as the NRC CPO. His priorities are 1. The importance of increasing the work and reach of the organization 2. The importance of focusing on staff and empowering them. 3. The importance of making sure our work is effective. • We have been conceptualizing the NRC Strategic Plan and plan to finalize it in February. o There were no negative or strong reactions to the plan, including the draft vision, mission, and values. o The NRC has a lot to learn from TRB as far as how to engage and partner. We are also looking for the Academies to be a leader on inclusion, equity, and diversity. We want technologies that allow us to leapfrog in terms of communications and other priorities. o The strategic goals focus on becoming a more proactive organization in anticipation of future challenges and opportunities; expanding influence and impact on the world; and strengthening the NRC’s creativity, resilience, and sustainability. • The NRC Transformation is focused on making the organization the first, go-to place that leaders look to for information and research. • Our response to the pandemic has accelerated some of our efforts at being creative and nimble. We have resources online and hundreds of activities going on that are related to COVID-19. Among the activities are a Standing Committee on Infectious Disease, a Societal Experts Action Network, and various scenario planning exercises. • There was a question regarding whether the rapid-response activities such as were called for by the crisis, but they are very different than studies and activities that take longer, are very staff and volunteer intensive.

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2:15 p.m. Approval of January 15-16, 2020 Minutes (Braceras) Action • The minutes were approved.

2:16 p.m. TRB Division Committee Report (Hendrickson) Information a. Conference approvals were made. b. Monitoring diversity. The improvement is slow but positive on increasing diversity throughout TRB’s volunteer communities.

2:22 p.m. Executive Director’s Report (Pedersen) Information • TRB has obviously done a lot on COVID-19, and has carried on our activities very effectively while going virtual. We have had major communications efforts, identified research needs, record-breaking attendance for rapid response webinars, among other successes. • We have really addressed equity issues since George Floyd’s death, including leadership statements and blogs, committee work, Critical Issues updating, planning of a major equity conference, among other work. • We anticipate 2020 spending to be about $5 million less than in 2019. • We have a major effort in converting the TRBAM to a virtual format for 2021. • We had a staff survey and 93% positive responses on being proud to work for TRB and 92% that the mission is important to them.

2:30 p.m. TRB Annual Meeting plan (Brach) Information • TRBAM 2020 set a record for attendance, with more than 14,000 attendees for the first time in the conference’s history. • We are trying to make the 2021 virtual meeting as much like a regular in-person meeting as possible. Marcia McNutt will be featured as the Chair’s Plenary Session. Dorval Carter of the Chicago Transit Authority will be the Deen Lecturer and may also speak in another plenary. • Registration fees will be about half the usual cost and we want to do more work on our value proposition on why people should attend. • There was a question about whether some portions of the conference could be free, and the answer is that some events (committee meetings, exhibits, and the career fair) will be free.

2:42 p.m. COVID-19-Related Transportation Issues • Research Issues (Hedges) Information o AASHTO allocated $1 million in funding for COVID-19 research, TRB held a brainstorming session on research needs, and ICF Consulting was hired to compile and refine the needs and problem statements. 38 problem statements in seven categories were identified and submitted by ICF for review, including things like applying stress tests on transportation agencies, providing safe environments for transportation passengers, getting goods delivered in a pandemic, impacts on low-income households, and understanding factors that influence decisions to resume travel. • Critical Issues Supplement (Godwin) Information TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 15 of 228

o This supplement is part of the Executive Committee’s function, to bring the research questions needed. One of the most important questions, it has been determined through discussions so far, is whether COVID-19 is a tipping point for many transportation trends already underway. Some of these areas include mode usage, energy and sustainability, resilience and security, safety and public health, equity, system performance and asset management, funding and finance, goods movement, institutional and workforce capacity, and research and innovation. • January 2021 Policy Session (Houston) Information o It is proposed that the topic be “Impacts of COVID-19 on Personal Mobility and Social Equity.” Some of the questions include employee policies for teleworking, how much tolerance people have for using modes that have extensive personal interaction, how auto ownership will change, and what factors should be considered for supporting vulnerable communities. • Discussion of Experiences and Issues (All) Discussion o Nat Ford discussed Jacksonville’s Tuk’ n Ride service that helps with the first-mile-last- mile challenge and remains an important kind of planning service in a post-COVID world because of the intimacy, size, and open-air-ability of the vehicles.

3:40 p.m. Adjournment (Braceras)

August 18, 2020, Tuesday

Policy Session on Urban Air Mobility

1 p.m. Introduction (Shaheen) Information • What roles could TRB have in researching UAM (Unmanned Aerial Systems and Urban Air Mobility)?

1:05 p.m. TRB UAM Activities Update (Keidel-Adams) Information • TRB has a new Standing Committee, entitled New Users of Shared Airspace, to go along with several other relevant aviation standing committees. There were 14 papers reviewed on UAM at the 2020 TRBAM, compared to one paper in 2019. More than 130 participants attended a Sunday workshop at TRBAM 2020. ACRP also has two active projects dealing with UAM. It is a growing topic for research need.

1:13 p.m. UAM Presentations • “Urban Air Mobility: History, Nuts and Bolts,” by Adam Cohen, Univ. of California, Berkeley: A history of UAM from the 1950s to the present day was detailed. With COVID-19, a number of new uses for the aviation marketplace are being considered for drones, such as deliveries of medicine. There are still a number of hurdles to further implementation of UAM in action, such as legal, safety, equity, weather, noise, privacy, and infrastructure. A series of industry developments were also detailed, including how COVID-19 may reduce the ability for companies and others to focus on research and development as they focus more on their core objectives. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 16 of 228

• “Issues around Planning and implementation of UAM,” by Yu Zhang, Univ. of South Florida: A report from the Tampa Bay region was detailed with regard to how many vertiports are needed to transition to an effective network of UAMs. There are plenty of policy questions, such as who should own and regulate the network, how should people use or share the network, and the road network can be used to understand the hierarchy of the airspace for UAMs. • “NAS Study: Advancing Aerial Mobility: A National Blueprint,” by Nicholas Lappos, Sikorsky: This report looks at a potential national vision for UAMs. An ultimate vision was developed and includes a number of key factors, including that it is safe, secure, shared for all, with a variety of types of vehicles, and environmentally responsible.

2 p.m. Reactions (Davis Hackenberg, NASA) Information • TRB could help across all these areas, and could really help NASA think about user systems and early-adopter areas, with Hawaii particularly coming to mind. Perhaps there’s a national database that can begin to share best practices. Vertiport locations and the infrastructure, with zoning and all the issues involved, are especially important. Public acceptance is something that needs a national strategy, and it needs to be way bigger than anything that can be done by NASA. There is a lot that needs to change over the next decade in regards to drones and weather.

2:05 p.m. Plenary Session Discussion (Shaheen) Discussion • There were questions and comments about: o Responsibilities o Data and changing movement patterns and demand as a result of UAMs (induced demand will not be huge) o A need for lots of real estate for drones at airports but they might not be early adopters o Energy and environmental impacts (there is a lot of transitioning to electric sources) o The movement of congestion from roads to the air o The differences in issues and policies for freight UAMs vs. passenger UAMs o What are the economic costs and benefits o Will this air mobility further divide society and create local NIMBY behavior o The importance of a multimodal understanding, which the TRB community brings in considering all perspectives o The benefits for different socioeconomic groups o Top topics TRB could study, which include how UAMs could be publicized to the public and community acceptance, can toll road models work for UAM in terms of equity impacts, noise research.

3:25 p.m. Last Words (Alan Epstein of MIT) Information • Decades ago, we thought we would be ready for UAMs by now. What can TRB do? Navigation and control issues have largely been solved, but someone needs to think through the response to the first time a UAV crashes into a building or something else. Innovations like this are gravely affected when something goes just a little wrong.

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August 19, 2020, Wednesday

1 p.m. Introduction (Braceras) Information • We made the right decision to move these meetings back to August and hold them virtually.

1:07 p.m. Rapid Fire Consent Agenda Item Presentations (Multiple) Information • There is a lot of progress being made on the Technical Activities strategic realignment of the committee structure (Park/Brach). • Virtual work has not affected CRP’s production, and everything has transitioned well. There was an update on recent reports and new staff (Hedges). • The Marine Board Spring Meeting transitioned rapidly to how COVID-19 was affecting the sector (Comstock/Brotemarkle). • We want to continue meeting with partners internationally so we are aware what is happening in relation to COVID-19 and transportation throughout the world. Many key events have been postponed to next year, although TRB webinars are one way to have some of these conversations virtually without as much delay. There are many engagement activities still happening throughout 2020 (Ford). • There is a new name as part of the strategic realignment; it is now titled the Young Members Coordinating Council. The group is working on lessons learned, how information is shared, mentoring programs, and communications with the key audiences who may be out there and interested in participating in the YMCC (Ivanov). • The SPPR meeting was among the first to take place at the beginning of the pandemic (Turnbull). • The 100th Centennial is November 11, 2020 and it continues despite the pandemic. TRB is trying to think of ways to make the planned event, panel discussion, and dinner in Washington D.C. and make them either virtual or postponed until next year. The “Your Future in Transportation” video is among the many products created as part of the Centennial and has been effective and is useful for attracting a viable transportation workforce (Houston). • The Communications Strategic Plan is progressing well and there should be a document to share in the next several months. It incorporates many different elements from the NRC, OCCO, staff and volunteer feedback, and the newsletter audience survey conducted in March (Mackie).

1:48 p.m. Approval of Consent Agenda (Braceras) Action • The agenda was approved.

1:53 p.m. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Update (Multiple) Information • The many diversity activities ongoing and planned of the Inclusion and Diversity Committee were detailed. Resources and strategies for committees and panels were also listed (Lewis). • The USDOT Accessibility Strategic Plan was detailed. It includes a $5 million Inclusivity Design Challenge, nearly $5 million to fund four new University Transportation Centers, among much else (Furchtgott-Roth). TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 18 of 228

• The TRB Minority Student Fellows Program went well in this past year, its 11th year, with 25 students from 17 schools. This year we have the biggest diversity of majors ever. The 2021 TRBAM will have an opening meeting and work is ongoing to develop guidance for participation (Febey). • The previous discussion on the Critical Issues Update on Equity and Research Issues on Equity was continued with a call for the transportation community to be part of the solution to society’s challenges for addressing equity. Then there was a rundown of the issues that have been researched and the research needs (Pedersen/Godwin).

2:45 p.m. Discuss Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (All) Discussion • Redlining has been a notable cause in spatial mismatch. Now gentrification is playing a new role in this trend. • We need more research on linkage to affordable housing and job access. • There are significant impacts with unsheltered encampments along transportation corridors and it seems to be growing rapidly during COVID-19. • If DOE required some research to be partnerships between HBCU and other universities, would that work? • There can be more analysis of the relationship between transportation pollution exposures (NOx, PM, ozone) and respiratory and other health issues too - especially near bus terminals, highways, ports, and airports. • Would a focus on QOZ (qualified opportunity zones) help get dollars to needed areas or are there other better designations? • The time of day of ridership is important to examine. • There are psychological issues that could be examined, for example, “informal car sharing:” how could transit ever compete against a car that can be used by many members of extended families? There must be a formula to compare those kinds of customers against those who have transit passes. • We could study the language around equity and how the transportation community can communicate more equitably and more welcomingly. • We could look at equity issues in more holistic ways.

3:10 p.m. Consensus and Advisory Studies (Menzies) Information/Discussion • The study committees appear to be benefiting from short, virtual meetings. For CAAS, there are five studies nearing completion, three that are new, and one that is mid-stage. The self-initiated mobility study is winding down and we would like to consider a new one to start, possibly on the topic of post-COVID-19 travel behavior and decision-making in a time of uncertainty. Does this seem like a topic for a symposium and a study? • There was enthusiastic support for this self-initiated study, including bringing in teleworking, shopping, recreational travel, real estate trends, freight movement, climate, health, funding, how people psychologically process information when times are so disruptive, and other factors.

3:25 p.m. Reflections on the Virtual Meeting Format (All) Discussion TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 19 of 228

• The virtual format seems to have gone well, it was good to spread it out over three days, three hours each days seems like a good maximum time, and people think the packet being available for reading ahead made the balance of TRB reports and substantial topical discussion work well. • The virtual TRBAM format should work well.

3:36 p.m. Adjournment (Braceras/Shaheen)

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Proposals for TRB-Convened Conferences (ACTION –Consent Agenda) The following criteria are used in evaluating proposals for conferences, workshops, and similar activities. In general, an activity should not be proposed unless it draws a favorable response to all applicable criteria. The TRB staff and the proposing committees feel that the conferences being proposed satisfy these criteria. 1.Is the proposed activity consistent with TRB’s mission? 2.Does it have a high probability of producing worthwhileresults? 3.Is the purpose of the activity objective and noncommercial? (Might the undertaking of the activity or the potential result give TRB an image of bias in an area in which it must remain neutral?) 4.Are the available time and funding adequate to conduct it in a proper manner and to carry it to a logical conclusion? 5.Is it within the existing staff capability of TRB or a capability that can reasonably be established? 6.Can committee members necessary to guide it be identified and their services obtained? 7.Does TRB retain the requisite control? Alternately, in case where TRB is not the lead organization, will TRB be involved in developing the program, and will TRB receive appropriate recognition? 8.Does it duplicate other efforts? Has the subject received all of the attention that is justified for the present time? 9.Is there a more appropriate organization, within the National Research Council or elsewhere, to handle it?

Executive Committeeapproval is requested for oneTRB-ConvenedandthreeTRB-Cosponsored conferences as part of the consent agenda. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 21 of 228

CONFERENCES PROPOSED FOR SPONSORSHIP BY TRB Title Date Location 1. 2021 Automation in Road Transportation Symposium July 2021 Virtual 2. 2021 Joint Rail Conference* April 20-21, 2021 Virtual 3. 13th InternationalWorkshop on Structural Health August 31-September 2, 2021 Stanford, California Monitoring (IWSHM)* 4. 12th Annual Maritime Risk Symposium* November 2-4, 2021 Houston, Texas *TRB participates as a cosponsor TRB Executive CommitteeTRB Meeting,-Co Januarynve n26-28,ed 2021ConferenceApprovalForm Page 22 of 228

Title: 2021AutomationinRoadTransportationSymposium

Location: Virtual

Date (two month range): July2021

Description (overviewand the Thesubjectofroadvehicleautomationcontinuestobeofhighinteresttothepublic,media, objectiveofconference): andthetransportationprofession.Withtheannounceddevelopmentsbyallthemajor automobilemanufacturersandothertechnologydevelopersonthistopic,TRBhasidentified thisasatransformationaltechnologyandastrategicpriority. ThisSymposiumwillbuildonthehighlysuccessful2012-2020AutomatedVehicle Symposia,andwillprovideupdatesonthecurrentresearchanddevelopment,advanced engineeringprogress,andfielddeploymentresults.TheSymposiumwillalsoprovidea strongfocusonissuesimpactingtheUSDOTandStateDOTsresultingfromroadvehicle automationadvancements.

NOTE:thisisthecontinuationoftheAutomatedVehicleSymposiathatTRBco-sponsored withAUVSIfortheprior5years.Thatco-sponsoringrelationshiphasendedandTRBseeks tocontinuethesymposiain2021.

Attendees(anticipatednumber 1000+FederalandStateDOTemployees,researchers,privatesectorautomotiveOEMsand andtargetaudience): suppliers,andinternationalparticipants

Admission: Open toall By Invitation AnticipatedProducts: Web-postingofpresentationsfromthevariousspeakersandBreakoutReportSummaries

ConveningOrganization: TRBistheconveningorganizationforthisevent. OtherSponsors:

Funding (includinganyspecific 4 RegistrationFees 4 Patrons/Exhibits Sponsors/Other: commitments):

TRBStandingCommittees IntelligentTransportationSystems(ACP15),Vehicle-HighwayAutomationSystems(ACP30), (fullnamesofcommittees TRBJointSubcommitteeonChallengesandOpportunitiesforRoadVehicleAutomation involvedinconferenceand (ACP30(1)),EmergingandInnovativePublicTransportandTechnologiesCommittee theircommitteecodes): (APO20),EmergingTechnologyLawCommittee(AJL40),TrafficControlDevicesCommittee (ACP55),TrafficFlowTheoryCommittee(ACP50),andothers

TRBRole: 4 Logistics/registration 4 Developprogram Other:

TRBStaff (SPOwhois thekey RichardCunard,EngineerofTrafficandOperations,[email protected],202-334-2965 contactfor theconference): TRB Executive CommitteeCo- Meeting,Spo Januarynso r26-28,ed 2021ConferenceApprovalForm Page 23 of 228

Title: 2021JointRailConference

Location: Online

Date: April20-21,2021 Description (overviewand Theconferencewillcoverabroadrangeofrailroadsubjects,including: objectiveoftheconference): €RailroadInfrastructureEngineering €RailEquipmentEngineering €SignalandTrainControlEngineering €ServiceQualityandOperations €PlanningandDevelopment €SafetyandSecurity €EnergyEfficiencyandSustainability €UrbanPassengerRailTransport €Electrification Thisisarecurringannualevent,whichTRBhasco-sponsoredsince2009.

Attendees (anticipated 300 numberandtargetaudience): Admission: Open to all By Invitation AnticipatedProducts: Papersandotherpresentationmaterialswillberecordedandwillbeprovided electronicallytoregistrantsandavailableforpurchasebyothers.ASMEwillholdthe copyrighttothematerials.

Convening Organization: AmericanSocietyofMechanicalEngineers

OtherSponsors: TheInstituteofElectricalandElectronicEngineers(IEEE) TheAmericanSocietyofCivilEngineers(ASCE) AmericanRailwayEngineeringandMaintenance-of-WayAssociation(AREMA) AmericanPublicTransportationAssociation(APTA)

Funding: TRB has no financial responsibility for this Co-Sponsored event. TRBStandingCommittees IntercityPassengerRail(AR010),andFreightRailTransportation(AR040),Railroad (fullnamesofcommitteesinvolved InfrastructureDesignandMaintenance(AR050) inconference&theircommittee codes):

4 Committeemember(s) toserveonprogramcommittee (mustbemeaningfulin TRBRole 4 planningofconferenceprogram,not Committeemember(s) toorganizeorparticipateinsession(s) justmarketing): 4 Committeemember(s) to reviewpapers/abstracts. TRBstafftobeinvitedspeaker(s) Other:

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Title: 13thInternationalWorkshoponStructuralHealthMonitoring(IWSHM)

Location: Stanford,CA,USA

Date: August31-September2,2021 Description (overviewand TheworkshopfeaturesreviewsofStructuralHealthMonitoring(SHM)growthinthe objectiveoftheconference): lasttwodecadesandexaminesopportunitiesforfutureSHMresearchand applications.PapersinsupportofAutonomousInspectionand/orIntelligent Data-drivenDiagnosticSystemsandCyber-PhysicalSystems(CPS)forpreventive maintenancewillbehighlightedbesidesgeneralapplicationsinaerospace,mechanical engineering,andcivilinfrastructure.

Thisbiennialworkshopaimstoassessthecurrentstate-of-the-arttechnologiesandto identifykeybreakthroughsandemergingR&Dchallengesthatarecriticaltostructural healthmonitoring.Theworkshopisalsointendedtopromotecommunicationand cross-fertilizationbetweenmultipleplatforms.

Attendees (anticipated numberandtargetaudience): Admission: Open to all By Invitation AnticipatedProducts:

Convening Organization: StanfordUniversity

OtherSponsors: IABMAS-USA

Funding: TRB has no financial responsibility for this Co-Sponsored event. TRBStandingCommittees StandingCommitteeonTestingandEvaluationofTransportationStructures(AKB40). (fullnamesofcommitteesinvolved Dr.SreenivasAlampalliandDr.HodaAzariareAKB40committeemembersandare inconference&theircommittee ontheConferenceTechnicalCommittee.SeveralmembersofotherTRBcommittees codes): willalsobeparticipatingandwillbeassistingwithconferenceprogram.AKB40had cooperatedwithDr.Fu-KuoChang,conferenceorganizer,whoattendedTRBlastyear atAKB40invitationanddeliveredaninvitedpresentationinalecternsession. 4 Committeemember(s) toserveonprogramcommittee (mustbemeaningfulin TRBRole 4 planningofconferenceprogram,not Committeemember(s) toorganizeorparticipateinsession(s) justmarketing): 4 Committeemember(s) to reviewpapers/abstracts. TRBstafftobeinvitedspeaker(s) 4 Other:

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Title: 12thAnnualMaritimeRiskSymposium

Location: UniversityofHouston,Houston,TX

Date: November2-4,2021 Description (overviewand The2021MaritimeRiskSymposiumwillbringtogethergovernment,industry,and objectiveoftheconference): academicleaders…bothdomesticandinternational…toexplorecurrentandfuture risksassociatedwiththemaritimetransportationsystemrelatedtoinfrastructure, humanfactors,cybervulnerabilities,andinnovation(autonomoussystems/automation) inanall-hazardscontext.Thesymposiumwilladdressrelatedissuesfacing waterwaysusers,regulatoryagenciesandeducation/trainingproviders.

Attendees (anticipated 200 numberandtargetaudience): Admission: Open to all By Invitation AnticipatedProducts: Webpostingsofpresentations

Convening Organization: UniversityofHouston-CollegeofTechnology

OtherSponsors: U.S.CoastGuard

Funding: TRB has no financial responsibility for this Co-Sponsored event. TRBStandingCommittees MarineBoard(MB000) (fullnamesofcommitteesinvolved inconference&theircommittee codes):

4 Committeemember(s) toserveonprogramcommittee (mustbemeaningfulin TRBRole 4 planningofconferenceprogram,not Committeemember(s) toorganizeorparticipateinsession(s) justmarketing): Committeemember(s) to reviewpapers/abstracts. TRBstafftobeinvitedspeaker(s) Other:

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TRB Conferences, Webinars, and Recordings August 11 2020–January 15, 20201

Conferences (*indicates event cosponsored by TRB)

International Symposium on Pavement, Roadway, and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment* January 13-15, 2021 online

TRB 2021 Annual Meeting January 2021 TRB Transit Safety and Security Conference and APTA Mid-year Safety and Security Seminar November 17, 2020 online

Workshop on Traffic Simulation and CAV Modeling November 16, 2020 online

Maritime Education, Training, Research & Innovation (METRI) Virtual Summit November 9, 2020 online

2020 Virtual Forum on Sustainability and Emerging Transportation Technology (Pt.2) November 5, 2020 online

2020 Virtual Forum on Sustainability and Emerging Transportation Technology (Pt.1) October 29, 2020 online

ITS World Congress 2020* October 4, 2020 online

Commodity Flow Survey Workshop September 24, 2020 online

59th Annual Workshop on Transportation Law September 15, 2020 online TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 27 of 228

U.S.-China Mobility Management Meeting August 26, 2020 online

17th National Tools of the Trade Conference -Will not be held as scheduled August 26, 2020 Boise, ID

Bridging Transportation Researchers Online Conference* August 12, 2020

Webinars

TRB Webinar: Cross-Cutting Issues in Urban Congestion Pricing December 10, 2020

TRB Webinar: Specifying Clay and Gravel for Road Surfacing December 9, 2020

TRB Webinar: Planning an Effective Airport Deicing Runoff Management Program December 8, 2020

TRB Webinar: Rail in the Time of Coronavirus -Planning, Operating, & Constructing Rail December 2, 2020

TRB Webinar: Advances in Unstable Slope Instrumentation and Monitoring November 23, 2020

TRB Webinar: Paving the Way -Smart and Multifunctional Pavements November 19, 2020

TRB Webinar: Protection Detection –Making Roads Safe for Drivers and Wildlife November 18, 2020

TRB Webinar: Tools of the Future -Printing Cement-Based Materials in 3D November 17, 2020

TRB Webinar: Celebrating TRB’s Centennial by Exploring the Future of Transportation Research November 12, 2020 Online TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 28 of 228

TRB Webinar: Advancing Innovative Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility Research November 9, 2020

TRB Webinar: Keep on Truckin’--Using Simulators for CDL Testing During COVID- 19 November 6, 2020

TRB Webinar: Wetland Mitigation at Airports November 5, 2020

TRB Webinar: Employee Safety Reporting in Public Transportation November 2, 2020

TRB Webinar: Make it Count--Estimating Market Values for Small Airports October 29, 2020

TRB Webinar: Finding the Path--Messaging Before, During, and After Weather Events October 28, 2020

TRB Webinar: Balancing the Scales--Equity Analysis in Transportation Planning October 22, 2020

TRB Webinar: Benefitting from Weigh-in-Motion Data October 21, 2020

TRB Webinar: Measuring Highway Assets through Non-Destructive Evaluation October 20, 2020

TRB Webinar: Where Are We Now with Performance-Based Pavement Warranties? October 19, 2020

TRB Webinar: Determining Social and Economic Qualifications in the DBE Program October 15, 2020

TRB Webinar: How Accurate are Traffic Forecasts? October 14, 2020

TRB Webinar: Advancing Transportation Equity October 13, 2020

TRB Webinar: Updating Designs for Mechanically-Stabilized Earth Walls in AASHTO October 8, 2020

TRB Webinar: Weathering the Storm -Climate Resilience at Airports October 7, 2020 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 29 of 228

TRB Webinar: A Resilient Path Forward for the Marine Transportation System October 6, 2020

TRB Webinar: Introducing an Improved Design Procedure for Unbonded Concrete Overlays October 5, 2020

TRB Webinar: Governing Data to Improve Transportation Asset Management October 1, 2020

TRB Webinar: Capacity Impacts of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles September 29, 2020

TRB Webinar: Stay Current on Research in Progress September 23, 2020

TRB Webinar: Designing Beyond -Improving Airport Operations through BIM September 22, 2020

TRB Webinar: Modeling Long-Distance Intercity Travel for Sustainable Global Travel September 21, 2020

TRB Webinar: Enhancing Pavement Foundation Resilience through Moisture Measurement September 17, 2020

TRB Webinar: On the Road Again--Engaging Students in Road Engineering Careers September 16, 2020

TRB Webinar: Incentivizing Sustainable Air Service September 15, 2020

TRB Webinar: Framework for Managing Data from Emerging Technologies September 10, 2020

TRB Webinar: Fabricating Asphalt for Laboratory Testing September 9, 2020

TRB Webinar: Envisioning the Next Generation of Traffic Management Systems (TMSs) September 8, 2020

TRB Webinar: How Women Fare in the Transit Industry September 2, 2020 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 30 of 228

TRB Webinar: The Relationship between Bicycle Facilities and Increasing Bicycle Trips August 31, 2020

TRB Webinar: Delivering Bridge Projects with Building Information Modeling (BIM) August 26, 2020

TRB Webinar: Preserving Concrete Pavement August 19, 2020

TRB Webinar: Public Transit Ridership Trends August 18, 2020

TRB Webinar: What’s Cooler than Cool? Cooler Pavements for Urban Heat Island Mitigation August 13, 2020

TRB Webinar: Enter the Portal–The Transportation Performance Management (TPM) Portal August 12, 2020

Straight to Recordings

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TRB Executive Commitee’s Subcommittee on Planning and Policy Review, Fall Meeting Thursday, November 12, 2020, 10:30am-2:30pm EDT

ATTENDEES

Members and Guests Susan Shaheen, Katie Turnbull, Vicki Arroyo, Carlos Braceras, Ginger Evans, Nat Ford, Brian Ness, Hyun-A Park, Susan Hanson, Chris Hendrickson, Russell Houston, Paul Mackie, Melinda McGrath, Shawn Wilson

Staff Neil Pedersen, Ann Brach Scott Brotemarkle, Michael Covington, Katherine Kortum, Chris Hedges, Karen Febey, Steve Godwin, Tom Menzies, Gary Walker, Samantha Chao, Jim Hinchman, Greg Symmes.

Katie Turnbull: We have a full but manageable agenda. On the consent agenda, we request approval of conferences/workshops and minutes from our spring meeting.

Ginger Evans: Move to approve.

Susan Shaheen: Second.

All approve.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT

Neil Pedersen: Susan Shaheen will become executive committee chair on January 28 and Nat Ford will be vice chair. Thanks to Carlos for a very different year as chair than he anticipated. Chris Hendrickson will remain chair of the Division Committee and Katie Turnbull of SPPR. Geraldine Knatz, Roger Huff, and Leslie Richards will end their terms. New members are Craig Philip, now of Vanderbilt but who spent most of his career with Ingram Barge, will replace Geraldine in the NAE slot. Martha Grabowski will join in an ex officio position. Ginger Evans and Brian Ness have full reappointed terms; Chris Hendrickson and Katie Turnbull have one year reappointments. As of September 30, all modal administrators except FHWA are no longer ex officio members of the executive committee as their agencies are no longer sponsors.

Martha Grabowski will receive this year’s Carey Award. Mohamed Abel-Aty, an expert on traffic safety, will be awarded the Crum Award. Rodney Slater, former DOT secretary, will receive the Turner Medal. Leo Vecellio, CEOof Vecellio Group, a construction company, will receive the Bartlett Award, which is shared among AASHTO, ARTBA, and TRB.

I covered covid activities in my written report. For both covid and social/racial equity, we held brainstorming sessions. The results of those brainstorming activities are being used to inform potential CRP studies. There are many covid and equity issues that will be in TRBAM sessions.

Paul Mackie: The communications strategic plan is coming along nicely. We’re working in unison, more than before, with the chief communications officer of NASEM. We’re trying to put into place strategic communications plans across all divisions so we’re better aligned. The communications team was recruited this year to help draft the TRB annual report, which will be released in January. It will be a little shorter, hopefully a little jazzier. We’re working on redesigning the TRB e-newsletter, which should be completed soon. We introduced a weekly staff newsletter that goes out each Monday, trying to increase the culture of communications within TRB so we’re all aligned with messaging and knowing how the world perceives TRB. In January, we’re launching a new podcast TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 32 of 228 called Transportation Explorers. It will be 15-20 minute episodes with transportation influencers, and many of you will soon get calls to be guests. We’ll launch during the TRBAM.

Neil Pedersen: The Special Committee on Inclusion and Diversity suggested a revision to incorporate equity. The focus will be equity within TRB activities instead of equity within the transportation industry. The new name would be the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Special Committee. You can approve the change on behalf of the Executive Committee (ExCom) or wait to present it to the entire ExCom. The full ExCom adopted the strategic plan and approved the committee, so I wanted to bring it to you for your approval.

Katie Turnbull: Preferences? It’s appropriate for us to approve it, but to be sure it gets visibility, it might also be helpful and appropriate to wait and take it to the full ExCom.

Carlos Braceras: I can go either way. Up to SPPR.

Susan Shaheen: It’s such an important issue that I favor adopting it today. I would recommend that we highlight it with the ExCom in January. Motion to approve.

Nat Ford: Second.

All approve.

Katie Turnbull: Motion is approved, and we agree that it should get recognition at the full meeting in January.

Neil Pedersen: As we’ve been discussing for the last 18-24 months, a $900k reduction in USDOT support kicked in as of Sept 30. Continuing resolution, which includes a one-year extension of the FAST Act, expires on December 11. We have funding and know what it will be for the remainder of FY 2021, which is the same as FY 2020.

For our overall financial situation, we’ve had very significant reductions in travel and meeting expenses. That’s also been a reduction in revenues since many meetings and events bring in revenue for us. There’s a slowdown in work in all CRP programs by contractors. In some cases it was work they were not able to do either because it required physical presence or they were counting on in-person grad students. In other cases, the cause is contractors saying they had priority work on COVID-19 that they had to do. We expect to catch up again. Since the last SPPR meeting, SHRP2 has closed out. Ann will give more details on the TRBAM, but we’ve reduced the registration fees and exhibit/patron fees, so we expect lower income. The total impact if we meet our assumptions will be a net revenue reduction of $2.4M. That will be an impact. That’s exactly why we have a reserve fund, and we’ll dip into it.

With the new administration, we expect some changes in policy priorities. The transition team was announced this week, not just for USDOT but other related agencies too. A more significant change for NASEM overall is an expected significant change in support for science and research. We anticipate an emphasis on covid, climate change, rail transportation, electric vehicles, and racial justice issues.

We’ll talk about the centennial later, but yesterday was the actual 100th anniversary. We had a great staff event. One of the highlights of the event was a quiz where Russell Houston played Alex Trebek very effectively. Russell, please send the quiz questions to everyone to see how well they do on it.

CRITICAL ISSUES ADDENDA

Neil Pedersen: ExCom wanted these two addenda on COVID-19’s effects on transportation and on social and racial equity issues. The covid addendum was circulated to you previously and you provided helpful comments. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 33 of 228

That’s getting pretty close to final state now. The equity issue became an issue of focus later and we had the brainstorming session later. You’ve now received a draft and we welcome comments on it.

Steve Godwin: Katherine Kortum worked on equity and I did covid. We got peer reviews from 7 reviewers on covid. I've worked my way through two of those so far. I expect that in the next week or two you’ll see a completed response to review, which will be the original document plus review comments.

Vicki Arroyo: A question about covid: do we feel confident Congress will support longer-term studies to see what the long-term impacts are on travel behavior? Using teleconferencing, for example, but also effects on transit? We sometimes have a surge capacity around crises but it would be great to have a robust research effort in years to come. Is that a conversation you’re having with relevant folks?

Neil Pedersen: I’ll start my answer in terms of research being done through CRP. The AASHTO research and innovation committee that Melinda chairs set aside $1M to let AASHTO’s CEO panel make the decision. They chose six projects that have been funded. In terms of congressional set-asides for policy studies, there have not been direct discussions unless Tom Menzies has been having some I’m not aware of at this point.

Steve Godwin: UC Davis is carrying out some survey research to try to pick up behavioral patterns. That’s an example of university transportation research funding picking up the slack. You don't see much behavioral research coming from USDOT; it’s more likely to come from universities. There’s a lot more that could and should be done, but at least there’s something.

Vicki Arroyo: Right. Trying to make sure we can get support for that research once crisis abates.

Susan Shaheen: UC’s Institute of Transportation Studies - consisting of Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, and UCLA - has dedicated a substantial amount of SB1 (gas tax) money to covid research. We have a portfolio of projects happening now. I’m not sure of the funding level but it’s well over $1M and that will likely continue. As part of it, I’m leading a study on behalf of TRB and UCITS looking at scenario planning for covid impacts on transit and shared mobility. We’re wrapping that up now. Neil has served on the steering committee. 36 experts participated over three months. We developed three time frames for looking at policy actions and recommended research: up to 12 months (stop the bleeding), 1-3 years, and 4-6 years. We’ve been wrapping that up and Neil will be getting a report soon to review, which is about 60 pages. We plan to share some of the results with the TRB ExCom in January.

Neil Pedersen: We’re also scheduled to have a meeting with FTA leadership for follow up activities.

Chris Hendrickson: Steve, how did the reviews come in for covid? Major issues or just editing?

Steve Godwin: No major issues, but a lot of helpful constructive criticism. The disadvantage of asking smart people to review stuff is they make good suggestions, and then you have to do work to patch it up. No major issues but lots to fix.

Ginger Evans: On research for passenger behavior and impacts - in aviation, there are a number of big passenger surveys both in the US and globally. Sales data for coming months is really helpful for banks and rating agencies. Someone from ACRP aviation - we’ve collected all of that data in a library with an airport association, so there’s a good starting point of data for aviation.

Katherine Kortum: Provides overview of equity addendum.

Susan Hanson: I’m very impressed with comprehensiveness of what you did. Was any of the brainstorming session dedicated to priorities? That’s a two-part issue. One, what are the most important things we need to know TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 34 of 228 about. Two, what do we know the least about? There’s so much material there that it would be helpful for readers to have a sense of future research.

Neil Pedersen: Susan, you raise a significant point. Given the timeframe we have available, trying to get consensus on priorities might not be realistic. The document itself will give us the opportunity to have lots of discussion about that, including with the ExCom. The brainstorming session didn’t focus on priorities, just ideas. One option for a policy discussion at the June meeting is on this topic and priorities could be a great part of the discussion.

Susan Shaheen: This is great and I'm impressed by the document. One thing I’ve been doing a lot of reading on in the last month or so, as I add a module on equity to my class, is the notion of restorative justice. That’s recognizing that we’ve had exclusionary zoning and displacement, but we now need to lean in more to take a restorative approach to past inequities. We might want to consider that as we move forward with the equity agenda. Should restorative justice be part of our vision?

Ginger Evans: A missing key element is historic funding priorities. That tends to be the source of the disparities in access to transportation systems. I’m not sure if that’s a research topic, but the restorative justice comment speaks to that. The answer is to close that gap in some way, to change priorities to repair those connections. Funding was the thing that jumped out at me as the source of a lot of this. It’s hard to tackle, but hard to ignore.

Neil Pedersen: It could be an interesting research topic.

Katie Turnbull: Great work. Provide any further suggestions to Katherine Kortum by Fri 20 Nov, and Russell and Neil will bring this up as a topic for the June policy session.

PLANS FOR VIRTUAL TRB ANNUAL MEETING

Ann Brach: All of this is hot off the press. The 2021 theme is “launching a new century of mobility and quality of life.” Staff’s philosophy this year is continuity. Covid doesn’t stop us. We’ll keep giving good content and keeping attendees, exhibitors, and patrons engaged.

The first two weeks of January have about 400 meetings. We skip MLK and Inauguration Days and start again on Thurs 21 Jan with workshops and exhibits. In the following week we add on the lectern sessions. 400+ meetings in the first two weeks, then 400 workshops and sessions, about half of normal. About 1000 speakers. 2600 papers are in the poster sessions, and we have 3600 registrants as of last Friday.

For the first time we can have actual plenary sessions without limits on sizes of rooms. The Deen lecture has been scheduled to avoid conflicts with anything else. Dorval Carter will be talking about equity impacts in transit. Former Secretary Foxx will come for a discussion with him, moderated by Hyun-A Park. There will also be a chair’s plenary session.

We’re doing curated sessions again, breaking the ocean down into wading pools. We’ve posted sessions on the spotlight theme, on COVID-19 (over 45 sessions) and on equity (over 25 sessions) but I’m still going through the program so these numbers might grow.

The first two weeks of committee meetings are being handled by TRB staff with our own Zoom accounts. During the second two weeks we have a virtual conference vendor called Community brands, which will be our platform. But we also wanted to have some tools that people are already familiar with. We’re using our normal online program, which we have to because the committee meetings won’t be in the vendor’s platform. Using our own online program also means we can keep the archive of the entire program. We’re keeping the mobile app too, as it’s quite popular. Vendor will also have a program and a search function, but we decided this would be helpful. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 35 of 228

There’s a virtual lobby that includes photos from the actual convention center instead of generic lobby images. In the lobby, you can click on the various signs to go to the different pieces of the meeting. The networking lounges will also be photos from actual sitting areas within the convention center. The auditorium is still under development. We’re the largest virtual meeting we know about. This platform is better than what we could do ourselves, but it’s still designed for something with only a few things happening at once.

Neil Pedersen: executive committee activity is as follows: Mon 19 Jan, 1:30-2:45: TRB Division Committee meeting Mon 25 Jan, 5:30-6:30: Deen lecture Mon 25 Jan, 6:45-8:00: ExCom reception Tues 26 Jan, 11:30-3:00: ExCom business meeting Wed 27 Jan, 11:30-1:00: Chair’s plenary session Wed 27 Jan, 1:30-3:30: ExCom policy session Wed 27 Jan, 5:30-7:00: Executive Director reception Thurs 28 Jan, 11:30-3:00: ExCom business meeting

We selected the day between MLK and Inauguration days for the division committee meeting. See slides for the full calendar.

Committee business meeting will begin on Tues 26 Jan. The keynote speaker for the chair's plenary session is Marcia McNutt, president of NAS and chair of the National Research Council. I’ve been coordinating with her about the content of her presentation. And I’m coordinating with John Porcari, who has a lead role in the Biden campaign and transition, so there will likely be about a 10min presentation from him about priorities. There’s also likely a discussion about Biden priorities at the business meeting. For the chair’s plenary session, we will try to cover as many things as we traditionally do at chair’s lunch. We will give out the three awards, though hopefully in prerecorded bits, and recognize others as we usually do as well.

Russell Houston: The exhibit hall will be made up of floors, each of which has nine booths. The TRB floor will have our booths clustered together. It will look like this:

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Quick numbers: We had 140 exhibitors by July 21, when we shifted to a virtual meeting. As of now we have 54 booths and 49 exhibitors (AASHTO has five booths). We gave 27 refunds and another 50 who asked for credits are rolling their money forward to a future meeting. In total we’re likely to have 100 or so booths. There are another 22 coming from FHWA, and there’s TRB’s 9. We have 16 patrons. We are sold out on platinum and gold, but still have silver which is unlimited this year. We tried to increase the incentives on that one. People can find exhibits in four ways: browse by wandering the halls; search; use a navigation dropdown (which is for patrons only); and use a splash page. Everything will be in alphabetical order to make it easy to find.

That’s the floor plan for the 2022 meeting, as we hope we will be in person again. We made changes to the hall to allow for more distance. The grand promenade is a 30 foot aisle running through it. Each cross-aisle is 20 feet wide. There’s a sawtooth configuration; no booth will be directly across from any other and there will be a 10 foot buffer on all sides of the booths. It likely will take us a couple of years to get back up to the speed and the size we have been before, but we’re planning to keep people as comfortable as possible. I wanted you to see this partly just for information but also so that as you eventually go back to in-person events, you can share any good ideas you see with us.

Paul Mackie: One message that’s resonating is “the world has changed but the need for transportation research hasn’t.” That will permeate our messaging. Our new staff communications newsletter is one way to build messaging for staff which can then go out to volunteers and the public. There are nine TRB booths, as Russell mentioned. There used to be a media room for journalists. One booth will be that media room, with lots of good fundamental information about TRB and what we are, that we’re more than just this one conference. The e- newsletter has continual announcements about the TRBAM. We will also have a TRBAM Express newsletter that will go to attendees about the previous day, upcoming sessions, etc. It’s likely to be 9 or 10 days of the newsletter, not actually daily.

We’re producing a promo video to go out with press and media advisories. We will be publicising the event through our own avenues, but also through Politico, Transport Topics, and more. We’ll launch the podcast during the TRBAM and publicize it throughout. We expect Susan Shaheen and Nat Ford to be among our first discussions, though we haven’t made a formal ask yet. (Susan gives thumbs up.) Anthony Foxx is also booked. For social media, we want to get influential people to help share our messages. We’ll push #TRBAM frequently. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 37 of 228

Social media helps us to get a young and diverse audience. We’ve started to put together 30 or so spotlight graphics that we want to spread around the social media world - not just pictures of Zoom calls.

Ann Brach: Everything will be recorded, so sessions will be available for people after the meeting.

Carlos Braceras: As hard as the normal meeting is, layering all of this in is much harder. About 3600 registered now - how does that compare to a normal year?

Ann Brach: It’s about 83% of normal. We had a delay in opening registration and the online program. Once the content is up I hope we’ll have more registrations. We have more sponsor registrations now than when we did last year. I don’t have the breakdown, but I’m pretty sure it’s state DOTS.

Carlos Braceras: We see this as a real opportunity. I would ask that you do a debrief with Jim Tymon and AASHTO after they finish their annual meeting tomorrow. They’ve had some frustrations with their vendor, who is different, but still might be useful information. Also, a future lesson learned will be some way to continue on virtually. We want to have a strong meeting presence but good ongoing access to content. Is there a way that the TRB App can be a portal to access events in the future? I’m a marketing guy so I like to think about how we can maintain our brand and that one place where people go to access all of TRB.

Ann Brach: Not sure I completely follow. When you’re on the platform, it will be TRB all over the place. You’ll be able to get the same kind of materials from the AM that you would normally get. We haven’t figured out yet what we’ll do with all of the recordings once the platform stops supporting them. It’s a lot of video. The abstracts and everything else will still be available as it has been.

Carlos Braceras: Figuring out those videos is something that would be great. Even once we’re in person again, it would be great to have those saved. Especially the ones I’m in.

Ann Brach: Many organizations are talking about repackaging their material and using it at other times throughout the year, such as through webinars. This requires thinking about everything from scratch. That’s exhausting, but also fascinating. We’re asking ourselves why we do everything. This is not just a translation of an in-person meeting, it’s a whole new event. When talking about future hybrid events, it won’t be cameras in every session, but it will be something different. It will be fun to see...when we figure it out.

Katie Turnbull: It will be different but surely a very good meeting. And we’re doing well on time!

POLICY SESSION TOPICS

Russell Houston: Page 25 of the briefing package has more info about the policy sessions. The January policy session will be on longer-term effects of covid on personal mobility and social equity. Susan Shaheen and Katie Turnbull will address personal mobility, and we’ll learn more about the work that Susan referenced earlier. Nat Ford and Shawn Wilson will talk about social equity. This is just a two-hour session. For the in-person sessions, we normally have up to 5.5 hours. After Susan and Katie make their presentation, initial reactions will come from Nat and Sean, and then vice versa. Then we’ll get reactions from the full executive committee.

The bigger issue for today is what SPPR would like to suggest as the topic(s) for ExCom consideration in January to select as the June topic. Suggestions are as follows:

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● Institutional issues and decision making ● Native American equity issues

Future of goods movement ● One of 12 critical issues ● COVID-19 has accelerated a number of changes in goods movement ● How can officials best foster competition and set fair user fees for the freight industry? ● How do we make GHG reduction technologies improvements effectively and affordably?

Governance and institutional reform ● Explore the trends and disruptive changes that appear to be at odds with the legacy framework for transportation

The third area is a little different from the first two. In January, Eno gave a presentation on a report they’d done on this topic. At that time, the ExCom selected this as a policy session for this coming January 2021. We switched gears because of the pandemic, but I wanted to see if people wanted to take this up again.

Katie Turnbull: All three are good topics. I’d suggest the equity issues. E-commerce relates to covid, certainly, and has lots of implications. Let’s open it for discussion.

Vicki Arroyo: We do a lot of work with states facilitating dialogues. Equity issues have loomed larger than ever this year. The George Floyd murder, the disparate effects of covid which might be due in part to air pollution, and more. I’d be a strong vote for trying to unpack that. Rectifying it through policy is challenging. We’ve been facilitating dialogue around what would be a market-based approach. Some don’t like cap and trade options because they might create hot spots. But for GHG, that’s a global issue, and a credible argument could be made that you can design policies that benefit communities on front lines if you’re careful and deliberate about it. We’re seeing a lot of leaning into the connections between health and transportation.

Chris Hendrickson: I’m all in favor of the equity topic for summer. We can build off the critical issues addendum. But instead of just talking about issues, let’s talk about action items, both for the transportation industry and for TRB itself. It should be more of an action discussion for strategic planning. For January 2022, I think future goods movement and governance are good issues, but we should also keep GHG in our back pocket as there's likely to be a major push there in a new administration.

Susan Hanson: I would like to focus on the institutional issues within equity. Those are hugely important. Even within that, we can focus on the contemporary issues and decision making that affect structural racism and social justice. The historical institutional issues that are behind the current state of structural racism are pretty well known by people in our field. I’d like to see attention paid to contemporary institutional issues and how we can change them to have an impact on this problem.

Susan Shaheen: I also prefer social/racial equities. It’s so important for us to focus on this. It will continue to garner a lot of attention. The new administration will focus on it. The overlap with EJ and climate is important here. There’s lots of focus on getting low-income individuals into EVs here in California. There’s an idea that we can just bring in tech and it will be the solution .I agree with Susan Hanson’s comment that so many things are structural. We have to be careful how we advance these issues. We can't just put a bandaid on them. I would love to see a session on this.

Nat Ford: It’s hard for me to determine who said what, as I’m on the phone. An earlier speaker talked about the contemporary structures in place that don’t lend themselves to supporting diversity or equity. For me, an example is working on an AV project with lots of new tech in Jacksonville. Simple things like the language that software developers use or their exposure to different communities - they design systems that don’t recognize our unique TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 39 of 228 differences. I have recently started looking at what the JTA can do in diversity. We pat ourselves on the back as agency heads. We’ve done a lot both within our orgs and with DBEs. If you’re really looking at diversity, what are the historical structures that work against diversity from the very start? If your organization is diverse, do you need DBE goals? They’re not as necessary if you start out with a premise of diversity throughout all transportation entities. Many organizations doing the work now aren’t reflective of the communities they’re working in.

Ginger Evans: My comment is on the future of goods movement, but I want to underscore Nat’s comments. I would include climate change and automation/technology in any discussion about the future of goods movement.

Katie Turnbull: It sounds like there’s overwhelming support for social and racial equity issues for the summer meeting. And there are many good comments here about how we might focus that discussion. Goods movement, perhaps with a focus on climate change, could be a focus for the following January’s discussion.

Neil Pedersen: Thanks for the great discussion and input. It always helps us a great deal if you all also suggest really good speakers. I will give you that homework assignment, though we’ll still bring this to the full ExCom in January. It’s not too soon to think about who good speakers are, especially on the topic of institutional racism.

Russell Houston: Assume we’ll be virtual again in June, so we likely won’t have 5.5 hours like we normally did.

Susan Shaheen (via chat): I’d love to hear from the author, Mimi Sheller, of the book Mobility Justice.

Vicki Arroyo (via chat): Veronica Eady who led equity work in MA and at CARB and now is Deputy Officer for Policy & Equity for Bay Area Air Quality District would be terrific

CENTENNIAL REPORT

Russell Houston: The task force wanted to do a report that identifies the various products developed from the centennial efforts, like a closeout report. We have the “tell us our story” stories, with 80-100 quotes on different questions we gave everyone. That will be a particular resource for us in marketing. We got about $500k to support the centennial program and have a list of individual donors that gave between $100 and $5000 to support the centennial. We should take advantage of those folks who have an affinity for TRB, turn that list to our development program within NASEM, and have them survey that group to understand what motivated them to give and then develop a philanthropic program based on their answers.

As to centennial papers, there were about 40 or 50 of those. We want to make them accessible in the future. We can move the timelines over to the full TRB site. The Sept/Oct issue of TR News is focused on the future of transportation. On the 110th anniversary, we can look back at those predictions. We also have the history book, with many copies in the storage room. We’ve been thinking about leveraging that book as a resource, such as for new ExCom members and other organizations. And we have the history highlights, including the roaming exhibit program. We might do a century plus one program with that exhibit, as this year didn’t see much action.

I wanted to talk about the future of transportation video. I get tingles up my spine every time I watch it. It will have legs for a long time, and it helps us attract more people into this industry. I talked with Paul and we’d like to have an annual campaign where we use that video and try to attract people into the transportation field. I’ll send you a link if you haven’t seen it. Paul has been cutting it apart to use smaller parts for social media. Lots of things came out of this centennial celebration that will benefit TRB for years to come. Feel free to send us any suggestions.

Katie Turnbull: Russell and everyone involved did a fantastic job. There’s a lot of good stuff that we can use in here, and we should all take advantage of it.

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Russell Houston: We have a webinar today from 3pm until 4:30pm eastern. It looks at the future of transportation research and TRB’s role in that future. It has three parts. First is Tom Deen and Bob Skinner giving their reflections on getting TRB to where it is today. Second is a panel discussion with some younger leaders on TRB; it’s the current and three former chairs of the young members council, plus an alum of the minority student fellows program. Sandra Larson will moderate that panel. Third, we will take questions from the audience. It will be all of these people talking about the future of transportation and bouncing some ideas off all of them.

Katie Turnbull: You’ll have to have your own cake and ice cream since we won’t have any for you in person.

Russell Houston: (pops a...something...on screen)

CRP UPDATE

Chris Hedges: Neil mentioned the staff event yesterday. I wanted to thank the members of this group that gave recorded remarks for that event. Carlos, Melinda, Susan Shaheen, and Shawn Wilson all spoke. It means a lot to our staff. For each person you know at TRB there are probably ten people behind the scenes you don’t know who don’t get to come to all of these meetings. Being able to hear remarks like y’all made yesterday means a lot to our staff.

Most of my remarks are in the handout. There was talk earlier about the covid projects selected, and I wanted to report on those titles for those who hadn’t seen it: ● Effective tools and practices for measuring telecommuting employee performance ($150,000) ● Employee safety during COVID-19 ($200,000) ● Guidance for state DOTs on truck rest and service areas for critical supply chain delivery ($180,000) ● Supply chain challenges and solutions amid COVID-19 ($150,000) ● Relaxation of truck weight restrictions for emergency deliveries ($180,000) ● Opportunities and challenges associated with virtual public engagement amid COVID-19 ($250,000)

They were selected by the 20-24 panel that Shawn chairs. The first one is certainly fascinating to all of us. Seems like we’re getting things done, but employees and employers are clearly looking for better ways to assess that.

The NCHRP oversight committee, which Melinda chairs, met in October. They talked about improving the diversity of panel membership, and lots of good ideas came out of that. I listened to an AASHTO meeting session earlier this week on equity and it focused almost exclusively on DBEs. Our goal is to try to establish a culture of diversity and inclusion amongst our contractors. In the private sector, things look a lot different than they do in nonprofit and government. We’re asking all proposers to tell us about their team and their research approach. Is it a diverse team, and what institutional policies are in their organizations to promote diversity? It’s our role to exert some pressure on the firms that are largely dominated by white males (note: not necessarily large white males).

We saved about $1M on travel costs so can add to that back to the research budget.

TCRP met on Oct 16 and picked 9 new projects and 6 continuations. Topics included emerging mobility options; equity; virtual public engagement; and several projects related to COVID-19 impacts on air quality, health and wellness of transit workers, and services for the disabled. Again, more details in your meeting package. Three projects suggested putting additional funds into projects already selected by NCHRP, so it was a nice opportunity to leverage funds across programs.

ACRP met in person in July and selected 17 projects. Insight events are a nice brand name for a 1.5 day workshop. We’re seeing more of these type of events from NASEM. It takes time to do research, but you can quickly get experts together for a facilitated discussion and get some very interesting findings.

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BTSCRP selected four new topics. Our first reports from that program will be in early 2021.

We’re also doing some work for FHWA and AAMVA. The AAMVA report is Trends Impacting the DMV of the Future. They were nearly done but then covid hit and they agreed to go back to look at some additional factors without any increase to their budget so that was a gratifying surprise. We’ll release that report this month.

Neil Pedersen: I hope you can see that CRP is trying very hard to be nimble and address highly relevant issues. And they’re not doing it on the type of schedule we’re used to for CRP projects. I want to commend Chris and his staff for their work.

Katie Turnbull: I’d echo that. What I hear from TTI and elsewhere in the research community is that things are continuing to move well and quickly. The people who are doing the work are all very positive.

Vicki Arroyo: I want to second what the other Chris H said about getting ahead of opportunities with the new administration on climate change. TRB’s been doing work on that for years. There will be much more interest in that, in part because we’re seeing the impacts so severely this year. The governor of Louisiana just set up a new task force on climate change. There are opportunities around the country for governors and now at the federal level to be supportive.

Katie Turnbull: We can say words we couldn’t say in the last few years.

CAAS UPDATE AND CANDIDATE SELF-INITIATED STUDY

Tom Menzies: Because we’re a bit ahead of time, I want to summarize the status of our projects.

First, the mobility management study has been reviewed. Reviewer comments were very thorough. Steve Godwin has been doing much of the work. It might not be complete by the executive committee meetings, but will be better for the effort. Second is an FAA study asked for by Congress on reducing lead in aviation gas. The only major source of lead in the environment is from general aviation gas. No alternative fuel can support all of these high performance aircraft. We’re coordinating with Ray Wassel in our sister unit, the Division of Earth and Life Studies. Those are the next two studies that are coming out.

We also have a couple of upcoming studies for the Coast Guard. One is looking at the Coast Guard’s oversight of recognized organizations that do much of the delegated inspection of vessels. The Coast Guard wants us, at the request of Congress, to see if they’re taking the right steps to improve the oversight of these organizations. Another new study looks at ways to improve the amphibious vessels we call duck boats. There have been some horrific accidents with these vessels and we’re suggesting ways they can be improved.

Other studies are moving along. That includes one being released today at 1:00, so in five minutes. It’s about improving ways that the Coast Guard can improve its use of aerial systems, which are surface water vessels and drones and underwater vessels. The Coast Guard has to cover vast areas and some of these technologies have the potential to really help them. We were asked by Congress to look at ways these technologies can be used. We had an excellent committee. The report was a great example of how to do a report well. It only has five reports, all directed to the Commandant. We briefed Hill staff on Tuesday and those went well. Then we had the good fortune to schedule a meeting with the Commandant and other high ranking officials. They too were impressed with the advice and this report should have influence. The Coast Guard’s research budget is only $5M/year. They need to leverage these technologies from outside the Coast Guard, and the committee offers advice on how to be a “fast follower” in using those technologies. I’m looking forward to seeing the reaction of that report.

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We also released a report in early November advising FRA on their research program. This is the seventh such report; we do one every few years. That also provided advice on communications and prioritizing projects.

We had a lull on completed reports for a while, but now have several coming up.

There’s a list of potential or pending studies (24 studies) are in your packet. There are many studies that deal with climate change. I don’t know if these will all pass. If they do, we'll have a lot of work in that area. On page 67, item 12 is aviation/aerospace solutions to climate change, which is in the T&I transportation bill that’s been referred to the Senate. There’s another one - item 20 on page 69 on financing electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the same act. Many came through as amendments.

Vicki Arroyo: We worked with some of the states and EPW staff on these.

Tom Menzies: Item 22 is another that came through amendment: future climate conditions planning and design. On page 70, there’s rail network climate change vulnerabilities. It’s still the same bill, which had a lot of climate change work. For a lot of those projects, we’d collaborate with our Board on Atmospheric Sciences and other relevant units.

Vicki Arroyo: If there’s a new stimulus, there could be even more.

Tom Menzies: In August we talked about a potential self-initiated study. I want feedback from those on this call so it doesn’t go off on just becoming an academic study. Many decision-makers are on this call. SPPRl and Neil talked about using this issue as an opportunity for a self-initiated study looking at the aftermath of covid. We don't know how quickly we’ll recover from covid and want to make sure that we do a study that will have lasting value. How do you plan for this infrastructure down the road? How do you deal with the “unknown unknowns”? Covid has made many people change their travel patterns - what will be lasting?

In our study on transportation resilience metrics, we met with NYC’s MTA. Their budget is completely wrecked. In all sectors, agencies will have to look at their capital budgets and improvement plans and have to make choices. That will be with questions still outstanding about what’s happening with covid and climate change and AVs.

There’s rarely complete certainty. Traditional forecasting is based on point and probabilistic forecasting to come up with a best estimate. And once we’ve done the forecasts, we use techniques that are often written into law, like benefit cost analysis or net present value of options. Is that the best way to be planning for the future of unknown unknowns?

FHWA asks TRB to hold a symposium every year on emerging trends. We’re looking at these questions during the event next week. One speaker is Robert Lempert from RAND. He’s an expert on decision making under deep uncertainty and all the decision tools you can use in those situations. I hoped to have that symposium prior to writing this white paper, but it was postponed. We’d welcome any of you who are interested to be a guest to listen in and contribute to discussion. Katherine can send you the information.

I’m summarizing the elements of a study statement of task on a slide in your meeting materials. I want to hear from the industry people to make sure it’s not just something that's an academic exercise.

Ginger Evans: I flinch a little when we talk about this pandemic as a black swan event. It was predicted by well- regarded scientists. So I think some of it is our lack of scientific literacy and awareness. As a culture, we’re very reactive. It’s a cultural thing and very hard to address. In terms of tools, I believe you have the right buckets. To go as fast as we need to and to be as smart as we need to, we need real time data and AI. In the private sector, lots of companies are doing it successfully. Some of the old stochastic modeling tools will just be too slow. It’s helpful to review them, as you’re planning to do, to describe their limitations. But we’ll have to do a step jump in TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 43 of 228 how we’re looking at this. It’s very solvable. Transportation facilities can hone in on solutions that will give our facilities health safety. I appreciate Tom’s sensitivity to it not being too academic. We have lots of data and information but need to act quickly.

Susan Hanson: I really agree that the people we need to hear from are those making decisions on infrastructure. I would like to know what they see as dimensions of surprise that they worry about. Do climate change and viruses and technology capture those sources of surprise that drive their concerns about uncertainty? I also love the idea of having a self-initiated study on uncertainty. You review 3-4 new approaches, but it’s not clear to me how they make the step change that Ginger is calling for. It’s too much of a black box there for me. I’d like to see the process a little more sketched out in the statement of task. Is it useful to mention specific approaches as in the white paper? Does that pre-direct things in a particular way, and do we want to go beyond it? I don't know enough about what’s happening with these so-called new approaches.

Susan Shaheen: I want to share some observations from our scenario planning work that I mentioned earlier. We’ve had a lot of discussions about infrastructure and its relationship to public transit and telework. One of the developers involved in our study talked about how their industry is starting to look at telework as an option to allow people to go to a facility closer to where they live. That could impact the distribution of people big time. It’s super interesting. We often think about broadband infrastructure, but there are many other implications, including implications for what happens for transit. A conversation happening across the US is whether we should convert capital funds to operational funds.

Vicki Arroyo: In the future of the interstate report, there was lots of discussion about demographic trends using data that looks backwards on all kinds of topics. Whatever we do on this report, it should acknowledge that and figure out how to have data that are vetted and reliable enough for projects that are supported so people feel that they can actually use them. We’re required to use things that we know are not always correct. It might be a specialty within demographic circles, and may be helpful to look to other countries who are doing that.

Neil Pedersen: My understanding of these methods is that the military and homeland security are using them the most by far. They’re using them in real-world applications that sometimes include infrastructure. We in transportation often do not take lessons learned from military applications. We could bring in not only Robert Lempert but also military folks who have actually applied these methods, and could learn a great deal from that.

Katie Turnbull: What action do you need from us?

Tom Menzies: We need approval. We’ll turn this more into a formal GBEC prospectus, using the white paper as background and incorporating your feedback. We’ll also draw up a budget.

Neil Pedersen: Run this past Admiral Ellis before it goes to GBEC. He’s on GBEC and has done some thinking on this topic, and would be great to have his support if it goes to GBEC.

Katie Turnbull: A motion to approve this to move forward?

Susan Shaheen: Motion.

Vicki Arroyo: Second.

All approve.

Katie Turnbull: I look forward to seeing the writeup and assume it will be on the January ExCom agenda for an update.

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UPDATE ON NRC GOVERNING BOARD STRATEGIC PLAN

Samantha Chao: Individual divisions have come up with their own strategic plans but we wanted to develop one for the whole group. All three Academies had their first strategic plan as of 2019 when NAS was the last to finish one. We pulled together a group of members for an NRC Strategic Planning Committee. Susan Hanson is one of them, and Victor Dzau is the chair. NAS staff members are part of the committee along with members of all three honorific societies.

We began work in fall 2019. We did an extensive sponsor survey as part of our transformation process, including a SWOT analysis. We did surveys of staff leadership, governing board members, and staff, along with one-on-one interviews with key people across the institution.

We hadn’t had a clean mission statement before. There were lots of individual visions and missions. Our draft vision now is “A nation and a world that rely on scientific evidence to make decisions that benefit humanity.” The draft mission statement is now “The National Academies provide independent, trustworthy advice and facilitate solutions to complex challenges by mobilizing expertise, practice, and knowledge in science, engineering, and medicine.” And our core values are respect for truth, independence, objectivity, rigor, integrity, and inclusivity.

Our draft strategic goals and strategies for addressing each are below.

Goal 1: Anticipate and prepare society for future challenges and opportunities ● Proactively identify critical current and emerging problems and opportunities facing humanity and identify appropriate responses ● Build diverse and deep networks of collaborators to develop a forward-looking portfolio ● Develop new mechanisms and use state-of-the-art methodologies to anticipate and solve problems

Goal 2: Expand the NRC’s influence and impact in the world ● Intentionally construct NRC activities to be diverse and inclusive to enhance influence and impact ● Leverage the distinctiveness of the NRC ● Adopt advanced technologies for communication

Goal 3: Strengthen all aspects of the NRC organization to achieve goals 1 and 2 to assure its creativity, resilience, and sustainability ● Strengthen the governance of the NRC ● Provide relevant and timely evidence-based advice through continuous innovation and learning ● Develop new business models and methods ● Deploy technology to improve the operations of the NRC ● Balance priorities

We anticipate delivering the final strategic plan in February 2021. We’ll have another all-hands meeting for staff on December 1 and have additional small group meetings with staff in coming months to hear what they’re most excited about and most skeptical about.

Jim Hinchman: This isn’t final. If you see gaps or anything you don’t like, please tell us. We welcome suggestions for improvement. We’re a work in progress.

Chris Hendrickson: I want to applaud the NRC for moving ahead on this. It’s amazing we haven’t had one for all these years.

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Jim Hinchman: As you all know far better than I do, strategic plans come in all colors and stripes. This is a very change-oriented plan. It doesn't focus on what’s good about the NRC today, so in a way it’s a mandate for fundamental change.

Susan Hanson: It’s definitely a change-oriented document. And the document supports the direction that we would like to see the organization move. TRB has been leading the way in being change-oriented and trying to anticipate new trends in transportation and to implement plans for diversity/equity/inclusion. We have also partnered with other units frequently in our studies, because transportation is so closely connected to so many other topics.

Neil Pedersen: Because the plan you’re seeing is only about two days old, the committee is still working on actions under each of the strategies. That’s where you’ll see specific actions come out of these somewhat lofty statements. The one that received quite a bit of discussion was calling for “radical collaboration.” They’re clearly looking for us to step up our activities. I like to think we’ve been doing that, but saying “radical collaboration” means we need to go further.

Ginger Evans: Whether it’s radical or intense collaboration, it’s so key today. And including private research is too - there’s so much of it that we really need to leverage it.

Samantha Chao: We’ve talked a lot about building more bridges to the business communities. Many opportunities there have remain untapped for a while.

Susan Shaheen: It’s really exciting to see this. I’m a big fan of words like disruption and radical.

Neil Pedersen: Susan is from Berkeley.

Susan Shaheen: I love bringing in the private sector, and I also want to be more inclusive in everything we do. We keep finding ourselves talking to each other. How do we break down the barriers and bring in new stakeholders, including private sector and community-based groups and people who are tangentially related to our disciplines? Keep up the great and radical work.

Samantha Chao: As an example, we were looking at a recent report on vaccine allocation. Someone raised their hand and said, “I assume you’ve reached out to the black clergy?” We hadn’t. But they were an excellent idea.

Greg Symmes: The Societal Action Network is fostering partnerships with state and local governments and other groups. We also have this strategic science response group that we’re just starting. Many of the stakeholders of the target audience are very non-traditional audiences for us. We have a lot to learn from TRB; you’ve worked with states and local governments for a hundred years. The rest of the Academies haven't had that history.

Katie Turnbull: How do we take this into consideration at our next meetings, in April or whenever is appropriate?

Neil Pedersen: We will still need to see the final plan. I hope for a short briefing at the ExCom meeting. And then we’ll probably have an even smaller group than this meet between the plan adoption in early February and our April meeting. How do we translate those strategies into things that TRB should be doing? That would be a starting point for an April meeting discussion. I think we need to set aside a lot of our April meeting to think about the TRB strategic plan. Do we make updates to it? Do we rewrite it?

Katie Turnbull: Let Neil or me know if you’d like to participate in that smaller working group. I imagine a number of us are interested in participating.

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Neil Pedersen: Thanks to Greg, Sam, and Jim for joining us. It’s a great plan, and we look forward to thinking about how TRB will change as a result of it.

MARINE BOARD REPORT

Scott Brotemarkle: A few highlights since the summer briefing. Every fall we do a board rotation, and the rotation sizes vary. This year we’re turning over nearly ⅓ of the Marine Board members, which is fairly rare. We try to keep a body of diverse membership and backgrounds to accomplish the Marine Board’s very broad goals. A few people this year hit more than one area of our needed expertise. We had our meeting this past Monday. It’s bittersweet to have Ed Comstock leave but we have some great people coming on. We are thrilled to have a cyber expert joining us now, which is not always common in the maritime world.

On Monday, we held an event for the maritime industry. We took a day and Zoom-ified a summit that was intended to be live. We talked about automation and digital leadership; energy, propulsion, and control systems; and global supply chains, logistics, and environmental sustainability. Plus we held a roundtable with maritime leaders, featuring leaders from seven academies, about what future programs should look like.

Current areas of marine board interest are: ● Autonomous ships, vehicles, and shipping ● Challenges in Arctic operations ● Future of navigation ● Maritime resilience ● Safety management, cultures, and inspections ● Towards zero emissions shipping - the future of marine energy and propulsion ● US maritime policy to support national defense and economic security ● US offshore wind development

The Coast Guard is also becoming interested in space exploration. Waters are often used for splashing or retrieving rockets, especially off southern California.

Three more topics being considered for the 2021 spring meeting focus: ● Post-pandemic supply chain implications and lessons learned in maritime ● Cruise industry and the maritime industry ● Bridge management, navigation safety, and training in light of the 2017 Navy vessel accidents (USS Fitzgerald and USS John McCain)

Neil Pedersen: Any expected changes in policy based on the new administration?

Scott Brotemarkle: There might be some things that could bubble up under a new administration. There are lots of things in the environmental area. Here, the industry is way ahead. Maersk, headquartered in northern Europe, is setting targets for 2030 and 2050 and that’s driving the industry. Under a Biden administration we’ll see a lot more focus on these topics, including on cleaner fuels.

Martha Grabowski hasn’t been able to join us today, but she’s a longtime contributor to many divisions of NASEM. She’s been a fixture in studies across divisions. She deals a lot with how data integrates and can create information for driving many areas forward, including safety. We’re fortunate to have her join the Marine Board. She was pivotal and acted as emcee for our event on Monday. I look forward to working with her.

Neil Pedersen: Very good meeting and very helpful input for all staff.

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Russell Houston: Anybody that gets 100 on the quiz becomes eligible for a firm handshake from Neil Pedersen. I want everyone to know that’s what they’re competing for.

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MEMORANDUM

To: TRB Executive Committee

From: Neil J. Pedersen Executive Director

Date: December 30, 2020

SUBJECT: Executive Director’s Report

I am pleased to submit this Executive Director’s Report for the TRB Executive Committee meeting that will be held January 26-28, 2021. This report summarizes the status of a number of TRB activities, provides a financial report for TRB, and identifies several issues for the Executive Committee to discuss during the upcoming meeting. More detailed information is provided for most of the items covered in this report in the remainder of the agenda book and in the attached TRB Annual Report, and most of the items will be discussed during the course of the Executive Committee meeting.

A Year of Adaptation and Resilience

When I issued my Executive Director’s Report one year ago at this time, none of us had any idea of what the year in front of us would be like. We started the year with a highly successful TRB Annual Meeting, with a record attendance of over 14,000. All of TRB’s programs, including our convening, research, advisory, dissemination, and communications activities were on track for another banner year during the first two months of the year. Then in mid-March the world turned upside down for TRB volunteers, sponsors, customers, and staff. Most of the country went into lockdown mode. Use of the transportation system plummeted. Every transportation mode was significantly affected. The health and safety of transportation system users and workers became of paramount concern. On March 13th TRB staff, like staff from most transportation professional organizations, were told to begin teleworking, and to not come to the office; and we have not been back since then. Unlike so many in the transportation field, we were fortunate to be able to continue our work remotely.

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Zoom, so committee and research panel meetings could continue to be held. Through multiple communications avenues, TRB highlighted a number of reports and research papers related to pandemics and major disruptions that could help transportation agencies in dealing with the pandemic. TRB offered a number of webinars on subjects related to the pandemic that broke all-time records for TRB webinar attendance. TRB convened a brainstorming session of transportation thought leaders to identify research needs related to the pandemic. Oversight committees for TRB’s research programs set aside monies for COVID-19 related research. The committees selected a number of research projects, using the brainstormed list of research needs as a source for identifying candidate projects. TRB developed an addendum to Critical Issues in Transportation 2019 that addressed COVID-19 related issues. TRB’s standing technical committees discussed COVID-19 issues related to their committee’s scope and planned a number of TRB Annual Meeting sessions on COVID-19. The Executive Committee’s policy session at the January meeting will address COVID-19’s impact on mobility and equity.

In the midst of dealing with the pandemic, the country was shaken by the brutal killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, and there was a national reckoning on matters of racial injustice and inequality. In response to a recognition that transportation has contributed, and still contributes, to racial injustice and inequality, but also recognizing that transportation can be part of the solution, TRB undertook a number of activities related to racial equity similar to those that had been undertaken related to COVID-19. A major communications effort was undertaken on reports and papers that TRB had issued on this subject. TRB’s research oversight committees allocated monies for research on equity-related issues. Another brainstorming session was held with thought leaders on social and racial equity policy and research issues in transportation. The results of this brainstorming session are being used in the preparation of another addendum to Critical Issues in Transportation 2019 on racial equity and related social equity issues. A number of research papers and sessions will address equity issues at the TRB Annual Meeting. Both COVID-19 related and equity related issues are highlighted in TRB’s TRID database webpage, as well as on TRB’s main webpage. Meanwhile, TRB’s Special Committee on Inclusion and Diversity addressed ways that TRB’s Inclusion and Diversity Strategic Plan should be expanded to include equity issues. SPPR approved changes recommended by the special committee that address equity in the strategic plan at its fall meeting. SPPR is also recommending that social and racial equity issues be the subject of the policy session at the Executive Committee’s summer meeting.

While all this was going on, TRB had to figure out how it would deal with conferences and workshops that had been scheduled for the remainder of 2020, together with the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting. Conferences and workshops scheduled for the remainder of 2020 were either postponed or converted to a virtual format. The Technical Activities Division TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 50 of 228

(TAD) staff did an incredible job in negotiating away penalties for hotel contracts and in doing due diligence before we made the decision during the summer that the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting would have to be converted to a virtual format. The TAD staff have done an amazing job in dealing with many complex issues involved in successfully converting a meeting of the size of the TRB Annual Meeting to a virtual format.

Both TRB’s Cooperative Research Programs and Consensus and Advisory Studies Divisions quickly and successfully converted all their meetings from face-to-face to virtual meetings, and also converted their paper based processes to electronic processes. Considering the impacts that COVID-19 had on the ability of contractors to do research, TRB’s research programs were able to keep the research programs going with less delay than might have been expected. Consensus studies were kept on track and actually benefited from virtual meetings being easier to schedule. Both programs saved travel and meeting expenses, which are being put back into the respective programs.

I want to commend TRB staff for their adaptability, resilience, hard work, and commitment to continuing to provide high quality products and services during this challenging year. They have risen to the occasion and I applaud them for what they have done.

Technical Activities

The 2020 TRB Annual Meeting had a record breaking attendance of 14,035. There were more than 5,300 presentations in over 800 sessions and workshops. All of TRB’s standing technical committees met at the Annual Meeting, as well as many of the 350 subcommittees.

TRB completed the strategic realignment of its standing technical committees in April, merging a number of committees, creating several new committees, creating four coordinating councils, and realigning the committees into 10 groups and 18 sections. The realigned committee structure has put TRB in a better position to address the most important current and future issues in transportation.

During 2020, 4,646 individuals served as members of TRB’s 181 standing technical committees and councils. Another 14,000 persons were registered as “Friends” of these committees. These committees conducted the peer review of 4,413 papers that were submitted during the summer and selected 2,631 for presentation at the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting. They planned all the sessions at the annual meeting. TRB convened or co-sponsored 43 conferences, workshops, and meetings in 2020, with most of them being conducted virtually. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 51 of 228

TRB’s Transportation Research Record published 637 papers in 2020 and over the past four years doubled its impact factor, a measure of the extent to which papers in the journal are cited in other published papers.

TRB conducted 112 webinars in 2020, with 41,125 estimated attendees. Shortly after COVID-19 started spreading in the United States, TRB’s webinar program quickly put together several “rapid response” webinars to address topics related to COVID-19. The top five attended webinars in the history of TRB’s webinar program were all COVID-19 related webinars.

Ann Brach will provide more details regarding the virtual 2021 TRB Annual Meeting in her report, so I will not repeat it here, but needless to say, much of the attention of the TRB Technical Activities Division for the past six months has been devoted to successful delivery of this large, complex meeting virtually.

Research Activities

TRB was able to keep all four of its Cooperative Research Programs (CRP) on track to complete delivery of research projects with only relatively small delays. The improvements that had been underway as part of the CRP 2.0 process improvement initiative enabled CRP staff and volunteers to shift to a virtual environment relatively seamlessly after the mid-March COVID-19 lockdown.

At any given time during 2020 there were approximately 600 CRP active projects underway with more than 5,800 active panel members. In 2020, 144 CRP publications were issued. Each of the oversight committees for the four research programs selected projects based on stakeholder input and priorities, including projects related to COVID- 19 and social and racial equity.

Chris Hedges will provide a more detailed report on the CRP programs at the Executive Committee meeting.

Advising Activities

TRB’s Consensus and Advisory Studies (CAAS) Division was able to keep its studies on track by converting all meetings to a virtual format. CAAS either issued or neared completion of several significant studies and began several others. The more significant reports completed and released prior to the Executive Committee meeting include:

• Biennial Review of FRA’s Research, Development, and Technology Programs • US Coast Guard’s Use of Unmanned Systems • The Role of Transit and Mobility Management in an Era of New and Expanding Shared Mobility Options (self-initiated study) • Options for Reducing Lead Emissions and Exposures from Aviation Gasoline TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 52 of 228

The Consensus and Advisory Studies Division also led the effort to develop the addenda to Critical Issues in Transportation 2019 on COVID-19 and racial equity issues.

Tom Menzies will provide a more detailed briefing on these reports and others which are underway or included in recent federal legislation at the Executive Committee meeting.

SHRP 2 Safety Database

During TRB’s Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2), a large database of information was compiled over a one to two year period for over 3,000 drivers, their vehicles, and the roadways on which they drove, including videos of the drivers as they were operating their vehicles. Following the end of the SHRP 2 research program in 2015, TRB had responsibility for stewardship of the database under a cooperative agreement with FHWA. The data have been used in over 300 research projects. This research is producing useful results and a better understanding of driver behavior related to traffic safety. TRB’s agreement with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for stewardship of the database ended in 2020, and responsibility for stewardship of the database was transferred to FHWA, who contracted with Virginia Tech to enable continued researcher access to the database.

Marine Board

Like the rest of TRB, the Marine Board continued its important work virtually during 2020. At its spring meeting it focused on COVID-19’s impact on the marine transportation system and the offshore energy sector. In conjunction with its fall meeting it held a “Maritime Education, Training, Research & Innovation Summit,” which was sponsored by USDOT’s Maritime Administration. The Marine Board continues work on its broad portfolio which includes autonomous shipping and the future of navigation; maritime resilience and risk; the future of the maritime supply chain; offshore wind energy; moving towards zero emissions shipping; U.S. maritime policy; Arctic marine challenges; human and intellectual capital challenges in the marine sector; safety management, culture, and inspections; and cyber in the marine transportation system. Dr. Martha Grabowski became Chair of the Marine Board in November, and she will give a more detailed report during the Executive Committee meeting.

Critical Issues

TRB published Critical Issues in Transportation 2019 for release at the 2019 TRB Annual Meeting. It has helped provide strategic direction regarding issues the Executive Committee would like to have TRB’s programs address. At its summer meeting the Executive Committee asked SPPR to develop two addenda to the 2019 document, one that would discuss issues associated with COVID-19’s impact on transportation, and a TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 53 of 228

second dealing with racial equity issues in transportation. The first addendum is being issued in conjunction with the TRB Annual Meeting. The second addendum is being revised based on review comments and should be issued in early 2021.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

TRB’s efforts in inclusion and diversity have been guided by the Inclusion and Diversity Strategic Plan that was adopted by the Executive Committee in January 2018. Oversight of implementation of the plan has been by the Executive Committee’s Special Committee on Inclusion and Diversity, chaired by Dr. Carol Lewis of Texas Southern University. This past fall the special committee recommended changes to the plan to incorporate equity into the strategies. The SPPR adopted the changes at its November meeting.. The SPPR also agreed to change the name of the committee to the Special Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The changes in the plan reflect several major initiatives underway by the National Academies in this area as well. Dr. Lewis will give an update on the changes to the plan and the status of implementation of each of the strategies at the Executive Committee meeting.

TRB’s Minority Student Fellows Program provides support for students from select Minority-Serving Institutions to attend the TRB Annual Meeting and present research results. Since the program began in 2010, 175 graduate and undergraduate students have participated, with 25 selected for the 2021 Annual Meeting. The students will be participating virtually this year, but will still be able to participate in most of the same activities as during an in person meeting. The program receives financial support from the Federal Highway Administration and a number of organizations and individuals who make contributions. This year ITS America made a generous contribution in lieu of the monies that it would have normally spent on a reception at the TRB Annual Meeting. Executive Committee members are encouraged to make contributions to this program. Lead staff support is provided by Karen Febey, who will give an update at the meeting.

International Activities

In January 2018 the Executive Committee adopted a strategic plan for international activities. This plan included strategies to increase international participation in TRB activities, to participate in joint convening activities with international organizations, to support new international activities, and to enter into joint memoranda of understanding with international organizations. The Executive Committee created an International Subcommittee, which Nat Ford chairs. He will give a progress report on implementation of the strategic plan at the Executive Committee meeting.

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of Transportation Research (PANAMSTR), an organization of transportation researchers from Latin American countries. We have seen tremendous growth in Chinese participation in TRB activities. The PANAMSTR LOI is consistent with our desire to involve more persons from Latin American countries in TRB activities. TRB now has memoranda of understanding or letters of intent with the following international organizations: • China Highway and Transportation Society (CHTS) • China Overseas Transportation Association (COTA) • European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI) • International Road Federation - Geneva • International Transport Forum (ITF) • Pan-American Society of Transportation Research (PANAMSTR) • World Road Association (PIARC) Despite the pandemic, TRB has been able to conduct a number of joint activities with these international partners virtually during 2020.

NRC Strategic Plan

The National Research Council (NRC) is the operating arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, TRB’s parent organization. A committee of leaders of the National Academies has been working on developing a strategic plan for the NRC, which is expected to be adopted at the February 2021 meeting of the NRC Governing Board. Each of the program divisions of the National Academies will then be expected to identify how it will implement the strategic plan. The plan will have three goals: 1. Anticipate and prepare society for future challenges and opportunities 2. Expand the NRC’s influence and impact in the world 3. Strengthen all aspects of the NRC organization to achieve Goals 1 and 2 and assure its creativity, resilience, and sustainability There will be a number of strategies and actions under each goal that will guide implementation of the plan. At its meeting in the fall, the SPPR agreed that it would begin the process of developing a new strategic plan for TRB based on the NRC strategic plan at its spring 2021 meeting.

Communications

TRB’s communications activities have become even more important during the past year, as the transportation community dealt with the impact of COVID-19. TRB’s communications staff took advantage of being located within the National Academies Office of the Chief Communications Officer to ramp up both the volume and the content of information being communicated to TRB stakeholders. As mentioned previously TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 55 of 228

several COVID-19 related webinars were held, which set all-time records for TRB webinar attendance. TRB communications staff developed blogs on a number of timely subjects, including COVID-19 and social and racial equity and justice issues. TRB launched a new website, which makes finding relevant information much easier. TRB has continued to increase its use of social media to communicate with stakeholders. Together with the TRB e-newsletter, which is also undergoing a redesign, TRB was able to communicate timely information about both TRB activities and about transportation issues. TRB will be starting a podcast, “Transportation Explorers,” which will begin in January, and which will involve interviews with thought leaders in transportation. All these activities are being done consistent with a draft TRB communications strategic plan, which is expected to be finalized in 2021. Paul Mackie will give a more detailed report on the activities, including the development of the new TRB communications strategic plan at the Executive Committee meeting.

TRB’s website, www.TRB.org, attracted 6.4 million page views in 2020. The continuing transition of information from TRB’s old website to its new one is proving to be attractive to users, with a significant increases in time spent on the site and average pages viewed per visit. TRB has more than 70,000 subscribers to its weekly e-newsletter, nearly 24,000 followers on Twitter, more than 9,500 followers on Facebook, and nearly 11,000 followers on LinkedIn.

TRB Centennial Celebration

The 2021 TRB Annual Meeting marks the end of the year-long celebration of TRB’s 100th anniversary. The 2020 TRB Annual Meeting focused on TRB’s history and gave attendees an opportunity to learn about the people and events that made TRB into the organization that it is today. All attendees at the 2020 meeting were eligible to receive a copy of TRB’s centennial history book The Transportation Research Board, 1920-2020: Everyone Interested Is Invited, by Sarah Jo Peterson.

Although a number of in person events that were scheduled to take place during 2020 were not held due to the pandemic, there were still a number of activities that occurred virtually and a number of resources made available throughout the course of the year. Especially notable was the series of “Tell Us Our Story” submissions which were highlighted in TRB’s e-newsletter each month throughout the year. TRB’s actual 100th anniversary was on November 11, 2020. AASHTO held its 2020 Annual Meeting that week and had a plenary session on TRB’s history moderated by TRB Executive Committee Chair Carlos Braceras. TRB held a celebration on November 11 for staff and retirees, and TRB held a webinar on November 12 that shifted the focus from TRB’s history to TRB’s future. On November 13 APTA’s PERSPECTIVES podcast was a video broadcast about TRB’s Centennial featuring Nat Ford and Neil Pedersen. The spotlight theme for the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting is Launching a New Century of TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 56 of 228

Mobility and Quality of Life, with many sessions scheduled that are focused on looking to TRB’s future. Through contributions raised from Century Patron and Century Club members, as well as through a surcharge on registration fees at the 2019 and 2020 TRB Annual Meetings, the TRB Centennial Celebration was able to essentially be a budget neutral event for TRB. I would like to thank all the members of the TRB Executive Committee who made contributions to the TRB Centennial celebration. Sandra Larson, Chair of TRB’s Centennial Task Force, will give a more detailed update at the TRB Executive Committee meeting.

TRB Finances

Information on TRB revenues and expenditures is contained in Attachment 1 to this report. As can be seen in the table “TRB Spending by Program and Source(s) of Funds,” TRB’s total spending for calendar year 2020 is expected to decrease by $9.412 million from 2019 levels. Part of this is due to the SHRP 2 program ending in 2020 (a decrease of $3.102 million), but a larger part is due to impacts of COVID-19 on TRB activities. Expenditures in the Cooperative Research Programs are projected to decrease by $2.729 million, mostly due to delays in contractors not being able to do their research on schedule. Expenditures for conferences, workshops, and forums are projected to decrease by $2.288 million. Many of the delayed expenditures will take place in 2021 or subsequent years.

The second table in Attachment 1 shows the TRB Core Budget for TRB’s core technical activities. This budget is projected by fiscal year for a six year period. TRB does a six- year projection, to help it manage a reserve fund, which is designed to provide insurance against unplanned disruptions, such as a snowstorm during the TRB Annual Meeting. Although a pandemic had not been anticipated, the reserve fund is maintained for the type of disruption caused by the pandemic. As can be seen in the second table in Attachment 1, FY2021 is expected to have $4.039 million less in revenues, and $0.777 million less in expenses than FY 2020. Most of the decrease in revenues is expected to be in reduced TRB fees and sales, and most of that is from the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting. Assumptions for the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting are $2.7 million in reduced registration fees and $0.975 million less in patron and exhibit fees. Expenses for the TRB Annual Meeting are expected to be $1.3 million less than in 2020.

Fortunately, with the Executive Committee’s support, TRB had maintained a healthy balance in its reserve fund, knowing that USDOT contributions were going to be reduced by $900,000 per year, and knowing there were uncertainties associated with federal surface transportation legislation. Once final revenues and expenses from the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting are accounted for, new surface transportation legislation has passed, and USDOT contributions to the core technical program are revisited, the long term strategy TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 57 of 228

for revenues, expenses, and reserve fund levels for the core technical program will need to be reassessed. Meanwhile, TRB will continue to be prudent with its expenditures and management of its funds.

Executive Committee Meeting Discussion Items

On the first day of the Executive Committee meeting, we have set aside time to discuss “Emerging Trends in Goods Movement.” We are fortunate to have several experts on goods movement as members of the TRB Executive Committee. We thought that we should take advantage of that expertise and allocate some time on the agenda to hear from these experts. We have asked Mike McClellan, Martha Grabowski, and Ginger Evans to each give about a five minute presentation on emerging trends in rail, maritime, and air cargo goods movement respectively, and then we have asked Bill Kruger to give us an update on UPS’s delivery of COVID-19 vaccines. This will be followed by a discussion about changes taking place in goods movement.

The Executive Committee meeting policy session will be on “COVID-19 Impacts on Mobility and Equity.” The panelists will be Executive Committee members Susan Shaheen, Katie Turnbull, Nat Ford, and Shawn Wilson. We will follow up the next morning with a “Discussion of the Implications of COVID-19 for TRB.” Obviously our world has changed as a result of COVID-19. This will be the Executive Committee’s opportunity to discuss what policy or research issues should TRB be addressing related to COVID-19? We keep on hearing the question “What will the new normal be?” What should that new normal be for TRB? This will be your opportunity to help TRB staff and TRB committees think about the implications of COVID-19 for TRB, both from a products and services standpoint and from the standpoint of policy and research issues that they should be thinking about. How do you think that TRB should change as a result of COVID-19?

The Executive Committee will hear from representatives of the Biden Transition Team regarding the priorities of the incoming Biden Administration. After hearing form these representatives, we thought that it would be useful to have a discussion about what the implications are for TRB. How can TRB be most responsive and helpful to the new Administration? What issues should TRB be focusing on in response to what we heard? What unanswered questions come out of what we heard that might lend themselves to TRB conferences, research, or policy studies?

I am providing you with information about these three discussion items, so you can think about them prior to the meeting.

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Transitions

Carlos Braceras’ term as Chair of the Executive Committee will come to a close at the end of the Executive Committee meeting on January 28. I would like to personally thank Carlos for his leadership, guidance, and support during this challenging year. Vice Chair Susan Shaheen will become Chair of the Executive Committee on January 28. Nat Ford will become Vice Chair at the same time. We look forward to Susan’s and Nat’s leadership during the upcoming year.

Geraldine Knatz’s second three-year term will come to a close on January 28. Dr. Craig Philip, Research Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Transportation and Operational Resiliency (VECTOR), will succeed her. Craig is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Roger Huff’s second three-year term will also end on January 28. He will be succeeded by Randy Iwasaki, Leader of State and Local Transportation at Amazon Web Services. Randy previously has served as Executive Director of the Contra Costa County Transportation Authority and Director of the California Department of Transportation.

Leslie Richards’ term as an ex officio member of the Executive Committee will also end on January 28. FHWA Administrator Nicole Nason’s term will end with the change in administrations on January 20. FHWA Executive Director Tom Everett will be FHWA’s representative on the Executive Committee until a new Administrator is confirmed.

Reappointed to another term are Ginger Evans, Chris Hendrickson, Brian Ness, and Katie Turnbull.

We thank Geraldine, Roger, Leslie, and Nicole for their service on the committee; we welcome Craig, Randy, and Tom as new members the committee; and we congratulate Ginger, Chris, Brian, and Katie on their reappointment.

Concluding Thoughts

I would like to thank each of you for your support and for the direction that you have provided to TRB during this challenging year. Although our normal way of doing business has been disrupted for the past 10 months, TRB has been able to continue to provide products and services that are valued by its sponsors, volunteers, and customers, albeit in a somewhat different format. I am grateful for the commitment of the 10,000+ volunteers who are members of TRB’s committees and panels, as well as the 14,000+ friends of TRB committees, the 14,000+ attendees at the TRB Annual Meeting, and the 133 dedicated TRB staff members, all of whom contributed to TRB’s success this past year. I appreciate their creativity, commitment, resilience, and dedication to TRB’s TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 59 of 228

success. As we close out TRB’s Centennial celebration, we can look forward to the next century of TRB’s service to the nation and to the transportation professional community. I also look forward to engaging with all of you as we figure out how to prepare the nation and the world for future challenges and opportunities and as we expand TRB’s influence and impact in the world.

Attachments

cc: Mr. Gregory Symmes, Chief Program Officer

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Table 1 TRB Spending by Program and Source(s) of Funds

2018 2019 2020 est. Source(s) of Funds

Core Technical Activities $15,284,000 $15,497,000 $14,988,000 State DOTs (49%), Fees & Sales (33%), FHWA (10%), Other (8%)

Cooperative Research Programs NCHRP $41,726,000 $45,100,000 $43,312,000 State DOTs (99%) FHWA (1%) ACRP $15,150,000 $14,059,000 $12,397,000 FAA TCRP $6,028,000 $5,451,000 $5,252,000 FTA HMCRP $33,000 $0 $0 OST-R NCFRP $725,000 $224,000 $32,000 OST-R BTSCRP $323,000 $775,000 $1,156,000 NHTSA/GHSA

Rail Safety IDEA $282,000 $446,000 $367,000 FRA

Evaluation of FHWA Research Projects $0 $0 $810,000 FHWA

FHWA(43%), Policy Fund (19%), ONR (11%) , Coast Guard (8%), BSEE Policy Studies $3,872,000 $3,416,000 $2,701,000 (8%), FAA (6%), FRA (5%)

Conferences, Workshops, Forums & Registration Fees (59%), FHWA (11%), State DOTs (7%), OST-R (4%), $2,592,000 $3,548,000 $1,260,000 Centennial Other (19%)

SHRP2 (Safety Database) $4,497,000 $4,494,000 $1,392,000 FHWA

Army (24%), Coast Guard (24%), ONR (20%), NOAA (13%), BSEE (9%), Marine Board $251,000 $259,000 $190,000 MARAD (6%), SUPSALV (4%)

Total $90,763,000 $93,269,000 $83,857,000 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 61 of 228

Table 1 TRB CORE BUDGET ESTIMATE FOR SIX FISCAL YEARS (July 1 - June 30)

FY2020 (act) FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024 FY2025 Revenue State Highway & Transportation Departments (State DOTs) 7,817,000 8,004,000 8,004,000 8,004,000 8,004,000 8,004,000 US Department of Transportation Agencies (Affiliate Agreements) - 156,000 225,000 225,000 225,000 225,000 Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) 1,450,000 1,425,000 1,400,000 1,400,000 1,400,000 1,400,000 Other Federal Agencies Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST-R) 300,000 62,000 - - - - Federal Transit Administration (FTA) 250,000 62,000 - - - - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 216,000 54,000 - - - - Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) 75,000 19,000 - - - - Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 73,000 18,000 - - - - Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) 60,000 18,000 - - - - Department of The Interior (DOI) 85,000 85,000 85,000 85,000 85,000 85,000 Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) 73,000 75,000 77,000 79,000 81,000 83,000 Department of Energy (DOE) 73,000 75,000 77,000 79,000 81,000 83,000 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 73,000 75,000 77,000 79,000 81,000 83,000 Army Corps of Engineers (COE) - 62,000 77,000 79,000 81,000 83,000 * Other Federal - @ probability: 100% 1,278,000 605,000 393,000 401,000 409,000 417,000 Other Non-Federal Association of American Railroads (AAR) 73,000 75,000 77,000 79,000 81,000 83,000 American Public Transportation Association (APTA) 73,000 75,000 77,000 79,000 81,000 83,000 California Air Resources Board (CARB) 78,000 80,000 82,000 84,000 86,000 88,000 * Other Non-Federal - @ probability: 100% 224,000 230,000 236,000 242,000 248,000 254,000 TRB Fees & Sales 6,151,000 2,461,000 6,336,000 6,526,000 6,722,000 6,924,000

16,920,000 12,881,000 16,594,000 16,798,000 17,008,000 17,224,000

Expenses Personnel Related Expenses 11,909,000 12,748,000 13,490,000 13,895,000 14,312,000 14,741,000 AM Logistics and Travel 2,328,000 1,025,000 2,421,000 2,469,000 2,518,000 2,594,000 Library, Publishing & Report Production 1,220,000 1,175,000 1,199,000 1,223,000 1,247,000 1,284,000 Staff/Committee Travel & Meetings 233,000 50,000 340,000 347,000 354,000 365,000 Other Costs 395,000 310,000 316,000 322,000 328,000 338,000 16,085,000 15,308,000 17,766,000 18,256,000 18,759,000 19,322,000

Reserves Yearly Surplus/(Deficit) 835,000 (2,427,000) (1,172,000) (1,458,000) (1,751,000) (2,098,000) Reserve Fund Balance 19,354,869 16,927,869 15,755,869 14,297,869 12,546,869 10,448,869 Percent of a Core Operating Year 120% 111% 89% 78% 67% 54%

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The TRB 2020 Annual Report can be found in the back of the Agenda Book. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 63 of 228

REPORT OF THE TRB DIVISION COMMITTEE July through December 2020

BACKGROUND The TRB Division Committee (Div-Comm) liaises between the Governing Board of the National Research Council (NRC) and TRB. Div-Comm ensures that TRB meets the NRC's standards for objectivity and ensures that its activities are appropriate for the NRC. In addition, Div-Comm monitors TRB’s specially-funded project committees and panel appointments, report review, and programs that are approved by the NRC Governing Board. The Div-Comm Chair assists the Executive Committee with special project approvals requested of the NRC Governing Board. Div-Comm activities, and a summary of its 2020 activities are discussed below.

Members of the 2020/2021 Div-Comm are Chris Hendrickson (NAE), Chair; Carlos Braceras, Executive Committee Chair; Patrick McKenna, State DOT Representative; and James Tien (NAE). The ex officio non-voting members are Victoria Arroyo, Outgoing Executive Committee Chair and Susan Shaheen, Incoming Executive Committee Chair.

OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES The following projects and committees were approved by the NRC Governing Board Executive Committee from July through December 2020. Yearly totals for oversight activities for 2020 and previous years are on Table 1, found on p.3.

Committee and Panel Approvals The Div-Comm Chair approved appointments to 64 committees and panels from July 1 through December 31, 2020.

Technical Activities Division (TAD) (Division A) • Drug-Impaired Driving Conference • European-U.S. Transportation Research Symposia--Symposium #7: COVID- 19 Response and Recovery Lessons Learned • Traffic Safety: A Series of Expert Meetings

Consensus and Advisory Studies (CAAS) (Division B) • Critical Issues in Transportation: 2021 Addendum • Options for Improving the Safety of Amphibious Vessels (DUKW boats) When Used in Passenger Service TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 64 of 228

Cooperative Research Programs (CRP) (Division D) 59 were CRP panels and planning committees: • 15 from the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP), • 4 for planning committees for the Critical Issues in the Airport Industry Workshop Series, • 41 from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), • 2 from the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP), and • 1 from the TRB-FHWA Cooperative Research Program (TFRS).

Report Review From July through December 2020, Div-Comm oversaw reviews of 51 reports from CAAS and the CRPs. Of those reports, 46 were from the CRPs (which includes the 45 reports listed in the table below and one conference proceedings report):

Program Research Syntheses Legal Totals ACRP 11 1 2 14 BTSCRP 1 0 0 1 NCHRP 16 4 0 20 TCRP 5 5 0 10 Totals 33 10 2 45

In CRP, the conference proceedings report was overseen by just the Div-Comm Chair. In CAAS, there were five monitored reviews—reviews overseen by both the National Academies’ Report Review Committee and the Div-Comm Chair.

Delegated CRP Review Critical Issues in the Airport Industry: Workshop #5 - Blockchain Technology and Airports

Monitored CAAS Reviews • Leveraging Unmanned Systems for Coast Guard Missions: A Strategic Imperative • Options for Reducing Lead Emissions from Piston-Powered Engine Aircraft • Review of the Federal Railroad Administration's R&D Program • Transit and New Mobility Services: Working Together in the Public Interest • TRB Critical Issues in Transportation: 2021 COVID-19 Addendum and Equity Addendum

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Table 1 TRB Division Committee Data: 2011-2020

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 CRP Reports (All types) 128 129 99 149 87 116 149 118 131 90 Policy Study Letter Reports 3 8 10 6 5 8 8 4 4 0 Full-Length Policy Study Reports 7 2 4 2 8 2 3 8 3 5 Conference/Workshop Reports from Technical Activities/CRP 3 6 7 2 2 3 2 6 2 1 SHRP 2 Reports 14 18 17 24 3 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a Meeting-in-Brief n/a n/a n/a 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 155 163 137 184 106 126 162 136 140 96

CRP Panels CRP Panels (new) 89 87 87 67 74 51 71 79 84 86

NRC-Approved Committees Division A 6 5 2 4 6 0 1 1 1 3 Division B 5 11 6 4 4 5 8 3 4 4 Division C 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 3 1 2 SHRP 2 1 1 0 1 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a Totals 12 17 8 9 10 5 9 4 6 9 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 66 of 228

Involvement of Minorities and Women in TRB

The Div-Comm monitors TRB’s progress in broadening the representation of minorities and women, both as members and as chairs of its NRC and non-NRC- appointed TRB committees and panels. • A committee that is NRC-appointed is approved by the NRC Governing Board. All committees in CAAS are NRC-approved and committees from TAD and CRP that produce conference proceedings are also NRC-appointed. • A committee or panel that is non-NRC-appointed includes the standing committees in the Technical Activities Division and the Cooperative Research Program panels.

The denominator for the percentages of women and for race/ethnicity is for those who reported that personal data in TRB’s online database (MyTRB), not the total number of those who are on committees or panels.

Women and Minority Participation on NRC- and non-NRC-Appointed Committees and Panels Tables 2 through 5 on the following pages show the composition of members on NRC- and non-NRC-appointed committees and panels from 2012-2021 by gender and by race/ethnicity.

Table 2 Chairs by Race/Ethnicity and Gender on Non-NRC-Appointed Committees and Panels Year Total % % % % % % % % N Women African AI/AN* Asian Hisp. 2 or White Not Amer. More Known 2011 595 26.5 2.6 1.2 6.1 3.0 0.7 86.4 3.5 2012 633 27.6 2.6 1.2 6.9 3.3 0.7 85.4 3.9 2013 637 28.0 2.2 0.7 7.2 3.0 0.5 86.5 4.1 2014 610 28.0 2.4 0.7 6.5 3.1 0.7 86.6 4.4 2015 556 28.1 2.4 0.6 7.0 2.8 0.6 86.6 5.2 2016 514 28.1 2.6 0.4 6.1 2.6 0.6 87.7 3.7 2017 507 28.9 3.1 0.4 6.4 3.1 0.8 86.2 4.3 2018 559 32.1 2.8 0.4 5.9 3.3 1.1 86.6 2.5 2019 606 33.2 3.4 0.3 6.6 3.9 1.4 84.3 1.0 2020 636 33.6 4.3 0.3 6.8 4.3 1.9 82.0 3.0 *American Indian/Alaskan Native TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 67 of 228

Table 3 Chairs by Race/Ethnicity and Gender on NRC-Appointed Committees and Panels Year Total N N N N N N N Women African AI/AN* Asian Hisp. White Amer. 2011 23 9 0 0 2 1 20 2012 29 9 0 0 3 0 26 2013 24 6 0 0 3 1 20 2014 22 5 0 0 4 0 18 2015 12 6 0 0 3 0 9 2016 14 6 0 0 2 0 12 2017 18 8 1 0 0 0 17 2018 19 5 1 0 0 0 18 2019 21 6 2 0 0 0 19 2020 20 6 1 0 0 0 19 *American Indian/Alaskan Native

Table 4 Members by Race/Ethnicity and Gender on non-NRC-Appointed Committees and Panels Year Total % % % % % % % % N Women African AI/AN* Asian Hisp. 2 or White Not Amer. More Known 2011 6512 27.0 3.8 0.8 11.2 3.0 0.8 80.3 10.4 2012 6845 27.7 4.0 0.7 11.2 3.4 1.0 79.9 10.8 2013 7041 28.8 3.9 0.6 11.2 3.3 1.0 79.9 12.6 2014 7081 30.4 4.0 0.5 11.6 3.6 1.0 79.3 15.6 2015 6564 31.1 4.0 0.3 12.8 3.3 1.0 78.5 18.2 2016 6398 32.8 4.2 0.3 12.9 3.5 1.0 78.0 20.4 2017 6554 34.0 4.3 0.3 13.5 3.6 1.1 77.1 23.9 2018 6476 32.6 4.3 0.4 13.8 3.9 1.3 76.4 16.5 2019 6429 32.0 4.2 0.3 14.8 4.2 1.3 75.3 7.7 2020 7030 33.2 5.1 0.2 14.5 4.7 1.2 73.3 10.7 *American Indian/Alaskan Native

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Table 5 Members by Race/Ethnicity and Gender on NRC-Appointed Committees and Panels Year Total % % % % % % % % N Women African AI/AN* Asian Hisp. 2 or White Not Amer. More Known 2011 260 25.8 7.0 0.8 7.0 3.3 0.0 82.0 6.2 2012 309 26.6 5.1 0.3 7.2 3.4 0.0 84.0 5.2 2013 280 24.9 4.7 0.4 6.6 3.9 0.8 83.7 8.2 2014 261 25.4 5.3 0.4 7.9 3.5 1.3 81.6 12.6 2015 159 47.5 3.3 0.8 9.8 3.3 0.0 82.8 23.3 2016 200 28.8 3.7 1.2 8.6 3.7 0.0 82.8 18.5 2017 194 34.5 6.2 0.0 9.7 4.8 0.0 79.3 ** 2018 216 33.7 5.5 0.0 11.1 4.0 1.0 78.4 7.9 2019 222 36.8 7.8 0.5 8.8 2.0 1.0 79.5 7.0 2020 205 36.1 9.4 0.5 6.4 4.5 1.0 78.2 1.5 *American Indian/Alaskan Native ** Data unavailable

Diversity in Participation on Committees in the Technical Activities Division Members of the 176 committees in TAD are appointed at the TRB level. Each committee is allotted 36 slots and selects its own members while working with its TRB staff member; though chairs are approved by TRB’s TAD director.

Individuals can also become involved in committees through becoming a “friend of a committee” which allows them to sign up for an unlimited number of committees. Friends can attend meetings and participate in committee activities, and can be considered for committee membership. Table 6 provides data on friends of committees and Table 7 provides data on members of standing committees.

Table 6 Participation by Gender and Race/Ethnicity of Friends Total % % % % % % % % % N Women African AI/AN* Asian Hisp. 2 or Other White Not Amer. More Known 2015 6035 25.8 3.4 0.3 16.5 4.2 1.3 0.5 73.8 30.3 2016 7929 26.4 3.9 0.3 17.3 4.6 1.4 0.6 72.1 32.3 2017 9606 26.6 4.1 0.3 18.5 4.7 1.6 0.8 70.1 33.4 2018 11262 27.5 4.2 0.4 18.6 4.9 1.7 0.9 69.3 34.6 2019 12801 28.5 4.3 0.3 19.5 5.0 1.9 1.6 67.4 26.8 2020 14541 29.1 4.5 0.3 20.3 5.1 1.8 2.3 65.7 22.0 *American Indian/Alaskan Native TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 69 of 228

Table 7 Participation by Gender and Race/Ethnicity of Members Total % % % % % % % % % N Women African AI/AN* Asian Hisp. 2 or Other White Not Amer. More Known 2015 4830 25.8 2.9 0.4 13.5 3.2 1.3 0.2 78.5 12.0 2016 4880 26.5 3.2 0.4 14.0 3.3 1.2 0.3 77.6 13.6 2017 4976 27.2 3.2 0.4 14.6 3.5 1.3 0.4 76.6 14.9 2018 5136 27.6 3.3 0.3 14.8 3.7 1.2 0.2 76.5 15.9 2019 4989 28.2 3.2 0.3 16.2 4.1 1.5 0.7 74.0 11.3 2020 4714 29.4 3.5 0.3 16.8 4.6 1.4 1.1 72.4 10.2 *American Indian/Alaskan Native

Data from TAD’s 2020 chair rotation process shows increases in diversity. Of the 175 chair positions, 32 committees rotated. In this group of committees, • The number of female chairs went from 9 to 19 (27% to 59%), • The number of minority chairs went from 5 to 8 (16% to 25%), and • The number of under-represented minority chairs went from 2 to 4 (6% to 13%).

Because there were only 32 chairs that rotated out of 175+ positions (there are some co-chairs), this level of change does not yet show up in the overall chair data, but does show step-by-step progress of TAD staff members’ concerted efforts during each rotation.

Diversity in Participation on Cooperative Research Program Panels Data on race/ethnicity and gender of a) new panel members in 2015 through 2020 are shown in Table 8 and b) all members (new and existing) in 2015 through 2020 are shown in Table 9. Those included are individual people (rather than panel slots) who serve as either a chair, member, or AASHTO monitor on panels that are Div- Comm-approved and active panels that oversee contract projects. The data reported in 2020 include Div-Comm approved panel members as they have in the past, but also members from Executive Office-approved panels (e.g., topic panels and NCHRP synthesis panels). These panel members are included so as to reflect the full range of recruitment efforts by CRP program officers and panel participation in the CRPs.

As a result of including the Executive Office-approved panel members, there are an additional 400 members in the All CRP data and an additional 175 in the New CRP data. A comparison of the categories for race and ethnicity of only Div-Comm approved panel members versus both Div-Comm- and Executive Office-approved panel members showed nearly identical percentages (within one to two tenths of a percent). TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 70 of 228

Table 8 Participation by Gender and Race/Ethnicity of New Panel Members % % % % 2 or % % African Native % Asian Total N Hispanic More White Women Amer. Amer. 2015 561 4.8 4.1 0.2 1.7 12.5 76.5 27.4 2016 436 7.9 4.2 0.2 1.4 12.8 73.5 30.7 2017 572 5.1 3.9 0.5 2.0 15.1 75.0 31.3 2018 732 6.1 6.1 0.8 1.5 11.5 73.9 35.3 2019 730 8.0 4.9 0.7 2.7 12.7 71.0 38.2 2020 752 9.0 5.9 0.6 1.7 12.1 69.9 35.1

Table 9 Participation by Gender and Race/Ethnicity of All Panel Members % % % 2 or % % % AA Native % Asian Total N Hispanic More White Women Amer. 2015 1906 4.1 3.9 0.2 0.8 8.1 82.9 26.3 2016 2058 5.7 4.2 0.3 0.9 9.8 79.1 25.5 2017 2199 4.5 3.3 0.2 0.8 8.4 82.8 25.5 2018 2367 4.5 3.1 0.2 0.9 8.8 82.5 26.4 2019 2794 6.2 5.0 0.7 2.2 12.9 73.1 33.1 2020 3267 6.8 4.7 0.4 1.3 11.4 75.0 32.9

Diversity in CRP Contractors

TRB encourages participation of women and minorities as principal investigators (PIs) on university teams and of disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs) so as to represent a variety of perspectives on CRP projects. (DBEs are small businesses that have at least a 51% interest and control of daily business operations by those who identify as African American, Hispanic, Native American, Asian-Pacific and Subcontinent Asian American, or women.) Therefore, TRB collects data on minority and women PIs from university teams serving as NCHRP contractors, and on contract funding that went to DBEs from new ACRP, BTSCRP, NCHRP, and TCRP contracts. Some of the material needed to calculate these data are at TRB’s office in the Keck Building. Rather than ask CRP staff to go into the office to retrieve that material, it will instead be provided in the summer Div-Comm report. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 71 of 228

Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives at Organizations Responding to CRP RFPs Since July 2019, all organizations submitting proposals to CRP must respond to a question that asks how their team would bring a diverse and inclusive approach to their research, and policies or programs that they have in place to promote diversity and inclusion. Analysis of the 86 proposals in 2020 show that 52 included a statement of commitment to diversity and inclusion (either at their organization or in carrying out the research), 43 are either a DBE or are using a DBE as a subcontractor, and 32 outlined a plan to have a diverse team working on the project.

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January 2021 Report of the TRB Division Committee (Div-Comm) Div-Comm members - Chris Hendrickson, chair - Victoria Arroyo (ex officio) - Carlos Braceras - Patrick McKenna - Susan Shaheen (ex officio) - James Tien

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Overview of Div-Comm’s Functions • Review and approve panel/committee composition and reports • Approve committees/panels and then reports - Cooperative Research Program - Consensus and Advisory Studies - TAD symposium planning committees • Monitor diversity of CRP contractors • Monitor diversity of TRB volunteers and staff

Race/Ethnicity of Friends on TAD Standing Committees, N=14,541 22% Response rate: 78% 20% 20.3% 19.5% 18% Asian 18.5% 18.6% 17.3% 16% 16.5%

14%

12%

10%

8% 5.1% 4.6% 4.9% 5.0% 6% Hispanic 4.7% 4.2% 4% 4.5% 3.9% 4.1% 4.2% 4.3% 3.4% African 2% American 0.3% 0.3% 0.4% 0.3% 0% 0.3% 0.3% 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 AfricanAmer. AI/AN Asian Hisp.

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Race/Ethnicity of Members on TAD Standing Committees, N=4,717 18%

Response rate: 89.8% 16.8% 16% 16.2% Asian 14.8% 14% 14.6% 13.5% 14.0%

12%

10%

6% 4.6% 4.1% 3.5% Hispanic 3.3% 3.7% 4% 3.2% 3.5%

2.9% African 3.2% 3.2% 3.3% 3.2% 2% American 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.3% 0.4% 0% 0.3% 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

African Amer. AI/AN Asian Hisp.

All CRP Panel Members, N=3,267 14% Response rate: 92.4% 12.9% Hundreds 12% 11.4%

9.8% 10%

Asian 8.4% 8.8% 8.1% 8%

6.2% 6.8% 6% 5.7% African American 5.0% 4.5% 4.5% 4.1% 4.7% 4.2% 4% 3.9% 3.3% 3.1%

Hispanic 2.2% 2% 0.9% 0.8% 0.9% 1.3% 0.8% 0.7% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.4% 0% 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

African Amer. Hispanic Native Amer. 2 or More Asian

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New CRP Panel Members, N=752 16% Response rate: 93.1% 15.1%

Hundreds 14% 12.8% 12.7% Asian 12.5% 11.5% 12% 12.1%

10%

9.0% 8.0% 8% 7.9% African American 6.1% 6% 5.9% 5.1% 4.9% 4.8% 4.2% 6.1%

4% 3.9% 4.1% Hispanic 2.7% 2.0% 1.5% 2% 1.4% 1.7% 1.7% 0.5% 0.8% 0.7% 0.2% 0.6% 0% 0.2% 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

African Amer. Hispanic Native Amer. 2 or More Asian

TRB Women Participation 40%

38.2% 38%

36%

35.3% 35.1%

34% 33.1%

32.9% 32% 31.3% 30.7%

30% 29.4% 28.5% 29.1% 27.6% 28% 27.2% 26.5% 28.2% 27.5% 26.6% 26.4% 26% 26.4%

25.5% 25.5% 24% 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 % All CRP % New CRP % TAD Friends % TAD Members

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Participation on NRC Consensus Committees Committee Chairs - Participation of all groups has largely remained the same over the past 10 years Consensus Committee Members, N=205 - Upward trends over time in participation of women and those who are black/African American - Improvement in past year in participation of those who are Hispanic

TRB Involvement in NASEM-wide Initiatives and Collaboration • New NRC Strategic Plan • Implementation DE&I initiatives • Sharing expertise of program officers across NRC divisions for 6 consensus studies • Staff participation in NRC transformation • NASEM COVID-19 Working Group

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TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES DIVISION (TAD) Report to the TRB Executive Committee January 2021

Contents 1. TAD contributions to addressing COVID-19 and transportation 2. Recent TAD contributions related to equity and transportation 3. Impact of COVID-19 on 2021 TRB Annual Meeting 4. Impact of COVID-19 on smaller specialty conferences and other meetings. 5. TAD strategic alignment

1. Contributions to Addressing COVID-19 and Transportation Technical Activities Division contributions during the early stage of COVID-19: • Working with our publisher, Sage, the Transportation Research Record made relevant papers available to the public without subscription to the journal. • Sage provided a pre-print server where pandemic-related material—such as unpublished research and case studies, research in progress, and abstract descriptions referencing relevant data sets—is available without subscription. • “RNS Express” was developed to accelerate provision of short research needs statements (RNS). • Expedited approval of the new Transportation and Public Health Committee: This committee was envisioned in the new committee structure. The previous activity of a subcommittee made it possible to get a provisional scope and a core group of members so that the committee was approved in a couple of days.

2. Recent Contributions Related to Equity • A special call for papers on transportation and equity attracted more than 100 papers for Annual Meeting presentations and possible inclusion in a special issue of the TRR. • The topic of the Deen Distinguished Lecture at the 2021 Annual meeting, delivered by Dorval Carter of the Chicago Transit Authority, will be “Our Work is Never Done: Examining Equity Impacts in Public Transportation.” • As part of the committee restructuring, a new standing committee on Equity in Transportation was established to build on the work of a joint subcommittee on equity and the work on the standing committee on Environmental Justice. Gloria Jeff, chair of the new committee, participated in a TRB-hosted brainstorming session to identify research needs related to social equity issues and transportation. • The standing committee on Disadvantaged Business Enterprises was renamed the standing committee on Contracting Equity to reflect the committee’s broadening focus beyond federal contracting efforts. • Efforts continue to increase diversity on standing committees, with a particular focus on the committees scheduled for rotation each year.

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3. Impact of COVID-19 on 2021 TRB Annual Meeting The 100th TRB Annual Meeting was scheduled to be held January 24-28, 2021, at the Washington Convention Center. Because of COVID-19 it will be held as a virtual conference throughout the month of January 2021. • The dates and types of events are: o January 5-8 and 11-15: committee and subcommittee meetings o January 21-22: workshops and virtual exhibits; Career Fair on January 21 o January 25-29: lectern and poster sessions and virtual exhibits • Factors contributing to the decision to convert to a complete virtual meeting included: o Decision had to be made by mid-July to avoid significant increase in hotel cancellation fees (which were already $1.4 million in the spring). o Through tracking COVID-19 data and restrictions (locally, nationally, and internationally), following vaccine development efforts, and listening to experts brought in by the National Academy of Medicine and the American Public Health Association, it became clear that an in-person meeting in January 2021—if it were permitted by the District of Columbia—would likely be restricted to less than 250 people. o A survey of committee members, attendees to the last three Annual Meetings, and readers of our e-newsletter delivered some clear messages: A majority of people would not travel to an in-person TRB Annual Meeting in January 2021; the top reason for this was personal discomfort with the health risks of traveling and attending an event with so many people. More than 85% of respondents said they would be interested in participating in a virtual Annual Meeting. o There are significant fixed costs associated with the meeting regardless of format, as well as sunk costs fairly early in the year. In addition, cancellation and attrition fees for a large meeting are very high. So cancelling the meeting can be costly but so can holding a meeting with much fewer than expected attendees. Virtual meetings have their own costs, which are significant for a large meeting. o The Annual Meeting is central to fulfilling our mission. We have been working to maintain continuity of mission fulfillment and of critical relationships—with volunteers, attendees, sponsors and affiliates, exhibitors, patrons, vendors and other partners—throughout 2020. • Actions taken: o Evaluation of 20 virtual meeting platforms of various sizes, capabilities, and complexity. Four vendors received a request for proposals; two were asked for final proposals; Community Brands was the ultimate selection. o Careful, diplomatic communications and negotiations with important partners: Convention Center, the Marriott Marquis and 20 other hotels, as well as vendors who work on registration, exhibits, security, audio-visual tech support, etc. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 79 of 228

o Gaining lessons from others who had already run virtual conferences. Though none were as large and complex as ours, we learned a lot about good practices and what to avoid. o Benchmarking registration fees against other conferences that had gone from in-person to virtual format. At the time we had to make a decision, practices ranged from pricing registration at the same level as in-person events to cutting rates by 30%, 50%, 60%, etc. No clear best practices had emerged yet and reports of attendance and revenue results, where they are available and shared, varied widely. The engineering and transportation conferences we looked at planned 15-45 technical sessions versus our 400 session. We picked a mid-point: cut the general rate in half, give a much more significant reduction to students, reduced the post-early-bird increase. o Nearly every single detail of how the meeting is run had to be examined and often modified. Multiple staff teams spent months reworking operations related to registration, sessions, workshop, exhibits, networking, etc. New IT work was required to link TRB’s system and our registration vendor’s system with the virtual platform vendor’s several systems. o Communication: emails, newsletter, special missives, personal involvement, videos, webinars, resources pages, FAQs. • Papers: There was a 31% reduction in the number of papers received for the 2021 Annual Meeting versus the 2020 Annual Meeting. Anecdotal evidence suggests that factors influencing this reduction included: o Professors not having the time to write as many papers due to the extra work associated with remote teaching; o Challenges for students to work together and with professors to conduct research and draft papers the spring semester; and o Possibly the decision to run the meeting as a virtual event: those who depend on an accepted paper in order to get permission to travel may have been able to participate without a paper if travel isn’t involved.

4. Impact of COVID-19 on smaller specialty conferences and other meetings When the COVID-19 pandemic struck early in the year, the Technical Activities Division had approximately 40 in-person meetings and specialty conferences scheduled for the remainder of 2020. We developed a decision-making process to methodically determine whether to hold or cancel each event based on the status of the pandemic, government restrictions in the locations of the events, and hotel cancellation fees. Altogether there was a potential cancellation fee exposure of almost $1 million for all the events. Over time, the process we employed led to cancellation of all these in-person events. Careful timing and negotiation with hotels resulted in elimination of all cancellation fees under force majeure clauses in our hotel contracts. Specific actions and outcomes include: • Developed a decision making framework with the following basic elements: o Safeguard health; comply with governmental orders restricting gatherings. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 80 of 228

o Minimize negative financial impact on TRB o Consider organizational travel restrictions of attendees, international travel restrictions, volunteer workload, and sponsor commitments. o Hit the “sweet spot” for hotel negotiations to maximize force majeure argument without waiting too long to make decisions. • Rescheduled committee meetings as virtual meetings. • Established a staff team that explored options for rescheduling some larger conferences as virtual meetings. To date three virtual conferences have taken place. Debriefing meetings and development of lessons learned are in process. • Status of future conferences: o Several virtual conferences are planned for 2021. o Some conferences were postponed until 2022 with the expectation that they will be able to be held in person o No new in-person conferences are scheduled for the first half of 2021. In- person events that had been scheduled for 2021 before COVID will be monitored using our decision making process. o New in-person events for the second half of 2021 will be scheduled for NAS facilities and NAS preferred hotels to the greatest extent possible as a way of minimizing financial risk.

5. TAD strategic alignment TAD’s Strategic Alignment is a multi-year initiative to strengthen TAD’s mission, improving volunteer and internal structures and processes to ensure continuous improvement in operations, excellence in outcomes, and positive impacts on transportation research, innovation, and professional development. Committee Structure • The new structure was implemented at the beginning of 2020. Key changes: o 16% reduction in the number of standing committees o Addition of coordinating councils to coordinate across all committees in several key areas. o Greater emphasis on role of subcommittees and joint subcommittees to quickly addressing new issues and coordinate across modes and disciplines. • Thirteen new committees were proposed; after review by the Technical Activities Council and the Section Chairs, 11 were approved: o ACP80 Motor Vehicle Highway Simulation o AJE45 Information and Knowledge Management: seems accepted, just make sure we keep both sides o AJE70 Data for Decision Making o AKT70 Maintenance Management Systems o AME70 Transportation and Public Health (accelerated approval in April to address COVID issues) o AME80 Community Resources and Impacts o AMR40 Systems, Enterprise, and Cyber Resilience o AMR50 Extreme Weather and Climate Change Adaptation TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 81 of 228

o AP080 Transit Safety and Security o AP090 Transformative Trends in Transit Data o AV095 New Users of Shared Airspace • “Back office” activities in support of implementing the new structure included: o Changes to IT and processes for Annual Meeting, paper review, committee rotation, MyTRB, and other systems to accommodate the new structure. o Tailored plans for chairing and rotation of merged committees. o Temporary “committees” created to maintain our promise to honor the full current terms of all members of committees that were sunsetted or merged and provide them the Annual Meeting discount for committee members. o Developing details of operation of coordinating councils and subcommittees. Specialty conferences: • A new set of specialty conference guidelines was developed. • When COVID-19 hit, an almost completely new set of guidelines had to be created for virtual conferences. Transportation Research Record peer-reviewed journal: • The 2019 TRR impact factor (calculated in 2020) is 1.029. This is the first time the TRR has obtain an impact factor greater than 1; this also represents the largest annual increase in the impact factor in the journal’s history. o Note: The impact factor is a measure of how much TRR papers are cited in other papers. A higher impact factor will attract better papers and more readers, so this is a very positive step for the journal. o Key reasons for the improvement are increased discoverability of TRR papers and increased circulation from our partnership with Sage. • Other measures of journal impact reflect public and practitioner interest. From 2018 through the second quarter of 2020, citation data show the following: o TRR research was mentioned in 83 news stories in sources such as Scientific American, Forbes, NPR, and the New York Times. o The TRR is the top transportation journal cited in policy documents around the world, including the World Bank, the UK government, the Brookings Institute, the Analysis and Policy Observatory, and UNESCO. o TRR research was cited 9 times in patent applications, making the TRR tied for first place in this measure among transportation journals. • Additional members were added to the new editorial board, which has approximately 200 members to cover the diverse array of disciplines and transportation modes addressed in the journal’s papers. • The TRR Review Advisory Board has been converted into a TAD Publications Board to provide more strategic advice on TAD publication issues. • Special theme issues planned COVID-19 and transportation and equity. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 82 of 228

MARINE BOARD of the

TRB Executive Committee Meeting January 2021

Martha Grabowski, Ph.D. Le Moyne College Syracuse, NY Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY

Chair, TRB Marine Board TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 83 of 228 2021 Marine Board Update • Maritime Education, Training, Research & Innovation Summit – US DOT/Maritime Administration sponsor November 9, 2020 – Digital Leadership, Automation – Energy, Propulsion, Control Systems – Global Supply Chain, Logistics, Sustainability – All-Academy Leadership Roundtable

• Areas of Interest Refresh – Cross-cutting Themes and Advocates: Cyber, Human Capital, Risk, Safety Mgmt • Novel Uses of Maritime Environment US Coast Guard; NOAA NOS, NMFS; US Navy, US Dept of Interior BSEE, BOEM; US Dept of Agriculture; EPA; MARAD; NASA

• Future of the Maritime Supply Chain COVID Phase 2 Lessons Learned • Sponsor Leadership Liaison TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 84 of 228 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 85 of 228 2021 Marine Board Areas of Interest

• Autonomous Shipping / Future of Navigation • Maritime Resilience / Risk • Future of the Maritime Supply Chain • Offshore Wind Energy • Towards Zero Emissions Shipping • U.S. Maritime Policy / Arctic Challenges

Cross-cutting Elements • Human and Intellectual Capital • Safety Management, Culture and Inspections

https://www.sbmoffshore.com/what-we- • Cyber in the Marine Transportation System do/our-products/renewables/, retrieved 24 Dec 2020 https://www.military.com/daily- news/2020/10/30/first-time-26-years-us- polar-icebreaker-headed-arctic.html

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool- tech/autonomous-ships-are-coming/, July 2019, retrieved 24 December 2020 TRBMarine Executive Committee Meeting, BoardJanuary 26-28, 2021 Virtual Spring MeetingPage 86 of 228 Date: May – June 2021

ON-LINE FOCUS SESSIONS UNDER DEVELOPMENT FOR SPRING

Novel Uses of the Maritime Environment (May 2021)

Based on USCG sponsor interest, as the agency is called upon to manage and regulate the safety and security of navigable waterways in light of new technologies and economic opportunities

Examples include: • Autonomous Vessel Test Ranges • Aquaculture/Fish Farms • Space Exploration / Floating Platform Launch Sites/Autonomous Barge Launches • Offshore Wind Energy Platforms and Infrastructure • Development of offshore hydrokinetic power plant (wave generator) locations

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive /2020/08/spacex-nasa-splashdown- dragon/614884/, retrieved 24 December 2020 TRBMarine Executive Committee Meeting, BoardJanuary 26-28, 2021 Virtual Spring MeetingPage 87 of 228 Date: May – June 2021

Maritime Supply Chain Lessons Resulting from the Pandemic and the Worldwide Vaccine Distribution (June 2021)

In follow-up to our Spring 2020 focus sessions related to COVID-19 Impacts on Shipping and the Offshore Industries, the Marine Board will conduct a focus session that explores the lessons learned, research needs and continuing longer term effects of the pandemic experience on the future maritime supply chain, workforce, and related economic activities.

Areas of exploration could include: - Global shipping - Cruise industry - Ports and terminal operations - Logistics and future trade paradigms - Effects on seafarers and shipboard operations COVID Impacts on Cruise Industry, World Economic Forum, 3 Global Container Schedule Reliability Plummets, J of Commerce, 3 November 2020 Nov 2020 https://www.joc.com/maritime-news/pandemic-disrupted-markets-put-spotlight-forwarder- https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/impact-coronavirus- value_20201103.html, retrieved 24 December 2020 pandemic-cruise-ships/, retrieved 24 December 2020 MarineTRB Executive Committee Meeting, Board January 26-28, 2021 Sponsorship EngagementPage 88 of 228 Spring / Summer 2021

• Given a new Administration and the leadership changes within our sponsor organizations, the Marine Board plans to conduct outreach to new leaders when appointed or rotations in command occur.

• In the near term, we will plan to conduct these meetings as on-line interactions and eventually transition to in-person meetings at their DC offices as the pandemic subsides. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 89 of 228

Item 09 Emerging Trends in Goods Movement

There had been major changes occurring in goods movement, even before COVID-19. The pandemic has accelerated some of these trends, but introduced other changes as well. We want to take advantage of the expertise we have on the Executive Committee to discuss these changes and emerging trends. We will have brief presentations from each of the panelists and then a discussion with the entire Executive Committee on emerging trends in goods movement.

Freight Rail Mike McClelland

Maritime Martha Grabowski

Air Freight Ginger Evans

Vaccine & package delivery Bill Kruger

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Item 10 Conversation with Biden Transition Team

We have extended an invitation for members of the Biden Transition Team to join us for a discussion about policy priorities of the new Administration. Regardless of whether they accept the invitation, we will plan to have discussion about the new Administration’s policy priorities and implications for TRB’s programs. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 91 of 228

December 29, 2020 MEMORANDUM

TO: Members, TRB Executive Committee FROM: Russell Houston SUBJECT: January 27, 2021, Policy Session on the Impact of COVID-19 on Personal Mobility and Social Equity

During this virtual policy session, the TRB Executive Committee will explore what the longer-term effects of COVID-19 may be on personal mobility and social equity. The goal of this session is to allow for the Executive Committee to augment other work being done at TRB through its standing technical committees and through the CRP program, which is working on a document identifying areas of research needed as a result of COVID-19. This policy session will rely on experts on the Executive Committee to present the issues and be resource people for the discussion.

After each set of presentations on personal mobility and social equity, the Executive Committee will engage in discussions based on questions included in the agenda below. Members are asked to review the questions in advance to help facilitate a stimulating discussion on these important issues.

Time Agenda (Eastern) Carlos Braceras, Director, Utah Department of Transportation; and Chair, 1:30 p.m. TRB Executive Committee Welcome and Session Introductions Susan Shaheen, Professor, CEE and Co-Director, Transportation Sustainability Research Center, University of California, Berkeley; and Vice Chair, TRB 1:35 p.m. Executive Committee Future of Public Transit and Shared Mobility: Scenario Planning for COVID- 19 Recovery Katie Turnbull, Executive Associate Director and Regents Fellow, Texas 1:45 p.m. A&M Transportation Institute On the Road Again: Driving, Bicycling, and Walking Shawn Wilson, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Transportation and 1:55 p.m. Development Initial Reactions Nat Ford, Chief Executive Officer, Jacksonville Transportation Authority 1:58 p.m. Initial Reactions Carlos Braceras (Moderator) 2:01 p.m. Group Discussion Questions– Part I – Personal Mobility Question #1 - What is going to be the new normal for leisure and business 2:01 p.m. travel demand and modal choice? TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 92 of 228 Question #2 - What policy options should the transportation sector pursue to 2:11 p.m. help shape the new normal for personal mobility to meet societal goals? What research might be helpful? Question #3 - How might policy makers, including the new administration, 2:20 p.m. impact public transit and shared mobility recover (and ultimately travel behavior/mode choice)? Carlos Braceras (Moderator) 2:29 p.m. Conclusion of Personal Mobility and Transition to Social Equity Nat Ford 2:30 p.m. Social Equity (Transit) Shawn Wilson 2:40 p.m. Social Equity (Non-Urban Areas) Susan Shaheen 2:50 p.m. Initial Reactions Katie Turnbull 2:53 p.m. Initial Reactions Carlos Braceras (Moderator) 2:56 p.m. Group Discussion Questions – Part 2 – Social Equity Question #1 - How can the traditional transportation community enhance 2:56 p.m. transportation services available to vulnerable communities in the new normal? Question #2 - What incentives might be made available to the private sector to 3:06 p.m. enhance transportation services available to vulnerable communities in the new normal? Question #3 - What are the policy issues that need to be addressed to enhance 3:16 p.m. and protect transportation services available to vulnerable communities in the new normal? Carlos Braceras & Neil Pedersen 3:25 p.m. Concluding Remarks Carlos Braceras 3:30 p.m. Adjourn

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Item 16 Discussion of Implications of COVID-19 for TRB

TRB has had to change the way it does business for the past 10 months, with most of its business, including the TRB Annual Meeting and the Executive Committee Meeting, having been done virtually. We would like to engage in a discussion on what the longer term implications are for TRB as a result of COVID-19. The following questions are provided to help spur the discussion:

• What changes will occur among TRB’s sponsoring and stakeholder agencies that might change what they will expect of TRB? • How has COVID-19 changed who is engaged with TRB or might change who will be engaged with TRB in the future? • What might be the potential implications of COVID-19 on the future of the TRB Annual Meeting in light of the fact that TRB is going to lose several million dollars from the 2021 TRB Annual Meeting as a result of it being held virtually? • What might be the effect of COVID-19 on future travel to TRB conferences and workshops or to CRP panel meetings? • Given that the TRB Annual Meeting and most conferences need to be self-supporting financially, will enough participants be willing to pay rates close to those that are charged for in person conferences so they will be self-supporting? • What activities might make sense for TRB to do virtually in the future that have historically been done in person in the past? • What new services might TRB consider as result of what we have learned and experienced during the past year? • What issues should TRB particularly focus on as a result of anticipated long-term impacts of COVID-19? • Strategically how should TRB change as a result of COVID-19? • What other issues should we be considering beyond those listed above?

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December 29, 2020

MEMORANDUM TO: Members, TRB Executive Committee FROM: Russell Houston SUBJECT: June 2021 Executive Committee Policy Session

June 2021, Policy Session – Action

The Subcommittee on Planning and Policy Review (SPPR) recommends that the Executive Committee select social and racial equity as the topic for the June 2021 Policy Session and that the session use the Critical Issues in Transportation 2019 and its addendum as a resource to help inform the session. Potential components for a social and racial equity session are included below. Also included in this memo is a list of TRB’s critical issues (Attachment A) as well as a list of all past policy session topics (Attachment B) to potentially aid in the committee’s discussion on a topic for the June 2021 session.

Social and Racial Equity Issues

Since the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis this summer, there has been much focus on issues of social and racial justice and equity throughout the nation, including in transportation.

Equity was identified as one of the major topics in Critical Issues in Transportation 2019, and an addendum is under development, which will add additional emphasis and clarity to the social and racial equity issues the transportation community will need to address.

In late September TRB convened a brainstorming session with nine thought leaders on the topic of social and racial justice issues in transportation. The participants identified a series of policy and research issues under five major themes: • Access to employment, health care, education, other opportunities • Displacement/gentrification/affordable housing/land use • Environmental justice/inequitable Impacts • Institutional issues and decision making • Native American Equity Issues

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In keeping with the 2019 Critical Issues report, the addendum will focus on identifying important questions about transportation’s impacts on equity and its racial dimensions and transportation’s potential role in ameliorating them. The addendum attempts to focus on inequities that are caused by or that exacerbate racial disparities.

The policy session would attempt to discuss some of the questions posed in Critical Issues in Transportation 2019 and its addendum as well as to help identify priority research needs based on the questions posed in the addendum.

Potential topics that could be explored during the session include: Environmental Justice Ensuring that the negative consequences of expanding transportation networks and operations do not fall disproportionately on low-income and minority neighborhoods is an ongoing challenge that is rarely fully met. Included in this would be consideration of disproportionate impacts from air and noise pollution on low income and minority communities and the role that this pollution has played in the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on these communities. Structural Racism • Institutional Issues and Decision Making Institutional racism has influenced transportation decision making throughout history. The resulting decisions have led to reduced transportation access, affordability, and safety for minorities. • Access to Opportunities/Land Use Research has shown that people living in minority neighborhoods and on reservations often face disproportionately high transportation burdens and barriers. Transportation networks are inextricably tied to land use, especially housing. Land use and geographies are also important factors in equity analyses; some equity issues are unique to rural areas, just as others are unique to urban areas. • Inequitable Impacts and Public Input Processes Transportation planning and policy have long had inequitable effects on minority and low-income populations. The civil rights implications of transportation policies were largely ignored until the 1990s, and current laws, policies, and regulations are attempting to redress the inequities, but there is still more that needs to be done. Affordable Housing and Displacement Availability of housing, and particularly affordable housing, is a necessary component of solving the transportation issue for many vulnerable populations. There is a spatial mismatch between jobs and housing in many regions, which is most pronounced for people of color. Redlining, discrimination, and exclusionary zoning helped shape the spatial reality of how racial groups are aggregated across regional landscapes. In addition, gentrification, resulting in part from transportation investments, can displace low-income residents to areas with poorer transportation infrastructure and service. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 96 of 228

Native American Equity Issues Many transportation issues affect Native Americans differently than other minority groups because of the sovereign status of these tribes and their lands, but these differences are not always well understood. The Executive Committee may want to have one speaker that addresses the topic broadly and two speakers who focus in on one or two of the above issues. Members of the committee may want to weigh in on which of the above topics would be of the most interest to them.

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Attachment A

TRB Critical Issue

Transformational Technologies 1. Role of policy in development of connected and automated vehicles a. Policy options to manage travel, congestion and emissions, especially from TNCs. b. Policies to achieve net social benefits c. Transition period issues with mixed traffic d. Needed public sector investments, especially infrastructure 2. Shared mobility services a. Relationship to transit b. Regulatory issues between taxis and TNCs 3. Balancing state and federal safety oversight; sharing of information from pilots 4. Government oversight of artificial intelligence 5. Behavioral responses a. # of trips, mode, willingness to pool b. Auto ownership c. Residential & commercial location d. Safety issues with semi-automated vehicles e. Public acceptance of risk with automated vehicles

Serving a Growing and Shifting Population 6. Mega-region internal travel and connections 7. Growth in travel in small/medium cities and in suburban/exurban areas 8. Rural access needs in light of decreasing population 9. Millennial and baby boomer needs, especially in low density areas

Energy/Sustainability 10. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions 11. Policies to move to more sustainable energy sources for transportation 12. Electric powered transportation; impacts on electric grid 13. Sustainability considerations in decision making

Resilience/Security 14. Adding security while maintaining mobility 15. Risk management approach to resilience 16. Adaptation to severe weather events and climate change 17. Security risks from drones 18. Cybersecurity 19. GPS vulnerabilities 20. Evacuation issues

Safety/Public Health 21. Adopting proven and new safety technologies TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 98 of 228

22. Semi-automated vehicle safety issues 23. Public health’s linkage to transportation 24. Mitigation of pollution from transportation 25. Operator fatigue management 26. Unmanned aircraft safety issues 27. Safety management and safety culture 28. Impacts of marijuana and other drugs 29. Pedestrian and cyclist deaths and injuries

Equity 30. Equity impacts and opportunities of new technology services 31. Access issues for the economically disadvantaged 32. Environmental justice issues of equitable access and impacts of new facilities 33. Equity issues of alternative finance mechanisms 34. Equity issues of toll financing

Governance 35. Devolution’s impact on funding and on interstate and international commerce 36. Addressing nationally significant bottlenecks 37. Megaregion and multi-jurisdictional decision making 38. Roles in providing mobility as a service 39. Implications of transformational technologies on institutions 40. Governance of data

System performance and Asset Management 41. Managing for system performance 42. How much can new technology substitute for adding capacity; ensuring new technology is incorporated in new infrastructure 43. Investing in preservation and maintenance; asset management and life cycle cost decision making 44. New materials, construction techniques, and maintenance approaches

Funding/Finance 45. Role of federal funding; how to pay for federal funding 46. Building support for raising user fees (e.g. fuel tax); efficient, effective, sustainable, and equitable user fees; subsidizing modes that cannot entirely rely on user fees (e.g. transit, inland waterways) 47. Responding to decreases in revenues due to improved energy efficiency and electric vehicles; mileage-based user fee issues

Goods Movement 48. Providing for growth in freight; changes in freight demand 49. Reducing emissions from freight 50. Worker shortages in freight 51. Technology changes in freight 52. Changes in how packages are delivered TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 99 of 228

53. Truck size and weight issues 54. Impacts of mega-vessels on ports and channels 55. Distribution of domestic energy

Institutional and Workforce Capacity 56. Local institutional capacity to address current issues 57. Preparing the workforce for new technologies and future issues 58. Attracting underrepresented groups into transportation 59. Displacements of workers by technology

Research and Innovation 60. Learning from new technology experiments and sharing lessons learned 61. Impact of rapid development and deployment of new technology on traditional research 62. Accelerating public sector research and innovation 63. Development and retention of the teachers and researchers of tomorrow

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Attachment B

Past Sessions

A list of past policy session topics is attached. Beginning with sessions conducted after June 2002, the list also includes follow-up activities on the sessions.

Past Session Topics Follow-Up Since 2002

Date Topic Rapporteur 1/88 Current Status & Future Outlook for Air, Rail, Trucking, Highway, Hoel & Urban, & Water Transportation Koltnow 6/88 Small Group Discussion of Exec. Comm. Policy Initiatives 1/89 Marine & Intermodal Transportation Hoel 6/89 Transportation Response to Problems of Air Quality Paaswell 1/90 High-Speed Ground Transportation Walton 6/90 Relationship Between Transportation & Economic Development Wolpert 1/91 The Environmental Imperative, Fuel Use, & Surface Transportation Sussman Funding 6/91 Air Passenger Transportation: Congestion Pricing for Airports Harris 1/92 Transportation Policy Research Priorities for the 1990s (USDOT Lamm Associate Administrators for Policy) 6/92 International Economic Development & U.S. Transportation Walton 1/93 U.S. & International Efforts to Assist Russia & Other Former Soviet Borrone Republics on Transportation-Related Problems 6/93 Implications of U.S. Defense Conversion for Transportation DeLong 1/94 Transportation Policy Priorities to Support a National Transportation Millar System 6/94 The "Green" Car: Technological, Institutional, & Environmental Yerusalim Issues 1/95 Intermodal Freight Transportation: Barriers, Linkages, and New Wormley Technologies 6/95 Financing Transportation in the Post-ISTEA Era Kelly 1/96 ISTEA: Impacts and Issues for Reauthorization Wachs 6/96 Cross-Border Transportation Issues Martinez 1/97 Institutional Arrangements for Transportation: Impacts of Changing Sterman Roles 6/97 Effects of the Federal Role on the U.S. Aviation System: Current Riniker Status, Prospects for & Barriers to Change TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 101 of 228

Date Topic Rapporteur 1/98 Zero-Car Households: Strategies To Improve Mobility & Fitzgerald Accessibility for the Carless 6/98 Land Use and Transportation: Relationships and Trends Gilbert 1/99 The Clean Air Act: Goals, Issues, & Impacts on Transportation Winstead 6/99 Industry Consolidation: Regulatory Issues, Cross-Modal Comparisons McCaig 1/00 Approaches to Achieving Advances in Transportation Safety Canby 6/00 Transportation Implications of E-Commerce and Telecommunications Giuliano Technology 1/01 A System Wide View of Transportation Finance Campbell 6/01 Freight Transportation in the U.S. Economy: Capacity Issues and Wilding Operating Challenges 1/02 U.S. Petroleum Dependence: Issues and Prospects for the Frosch Transportation Sector 6/02 Work Force Development and Staffing Needs in Transportation Meyer * Input into Special Report 275 - The Workforce Challenge. 1/03 Decision-Making Processes for Public Sector Transportation Kirby Investments * Developed prospectus on self initiated study – no funding secured. * Theme of Division A 2004 mid-year meeting in Park City, UT. 6/03 Transportation Security Initiatives: Balancing Public Perceptions, Rebensdorf Political Expectations, and Practical Applications * Developed two prospectuses for self-initiated studies. * Adopted as a theme for 83rd Annual Meeting. * Pursuing DHS participation in TRB. * 6/14-15/04 workshop: The Role of TRB & How Division A Can Organize to Address the Issue. 1/04 The Impact of Global Warming on Transportation Kanafani * Resulted in TRB Special Report 290: The Potential Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Transportation, which was published in March 2008. 6/04 Shifting Patterns and Growth of Global Trade: Implications for the Shucet Transportation System * Task Force is developing options for future ExComm consideration. 1/05 Innovative International Roadway Safety Initiatives McNeil * Resulted in the development of a TRB Special Report 300 released in 2010. 6/05 How Should America Pay for Transportation? Morris * Future of the fuel tax study underway. * One summer meeting session and four Annual Meeting sessions. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 102 of 228

Date Topic Rapporteur 1/06 Raising the Public Profile of Transportation Butler * TRB will continue to develop information that helps provide the foundation for answering the question of why transportation matters; however, TRB’s role is not to take on a major transportation profile- enhancement campaign. * TRB broad and proactive dissemination of the critical issues document. 6/06 20th Century Institutions Mismatched to 21st Century Missions Miller * A theme for the 2006 Technical Activities summer meeting. * A theme of the 2007 Annual Meeting and the subject of several sessions. * The subject of five future specialty conferences and workshops including “Transforming Transportation Organizations: Tools and Techniques for Organizational Development” workshop held in July 2007. 1/07 The Energy Component of Transportation Sustainability Gittens * Addressed by several sessions at the 2008 Annual Meeting. 6/07 Innovative Transportation Performance Measures Garber * The session fulfilled a request by Secretary Peters who was briefed on the discussion. 1/08 Public-Private Partnerships: With an Emphasis on Equity Rosenbloom * Article by Dr. Sandra Rosenbloom was published in the March/April 2009 issue of TR News on equity issues associated with public-private partnerships. 6/08 The Role of Transportation in Climate Change Mitigation Johns * Spotlight theme of the 2009 Annual Meeting is Transportation, Energy, and Climate Change (already selected before policy session). * Resulted in TRB Special Report 299: A Transportation Research Program for Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change and Conserving Energy, which was released in September 2009. 1/09 Key Issues in Transportation and Climate Change N/A * Provided input into the papers used to develop TRB Special Report 299: A Transportation Research Program for Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change and Conserving Energy, which was released in September 2009. 6/09 Issues and Perspectives on Water Transportation Scalzo * Marine Board now provides regular updates to the SPPR. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 103 of 228

Date Topic Rapporteur 1/10 Dialogue with the U.S. DOT Deputy Secretary * The TRB Executive Committee held a two-part dialogue with U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) senior officials on key policy issues. The sessions were designed to introduce some of the key DOT leaders to the Executive Committee and provide an opportunity for a back-and-forth discussion of the administration’s policy plans. No formal follow-up. 6/10 Definitional Issues Related to the Concept of Livability Clark 1/11 Multimodal Freight Policy, Corridor-Level Priorities, and Funding Conti Strategies * Considered as part of an SPPR review in November on the role of policy sessions in development of Special Reports and other products. 6/11 Financing and Funding Transportation in a Transitional Period Seltzer * National experts will convene in July 2012 to discuss the issues and advise TRB on how it could contribute to the discussion. 1/12 Inland Waterway Transportation: Issues, Challenges, Opportunities Hancock * April 2012 SPPR meeting recommended a policy study. Details to be presented to the Executive Committee at its June 2012 meeting. 6/12 New Information and Telecommunication Technology Applications to Sperling Transportation: Opportunities and Challenges * SPPR decided that no follow-up was warranted. 1/13 International Research Activities: Issues, Priorities, and Lessons Sinha Learned * An article for publication in the TR News is being solicited on the subject. 6/13 Energy: Transportation Fuels and Sources Hendrickson * Issues identified may be able to be incorporated into TRB’s strategic planning process. Sessions at the 93rd Annual Meeting. 1/14 Session on Aviation Issues: Challenges and Opportunities Arroyo * Reform of FAA air traffic control as a government owned, privately operated entity was added to the list of possible self-initiated policy studies. 6/14 Connected Vehicles—A Pathway to Automation Washington * In October the SPPR will review a series of potential activities that TRB might undertake as a result of this session. 1/15 Big Data Fotheringham * TR News article based on policy session being developed. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 104 of 228

Date Topic Rapporteur 6/15 The Intersection Between Urban Goods Movement, Smart Growth, Breakouts and Public Health * Spawned January 2105 Policy Session on Public Health and Transportation * Multiple 2016 workshops and sessions on urban goods movement issues addressed by the session 1/16 Advancing Public Health Through Transportation: Challenges, Breakouts Opportunities, and Lessons Learned * Input to Transportation and Public Health Task Force 6/16 Cyber Security in an Age of Transformational Technology Breakouts * Input to Transformational Technology Task Force 1/17 Climate and Extreme Weather Resilience Houston * Input for Resilience Task Force 6/17 Smart Cities and Transportation Breakouts *Input into Transformational Technology Roundtable 1/18 Public Transportation: Challenges and Opportunities Breakouts *Policy Study initiated on the role of public transportation and mobility management in an era of new and expanding shared mobility options. 6/18 Electric Vehicles Breakouts *Input for Transformational Technology Roundtable and potential 2019 Annual Meeting sessions. 1/19 Transportation’s Role in the Wellbeing of Rural Communities Breakouts *Input into the phase-two, one-day NCHRP workshop taking place on Thursday, January 17, 2019. 6/19 Distraction Breakouts *Numerous sessions at the 99th Annual Meeting addressing the role of distraction in transportation safety. 1/20 Artificial Intelligence Breube *TRB Standing Technical Committee on Intelligence and Advance Computer follow-up and development of a NCHRP problem statement on “Artificial Intelligence Opportunities for State and Local DOTs – A Research Roadmap” 8/20 Urban Air Mobility Virtual *Enhanced engagement with NRC Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences.

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December 21, 2020

MEMORANDUM TO: Members, TRB Executive Committee FROM: Sandra Larson, Chair, Centennial Task Force – on behalf of members of the Centennial Task Force SUBJECT: TRB Centennial Wrap-up Report

As you know, TRB’s 2021 Annual Meeting marks the close of TRB’s Centennial Celebration. I am honored to have been allowed the opportunity to serve as chair of the Task Force that helped guide the four year-long planning and implementation activities to commemorate the anniversary. I want to thank the other members of the task force as well as to the dozens of TRB staff and hundreds of volunteers that helped make this celebration a success.

I would also like to thank those Century Patron and Century Club members that supported the celebration through their financial contributions. On behalf of the Task Force, I am proud to report that the fundraising efforts brought in some $600,000, which resulted in the celebration being essentially a budget neutral event for TRB.

The Centennial plan that was approved by the Executive Committee in 2017 calls for the archiving of centennial information in the TRB library; however, as we come to the conclusion of the celebration, the Task Force thought it important to finish its work by highlighting potential future uses of some of the products that were produced for the celebration.

The information contained herein are suggestions. The Task Force understands that the appropriate individuals or decision making bodies within TRB would need to consider staffing and funding requirement needs before any of these suggestions could be implemented.

For additional information on many of the items highlighted in this report, you may visit the TRB Centennial website at https://trbcentennial.nationalacademies.org/.

“Tell Us ‘Our’ Story” Quotes and Videos

Background: Beginning in August 2019 and ending in December 2020, the “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story” challenge collected some 200 text and three video responses describing the value TRB’s volunteers and friends place on their participation in TRB. In addition, more than 25% of the respondents submitted a photo along with their submission.

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Responses to the questions vary from being profound or light-hearted as well as sobering or humorous. Some are very moving and have been utilized by the Task Force in marketing material for the anniversary. The photos also highlight the diversity of younger professionals within the industry.

Along with each submission, we required respondents to complete a license and release form that gives NAS/TRB the license to use quotes and photos for future undefined purposes.

Suggestions: “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story” responses should be used as a resource for future TRB marketing and promotional material as appropriate, including in the welcome session at the Annual Meeting and as part of an annual campaign to attract people into selecting transportation as a career path. In addition to archiving this information in the library, the content should be placed on a shared TRB drive for use by TRB’s communications and marketing staff. TRB should consider developing an annual “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story” effort to continue to grow this resource and keep comments fresh and new.

Century Patron and Century Club contributors lists

Background: Two key components of the Centennial fundraising efforts were contributions collected from organizations through the Century Patron program, and from individuals through the Century Club program.

Thirty Two organizations contributed as Century Patrons. The majority of these were DOTs, associations, or academic institutions. Century Patrons were recognized for their support in various locations including the book and website. Many of these organizations are already financial contributors to TRB as sponsors or affiliates. However, some are not.

More than 450 individuals contributed between $100 and $5,000 to become Century Club members. The overwhelming majority are current or past volunteers. These individuals have demonstrated a significant affinity for TRB. The Task Force believes that these contributors could be utilized to help identify the core reasons that people gave to TRB and to help developing the messaging for a longer-term philanthropic fundraising effort for TRB.

Suggestions: 1) TRB’s marketing staff should consider reviewing the list of Century Patrons and approach them to become affiliates, or Patrons or Exhibitors at the TRB Annual Meeting. 2) TRB marketing staff along with the NASEM’s Development Office should learn more about the various reasons that current and past volunteers were motivated to give to TRB and develop an individual philanthropic program based on the results of their research. 3) A similar effort could be undertaken with the Century Patrons with the goal of enhancing the Annual Meeting patron program.

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Background: Some 75 Centennial Papers were submitted and highlighted on the Centennial Website and in the E-Newsletter during the year-long celebration. The Technical Activities Council and the Centennial Task Force invited all standing committees to submit a Centennial Paper as part of the celebration. The Centennial Papers showcase TRB’s standing committees’ past accomplishments and contributions to transportation, demonstrate the committees’ current relevancy and activities, and consider the committees’ role in meeting future challenges and opportunities.

Suggestion: The Technical Activities Council should consider if and how these papers might be preserved beyond archiving them in the TRB library. Potential opportunities to explore include having them published as an E-Circular, indexed and linked to in TRID, or in some way linked to the Millenium papers that were produced by the committees in 1999. TAC may also consider opportunities/ways to linking or sharing the papers with University Transportation Centers and their students. TAC may also explore if updating of the papers should be done by committees on some kind of a regular basis.

TRB Web-Based and Print Timeline

Background: During the celebration two versions of timelines for TRB’s first one hundred years were produced. The print version was released in January 2019 as part of a brochure that was designed to excite volunteers on the upcoming centennial. The print timeline highlights approximately 20 key moments in TRB’s history. The web-based version of the timeline houses information on more than 200 milestones in TRB’s history.

Suggestions: 1) In addition to archiving the print version of the timeline in the library, the file should be placed on a shared TRB drive so that it can be accessed by TRB’s communications and marketing staff for use as appropriate. 2) TRB’s communications staff should consider moving the web-based timeline to the about section of TRB’s website. If the timeline is added to TRB’s website, the History Subcommittee should be approached to provide recommendations on identifying additional past and future events that might warrant being added to the timeline.

TR News Sept/Oct 2020 issue on the Future of Transportation

Background: As the Centennial Celebration neared its conclusion, the focus of its activities shifted to looking to the future. To coincide with this shifting emphasis, the September/October 2020 issue of the TR News featured stories that explored challenges the industry will face in the future. The issue also addressed the new roles up and coming young professionals will need to play, as well as the transformational technologies that future generations will need to adapt to. Each article had two authors and, whenever possible, a younger person was tapped for one of the two author spots.

This issue was distributed in print to TR News subscribers and in electronic format via the TRB E-Newsletter and to all TRB 100th Annual Meeting registrants. The issue is available for downloaded at http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/trnews/trnews329.pdf. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 108 of 228

Suggestion: To help celebrate TRB’s 110th anniversary, we recommend that the TR News Editorial Board consider reaching out to authors of the 2020 issue to get their reflection on their predictions of 10 years earlier and to get their updated projections for the future. Like with the 2020 issue, we would suggest that the now experienced authors be paired with younger professionals so as to continue to have fresh eyes explore these topics.

History Book

Background: The most lasting product from the Centennial Celebration is the TRB history book The Transportation Research Board, 1920-2020: Everyone Interested is Invited. The book, by Sarah Jo Peterson, tells the story of how people and institutions created and have continued to shape TRB. In a compelling narrative accompanied by more than 150 images exploring the history of transportation and research, she argues that TRB can be best understood as an infrastructure—one that people purposely designed and devotedly maintained.

Like the book that was produced for TRB’s 50th Anniversary, we expect that this will be a useful reference guide to TRB for many years to come. More than 5,500 copies of the book were distributed at the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting. It is available for purchase on the National Academy Press website in print or electronic version.

Some 3,500 print copies remain in storage in the NASEM’s Keck building. Three copies of the publication have been archived in the TRB library as well as in the National Academy of Sciences archives.

Suggestion: TRB is not incurring storage costs for the existing history books. Therefore, the Task Force suggests that TRB develop a strategic distribution plan for the history book in order to leverage its value as a marketing tool to help introduce TRB and the value of transportation research to key decision makers. Those decision makers might include: • New state DOT CEOs; • New members of the AASHTO Research and Innovation Special Committee; • New federal transportation agencies’ Associate Administrators for Research, as well as Deputy Administrators and above; • New research related officers within the . Environmental Protection Agency, . Department of Homeland Security, . Federal Emergency Management Administration, . National Transportation Safety Board, . Surface Transportation Board, . Army Corps of Engineers, and . Department of Energy; • New members and staff of the House and Senate Transportation authorization and appropriations committees; and TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 109 of 228

• New members of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicines’ Governing Board. • New members of the . TRB Executive Committee, . Marine Board; . ACRP, TCRP, and NCHRP oversight committees; and . Technical Activities Council;

TRB should also work with CUTC to ensure that all UTC libraries have copies of the book in print and electronic versions so that their students have access to the publication.

Your Future in Transportation video

Background: The Task Force, in conjunction with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, produced a short 5 minute video that focuses primarily on the future of transportation. The audience for the short video is college and graduate school students with the goal of exciting younger people into considering transportation as a career path. The video highlights the excitement, challenges, and fulfillment that those who select transportation as their career can expect to enjoy.

Released in January 2020, the video received three Telly Awards for excellence in general recruitment, craft writing, and in the general, not-for-profit category. The video was produced so that portions could be extracted from the full-length video for use on social media. It is among the most popular views on the National Academies’ You Tube channel.

Like the book, the Task Force feels that the video’s message will be timely for years to come.

Suggestion: TRB should consider developing an annual marketing and communication campaign in early August promoting transportation as a career choice and use the video and social media appropriate portions of the video as part of those campaigns. Potential partners that could participate in the annual effort might include AASHTO, AASHTO’s Research Advisory Committee, AASHTO’s Research and Innovation Special Committee, ITE, APTA, ACI, WTS, Young Members Council, National Society of Black Engineers, AASHTO TRAC/RIDES, CUTC, and the NASEM’s Board on Science Education.

History Highlights

Background: The history highlights section of the Centennial Website includes short summaries of major events in TRB’s history. The summaries are sourced from content included in the TRB history book.

Suggestion: TRB’s communications staff should consider moving the web-based timeline to the about section of TRB’s website and work with the History Subcommittee in identify additional items that could be added to the portal. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 110 of 228

Roaming Exhibit

Background: Twenty-eight meter board displays were produced and featured in the TRB exhibit booth during the 2020 Annual Meeting. Part of the Centennial Task Force’s initial plan was to reuse the panels by making them available to organizations having transportation research related meetings or conferences outside of the Washington, D.C. area. The “roaming exhibit” was successfully displayed in Louisiana and Alabama, before COVID-19 effectively ended in-person meetings for 2020.

Suggestion: Make the roaming exhibit available to organizations holding in-person events during 2021 as part of a “Centennial Plus One” campaign to help fulfill the original intent of the roaming exhibit, which was to spread the celebration outside of the Washington, D.C. area.

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Item 19 Implications of Biden Administration Priorities for TRB

Representatives of the Biden Transition Team have been invited to attend the TRB Executive Committee meeting on Tuesday, January 26th to discuss priorities for the new Administration. We felt that it would be good to set aside some time to have the Executive Committee discuss the implications of those priorities for TRB. We offer the following three questions to think about for the discussion:

• How can TRB be most responsive and helpful to the new Administration? • What issues should TRB be focusing on in response to what we heard? • What unanswered questions come out of what we heard that might lend themselves to TRB conferences, research, or policy studies? TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 112 of 228

Agenda item 21 - CRP Report to Executive Committee TRB was able to keep all four of its Cooperative Research Programs (CRP) on track to complete deliver research projects with only relatively minor delays. The improvements that had been underway as part of the CRP 2.0 process improvement initiative enabled CRP staff and volunteers to shift to a virtual environment relatively seamlessly after the mid-March COVID-19 lockdown. CRP convened 82 face to face panel meetings between January and March 2020, then held over 200 panel meetings virtually over the remainder of the year.

NCHRP – The National Cooperative Highway Research Program by the numbers:

Funded by the state departments of Transportation, NCHRP is now in its 58th year of operation. Dissemination of research findings to practitioners is a primary objective of the entire NCHRP research process. Publication of the final report or other deliverables is a key means of dissemination. This year the 2020 NCHRP Annual Report has showcased the value and impacts of its research products and implementation activities. Here are just a few examples: NCHRP Project 12-108: Guide Specification for Service Life Design of Highway Bridges was initiated to provide practical guidance to bridge owners and designers on how to include service life considerations in the planning and design of highway bridges. At the 2019 CBS Annual Meeting, the guide specification was balloted and adopted, and has recently been published as the AASHTO Guide Specification for Service Life Design of Highway Bridges, 1st Edition TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 113 of 228

NCHRP Research Report 952: Guidebook for Managing Data from Emerging Technologies for Transportation. Whether an agency is making a business case for emerging technology data, or is planning to use or integrate emerging technology data with traditional transportation data, the steps and guidance outlined in this report are designed to walk them through the necessary data management policies and practices to fully meet the needs of emerging technology data. NCHRP Project 20-44(13): Implementation of NCHRP Research Report 893: The Oregon DOT Statewide Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan was based on the results of NCHRP Research Report 893: Systemic Pedestrian Safety Analysis, published in 2018. Beyond implementing NCHRP Research Report 893 within the ODOT context, the project is producing a final report that will help other state and local agencies use and apply the methodology, and document opportunities, challenges, and gaps encountered with implementing the NCHRP Research Report 893 process. NCHRP Synthesis 556: Asset Management Approaches to Identifying and Evaluating Assets Damaged Due to Emergency Events was published in 2020. The information in this report can be used by state DOTs and their partners to improve their ongoing efforts to collect data on damaged sites and find value in that data by using it to improve investment decisions. NCHRP Implementation Support Program To facilitate the implementation of NCHRP research products by state DOTs and others, R&I has made consultant support available through NCHRP Project 20-44: “NCHRP Implementation Support Program.” State DOTs, AASHTO committees and councils, and NCHRP project panels can apply for funding for consultant support in delivering a range of implementation products and activities, including pilot/demonstration projects, workshops, peer exchanges, training, and briefing materials. In FY 2020, the NCHRP Project 20-44 oversight panel approved 10 implementation projects, totaling over $2 million. While NCHRP initiates about 50 new research projects each year, NCHRP also funds a number of ongoing activities to support the transportation community and its sponsors. These include:

• NCHRP Project 20-05 – Synthesis of Information Related to Highway Problems • NCHRP Project 20-123 – Support for AASHTO Committees and Councils • NCHRP Project 20-30 – IDEA Program • NCHRP Project 20-06 – Legal Problems Arising Out of Highway Programs • NCHRP Project 20-24 – Research for AASHTO and State DOT Leadership TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 114 of 228

• NCHRP Project 20-68 – Domestic Scan Program

TCRP – Transit Cooperative Research Program 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. Problem statements that describe problems in the industry are solicited annually by TCRP staff, but they may be submitted to TRB by anyone at any time. Approxi- mately 3,099 research problem statements have been submitted since program inception. In FY 2020, TCRP produced 22 publications, including 11 research reports, 8 syntheses, 1 legal research digest, and 1 web-only document bringing the total to more than 720 publications since the inception of the program. These publications are all available at http://www.trb.org/Publications/PubsTCRPPublications.aspx. The following TCRP publications of particular interest were completed during the year. TCRP Research Report 215: Minutes Matter: A Bus Transit Service Reliability Guidebook details eight steps that a transit agency can undertake to develop and maintain a reliability improvement program. It provides a comprehensive assessment of fixed-route bus service reliability. TCRP Research Report 214: Equity Analysis in Regional Transportation Planning Processes, Volume 1: Guide documents a five-step equity analysis framework for regional transportation plans and programs. TCRP Research Report 213: Data Sharing Guidance for Public Transit Agencies— Now and in the Future presents the results of a quick study that provides practical guidance for transit agencies to maximize the value of their data and to access external data sets that can help them serve their communities and operate efficiently. TCRP Legal Research Digest 55: Tax Increment Financing for Transit Projects is a public financing method that some local governments and transportation agencies may use to capture a portion of additional property (or sales) tax revenues that result when public investments cause property values or total sales revenues to increase. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 115 of 228

TCRP Synthesis 147: Attracting, Retaining, and Advancing Women in Transit presents an analysis on the state of the practice, emphasizing lessons learned, current practices, challenges, and gaps in information. Research in Action This new series features case studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of TCRP research in practice. Three examples were published in 2020:

• Developing a Precision-Driven Asset Management Program • Understanding Direct-Fixation Track Design Requirements and Challenges • Managing Bus Passenger No-Show Policies in Rural Kansas

Along with its regular research reports, TCRP has several ongoing program activities, including the Synthesis of Practice, Legal Research Digests, and the Transit IDEA – Ideas Deserving Exploratory Analysis – program.

Further dissemination of the research reports and support products is carried out according to the Dissemination Plan developed by APTA under TCRP Project J-1, “Dissemination and Implementation of TCRP Research Findings.” The purpose of Project J-1 is to ensure that TCRP products reach the appropriate transit industry audience.

Under TCRP Project J-1, a TCRP Ambassador Program has been established with the assistance of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO) to create a network of geographically distributed transit professionals who are briefed on TCRP products and who represent TCRP at transit agencies and at national, state, and regional conferences.

ACRP – Airport Cooperative Research Program Throughout 2020, ACRP continued to adapt and evolve while the world faced an unprecedented health crisis. ACRP continued to grow its research product library and expand and update its dissemination initiatives. This year featured several new accomplishments and built on past successes with a redesigned Champion program and portal, Insight Events, and virtual workshops. ACRP published 36 research products (reports, digests, syntheses, web-only documents, and WebResources) this year, covering a wide range of topics relevant to airports that included airport diversity with business contracts and workforce, impacts from temporary flight restrictions, ground vehicle technologies that may have applicability on the airfield, the impact on revenue from TNCs, and much more. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 116 of 228

The most frequently viewed or read online products cover topics such as terminal planning, improving intelligibility of public address systems, and quarantine facilities for arriving air travelers, as shown in the chart below.

To address the ever-evolving issues the aviation industry must navigate, ACRP launched the Insight Event series in 2018 to bring together subject-matter experts and industry practitioners to share their experiences and best practices in a collaborative, innovative setting, or to begin conversations when there isn’t yet enough data for quickly evolving topics. To comply with social distancing practices and safety protocols, ACRP convened its first ever virtual Insight Event – Flight Plan to Recovery: Preparing Airports and Their Business Partners for the Return of the Flying Public in May 2020. This Insight Event presented strategies and case studies in public health, safety, operations, and financial stability to prepare airports for operating in the age of COVID-19. ACRP convened another virtual Insight Event: Introduction to Blockchain and Airport Operations in a COVID-19 Environment, in August. Planning has begun for an Insight Event that will be held in 2021 on Systemic Racism to talk about what airports can do to be a part of the solution. ACRP’s Impacts on Practice (IOP) series provides case studies on how industry practitioners have applied ACRP research results to assist with their work. Airport practitioners across the country have utilized ACRP publications to help improve airport administrative practices, develop safer and more effective operational procedures, and increase performance efficiency. IOPs published in 2020 included:

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• ACRP in the Classroom: Reimagining the Textbook at the University of North Dakota Department of Aviation • Ensuring Safe Paramotor Operations at Emmet Municipal Airport

BTSCRP – Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program The BTSCRP is a forum for coordinated and collaborative research to address issues integral to the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and traffic safety professionals at all levels of government and the private sector. BTSCRP provides practical, ready- to-implement solutions to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce costs of road traffic crashes associated with unsafe behaviors. Now in its third full year of operation, BTSCRP has 19 active and pending projects. New projects selected in 2020 are as follows:

• BTS-16: Developing On-Road Driver Skills Test and Scoring Guidance For Measuring and Predicting High Safety Risk Teen Drivers • BTS-17: Is Combined High Visibility Enforcement (HVE) Effective? • BTS-18: Understanding the Effectiveness of Public Awareness Educational Campaigns • BTS-19: Moped and Motor Scooter (50 Cc Or Less) Safety: Issues and Countermeasures

Other CRP research support activities:

In 2020 CRP completed a study for the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators titled Trends Affecting the DMV of the Future.

CRP continues to support the Federal Highway Administration with laboratory evaluations and project management for the Office of Research, Development and Technology.

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January 2021 Report of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Special Committee

• Committee active for three years • Meet at AM, have had quarterly conference calls • Chaired by Carol Lewis, members include: Kimberly Webb Gloria Bender Andrew Braham Tanisha Hall Susan Hanson Chris Hendrickson Natalie Stiffler Hyun-A Park • TRB staff: Karen Febey and Neil Pedersen

Strategies 2-3 Strategy 2: Engage with other Strategy 3: Find new ways for transportation orgs to AM and specialty conference increase their members’ attendees to make awareness of and connections and feel participation in TRB. included/welcome. • Continuing to address items • Expanded interest of in COMTO MOU, including mentoring initiatives from possible joint reception at standing committees and next year’s Annual Meeting. YMC. • Working with NASEM-wide • Hosting gvt’ career panel DE&I group to develop with EPA, FHWA, & DOE staff institution-wide strategies to for Minority Student Fellows engage with wider array of and FHWA Eisenhower Fellows orgs for volunteers. (from its MSI awardees)

Strategies 4-5 Strategy 4: Identify resources for Strategy 5: Identify and TRB staff and contracting office minimize barriers to achieving to identify and minimize barriers greater TRB staff diversity. to greater diversity among TRB • TRB staff contributed to 4 contractors. working groups to • In collaboration with the recommend improved Contracting Equity NASEM-wide practices and Committee, developing policies (esp those that resources to aid smaller and intersect with DE&I). minority-owned firms. • 2 NASEM-wide diversity • Exploring a DBE Initiative to specialists being hired to encourage participation in support consistent I&D TRB proposals, projects, and policies across the contracts by firms 51% or institution. more minority- or women- owned. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 120 of 228

Strategies 6-7 Strategy 6: Ensure that DE&I Strategy 7: Improve existing equity, are addressed in TRB work. data, information, and • TR News (May/June 2021) communication mechanisms theme issue on I&D in to support all strategies. transportation profession. • Extensive outreach and • Annual Meeting: curated content (e.g., blogs and program on equity, Dorval podcast series) by Carter lecture. Communications staff. • 3 DE&I-related webinars. • TRB Div-Comm continues • ACRP systemic racism at detailed collection and airports workshop and report. monitoring of racial/ethnic • Equity and COVID-19 Critical and gender composition of Issues addenda. its volunteers. • Advancing Transportation Equity conference- Fall 2021.

Priorities Moving Forward

• Continue contributions to other diversity initiatives around the National Academies. • Wrapping up TR News theme issue (due out in May/June 2021) on diversity and inclusion in transportation field. • Through TRB’s MOU with COMTO, working on engagement efforts at each other’s Annual Meetings in 2021/2022. • Resources for program officers to identify diverse committee members. • Continued efforts at broad array of communication about opportunities for TRB involvement.

• Next update at Executive Committee Summer 2022 meeting. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 121 of 228

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) Strategic Plan Update Transportation Research Board

Background TRB’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiative’s mission of creating and fostering an inclusive environment that leads to increased diversity and equitable outcomes for all participants is a top priority for TRB. The TRB DE&I Strategic Plan provides a roadmap for building such an environment at all levels of the organization. Successful implementation of the strategies and actions in the plan requires coordination across the entire organization, including volunteers, contractors, and staff. TRB management will hone each strategy, identify priorities, and assign action items to appropriate staff MOU and committee/panels. TRB’s Special Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will monitor progress on the plan’s strategies and will report to the TRB Division Committee and the Executive Committee.

The Executive Committee approved the TRB Inclusion and Diversity Strategic Plan at its January 2018 meeting and the Special Committee on Inclusion and Diversity was subsequently formed. In fall 2020, the special committee recommended that “equity” be added to its name and to several of the strategies in the plan to better respond to social justice reforms throughout the country. The committee wants to reflect that we as transportation professionals must attend to equity issues in order to identify and eliminate barriers to full and active participation in TRB, and development of volunteer leaders from underrepresented groups. The committee therefore recommended that revisions be made to the strategic plan, including the strategies. The SPPR approved the revisions to the plan on behalf of the Executive Committee at its November 2020 meeting (a copy of the revised plan and of the marked up version of the revised plan is attached).

The Special Committee meets at the Annual Meeting and holds quarterly conference calls to review and propose action items. The chair is Carol Lewis, Texas Southern University, and members are as follows: • Gloria Bender, TransSolutions LLC • Andrew Braham, University of Arkansas • Tanisha Hall, Fairpointe Planning, LLC • Susan Hanson, Clark University (emerita): member of Executive Committee and SPPR • Chris Hendrickson, Carnegie Mellon University: member of Executive Committee, SPPR, and Chair of the TRB Division Committee • Hyun-A Park, Spy Pond Partners, LLC: Chair of TAC • Natalie Stiffler, City of Boulder • Kimberly Webb, Michigan Department of Transportation

Karen Febey is staff to the committee. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 122 of 228

Working Definitions To guide its work, the committee agreed on the following definitions:

Diversity is defined as the variety of experiences, cultures, and physical attributes that influence interactions within a community including, but not limited to, race, language, sexual orientation, age, culture, socioeconomic status, gender, religion, perspective, ability, and experience.

Inclusion means that all individuals and groups are welcomed, valued, respected, and supported equally as they contribute to the mission and success of a community.

Equity is the process of ensuring that individuals, especially those from traditionally marginalized groups, have equal access to opportunities to advance, contribute, and develop in a group, organization, or function. Achieving equity involves dismantling the barriers that have prevented equality of access to opportunity, participation, and outcomes for members of disadvantaged groups.

Updates on Strategies and Associated Action Items The following are the seven strategies and associated actions that have been accomplished or are underway in TRB:

Strategy 1 Identify practices and develop primers for committee and panel chairs, and TRB staff that ensure equitable opportunities for all, and highlight strategies and resources used to recruit, welcome and actively involve a more diverse committee and panel membership. • TRB continues to contribute to NASEM efforts to compile databases of diverse volunteers, available to NASEM staff (e.g., alums of NASEM fellowship programs, former report reviewers from across NASEM, and past participants of NASEM conferences). • This fall, NCHRP staff and other attendees at the AASHTO Research and Innovation (R&I) meeting discussed strategies to recruit more panel members who are African American, Hispanic, or Native American from state DOTs. The NCHRP manager and R&I leaders are considering implementation of the proposed strategies. • The Technical Activities Council has approved the addition of a Blue Ribbon Committee Award category focused on diversity. The award will recognize committees that improve the diversity of their membership and identify successful practices used by these committees so that they can be shared with other committees.

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Strategy 2 Engage with transportation-related organizations and other appropriate organizations that serve women and members of minority groups that are underrepresented in TRB to increase their members’ awareness of and participation in TRB. • Continuing to address items in the TRB-COMTO MOU, including participating in each other’s annual meetings, providing content for each other’s newsletters, and drawing on COMTO’s membership as a source of TRB volunteers. • TRB is contributing to NASEM-wide efforts to expand its volunteer and participant base through expanded outreach to organizations already in its network and to organizations it hasn’t previously worked with. • When looking for potential panel members, CRP staff continue to use its list of 85+ organizations that represent those from diverse populations.

Strategy 3 Find new ways for Annual Meeting and specialty conference attendees to engage in a way that creates openings for everyone to have equal opportunities to make connections and feel included, welcomed, and able to participate. • EPA, DOE, and FHWA staff are panelists on a Federal Government Career Panel during the Annual Meeting for Minority Student Fellows and students on Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program who attend Minority-Serving Institutions. • Some standing committees and YMC are working on mentoring initiatives for students and young professionals who are members and friends of their committees. • TAD is offering guidance to Standing Technical Committee Chairs about how to create a more welcoming environment for new attendees at committee meetings. Staff are also working with their chairs to learn to use Zoom features (e.g., breakout rooms) which are another way to get people engaged.

Strategy 4 Identify practices/and develop primers for TRB staff and the contracting office to identify and minimize barriers to achieving greater diversity among TRB contractors and their lead staff, whether they are suppliers or research consultants. • Working with Contracting Equity Committee to develop resources and/or webinars to aid smaller and minority-owned firms that respond to RFPs. • TRB’s Director of Strategic Program Development is exploring a DBE Initiative to encourage participation in TRB proposals, projects, and awarded contracts by firms that are 51% or more owned by African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asian-Pacific and Subcontinent Asian Americans, and women.

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Strategy 5 Identify and minimize barriers to achieving greater TRB staff diversity. • Based on low scores on the NASEM staff survey, TRB staff participated in 4 work groups (Efficiency and Effectiveness, Innovation and Development, Teamwork and Collaboration, and Performance and Recognition) that proposed efforts to improve in these areas (all of which intersect with DE&I issues). • Since 2015, the percentage of those who identify as black/African American has increased from 15% to 23.5%. • Two diversity specialists are being hired in the National Academies’ Human Resource Office to support to develop I&D training and ensure consistent I&D policies across NASEM.

Strategy 6 Ensure that technical activities and research projects address diversity, equity, and inclusion. • The Special Committee has completed all article drafts for its May/June 2021 TR News theme issue on diversity and inclusion in the transportation profession. Articles are undergoing peer review. • TRB’s “Critical Issues in Transportation 2019” addenda includes an addendum on Equity and one on COVID-19. • The Annual Meeting has special topic curated programs that include Equity in Transportation Session and COVID-19 Sessions. • Dorval Carter, President of Chicago Transit Authority, will give the 2021 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture at the Annual Meeting. Mr. Carter, the first African American recipient of this lectureship, will speak about equity and transportation. Former USDOT Secretary Anthony Foxx will join him for a discussion after the lecture. • TRB’s webinar solicitation form now says: “TRB seeks webinars that include multiple perspectives. Therefore, suggestions featuring persons of color, women, young professionals, and a wide geographical representation are favored.” TRB staff, in collaboration with associated groups, hosted the following webinars in the previous 6 months: o Human Trafficking and Mobility of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (Native American Transportation Issues Standing Committee) o How Women Fare in the Transit Industry (TCRP) o Advancing Transportation Equity (Equity in Transportation Standing Committee) o Balancing the Scales - Equity Analysis in Transportation Planning (TCRP and COMTO) • ACRP is working on a future insight series and subsequent conference proceedings report about systemic racism issues at airports. • TAD’s workshop circular, 6th International Conference on Women’s Issues in Transportation: Insights, Inclusion, and Impact: Framing the Future for TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 125 of 228

Women in Transportation, was just publicly released: http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/181597.aspx. • Transportation Research Record (TRR) staff have worked on the following: o An open-access compendium of TRR papers by Minority Student Fellows. o An equity-related section in the open-access COVID-19 special issue covering the impact of the virus on transport in low-income countries. • The Standing Committee on Equity in Transportation is planning the Advancing Transportation Equity Conference for fall 2021.

Strategy 7 Improve existing data, information, and communication mechanisms to support all strategies. • TRB Division Committee collects and monitors racial/ethnic and gender data for panel members of all the CRPs, members of consensus committees, planning committee members of conferences that result in conference proceedings, and members and friends of TAD standing committees. • TRB communications staff continue to highlight DE&I through efforts such as articles on its blog about equitable vaccine allocation, engagement of transportation’s next generation, and transportation equity; in its new podcast series, Transportation Explorers, that showcases diversity of transportation movers and shakers; and through its social media posts which highlight diversity across all modes. o TRB’s blog series on equity included the following topics: Steps for Transportation Workforce Diversity in TRB’s Research, Making Travel More Equitable for People with Disabilities, and Building Socioeconomic Equity through Transportation Research. • TRB communications staff works to ensure that a regular flow of content is included on the National Academies special landing page on the website devoted to diversity, equity, and inclusion. • Data have been collected and analyzed on organizations’ responses to how they will address a diverse and inclusive approach to their research. (See the Division Committee report.)

Moving Forward The Special Committee will continue to monitor action items in progress and those planned, while considering other action items that may be feasible. Its work intersects with existing inclusion and diversity work both in TRB and throughout the Academies: The TRB Division Committee continues to monitor involvement of women and minorities on TRB panels and committees. TAD has been focusing on increasing diversity of its committee members and chairs during the rotation process. In addition, its Advancing Equity in Transportation will showcase a range of equity research and issues as related to transportation. CRP continues to identify new organizations to publicize panel member opportunities and carefully review panel composition before going to the Division Committee for approval. In addition, TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 126 of 228

CRP and RAC leaders will be moving forward with new strategies to increase diversity of state DOT panel members. The Communications staff continues to find new and innovative means of highlighting a diverse array of transportation professionals, issues, and research through TRB’s blog, social media, webinars, and website.

The TRB staff officer for the Special Committee is on a steering committee that is developing an Academies-wide Inclusion and Diversity plan and is working to ensure implementation of I&D action items from the Academies-wide group and the transformation effort. The Executive Committee will receive another update at its June 2021 meeting. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 127 of 228

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategic Plan Transportation Research Board

Policy The Transportation Research Board recognizes that an inclusive, diverse, and equitable organization is fundamental to fulfilling The National Academy of Sciences Congressional Charter and the TRB Vision and Mission. An inclusive and diverse environment enhances innovation and creativity in all areas of TRB and is essential for cultivating an equitable, just, and supportive atmosphere.

TRB aims to engage a pool of transportation stakeholders that is representative of the diverse transportation workforce and of the greater population that TRB serves and the users of the transportation system. In valuing this diversity, TRB is committed to fostering a culture that welcomes and values all perspectives. TRB will leverage diversity of thought, background, and perspective and will identify and eliminate barriers to full and active participation, and development of volunteer leaders. Removal of such barriers involves identifying imbalances in opportunity and then creating processes, avenues, and circumstances that allow for equal access to all opportunities.

Definitions Diversity is defined as the variety of experiences, cultures, and physical attributes that influence interactions within a community including, but not limited to, race, language, sexual orientation, age, culture, socioeconomic status, gender, religion, perspective, ability, and experience.

Inclusion means that all individuals and groups are welcomed, valued, respected, and supported equally as they contribute to the mission and success of a community. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 128 of 228

Achieving equity involves dismantling the barriers that have prevented equality of access to opportunity, participation, and outcomes for members of disadvantaged groups.

Strategies

Strategy 1: Identify practices and develop primers for committee and panel chairs, and TRB staff that ensure equitable opportunities for all, and highlight strategies and resources used to recruit, welcome and actively involve a more diverse committee and panel membership.

Strategy 2: Engage with transportation-related organizations and other appropriate organizations that serve women and members of minority groups that are underrepresented in TRB to increase their members’ awareness of and participation in TRB.

Strategy 3: Find new ways for Annual Meeting and specialty conference attendees to engage in a way that creates openings for everyone to have equal opportunities to make connections and feel included, welcomed, and able to participate.

Strategy 4. Identify practices/and develop primers for TRB staff and the contracting office to identify and minimize barriers to achieving greater diversity among TRB contractors and their lead staff, whether they are suppliers or research consultants.

Strategy 5. Identify and minimize barriers to achieving greater TRB staff diversity.

Strategy 6. Ensure that technical activities and research projects address diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Strategy 7. Improve data, information, and communication mechanisms to support all strategies. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 129 of 228

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Update on TRB Minority Student Fellows Program

The TRB Minority Student Fellows Program, now in its twelfth year, promotes minority participation in transportation and TRB. This year, the program welcomes 25 students from 17 institutions. The program supports students from historically black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, American Indian/Alaska Native-serving institutions, and a Native American Pacific Islander- serving institution to present their research at the TRB Annual Meeting. Each institution also designates a faculty mentor to oversee each student’s research.

The participating institutions are California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; California State University, Long Beach; California State University, Los Angeles; City College of New York; Florida A&M University; Florida International University; Morgan State University; North Carolina A&T University; North Central Carolina University; Northern Arizona University; Prairie View A&M University; Tennessee State University; Texas Southern University; University of Arizona; University of Hawai’i at Mānoa; University of New Mexico; and University of Texas at El Paso.

This year’s cohort of 25 students represent a great variety of transportation disciplines and include both undergraduate and graduate students. Students come from not only civil engineering and planning, but also from construction engineering, global and national security, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, business administration, and environmental and geographic sciences.

The largest source of program funding for the students has come from FHWA’s Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program. Other key sources of funding are from organizations that have earmarked money for students at particular schools: Arizona Department of Transportation; Center for Transportation Infrastructure Systems at the University of Texas at El Paso; Michigan Department of Transportation; North Carolina Department of Transportation; North Central Texas Council of Governments; and Tennessee Department of Transportation. Use of these funds will resume for the 2021/2022 cohort. The final source of funding is individual contributions—some made throughout the year but most from individual registrants to the Annual Meeting who donate when registered. Executive Committee members have contributed to the program this way, and their donations are greatly appreciated. Donations from this year’s registration will be applied to students in the 2021/2022 cohort.

The fellows’ first activity was an orientation in November when they learned about TRB and the Annual Meeting format from TRB staff and committee chairs. In January, there are a number of special events planned for them including a welcome reception, a FHWA/DOE/EPA career panel, and a closing networking event. Throughout the month, in addition to attending research presentations, TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 132 of 228

fellows will also be attending committee meetings, the Careers in Motion Career Fair, Young Members Council sessions, and Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program presentations.

Moving forward to the 2022 Annual Meeting, a number of changes are being considered. First, instead of all fellows presenting in separate sessions, they may have their own session during which they all present together. Second, there will be new networking and introductory sessions on Sunday of the Annual Meeting, and other programming during the rest of the week. And third, fellows will be required to become a friend of a standing committee and attend the committee’s yearly meeting. After additional consultation with participating schools and TRB staff, finalized changes will be announced at the summer Executive Committee meeting.

Please take a look at fellows’ research presentations—either during the time that you can live chat with them or at any point during the month. They look forward to any feedback. Details about the students and their presentations are as follows:

Luis Abreu is a senior at the City College of New York studying civil engineering. His paper is titled “A Qualitative Assessment of the Multimodal Passenger Transportation System Response to COVID-19 in New York City.” Poster Session 1369: Thursday, January 28 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM ET

Joseph Abujana is a master’s student at Morgan State University majoring in transportation systems engineering. His paper is titled “Drivers’ Reaction to Connected and Automated Vehicle Safety Applications in the Vicinity of a Work Zone: A Driving Simulator Study.” Poster Session 1268: Wednesday, January 27 10:00 AM- 11:30 AM ET

Chappelle Branch is a senior at Morgan State University studying transportation systems engineering. His paper is titled “Multi-Modal Traffic Flow in Shared Bus- Bike Lanes: A Scoping Literature Review in 1 Comparison with Baltimore SBBL Infrastructure.” Poster Session 1393: Thursday, January 28 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM ET

Jacqueline Camacho is a senior at California State University, Long Beach majoring in civil engineering. Her paper is titled “Benefit-Cost Analysis to Fund Railroad Grade Separation Projects.” Poster Session 1459: Friday, January 29 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM ET

Laura Camarena is a master’s student at the University of Texas at El Paso studying civil engineering. Her paper is titled “Using Artificial Intelligence to Estimate Nonlinear Resilient Modulus Parameters from Common Index Properties.” Poster Session 1365: Thursday, January 28 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM ET TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 133 of 228

Morgan Chatmon is master’s student at Tennessee State University majoring in civil engineering. Her paper is titled “The Impact of COVID-19 on Traffic Crash trends in Tennessee.” Poster Session 1304: Wednesday, January 27 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET

Braxton Chong is a senior at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa majoring in construction engineering. His paper is titled “Analysis of Speed Profiles of Near- Misses from On-Board Cameras in Taxicabs.” Poster Session 1202: Tuesday, January 26 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM ET

Edward Clay is a senior at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona studying civil engineering. His paper is titled “Exploration of COVID-19’s Impact on Freeway 1 Traffic Volume Using Distinct Bayesian Hierarchical Temporal Models.” Poster Session 1369: Thursday, January 28 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM ET

David Corona is a senior at California State University, Los Angeles studying civil engineering. His paper is titled “Life-Cycle Assessment and Cost Analysis of Using Intelligent Compaction for Construction of Asphalt Pavement Layers.” Poster Session 1105: Monday, January 25 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM ET

Austin Dikas is a senior at Prairie View A&M University majoring in electrical engineering. His paper is titled “Modern Public Infrastructure Development Needs and Evaluation.” Poster Session 1353: Thursday, January 28 10:00 AM- 11:30 AM ET

Lincoln Edwards is a master’s student at the University of Arizona studying urban planning. His paper is titled “Learning from Black Pedestrian Experiences in Portland, Oregon.” - Poster Session 1153: Tuesday, January 26 10:00 AM- 11:30 AM ET - Lectern Session 1123: Panel on Arrested Mobility: Exploring the Impacts of Over-policing (i.e., policy, police and polity) BIPOC Mobility in the US Monday, January 25 4:00 PM- 5:30 PM ET

Brandon Graham is a senior at Florida A&M University majoring in electrical engineering technology. His paper is titled “Design of “Smart Car Seat” to Prevent Heat Related Deaths of Children Left Alone Inside Cars.” Poster Session 1394: Thursday, January 28 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET

Isabel Gutierrez is a senior at North Carolina Central University majoring in environmental and geographical sciences. Her paper is titled “A Comparison of Travel-Time Distance Calculation Versus Euclidean Distance Calculations as Applied in The Study of Food Deserts.” Poster Session 1136: Monday, January 25 4:00 PM- 5:30 PM ET

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Emmanuel James is a master’s student at Northern Arizona University studying civil engineering. His paper is titled “Analysis of Factors Affecting Pedestrian Crash Frequency Considering Demographic, Land Use, and Roadway Characteristics.” Poster Session 1099: Monday, January 25 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM ET

Darrell Johnson is a senior at Tennessee State University majoring in civil engineering. His paper is titled “Prediction Model for Paint Pavement Marking Retroreflectivity Deterioration Rate.” Poster Session 1294: Wednesday, January 27 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM ET

Benson Long is a senior at the University of New Mexico studying civil engineering. His paper is titled “Spatial Equity Analysis of Nighttime Pedestrian Safety: The Role of Land Use and Alcohol Establishments”. Poster Session 1099: Monday, January 25 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM ET

Helena Mascorro is a master’s student at the University of Texas at El Paso studying civil engineering. Her paper is titled “Assessment of Moisture Damage of Asphalt Concrete Mixtures Using Performance Tests.” Poster Session 1222: Tuesday, January 26 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET

Joshua Murillo is a junior at the University of New Mexico studying global and national security. His paper is titled “5th Generation Low-cost Efficient Wireless Intelligent Sensors (LEWIS 5) for Transportation.” Poster Session 1298: Wednesday, January 27 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM ET

Roodson Pierre is a senior at Florida A&M University majoring in construction engineering. His paper is titled “Investigating Changes in Florida Traffic Crash Trends Due to COVID-19 Pandemic.” Poster Session 1295: Wednesday, January 27 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM ET

Amy Romeo-Garcia is a senior at Florida International University studying civil engineering. Her paper is titled “Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Traffic Crashes in Florida.” Poster Session 1304: Wednesday, January 27 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET

Selena Scott is a master’s student at Texas Southern University studying transportation planning and management. Her paper is titled “Transportation Network Systems (TNCs) and Automated Vehicles (AVs): Bridging the Gap from City to Rural Areas.” Poster Session 1233: Tuesday, January 26 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET

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Patrick Stanley is an MBA student at North Carolina A&T University majoring in supply chain management. His paper is titled “Hours of Service, Safety, and Supply Chain Management.” Poster Session 1339: Wednesday, January 27 4:00 PM- 5:30 PM ET

Micah Tang is a master’s student at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa majoring in civil engineering. His paper is titled “Bikeshare System Accessibility: Opportunities for Tourism in Honolulu.” Poster Session 1396: Thursday, January 28 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET

Allun Ward is a senior at Prairie View A&M University majoring in mechanical engineering. His paper is titled “An Overview of Data Collection Best Practices: Personal Mobility Gaps, Root Causes, and Solutions, for Older Americans Living in Rural Areas.” Poster Session 1233: Tuesday, January 26 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET

Kamal Windom is a senior at Prairie View A&M University majoring in electrical engineering. His paper is titled “Analysis of Advanced Driver Systems for Lane Keeping Aids.” Poster Session 1168: Tuesday, January 26 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM ET

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Young Members Coordinating Council Report, January 2021

In its eleventh year, the Young Members Coordinating Council (YMCC) has continued to develop and promote opportunities for involvement, resources, connections, and representation in all levels of TRB.

This year involved some changes following the Strategic Alignment effort of the Technical Activities Division, and the implications regarding Coordinating Councils overall and Group level subcommittees focusing on young members.

Organization Following the Strategic Alignment effort, YMCC continues to have representation from most TAC Groups, although, the level of participation varies. Some newly established Group level subcommittees are underway and others are under consideration.

Nikola Ivanov continues to serve as YMCC Chair through April 14, 2021. Eleftheria (Ria) Kontou has been approved to serve as incoming Chair, effective April 15, 2021.

Efforts to promote and maintain an effective level of young member activity include: • Documenting key points for YMCC and its Subcommittees to share with Group and Section leadership • Mentoring Programs organized at the Group Subcommittee level • Exploring strategies and platforms to help foster effective communication with young members and friends

YMCC Representation at TAC and TRB Executive Committee The YMCC Chair continues to serve as an active member of TAC and ex officio member of the Executive Committee. This action has helped establish young member representation at all levels and spheres of TRB, offering the opportunity to share young member input and to communicate directly back to young members with relevant information.

2021 Annual Meeting Activities While the necessary move to a virtual platform for the 2021 has imposed some limitations on formats and the overall number of events, young members continue to be actively engaged in several program elements, including: • Careers in Motion Networking Fair • The Six-Minute Pitch: A Transportation Startup Challenge • Meetings of Young Members Coordinating Council and the following Group-level Young Member Subcommittees: Aviation, Freight Systems/Marine, Policy and Organization, Public Transportation, Safety and Operations, Transportation Infrastructure • Young Member Subcommittee organized/co-sponsored workshops/sessions: Concrete Strategies for Career Development: A Discussion of Young Professional Opportunities in Concrete and Construction; The Power of Data: Using Data for Airport Design, Operations and Traveler Quality of Life; Impacts of a Pandemic on Aviation Policy • A number of Young Member Subcommittees continue to have active mentorship programs. These programs match young members with experienced professionals for annual meeting and/or career advice and guidance. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 137 of 228

Executive Committee (E0004) Subcommittee on International Activities Chair, Nathaniel P. Ford, Jacksonville Transportation Authority

Report

January 2021

SAMPLE OF COVID-19 IMPACTS ON TRB INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES WITH EXTERNAL PARTNERS • CANCELLED: Transport Research Arena (TRA2020) Helsinki, Finland, April 27-30, 2020. o Sessions held virtually over the summer. Neil Pedersen participated in virtual session on “Industrializing Innovation.” He was originally scheduled to be an in person speaker. • RESCHEDULED: International Transport Forum (ITF) Annual Summit 2020, Leipzig, Germany, May 26-282021. o TRB, ITF, and European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI) organized a workshop on Transport Innovation for Sustainable Development for the ITF Pre-Summit Research Day. This event will be held on May 25, 2021. • POSTPONED: Grand Rendezvous on Robomobility, Paris, France, April 2020. New dates are in May 2021. o TRB staff from the Consensus and Advisory Studies Division were invited to speak at this event. • POSTPONED: PANAM 2020: XXI Conference on Pan-American Transport Research, Lima, Peru. o New LOI with the Pan-American Society on Transport Research (PANAMSTR). Waiting to hear about rescheduling of the event. • CANCELLED: 27th ITS World Congress in Los Angeles, CA, October 4-8, 2020 o TRB volunteers planned sessions and were invited speakers

UPDATE OF TRB INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES IN 2020 – COVID-19 HAS NOT PREVENTED TRB COLLABORATION

Technical Activities Division: • Gauging international attendance and paper submission to the TRB 2021 Annual Meeting • Reinitiating the European Union – United States Transportation Research Symposium as an event for in-person and virtual participation options. Theme is Lessons from Responding to and Recovering from Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) o COVID-19 impacts will last longer than a normal 18 month duration. We postponed this event to late 2021 in the hope that more transparent and accurate lessons can be shared • International Coordination Council (A0020C) has been established – o Co-Chairs, Christos Xenophontos, RI DOT, and Caroline Almeras, ECTRI o Drafted a Strategic Plan to share with ICC members during its meeting on January 6, 2021 at 10:00 am – Noon Eastern. Meeting was open to all attendees. o Developing a committee contact list for the ICC to invite committees to voluntarily engage on international aspects of TRB Critical and Emerging Transportation Issues. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 138 of 228

o Invited 13 people to serve as members and 17 people to serve as Liaisons to the ICC o Annual Meeting events organized by ICC include: . ICC Meeting on January 6, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm . International Involvement through TRB Standing Committee Activities (Open House and Social Event) on January 15, 8:00 am – 9:30 am . Open Science Workshop on Thursday, January 21, 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm (important global topic which the ICC will continue to address in 2021) . Lectern Session entitled Impacts of COVID-19 on Decarbonization of Transportation on Monday, January 25, 10:00 am – 11:30 am • Co-Sponsored the CHTS Mobility Management (Virtual) Meeting (MMM Webinar), August 26-27, 2020 o International Coordination Council was the lead co-sponsoring TAD entity. o Standing Committee on Innovative Public Transportation Services and Technologies (AP020) participated in planning the agenda. o Successful – three additional, subsequent MMM Webinars we head in partnership with COTA, CATS, PIARC, ECTRI, and IRF in Geneva o Neil Pedersen, Susan Shaheen, and Christos Xenophontos all participated on behalf of TRB.

Executive Office MOU and Letters of Intent: • World Road Association (PIARC) o TRB volunteer Dr. Rafael Diaz of Old Dominion University participated in PIARC COVID-19 webinar conducted in Spanish on April 23rd. o TRB volunteer Christos Xenophontos of RI DOT participated in PIARC Webinar – The Impact of COVID-19 on Women in Transport on May 15th. o Katherine Kortum presented in the Autonomous Driving and Smart Roads webinar, October 2020, that was organized by PIARC, ANAS (National Autonomous Roads Corporation), Order of Engineers in Rome, Traffic Engineering and Transport Association, and Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport o Promoted each other’s events and COVID-19 messaging and resources o Neil Pedersen participated in two COVID-19 PIARC Advisory Group Meetings to share TRB activities responding to the pandemic. Other organizations included USDOT, European Commission, International Road Federation in Geneva, ITE, AASHTO, ITF, and others. o TRB contributed to articles on roads and landscape architecture in the PIARC December 2020 issue of their magazine. • European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI) o Postponed the TRB, ITF, and ECTRI workshop on Transport Innovation for Sustainable Development for the ITF Pre-Summit Research Day. o Promoting Young Researcher Seminar 2021 which will take place in Portoroz, Slovenia, from 9-11 June 2021. The event includes support from the University of Minnesota, USDOT, and CUTC. • China Highway and Transportation Society (CHTS) o Co-Sponsored the CHTS Mobility Management (Virtual) Meeting (MMM Webinar 1), August 26-27, 2020. Neil Pedersen, Susan Shaheen, and Tim Papandreou presented. Christos Xenophontos, RIDOT and co-chair of ICC, moderated. Subsequent MMM Webinars include - TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 139 of 228

. Data Management and Efficient Mobility, November 2020 had 160 participants and was coordinated by CHTS (Beijing University of Technology), ECTRI, PIARC and TRB (ICC, Young Member Coordination Council, and Standing Committees on Aviation System Planning (AV020) & Airfield and Airspace Capacity and Delay (AV060)) . Road Safety and Mobility Security – Planning for the Future, February 2021 is being organized by CHTS, PIARC (John Milton, WSDOT), International Road Federal in Geneva, and TRB (ICC, Section on Safety (ACS00) and Standing Committee on Safety Performance and Analysis (ACS20)) o Neil Pedersen delivered introductory remarks during the World Transport Convention Chengdu Forum, November 2020, with the theme of Building New Intelligent Transportation, Creating New Collaborative Development • Signed a new Letter of Intent with the Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA) in January 2020. • Signed a new Letter of Intent with the Pan-American Society of Transport Research (PANAMSTR), organizers of the Pan-American Conference on Transport Research (2020 would have been the 21st conference).

Special Note: Neil Pedersen sent a letter congratulating the China Academy of Transportation Science on celebrating its 60th Anniversary. CATS is similar to the Volpe Center.

Cooperative Research Program Division: • Working with international organizations to include twinning and collaboration on select CRP project panels, such as Rijkwaterstaat in The Netherlands.

2021 TRB Annual Meeting International Events:

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Developing International Activities for 2021 • TRB and World Bank – exploring ways to increase engagement and conduct joint events. Through the Standing Committee on Transportation in the Developing Countries (AME40), we are considering a joint workshop on reforming informal public transport in developing countries. • Building a partnership with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) with the expectation of signing a Letter of Intent.

2021 International Conferences (subject to change) Bold fonts are TRB Sponsored Event. Standard fonts are TRB Co-Sponsored partner hosted events) • International Symposium on Pavement, Roadway, and Bridge Life Cycle Assessment, January 13-15, Virtual • Advancing the Marine Transportation System through Automation and Autonomous Technologies: Trends, Applications and Challenges, March 15-17, Virtual • Measuring and Managing Freight System Resilience Workshop, April 6-8, Virtual • 10th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety, and Management, April 11- 15, Sapporo, Japan • 2nd International Conference on 3D Printing and Transportation, April 21-23, Washington, DC • 4th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics, May 23-26, Chicago, Il • Research Day at ITF Annual Summit – Transport Innovation for Sustainable Development, May 25, Leipzig Germany [Collaboration between ECTRI, TRB, and ITF] • International Conference on Resource Sustainability: Sustainable Pavement Technologies, May 28-30, Virtual • International Conference on Mapping Pavement Assets, June 6-9, Chicago, IL • 6th International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design, June 23-26, Amsterdam, the Netherlands • 2021 Conference on Sustainability and Emerging Transportation Technologies, June 29-July 1, Irvine, CA • How We Move Matters: Exploring the Connections between New Transportation and Mobility Option and Environmental Health, July, Virtual • International Symposium on Frontiers of Road and Airport Engineering, July 12-14, Delft, the Netherlands • Annual Workshop on Transportation Law, July 18, 2021, Washington, DC • Bridge Engineering Institute Conference of 2021, July 19-22, Singapore • GeoChina 2021 International Conference, July 19-21, NanChang, Jiangxi, China • 12th International Conference on Concrete Pavements, Aug. 29-Sept. 2, Minneapolis, MN • Conference on Advancing Transportation Equity, September 7-9, Washington, DC • 6th International Conference on Accelerated Pavement Testing, September 26-29, Nantes, France • International Conference on Scour Erosion, October 17-20, Arlington, VA

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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD TRB Communications Update Paul Mackie, TRB Director of Communications/Media January 2021 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 142 of 228 TRB Communications is building a focused strategy

• 2020 has been a full year of fact finding for building the TRB Communications Strategic Plan • Audience analysis survey • Aligning with Academies’ OCCO • Strategic focus on content  (content strategist, blog, new website) • Building a robust catalog of communications metrics • Will start working with TRB staff communications committee • Present strategy in spring TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28,Fundamental 2021 education aboutPage 143 of 228TRB is central to the strategy

• Unveiled new “what is TRB?” banners at 2020 TRBAM • Created strategy and ads for TRB.org, newsletter, TR News • Created flyers for Research Pays Off, and TR News • Created dozens of web and social ads for webinars, events, and 2021 TRBAM sessions • Created special TRB and TRBAM Zoom backgrounds and PowerPoints TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 144 of 228 The website is central to the strategy

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• New website is mobile friendly and includes a content focus (such as the new blog) • Data shows users love the new site and we will continue moving content from the old site TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 145 of 228 Newsletters are central to the strategy

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• The technology behind the weekly E-Newsletter is very complex, which is why we have not yet made as many changes as we would like • We aim, in 2021, to update the design, with more curation and mobile friendliness    TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 146 of 228 Newsletters are central to the strategy

Meanwhile, we have started doing more with newsletters

• Goin’ Places, a weekly for TRB and other Academy staff, helps us “build a culture of communications”

• TRBAM Express is for registrants of the conference TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Audio and video arePage central 147 of 228 to the strategy • New “rapid response webinars” were our 5 top 2020 performers and 2 were the top webinars of all time • More than 10,000 views of “Your Future in Transportation” video, won 3 Tellys • Ready to launch the TRB’s Transportation Explorers podcast TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 148 of 228 Social media is central to the plan

• Many other communications tactics focus on strengthening existing audiences. Social is really important for building new ones. Key new audiences for TRB and the Academies are: • Diverse ones • Younger, early-career ones • International ones

• Reached our annual follower- growth goals with flying colors: • LinkedIn (a 32% increase in And so is traditional media total followers over the end of 2019), TRB was cited in 1,803 media articles, • Facebook (18% increase), and including outlets such as the New York Times, • Twitter (3% increase) Washington Post, USA Today, and C-SPAN2 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 149 of 228

CONSENSUS AND ADVISORY STUDIES DIVISION Director, Thomas Menzies

The Consensus and Advisory Studies Division provides consensus advice to the federal government and the transportation community more broadly based upon the deliberations of special, ad hoc committees appointed by the chair of the National Research Council.

INFORMATION AND DISCUSSION ITEMS

Studies Under Way

Pending and Potential Studies

Recently Released Studies Slide

Candidate Self-Initiated Study TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 150 of 228

FUNDED SCHEDULE PROJECT SPONSOR AMOUNT SPENT BEGAN COMPLETION COMMENT

1. Research and Technology FHWA $200,000 20% 10/2003 continuing Next meeting 5/2021. Coordinating Committee (per year)

2. Long-term Infrastructure FHWA $320,0000 50% of 7/2017 6/2022 Next meeting 11/2021 Performance annually for annual 5 years ($1.6 million total)

3. Transit Research Analysis FTA $200,000 25% 9/2003 continuing Waiting for FTA guidance Committee per year on next meeting

4. Mobility Management TRB $890,000 98% 7/2018 1/2021 Scheduled for release second week of January 2021

5. Offshore Oil and Gas BSEE 655,000 90% 5/2017 2/2021 Report is in peer review Inspection Program Review

6. AV/Shared Mobility Forum multiple $650,000 50% 1/2018 continuing Webinars Spring 2021.

7. Lead in Aviation Gas FAA $552,000 95% 7/2019 12/2020 Delivered to sponsor 12/31/20. Scheduled for release second week of January 2021

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8. Coast Guard Oversight of USCG $500,000 10% 9/2020 8/2021 First meeting scheduled Recognized Organizations for late January 2021

9. Emerging Trends Symposia FHWA $250,000 60% 7/2019 7/2022 Event held 11/2020; Next event pending

10. In-Cabin Wheelchair US Access $800,000 60% 9/2019 8/2021 Next meeting 1/2021. Restraint Systems Board

11. Trends in Gulf of Mexico Gulf Research $962,000 15% 1/2020 1/2022 Next meeting 2/2021 Offshore Energy Production Program Safety Risks

12. Diversity of FAA FAA $1,100,000 75% 9/2019 6/2021 DBASSE/DEPS lead unit. Cybersecurity Report being drafted Workforce

13. Assessment of Technologies NHTSA 2,600,000 75% 10/2017 9/2021 DEPS lead unit. for Improving Fuel Economy of Report being drafted. Light-Duty Vehicles–Phase 3

14. Transportation Resilience OST-R 1,000,000 20% 4/2020 6/2021 Next meeting 1/2021 Metrics

15. Safe Transportation of LNG PHMSA 1,000,000 15% 5/2020 4/2022 Next meeting 11/2020 by Rail

16. Safety Improvements for USCG $175,000 5% 9/2020 8/2021 First meeting 1/2021 DUKW boats (Duck Boats)

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SUMMARY OF PENDING AND POTENTIAL STUDIES (1/1/2021)

Study Sponsor Scope Status

1.Review of FAA Pilot and Flight FAA/USDOT Study FAA’s Human Enacted in Section 554 of FAA Attendant Substance Abuse Intervention Motivation Reauthorization Act of 2018. TRB is Treatment Programs Study Program, the Flight called on conduct the study, but we Attendant Drug and would collaborate with DBASSE. No Alcohol Program, and any study request at this time. other drug and alcohol programs within the other modal agencies of USDOT.

2. Future of the USACE USACE Study the potential effects Enacted in Section 1101, Water of transferring the Resources Development Act of 2018. functions, personnel, TRB plans to collaborate with DELS, assets, and civilian staff of but no study request from the USACE to a new or USACE at this time. existing federal agency.

3. USACE Economic and USACE Study the economic Enacted in Section 1102, Water Budgetary Analyses principles and analytical Resources Development Act of 2018. methods used by USACE to TRB plans to collaborate with DELS, formulate, evaluate, and but no study request from budget for water resources USACE at this time. development projects.

4. Coast Guard Authorities USCG Examine emerging issues Enacted in Section 8249,National that may require Coast Defense Authorization Act for FY Guard oversight, 2021. Waiting to enage with regulation, or action; USCG. describe potential TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 153 of 228

limitations and shortcomings of relying on current Coast Guard authorities to address emerging issues

5. Certificate of Compliance USCG Evaluate the constraints Enacted in Section 8254,National Inspection Program for LNG tank and challenges to Defense Authorization Act for FY vessels maintaining examination 2021. Waiting to engage with efficiency under the USCG. Certificate of Compliance program for bulk liquefied gases cargo, liquefied natural gas exports, and associated vessel traffic at United States ports.

6. Repurposing plastic waste in FHWA Examine the uses of plastic Enacted in Section 303, Save Our asplalt waste in transportation Seas Act 2.0. THUD Appropriations infrastructure, especially Act for FY 2021, Joint Explanatory asphalt mixes Statement, Section L, limits the study to asphalt and directs it to TRB. Waiting to engage with FHWA

7. Use of Automatic and Remote- PHMSA Feasibility of the Enacted in Section 119, Pipes Act of Controlled Pipeline Shut-off installation of automatic or 2020. Waiting to engage with Valves remote-controlled shut-off PHMSA. valves on existing transmission pipelines crossing sensitive and high-consequence areas TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 154 of 228

8. Emerging Trends in Aviation FAA Develop an annual report Enacted in Section 132, THUD on emerging safety trends Appropriations Act for FY 2021. in air transportation, Initial enagement with FAA. considering accident invesigations, information provided by operators on their safety management systems, and FAA annual safety culture assessments. After first reprt, additional reports will be issued biennally through 2031.

9. Transport Airplane Risk FAA Assess FAA’s TARAM Enacted in Section 130, THUD Assessment Methodology analysis process and its Appropriations Act for FY 2021. (TARAM) effectiveness for the Waiting to engage with FAA. purposes of improving aviation safety Recommend ways to improve the methodology and effectiveness

10. Peformance of Innovative USACE Evaluate use, and potential Enacted in Sec. 1046 of the Water Materials use, of innovative materials Infrastructure Improvement for the in USACE water resources Nation Act of 2016. No indications projects. Evaluate sources by USACE of intentions. of infrastructure degradation and opportunities to use innovative materials cost- effectively. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 155 of 228

11. Impacts of Withdrawing FHWA Study impacts on safety Enacted, Transportation Interstate Segments and mobility of state/local Appropriations Act 2020. Senate actions to decommission Appropriations Committee report. segments of Interstate Initial contact with FHWA but Highway, including the no indications about intentions. effects on safety, mobility, the movement of goods and services, national defense, and the environment.

12. Highway System Upgrades to FHWA Study the most effective Sec. 1512. S. 2302, passed by Senate Accommodate AV/CV immediate and long-term EPW Committee, 7/30/2019. Also in types of upgrades to benefit Committee Report, 1/8/2020. the largest segment of road users, autonomous vehicles, and automated driving systems, as well as to examine how to best achieve roadway infrastructure uniformity

13. Safety Benefits of V-2-I FHWA Immediate and long-term Sec. 1513. S. 2302, passed by Senate safety benefits of vehicle- EPW Committee, 7/30/2019. Also in to-infrastructure Committee Report, 1/8/2020 connectivity technologies and technologies that would allow motor vehicles and roadway infrastructure to communicate using

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dedicated short-range communications.

14. Review of Interagency Oil USCG Provide advice on the Sec. 429. S. 2297 Senate Commerce, Pollution Research Plan preparation and Coast Guard Reauthorization Act development of oil pollution research plan; assess the adequacy of the plan

15. Pipeline Seismic Safety PHMSA Evaluate current federal HR 5120. Introduced, referred to requirements for pipeline House T&I. 11/20/2019 design and siting relating to seismicity, and subsidence, and landslides. Identify any deficiencies in industry practices

16. Aviation and Aerospace FAA Identify climate change HR 2, passed House 6/2020, referred Solutions to Climate Change mitigation efforts and to Senate technologies that apply to the aviaiton sector; identify barriers to use and gaps

17. Protecting Roadside FHWA Study the efficacy of “Move HR 4871, Introduced 10/20/2019, Responders Over Laws” and related referred to Subcommittee on awareness campaigns Consumer Protection and Commerce

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18. Health Impacts of Airport FAA Examine and report HR 976, Sec. 2. Introduced 2/5/2019 Traffic Noise and Pollution current scientific S 2506. Introduced 9/18/2019 knowledge relating to health impacts of airport noise and pollution

19. Standing Committee on OST/MARAD The standing committee Sec 118 MARAD Authorization Bill Supply Chain Vulnerabilities would advise Congress on Introduced in Senate Commerce supply chain Committee, June 2020 transportation vulnerabilities factors that can severely disrupt the movement of critical goods due to the COVID-19 pandemic or other declared emergencies or disasters

20. Study of Role of Airline Cabin FAA Determine whether the HR 6800 HEROES Act, passed A/C Systems in Spread of environmental controls House, 5/12/2020. Referred to Pathogens systems in airliners Senate. recirculate pathogens in the cabin air and assess existing and potential technological solutions to reduce pathogen recirculation

21. Safety of Long Trains FRA Study potential risks of HR 2 passed House 6/2020, referred trains longer than 7,500 ft, to Senate on derailments, TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 158 of 228

communications, crew safety

22. Financing EV Charging FHWA Study on options for HR 2 passed House 6/2020, referred Infrastructure financing the placement of to Senate a national network of publicly available EV charging infrastructure along the National Highway System

23. Stormwater Best FHWA Estimate pollutant loads HR 2 passed House 6/2020, referred Management Practices from stormwater runoff f to to Senate inform the development of appropriate total maximum daily load requirements; recommend total maximum daily load compliance strategies

24. Future Climate Conditions USDOT Study actions to ensure HR 2 passed House 6/2020, referred Planning & Design federal agencies are taking to Senate into account current and future climate conditions for federally funded transportation infrastructure investments.

25. Strategic Transportation USDOT Study of the research needs HR 2 passed House 6/2020, referred Research Agenda of the surface to Senate transportation system to TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 159 of 228

fully adapt and integrate advanced technologies and innovation.

26. Rail Network Climate FRA Study to assess the HR 2 passed House 6/2020, referred Change Vulnerabilities potential impacts of to Senate climate change on the national rail network.

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Leveraging Unmanned Systems for Coast Guard Missions

Review of the Federal Railroad Administration’s Research and Development Program

Options for Reducing Lead Emissions from Piston-Engine Aircraft

The Role of Transit, Shared Modes, & Public Policy in the New Mobility Landscape TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 161 of 228 TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD 2020 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

OFFICERS

CHAIR: Mr. Carlos M. Braceras, Executive Director, Utah Department of Transportation, 4501 South 2700 West, Box 141265, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-1265, (801)965-4027, email: [email protected]

VICE CHAIR: Dr. Susan A. Shaheen, Professor and Co-Director, TSRC, University of California, Berkeley, 408 McLaughlin Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1710, (510) 642-9168, email: [email protected]

EXECUTIVE Mr. Neil J. Pedersen, Transportation Research Board, DIRECTOR: National Research Council, 500 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001, (202)334-2936, fax (202)334-2920, [email protected]

MEMBERS

Mr. Michael F. Ableson, CEO, Arrival Automotive-North America 2022 723 Oakland Ave., Birmingham, MI 48009, (313) 720-4839, email: [email protected]

Ms. Vicki Arroyo, Executive Director, Georgetown Climate Center 2022 Professor from Practice, Georgetown University Law Center Special Advisor to the President, Georgetown University 600 New Jersey Ave, NW, Suite 357 E.B.W. Library, Washington, D.C. 20006, (202) 661-6556, email: [email protected]

Ms. Marie Therese Dominguez, Commissioner, New York State Department of 2023 Transportation, 50 Wolf Road, Albany, NY 12232, (518)457-4422, email: [email protected]

Ms. Ginger Evans, Chief Strategy Officer, CAG Holdings, Inc., 1001 Pennsylvania Ave NW 2021 Washington, DC 20004, (703) 622-6660, email: [email protected]

Ms. Nuria I. Fernandez, General Manager, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority 2022 3331 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95134, (408)321-5559, email: [email protected]

Mr. Nathaniel P. Ford, Chief Executive Officer, Jacksonville Transportation Authority, 2023 121 W. Forsyth Street, Suite 200, Jacksonville, FL 32202, (904) 632-5500, email: [email protected] TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 162 of 228 (Members continued)

Dr. Michael F. Goodchild, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, NAS 2023 University of California, Santa Barbara 3334 NE Blakeley Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 email: [email protected]

Ms. Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of 2022 Transportation, P.O. Box 600, Trenton, NJ 08625-0600, (609) 530-3536, email: [email protected]

Dr. Susan Hanson, Distinguished University Professor Emerita, School of Geography, NAS 2022 Clark University, Worcester, MA Mailing Address: 645 Natural Turnpike, Box 5, Ripton, VT 05766, (802) 388-9977, email: [email protected]

Dr. Stephen W. Hargarten, Director, Injury Research Center, Associate Dean, NAM 2022 , Office of Global Health, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226-0509, (414)955-1112, email: [email protected]

Dr. Chris T. Hendrickson, Duquesne Light Professor of Engineering, NAE 2021 Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Porter Hall 119, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, (412) 268-1066, fax (412) 268-7813, email: [email protected]

Dr. S. Jack Hu, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost 2022 University of Georgia, Administration Building, 220 S. Jackson Street Athens, GA 30602, (706)542-0415, [email protected]

Mr. Roger B. Huff, President, HGLC, LLC, 33258 Slocum Drive 2021 Farmington Hills, MI 48336, (313)550-3322; email: [email protected]

Mr. Ashby Johnson, Executive Director, Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization 2022 11013 Stelton Cove, Austin, TX 78717, (512) 974-2656, email: [email protected]

Dr. Geraldine Knatz, Professor of Practice of Policy and Engineering NAE 2021 USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, USC Viterbi School of Engineering 3620 South Vermont Avenue, KAP 268A, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531, (562)-343-0226, [email protected], [email protected]

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Mr. William Kruger, Vice President, UPS Freight for Fleet Maintenance and Engineering, 2022 1000 Semmes Avenue, Richmond, VA 23224, (804)231-8623, email: [email protected]

Ms. Julie Lorenz, Secretary, Kansas Department of Transportation, 2022 700 SW Harrison Street, Topeka, KS 66603-3754, (785) 296-3285, email: [email protected]

Mr. Michael R. McClellan, VP Strategic and Network Planning, 2022 Norfolk Southern Corporation, Three Commerical Place, Norfolk, VA 23510-2191, (757)629-2653, email: [email protected]

Ms. Melinda McGrath, Executive Director, Mississippi Department of Transportation, 2022 P.O. Box 1850, Jackson, MS 39215-1850, (601) 359-7004, [email protected]

Mr. Patrick K. McKenna, Director, Missouri Department of Transportation, 2023 P.O. Box 270, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0270, (888) 275-6636, [email protected]

Mr. Brian W. Ness, Director, Idaho Transportation Department, 2021 P.O. Box 7129, Boise, ID 83707-1129, (208)334-8807 email: [email protected]

Ms. Leslie S. Richards General Manager, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation 2021 Authority, 1234 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, (215)580-7070, email: [email protected]

Dr. James M. Tien, Distinguished Professor and Dean Emeritus, 2023 College of Engineering, University of Miami, 1251 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146-2509 (305) 284-7888, [email protected]

Dr. Katherine F. Turnbull, Executive Associate Director, 2021 Texas A&M Transportation Institute, 3136 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3135 , (979) 845-6005, [email protected]

Dr. Shawn Wilson, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development 2022 P.O. Box 94245, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9245, (225)379-1200, email: [email protected]

TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 164 of 228 EX OFFICIO MEMBERS

Mr. Michael R. Berube, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Sustainable Transportation, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, N,W., Washington, D.C. 20585, (202)586-8061, (fax) (202)586-9260, email: [email protected]

Dr. Steven Cliff Deputy Executive Officer, California Air Resources Board, Planning and Technical Support Division, 1001 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95812, (916) 539-3264, email: [email protected]

Mr. LeRoy Gishi, Chief, Division of Transportation, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), U.S. Department of the Interior, 20817 Tall Forest Drive, Germantown, MD 20876, (202) 513-7711, fax (202)219-1193, email: [email protected]

Dr. Martha R. Grabowski, McDevitt Distinguished Chair in Information Systems, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY and Senior Research Scientist, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 5555 Mount Pleasant Drive, Cazenovia, NY 13035, (315)445-4427, email: [email protected]

Major General William H. Graham, Deputy Commanding General for Civil and Emergency Operations, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 441 G Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20314-1000, (202)761-0103, fax (202)761-4463, [email protected]

Mr. John T. Gray, Senior Vice President, Policy and Economics, Association of American Railroads, 50 F Street, NW, 12th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001-1530, (202) 639-2319, fax (202)639-2286, [email protected]

Mr. Nikola Ivanov, University of Maryland, College Park, CATT Laboratory, 3105 J. Kim Engineering Building, College Park, MD 20742, (301)405-3626, email: [email protected]

Ms. Nicole R. Nason, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington, D.C. 20590, (202)366-1836, fax (202)366-3244, [email protected]

Dr. Craig A. Rutland, U.S. Air Force Pavement Engineer, Air Force Civil Engineer Center 139 Barnes Drive, Suite 1, Tyndall AFB, FL 32403-5319 (850) 283-6083, email: [email protected]

Admiral Karl L. Schultz, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2100 Second Street, SW, Stop 7000, Washington, D.C. 20593-7000, (202)372-4411, fax (202)372-4960, [email protected]

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Ex Officio Members (continued)

Mr. Karl Simon, Director, Transportation and Climate Division, U.S. EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality, 1301 Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, D.C. 20004, (202) 566 1191, [email protected]

Mr. Paul P. Skoutelas, President and CEO, American Public Transportation Association, Suite 1100, 1300 I Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20005, (202)496-4889, fax (202)496-4324, [email protected]

Mr. Jim Tymon, Executive Director, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, 444 N. Capitol Street, NW, Suite 249, Washington, D.C. 20001, (202)624-5810, fax (202)624-5806, [email protected] TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 166 of 228 Representatives to the TRB Executive Committee:

Technical Activities Council: Hyun-A Park, President, Spy Pond Partners, LLC 2020 1165 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 101 Arlington, Massachusetts 02476-4333 (617)500-4857, [email protected]

Richard Bornhorst, FACTOR, Inc., 14608 Locustwood Lane, Silver Spring, MD 20905, 2020 (202)381-0622, [email protected]

Michael Griffith, Director, Office of Safety Technologies, Federal Highway Administration 2020 (FHWA), 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, HSST , Washington, DC 20590, (202) 366-9469, [email protected]

Brendon Hemily, Principal, Hemily and Associates, 39 Prince Rupert Avenue, 2020 Toronto, Ontario M6P2A8, (416) 466-5635, [email protected] TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 167 of 228 Changes in Executive Committee Membership

New Officers

Dr. Susan Shaheen, Professor and Co-Director, Transportation Sustainability Research Center, University of California, Berkeley (Chair)

Mr. Nathaniel P. Ford, Chief Executive Officer, Jacksonville Transportation Authority (Vice Chair)

New Incoming Members

Dr. Craig E. Philip, Research Professor and Director, VECTOR, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University, USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Mr. Randall Iwasaki, Leader of State and Local Transportation, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

New Ex Officio Members

Dr. Martha R. Grabowski, McDevitt Assoc. Chair in Information Systems, Professor & Chair, Business Administration Department, Dir., Information Systems Program, LeMoyne College TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 168 of 228 TRB STAFF ATTENDING JANUARY 25-28, 2021 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

EXECUTIVE OFFICE

Neil J. Pedersen, Executive Director, TRB 334-2936 [email protected]

Cynthia 'Cindy' Baker, Executive Assistant 334-2936 [email protected]

Claudette Louard-Clarke, Director, TRB Human Resources 334-3616 [email protected]

Patrice Davenport, Deputy Director, TRB Program Development & Strategic Initiatives 334-2516 [email protected]

Karen S. Febey, Senior Report Review Officer 334-2829 [email protected]

Russell W. Houston, Associate Executive Director 334-3252 [email protected]

Lisa Loyo, Director, Information Technology and Research Services 334-2990 [email protected]

TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES

Ann M. Brach, Director 334-2242 [email protected]

CONSENSUS AND ADVISORY STUDIES

Thomas Menzies, Director 334-1837 [email protected]

COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Christopher Hedges, Director 334-1472 [email protected]

OFFICE OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICE

Gary Walker, Senior Deputy Director, TRB Program Finance 334-3215 [email protected]

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER

Paul Mackie, Director, Communications/Media 334-2378 [email protected] TRB Executive Committee Meeting,TRB January Staff 26-28, 2021 Organization and Divisional Responsibilities Page 169 of 228

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Neil Pedersen

ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE STRATEGIC PROGRAM SR. REPORT REVIEW HR DIRECTOR DIRECTOR DEVELOPMENT OFFICER Claudette Louard-Clarke DIRECTOR Karen Febey Russell Houston Human Resources  Annual Meeting Exhibit and Patron Patrice Davenport Report Review Staff Development Training Programs Revenue Development Minority Student Fellows  Committee and Panel Approvals  Strategic Initiatives Program  Communications Inclusion & Diversity  Information Technology TRB Division Committee  Transportation Research Information Services

TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES Consensus and ADMINISTRATION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS Ann Brach Advisory Studies AND FINANCE Christopher Hedges  Division Gary Walker Annual Meeting Program  National Cooperative Highway Research Thomas Menzies  Conferences and Workshops Budgets and Program Finance Consensus Studies  Marine Board Airport Cooperative Research Program Affiliates Accounts Forums and Transit Cooperative Research Program Standing Technical Committees Roundtables Publications Sales Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative State Visits and Distribution  Research Program Research Program Transportation Research Advisory Committees Administrative Record: Journal of the Services Transportation Research Board Note: organizationally is part of the Office of the Chief Financial Officer TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 170 of 228

DESCRIPTIONS OF TRB DIVISIONS

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Executive Office 2

Technical Activities (Division A) 5

Consensus and Advisory Studies (Division B) 7

Cooperative Research Programs (Division D) 8

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EXECUTIVE OFFICE Neil J. Pedersen, Executive Director

TRB Executive Office

TRB's Executive Office is headed by Executive Director Neil Pedersen. The TRB Executive Office provides policy and operational guidance for programs and activities; oversees committee and panel appointments and report review; provides support and direction for human resource issues and staffing needs; directs the Board’s communications and information technology efforts; operates a bibliographic database of transportation research and provides library reference services; provides staff support to the Executive Committee and the TRB Division Committee; and maintains liaison with the executive offices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the Board’s parent institution.

Oversight Activities

The Executive Office supports the work of the TRB Executive Committee, which provides policy direction to TRB programs and activities within the overall policies of the Academies. Oversight of committee and panel appointments and of report review is the responsibility of the TRB Division Committee, which ensures that TRB meets institutional standards and that its activities are appropriate for the Academies. As part of its oversight function, the committee monitors the Board’s progress in expanding the representation of minorities and women on TRB committees and panels.

Chris Hendrickson, Chair, TRB Division Committee, represents TRB as an ex officio member on the NRC Governing Board. The Executive Office processes the Board’s large volume of committee and panel appointments and maintains committee membership records. A hallmark of the Academies is its institutional process to ensure the independent, rigorous review of reports. In maintaining these high standards, TRB follows Academies' guidelines that carefully match the review criteria and procedures to the type of report.

Program Development and Strategic Initiatives

In addition, the Executive Office is responsible for ensuring stable, long term revenue streams for TRB and for coordinating strategic initiatives across the board's various divisions. To carry out these responsibilities, the EO helps facilitate the increased use of technology to deliver TRB products and services; oversees the development and implementation of action plans for strategic, long term, cross cutting, and critical issues; encourages the exploration of new and innovative ways to facilitate information transfer within the rules of the Academies; helps promote the value of TRB products and services; oversees TRB’s international participation strategy; administers the Minority Student Fellows Program; and is responsible for helping to ensure the continued development of the next generation of TRB volunteers.

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Communications

The Executive Office is charged with developing, coordinating, and carrying out communications activities that span the entire organization. The following communications activities conducted by the NASEM's Office of the Chief Communications Officer are overseen by the Executive Office:

• The Transportation Research E-Newsletter is a free weekly electronic service designed to keep individuals up-to-date on TRB activities and to highlight selected transportation research related activities taking place at the federal and state levels, and within the academic and international transportation communities. More than 67,000 people from around the world receive the E-Newsletter. • The TRB Webinar Series produces approximately 100 webinars per year on a variety of topics. TRB’s webinars are produced with funding received from TRB Sponsors and TRB Sustaining Affiliates. Accordingly, employees of TRB Sponsors and TRB Sustaining Affiliates may attend the session without a fee. TRB is authorized to issue Professional Development Hours (PDH) for select, live webinars. TRB is also a registered with the American Planning Association's professional institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), to provide Certification Maintenance credits. • TRB uses Social Media such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to help our audience stay connected to transportation research. Social media also helps TRB to better understand how its reports and products are being used.

Information Technology and Research Services

TRB has a consolidated Information Technology (IT) and Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) department. Both groups had key responsibilities that included the development, maintenance, and application of software in support of various TRB missions.

The IT group’s primary focus systems operation, maintenance, and management. The focus aligns with the TRIS staff’s responsibilities in relation to the Transport Research International Documentation (TRID) database, the Research in Progress (RiP) database and website, the Research Needs Statements (RNS) database, and the TRB Publications Index.

The responsibilities of the IT and Research Services groups include customer support for internal and external users of TRB’s software systems; software enhancement and development; server and website monitoring and security; general IT support activities, such as training, documentation, and troubleshooting; and management and operation of transportation research services, bibliographic databases, and the TRB Library.

TRID

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National Academies with sponsorship by State Departments of Transportation, the various administrations at the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other sponsors of TRB's core technical activities. ITRD is produced by ITRD member organizations under the under the sponsorship of Joint Transport Research Centre (collectively JTRC) of the International Transport Forum and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and ITRD. The records comprise published or ongoing research in English, German, French, or Spanish; more than 200,000 records link to full-text publications. The service offers simple and advanced searching and allows users to download and e-mail results, as well as to share via social media. TRID is available free of charge on TRB’s website.

Publications Index

The TRB Publications Index includes more than 65,000 citations and abstracts for all TRB, Highway Research Board (HRB), SHRP, and Marine Board publications since 1923. The index offers simple and advanced searching and allows users to download and e-mail the results in a variety of formats. Records contain links to available full-text documents and to ordering information.

Research Needs Statements Database

The RNS database is a dynamic collection of highest-priority topics developed by TRB technical standing committees. The database serves as a tool for reviewing research needs, setting research priorities, and identifying gaps in current research.

Research in Progress Database

RiP is a searchable database of records of active or recently completed research projects from State Departments of Transportation, the modal administrations at the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Transportation Research Board, and university transportation centers. The current awareness service notifies users about new and updated project records in specified subject areas. TRID offers users an option for searching the RiP database or the RiP and TRID databases simultaneously.

TRB Library

The TRB Library provides research and reference services to TRB sponsors, committee members, and staff. The library subscribes to almost 250 serial titles and contains the complete collection of TRB, HRB, SHRP, and Marine Board publications.

The TRB Library participates in the Eastern Transportation Knowledge Network and in the National Transportation Knowledge Network.

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TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES (Division A) Ann Brach, Director

About the Technical Activities Division

Who We Are The Technical Activities Division provides a forum for transportation professionals to identify, facilitate, and share research and information related to transportation. The Division carries out activities on behalf of TRB sponsors and the transportation community through a network of over 175 standing committees and councils composed of more than 5,000 volunteers.

Our Mission The Technical Activities Division supports TRB’s mission of promoting innovation and progress in transportation through research and information exchange by identifying needed research and research in progress, and disseminating completed research results.

Our Staff The Technical Activities Division staff consists of specialists within each transportation mode and topic. They oversee the activities of the Division’s network of volunteers, who carry out the following activities:

Our Activities

• Standing committees are composed of volunteers with experience in all modes of transportation and expertise in all disciplines and aspects of transportation. They form the essential framework for identification of research and innovation needs, information dissemination, expert review of papers and development of the Annual Meeting and other conferences. Learn how to get involved in standing committees. Aviation Group Brochure Design and Construction Group Brochure Freight Systems Group Brochure Law Group Brochure Marine Group Brochure Public Transportation Group Brochure Rail Group Brochure

• Technical Activities Council, consisting of the overall Chair and the Chairs of each of the Groups of committees, provides a forum for interchange between the Groups of committees, the TRB Executive Committee, and TRB Staff. They assist in identifying emerging topics of interest to the transportation community and cross-cutting issues. • Conferences, Meetings, Webinars, and Workshops are sponsored and cosponsored by many of the Division’s standing committees and task forces • TRB Annual Meeting is hosted every year and is the largest transportation conference in the world with over 700 sessions, workshops and 500 meetings that attracts over 14,000 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 175 of 228

professionals from around the globe. The Annual Meeting is held in January of every year in Washington, DC. • Supporting State DOT Representatives & Our Field Visit Program serves as a major source of information collected and disseminated by TRB. Transportation professionals on the TRB staff meet on site with representatives of state departments of transportation, and with representatives of universities, transit and other modal agencies and industry. Annual results of field visits are published each year • The Transportation Research Record (TRR) is the largest peer-reviewed journal in transportation research, covering all modes and disciplines. • Other Publications are disseminated by the Technical Activities Division that showcase transportation research results through Conference Proceedings and Transportation Research Circulars.

Marine Board

The Marine Board is located in the Technical Activities Division and works very closely with the standing committees in the Marine Group. In response to requests from sponsoring agencies or on its own initiative, the Marine Board serves the national interest by providing evaluations and advice concerning the ability of the nation's marine and maritime industries to operate safely and efficiently and in an environmentally responsible manner. The Marine Board identifies research needs and provides a forum for exchange of information relating to new technologies, laws and regulations, economics, the environment, and other issues affecting the marine transportation system, port operations, coastal engineering, and marine governance.

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CONSENSUS AND ADVISORY STUDIES (DIVISION B) Tom Menzies, Director

Consensus and Advisory Studies Division

The Consensus and Advisory Studies Division conducts consensus and advisory studies at the request of the U.S. Congress, executive branch agencies, states, and other sponsors.

CONSENSUS AND ADVISORY STUDIES

With the guidance of committees drawn from the nation’s leading experts, the Consensus and Advisory Studies group produces reports examining complex and controversial transportation issues. Studies cover all modes of transportation and a variety of safety, economic, environmental, and research policy issues. The U.S. Congress and the executive branch have adopted many recommendations from TRB policy reports, attesting to the substantive value of the findings. The Subcommittee on Planning and Policy Review provides oversight for TRB’s policy work. Since 1998, all completed policy study reports are posted on the TRB website. Informing Transportation Policy Choices, a document that provides an overview of all TRB policy studies from 1983 through 2003, is also posted on the Policy Studies page of the website.

Two-page overview of TRB's policy work

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Cooperative Research Programs Division (Division D) Christopher Hedges, Director

The Cooperative Research Programs Division of the TRB, led by Director Christopher Hedges, administers a number of major research programs sponsored by other organizations.

National Cooperative Highway Research Program Sponsored by the member departments of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration, the NCHRP was created in 1962 as a means to accelerate research on acute problems that affect highway planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance nationwide. All of the state highway and transportation departments contribute to an annual cooperative pool to fund the program’s activities. AASHTO committees and member departments and the Federal Highway Administration recommend research topics each year, and the AASHTO Standing Committee on Research (SCOR) determines both the projects to be funded and the levels of funding for those projects. A close working relationship with AASHTO during execution of the projects and the participation of experienced practitioners on project panels help ensure the application of completed NCHRP study results.

Transit Cooperative Research Program The TCRP was initiated in 1992 by three cooperating organizations: the Federal Transit Administration, the program sponsor; the Transit Development Corporation, a nonprofit educational and research organization established by the American Public Transportation Association, which provides program governance through the TCRP Oversight and Project Selection (TOPS) Committee; and the National Academies, acting through TRB, which serves as program manager. Under TCRP, the transit industry develops innovative near-term solutions to operating problems and adapts appropriate new technologies and approaches to help meet the demands placed on the nation’s public transit systems. The program’s research covers topics relating to all aspects of public transportation, including planning, service configuration, equipment, facilities, operations, human resources, maintenance, policy, and administrative practices. Each year, the TOPS Committee selects a program of research from the large number of candidate research problem statements submitted by organizations and individuals in the transit community.

Airport Cooperative Research Program The ACRP was authorized in federal aviation legislation and funding is made available through the annual federal appropriations process. ACRP, which began in 2006, is an industry- driven applied research program that develops near-term, practical solutions to problems faced by airport operators. The federally authorized program is sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Research topics are selected by an independent governing board appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation that includes individuals from airports, universities, FAA, and the aviation industry.

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Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program The BTSCRP provides practical solutions to save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce costs of road traffic crashes associated with unsafe behaviors. BTSCRP addresses topics such as distracted and impaired driving, speeding, characteristics of younger and older drivers, and law enforcement. A forum for coordinated and collaborative research, BTSCRP is a partnership between the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and the Transportation Research Board (TRB). From FFY 2014 through FFY 2017 the program was administered by NHTSA with assistance from the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center. Starting in December 2017, the program is being managed by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Transportation Research Board (TRB). The GHSA Executive Board serves as the Governing Board for the BTSCRP. The Board consists of representatives of the 10 NHTSA regions and appoints the GHSA Research Committee, who monitors and facilitates the activities of BTSCRP.

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PURPOSES AND DUTIES OF THE TRB EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

The TRB Executive Committee is the senior policy body of TRB, composed of approximately 25 members appointed by the Chairman of the National Research Council (NRC). These members are selected so as to provide balanced representation of transportation modes, academic disciplines, private and public sectors, levels of government, geographical regions, and other relevant factors. Members are appointed for a term of three years and may be reappointed for one term. In addition, approximately 20 ex officio members serve on the Executive Committee; these members have no vote but otherwise participate fully in Executive Committee activity. Ex officio members include the representatives of the Board’s various sponsoring organizations.

The Executive Committee meets twice a year, once at TRB's Annual Meeting in Washington each January and once in June. The Chair of TRB's Executive Committee, appointed by the Chairman of the NRC, serves a one-year term, and presides over the Committee discussions, which are directed toward obtaining consensus on issues wherever possible. When formal rules of debate are required, Roberts' Rules of Order are employed.

The Executive Committee performs a number of functions in serving four different constituencies — the National Research Council (NRC), TRB, TRB's sponsors, and itself.

Executive Committee Responsibilities to the NRC

The TRB Executive Committee is officially an advisory group to the Chairman and the Governing Board of the NRC, who look to the Executive Committee to provide oversight of TRB's activities. Such oversight is intended to ensure that TRB's activities are appropriate for the NRC and constructive to the transportation system and the nation. Reports (both written and oral) regarding ongoing and proposed TRB projects are brought to the Executive Committee at each meeting and are approved, rejected, or accepted after modification. The Board is also expected to note new opportunities for TRB to provide its services or projects and, where appropriate, to find ways to bring such projects into being.

The TRB Division Committee is charged to ensure that NRC procedures and policies are faithfully employed with respect to study and project committee appointments and report review. The membership of the TRB Division Committee is drawn from the membership of the TRB Executive Committee. The Division Committee is chaired by the TRB Division Chair, who must be a member of the National Academy of Sciences or the National Academy of Engineering and a member of the TRB Executive Committee. The TRB Division Chair serves as an ex officio member of the NRC Governing Board.

The Executive Committee has a Subcommittee on Planning and Policy Review (SPPR), which reviews and approves proposed projects and studies, develops lists of Critical Issues in Transportation, plans and develops opportunities for new Executive Committee initiatives, and generally handles those substantive transportation issues that require action during the interval between the twice-yearly meetings of the Executive Committee. The SPPR generally meets in April and October in Washington, DC.

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The Executive Committee has a Subcommittee on International Activties, which provides oversight of TRB’s international activities, including review of Memoranda of Understanding and Letters of Intent with international organizations, and monitoring progress in implementation of the Executive Committee’s Strategic Plan for International Activities.

The Executive Committee has also established a Special Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, which provides oversight of implementation of the Executive Committee’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategic Plan.

TRB's Expectations of the Executive Committee

Most TRB projects and activities are conducted by expert volunteers who agree to serve on TRB technical standing committees, study committees, panels, task forces, and other similar groups. At any one time, about 500 such groups are in existence, composed of more than 7,000 professionals serving without compensation. The Executive Committee, either directly or through the TRB Division Committee or the CAAS, provides oversight on the formation, termination, and membership of committees and on the review of projects undertaken and reports produced. The Executive Committee can also influence committee and other TRB activities by developing and monitoring strategic plans, preparing the critical transportation issues, and undertaking special activities of its own. From time to time, Executive Committee members are also called on to perform special duties, such as assisting with report review or fundraising for special projects.

The Executive Committee also serves as a symbol of the prestige attached to serving on TRB committees. Executive Committee members are selected in part because they occupy some of the most prestigious and influential positions in the industry. Their participation on the Executive Committee demonstrates support for research and cross-modal dialogue at the highest levels, and thereby provides motivation for the uncompensated service of otherwise highly paid experts on whom TRB depends for its products and services.

Sponsors' Expectations

At the core of TRB, and perhaps its most visible feature, is a collection of Technical Activities, which include more than 175 TRB standing committees, the TRB Annual Meeting, publications programs, field visits to organizations conducting transportation research, and information services. About $17 million— approximately one-fifth of TRB's total budget—is spent annually on these activities, supported by funding from individual states, federal agencies, private transportation organizations, local governments, individual affiliates, publication sales, and conference registration fees. These funds are pooled and spent in accordance with budgets approved by the Executive Committee. TRB's sponsors look to the Executive Committee to ensure that these funds are spent in ways appropriate to TRB's mission and in ways that encourage research and its dissemination.

Executive Committee's Own Expectations

Although the responsibilities summarized above indicate that the Executive Committee has more than enough duties for a group that only assembles twice a year, members often comment that their greatest personal satisfaction in serving comes from participating in discussions of substantive transportation issues and that they would like to devote more time at meetings to such discussion. The caliber and diversity of talent represented on the Executive Committee make serving on it a unique experience for TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 181 of 228

most members, providing an unusual opportunity to share different perspectives in far-reaching discussions of major transportation issues. Thus, an effort is made to conduct the Executive Committee's official business expeditiously at meetings, in order to leave time for these other important activities of the Board. Executive Committee policy sessions and other discussions of substantive issues have led to the initiation of important TRB projects and other activities.

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TRB POLICY ON EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION IN COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM (CRP) PROJECTS Revised 1/8/2021

In the administration of its contract research programs, TRB wishes to maximize both the substance and the appearance of fairness in the selection and management of its contractors, at the same time ensuring the quality and expanding the number of potential researchers as much as possible.

It is in TRB's interest to use the expertise of the best qualified individuals and organizations available to perform its research programs, where no actual or apparent conflicts of interest exist. However, conflicts may arise or appear to exist if members of TRB's Executive Committee or organizations with which they are affiliated submit proposals on projects.

To prevent such problems in the administration of the Cooperative Research Programs (CRP) administered by TRB, members of the Executive Committee are not permitted to serve as principal investigators on any CRP projects. Additionally, the following rules will apply to all members of the Executive Committee:

1. No involvement is permitted in the selection process for CRP contractors, where the individual Executive Committee member or an affiliated organization is being considered.

2. No involvement is permitted in TRB's administration of a contract in which the individual or an affiliated organization is involved.

3. No involvement is permitted in setting or modifying administrative policies that would directly or materially affect either the administration of existing contracts with the individual or affiliate organization, or the individual's or affiliate organization's ability to submit proposals.

The Chair of the TRB Executive Committee, serving a one-year term; the Chair of the TRB Division Committee, serving a three-year term; and the Vice Chair of the Division Committee, serving a three-year term, have close ties to the Executive Director and to the activities of TRB. Neither of the Chairs nor the Vice Chair has any role in the selection of contractors for CRP projects. Nevertheless, because of these special relationships, the following additional rules also will apply to their activities on CRP projects during their terms as Executive Committee Chair, Division Committee Chair, and Division Committee Vice Chair:

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4. Individuals serving in these positions may not personally propose on any CRP project during their years of service as Executive Committee Chair, Division Committee Chair, and Division Committee Vice Chair. This limitation on their right to propose on a CRP project as an individual does not extend to a governmental or academic entity with which they are affiliated provided that the individuals in question do not hold a significant financial interest (other than their salaries) in the governmental entity or academic institution of higher learning. Affiliated organizations in which an Executive Committee Chair, Division Committee Chair, or Division Committee Vice Chair holds a significant financial interest, other than a salary derived from a position in a governmental entity or an academic institution of higher learning, may also propose, but only in accordance with case-specific guidelines established by the Division Committee in advance of that individual's appointment as Executive Committee Chair, Division Committee Chair, or Division Committee Vice Chair to ensure that there is neither actual nor perceived conflict of interest.

5. They may not be personally consulted or participate in any way in the preparation of a proposal, or otherwise provide information that would be advantageous to a proposal team.

6. They may not work on a project as a member of the research team or as a consultant to the team.

Where a newly appointed Chair of the Executive Committee, Chair of the Division Committee, Vice Chair of the Division Committee, or other member of the Executive Committee has existing activities or commitments covered in the foregoing list of rules on a CRP project at the time of appointment, those activities will be reviewed and recommendations made on a case-by-case basis by the members of the Division Committee (exclusive of a newly appointed chair, vice chair, or member if his/her activities are being considered).

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TRB STANDING OVERSIGHT COMMITTEES

TRB Division Committee

Composition The Division Committee’s membership, drawn from the TRB Executive Committee, consists of a chair who is an ex officio member of the Governing Board, a member of one of the Academies, the chair of the TRB Executive Committee, and a representative from a state department of transportation. The chair of the TRB Executive Committee serves a one-year term as a full member, while the other full members serve three-year terms. The Division Committee also includes the TRB Executive Committee’s vice chair and immediate past chair as ex officio non-voting members who serve one-year terms.

Function To ensure that TRB meets NRC standards for objectivity and that its activities are appropriate for the NRC; to monitor TRB with respect to specially funded project committee and panel appointments, report review, and the summary of Division programs presented to the NRC Governing Board. The Division Committee Chair serves as the TRB Division Chair for NRC Oversight and as an ex officio member of the NRC Governing Board.

Appointment Procedure Appointed by NRC Chair upon recommendation of Executive Director in consultation with NRC and Chair of TRB Executive Committee, subject to approval of the NRC Governing Board. Appointment letters signed by NRC Chair. Selection of members complies with TRB Terms of Reference. ______

Subcommittee on Planning and Policy Review (SPPR)

Composition Subcommittee of the TRB Executive Committee, composed of 11 members. The Chair and 10 other members serve 3-year terms.

Function To advise the Executive Committee and staff on matters relating to selection, scope, and execution of policy-oriented studies within TRB; establish goals and directions for those parts of TRB engaged in policy studies; plan and develop opportunities for new Executive Committee initiatives; identify critical transportation issues warranting TRB consideration; act for Executive Committee on all matters requiring its attention between regular Executive Committee meetings; advise the Chairs of the Executive Committee and the Division Committee of actions taken; and report to the Executive Committee on all of its activities at each Executive Committee meeting. The SPPR is also charged to identify major transportation problems, with particular attention to multimodal and intermodal issues; propose action plans for TRB that address these problems; and suggest sources for the funds needed to pursue these plans. The SPPR also oversees TRB's strategic planning process, TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 185 of 228

including development of TRB Strategic Plans, and develops policy session agendas and other program initiatives of the TRB Executive Committee.

Appointment Procedure Appointed by Chair of the TRB Executive Committee following guidelines approved by the Executive Committee. Bias/conflict-of-interest statements are not required.

Technical Activities Council (TAC)

Composition The Technical Activities Council consists of the overall Chair, the Chairs of each of the eleven Groups, and one or more at-large members. All serve 3-year terms. Members who are in the second year of their 3-year term serve as the Council’s representatives to the TRB Executive Committee, along with the Technical Activities Council Chair.

Function Program Function: Provides a forum for interchange and interaction among the Groups, between the Groups and the TRB Executive Committee, and between the Groups and TRB staff. Assists in identifying emerging topics of interest to the transportation community and cross-cutting issues. Facilitates interaction among Groups, Sections, and committees to address cross-cutting issues and opportunities. Fosters outreach efforts to other transportation organizations and groups.

Administrative Function: Plays a significant role in refining and implementing processes and techniques for improving the quality of meetings and publications emanating from Technical Activities Division volunteer activities. Serves as a focal point for the continuing review in each of the Group Executive Boards of the need for establishing new committees and for discharging those that are no longer necessary.

Appointment Procedure Appointed by the TRB Executive Director with approval by Division Committee Chair. Bias/conflict of interest statements are required. ______TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 186 of 228

MARINE BOARD

Composition 15-20 members. The Chair and the other members serve 3-year terms.

Function To identify research and policy study needs and provide a forum for the exchange of information relating to new technologies, laws and regulations, economics, the environment, and other issues affecting the marine transportation system, port operations, coastal engineering, and marine governance. Also, to oversee standing technical committees in related areas.

Appointment Procedure Appointed by NRC Chair following recommendation of TRB Executive Director in consultation with NRC and members of Marine Board. Appointment letters are signed by the TRB Executive Director. Bias/conflict of interest statements are required. ______

COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM OVERSIGHT COMMITTEES

Composition Varies according to program and origin. Some oversight bodies (NCHRP, TCRP, and ACRP) are entities that are appointed and exist outside the NRC/TRB. Others may be internally appointed.

Function To select research problems and program the funding for them, on behalf of the constituent user groups associated with the program.

Appointment Procedure Varies according to program and origin. Internally appointed committees are appointed by TRB Executive Director following approval by SNO Chair and, as appropriate, by NRC Chair. Appointment letters are signed by the TRB Executive Director. Bias/conflict of interest statements are required.

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TRB PROJECT APPROVAL PROCESSES

Policy Studies and Program Reviews

Description Projects conducted by NRC-appointed committees that provide consensus findings, recommendations, advice

Approval Steps Approval by TRB Executive Committee or Subcommittee on Planning and Policy Review; approval by Executive Committee of NRC Governing Board

Product Full-length study reports, interim reports, letter reports

______Conferences and Workshops

I. Organized by TRB Standing Technical Committees

Description Outgrowth of standing committee activity; no significant outside funding; often self- supporting; no consensus findings, recommendations, or advice

Approval Steps Approval by TRB Executive Committee or Subcommittee on Planning and Policy Review

Product Transportation Research Circular

II. Organized by Other Organizations and Cosponsored by TRB

Description Conference formats vary, but TRB must have a role in conference planning

Approval Steps Approval by TRB Executive Committee or Subcommittee on Planning and Policy Review

Product No TRB publication

III. Organized by Specially Appointed (“Ad Hoc”) TRB/NRC Committee

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Description Supported by outside funding; may or may not lead to consensus findings, recommendations, or advice (most are not authorized to do so)

Approval Steps Approval by TRB Executive Committee or Subcommittee on Planning and Policy Review; approval by Executive Committee of NRC Governing Board

Product Conference or workshop report, summary, or proceedings (in the TRB Conference Proceedings series)

______Cooperative Research Program Projects

Description Supported by NCHRP, TCRP, ACRP, NCFRP, or HMCRP funding; projects selected by NRC/TRB-appointed oversight committees or by non-NRC/TRB entities representing the user communities; research conducted by contractors selected by individual project panels, which oversee the work and review final report

Approval Steps Approval by the TRB Division Committee Chair of research problems selected by the non- NRC/TRB entities (SCOR, TOPS, and AOC Committees)

Product CRP Reports, Research Results Digests

______Synthesis Projects

Description Supported by NCHRP, TCRP, ACRP, or FMCSA funding; projects selected by oversight panels representing the user communities; research conducted by contractors under the guidance of individual topic panels. Umbrella panels review final documents.

Approval Steps Approval by the TRB Executive Director of research topics selected by oversight panels.

Product Synthesis report

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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD ANNUAL REPORT 2020 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 190 of 228

CONTENTS A Message from TRB Leadership 1

TRB’s Mission and Work 2

Goal 1: Information Exchange 4

Goal 2: Research 6

Goal 3: Advice 8

Goal 4: Collaboration 11

Goal 5: Workforce Development 13

Goal 6: Communications 16

Guiding the Conversation 18

2021 and the Future 19

Volunteer Leadership 22

Appendix A: Statement of Activities 24

Appendix B: Sponsors and Institutional Affiliates 26

Appendix C: TRB Webinars, Conferences, and Workshops 28

Appendix D: TRB Publications 31

Appendix E: TRB Staff 35

About TRB and the National Academies The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is one of seven program divisions of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The National Academies provide independent, objective analysis and advice to the nation and conduct other activities to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions. The National Academies also encourage education and research, recognize outstanding contributions to knowledge, and increase public understanding in matters of science, engineering, and medicine. Because TRB is housed within the National Academies, TRB’s staff and volunteers have unequalled access to members of the National Academies and their expertise.

TRB’s mission is to provide leadership in transportation improvements and innovation through trusted, timely, impartial, and evidence-based information exchange, research, and advice regarding all modes of transportation. TRB’s mission is accomplished through the hard work and dedication of nearly 11,000 volunteers and a staff of 133 professionals. TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 191 of 228 WELCOME A Message from TRB Leadership On behalf of the TRB Executive Committee, the thousands of volunteers involved in TRB committees and research panels, and the TRB staff, we are pleased to present this Annual Report for 2020, the 100th year of the Transportation Research Board. The past year has been one of unprecedented challenges, but also one of major accomplishments, which are summarized in this annual report.

TRB’s Centennial year began with the largest Annual Meeting in TRB’s history. More than 14,000 participants came to Washington, D.C., from across the United States and around the globe. All U.S. state departments of transportation (DOTs) were represented, as well as many federal, state, local, and foreign governmental agencies; private-sector companies; and academic and research institutions from around the world. The TRB Annual Meeting is the preeminent global event for transportation researchers, educators, practitioners, and students to connect and learn about the latest developments in transportation policy, research, and innovation.

As TRB turns to its next 100 years, this professional community of friends and volunteers—whether in-person or virtually—will continue leading impartial research, facilitating objective dialogues, and fostering innovative strategies. We have seen firsthand the need for continued leadership from TRB in an ever-evolving environment.

In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic brought unimagined challenges to the transportation industry. COVID-19 has had a profound impact on both the transportation system and the transportation community. TRB’s first priority is, and always will be, the safety and health of our thousands of volunteers and dedicated staff. Once it became clear that large gatherings should not be held, TRB decided not to proceed with any in-person conferences, workshops, or other scheduled events. Meetings and other convening activities were quickly converted to a virtual format or, in the case of some larger conferences, delayed until 2021. TRB adapted to its new environment and its work continued unabated.

Two topics became top priorities for TRB to address during 2020: 1) the impact of COVID-19 on transportation and 2) social and racial equity issues in transportation. TRB identified priority policy and research issues for each of these topics for the transportation community to address. Within TRB, a number of activities related to both COVID-19 and social and racial equity took place or are planned. Some of these activities are described in this annual report.

TRB’s current five-year strategic plan was adopted in June 2019 and contains six goals:1

1. Information Exchange 3. Advice 5. Workforce Development 2. Research 4. Collaboration 6. Communications

This report highlights ongoing impacts and progress TRB made in meeting each of these goals during 2020.

As we enter TRB’s second century, we hope that you will contribute to advances in transportation through active participation in TRB’s convening, research, and advising activities, taking advantage of the many resources that TRB makes available to the transportation professional community and learning from the brightest and best who make TRB the premier transportation research organization that it is.

Thank you for all that you do for TRB!

Carlos Braceras Susan Shaheen Neil Pedersen TRB Executive Committee Chair TRB Executive Committee TRB Executive Director Executive Director, Vice Chair Utah Department of Professor of Civil and Transportation Environmental Engineering and Co-Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center, University of California, Berkeley

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TRB’s Mission and Work

Celebrating 100 Years of Transportation Research TRB officially celebrated its 100th anniversary on November 11, 2020. TRB’s mission—to promote innovation and progress in transportation through research—is as pertinent today as it was in 1920. TRB’s volunteers and friends helped “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story” throughout the year.2 Every month, you shared your stories, which are our stories. We were honored to receive more than 200 in all and you will see quotes from these stories throughout this report.

An official recounting of TRB’s history was published in the Centennial book, The Transportation Research Board, 1920–2020: Everyone Interested Is Invited.3 More than 5,300 books were distributed during the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting.

Convening, Researching, and Advising TRB’s mission is to provide leadership in transportation improvements and innovation through trusted, timely, impartial, and evidence-based information exchange, research, and advice regarding all modes of transportation. TRB’s mission is accomplished through the hard work and dedication of nearly 11,000 volunteers and a staff of 133 professionals.

In addition to the record 14,035 attendees at the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting, TRB brings together volunteers through standing committees, panels, forums, conferences, workshops, meetings, and webinars. The TRB Annual Meeting is the leading annual event for transportation

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researchers and professionals to access and share the latest in transportation research. In response to travel restrictions around the ongoing pandemic, convening opportunities continued virtually— allowing even wider participation from the transportation community.

In 2020, 4,646 individuals served on TRB’s standing technical committees. In addition, more than 14,000 volunteers contributed Ann Brach, Director, to committee activities as Friends. TRB’s Technical Activities Technical Activities Division convenes these committees, overseeing and managing the committees’ activities in support of TRB’s mission and strategic goals. Ann Brach is Director of the division.

TRB manages hundreds of research projects and publications annually. TRB’s journal, The Transportation Research Record (TRR), publishes nearly 1,000 peer-reviewed papers each year. TRB’s bimonthly magazine, TR Chris Hedges, Director, , features timely articles on new and state-of-the-art research and News Cooperative Research practice, transportation news, “research pays off” articles, profiles of Programs transportation professionals, workshop and conference announcements, new book notices, and news of TRB activities.

TRB manages four research programs in highways, public transit, airports, and behavioral traffic safety through its Cooperative Research Programs (CRP) division, with total budgets of more than $60 million. Contractors conduct the actual research and more than 5,800 volunteers serve on CRP oversight committees and project panels. In Tom Menzies, Director, 2020, CRP produced more than 140 publications. Christopher Hedges Consensus and Advisory Studies is Director of this division.

TRB Consensus Reports are the result of research performed by committees of volunteer experts who are supported by staff from the Consensus and Advisory Studies Division. More than 40 TRB Consensus Reports have contributed to changes in legislation in the United States, and, in 2020, approximately 175 volunteers served on committees for this program. Tom Menzies is Director of this division.

Either in response to requests from sponsoring agencies or on its own initiative, TRB’s internationally recognized Marine Board identifies research needs and provides a forum for the exchange of information on new technologies, laws and regulations, economics, the environment, and other issues affecting the marine transportation system; port operations; coastal engineering; and marine governance. Dr. Martha Grabowski, McDevitt Distinguished Chair in Information Systems, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, and Senior Research Scientist, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, began her two-year term as Marine Board Chair in November 2020. Scott Brotemarkle of TRB’s Technical Activities Division serves as the Marine Board’s Program Director.

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GOAL 1 Convening Face to Face Information and Webcam to Webcam Exchange In the middle of a mild winter, the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting—already known as “the biggest transportation research conference in the world”—attracted a record number of attendees. Participants shared research and expertise, taking part in more than 5,300 presentations across more than 800 sessions and workshops. The Annual Meeting also hosted meetings of more than 200 committees, as well as of many of the more than 350 subcommittees. TRB’s Annual Meeting is an opportunity for policymakers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions to meet and address all things transportation. The program covers all transportation modes and nearly every relevant aspect imaginable.

As the ability for people to meet in person became increasingly hindered by the state of the pandemic, TRB’s events were postponed or rescheduled to be delivered as virtual events. Whether in person or online, TRB convened or cosponsored 43 conferences, workshops, or meetings in 2020.

Photo: Event Photography of North America

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Resources That Change with the Data Much of TRB’s work examines data over significant periods of time with careful review and analysis. Events in 2020 led the industry to seek out best practices that changed by the day as situations evolved. To meet these shifting needs, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine closed gaps across its various units to offer constantly updated, thematic collections of resources.

As the COVID-19 pandemic grips the nation and the world, the National Academies are rapidly mobilizing critical expertise in science, engineering, and medicine to inform government response and recovery efforts with evidence-based guidance and are facilitating collaboration across research disciplines and between the public and private sectors. COVID-19 Responses & Resources (https://www. nationalacademies.org/topics/covid-19-resources) brings together the latest National Academies feature stories, reports, webinars, and more. COVID-19 Transportation Resources (https://www.nationalacademies. org/topics/transportation-covid-19-resources) offers resources specifically geared toward the transportation industry.

Across the nation, Americans are calling for action to address long- standing social and racial equity issues in the midst of a global pandemic that is disproportionately affecting minorities and other vulnerable communities. Research can shed light on the factors that drive systemic racial inequities—not only in society at large, but also within the sciences, engineering, and medicine—with the goal of finding solutions based on evidence. A range of studies, webinars, and other activities at the National Academies have explored this research, some of which are highlighted in Resources on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (https://www.nationalacademies.org/topics/resources-on- diversity-equity-and-inclusion).

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GOAL 2

Research Covering Timely and Persistent Issues By conducting, sharing, and promoting research, TRB creates and expands access to knowledge related to current and future issues in transportation. This research is particularly focused on innovative I hope to make an impact on intelligent and implementable practices and technologies. TRB has issued an urgent and directed call for research needs statements specific to transportation and smart infrastructure transportation and pandemics.4 At the same time, TRB continues to through the internet of things and data administer research into the day-to-day issues facing transportation, including concrete, facility design, and signals. analytics. The emerging 5G technology TRB’s most downloaded publications in 2020 show the country’s focus will transform transportation on future improvements to transportation service levels and on the worldwide. The transformation will take environment. a collective endeavor, and TRB has a Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Report 209: Analysis of Recent Public Transit Ridership Trends shows that, even variety of standing committees that before COVID-19, transit ridership was down across all modes except help me make that impact. for commuter rail and demand-responsive services.5 Bus ridership is at its lowest point overall since the 1970s. The report details 10 Hongtao Dang, Assistant Professor, Central Washington University, case studies to better understand individual strategies used by transit Ellensburg, Washington agencies to mitigate ridership losses and increase ridership overall.

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Vehicle electrification is among the technologies under consideration to reduce emissions of criteria pollutants, mobile source air toxics, MOST DOWNLOADED and greenhouse gases (GHGs) from motor vehicles. Readers were CRP Reports Published in 2020 interested in the results of TRB’s research on this topic: In 2020, CRP produced more than 140 publications.

• National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web- 1. Guidance to Improve Pedestrian and Only Document 274: Zero-Emission Vehicles—Forecasting Fleet Bicyclists Safety at Intersections Scenarios and Their Emissions Implications analyzes scenarios of 2. Guidebook for Managing Data infrastructure development, policy changes, and cost parameters to from Emerging Technologies for assess their impact on nationwide zero emission vehicle adoption Transportation 6 and the corresponding levels of exhaust emissions. 3. Analysis of Recent Public Transit • TCRP Research Report 219: Guidebook for Deploying Zero-Emission Ridership Trends Transit Buses provides transit agencies with information on current 4. Incorporating the Costs and Benefits of best practices for zero-emission bus deployments, as well as Adaptation Measures in Preparation for lessons learned from previous deployments, industry experts, and Extreme Weather Events and Climate industry resources.7 Change: Guidebook 5. Minutes Matter: A Bus Transit Service Extreme weather events and a changing climate increase costs Reliability Guidebook paid by taxpayers. State DOTs are accounting for climate resilience when making infrastructure decisions. NCHRP Research Report 6. Bicyclist Facility Preferences and Effects 938: Incorporating the Costs and Benefits of Adaptation Measures on Increasing Bicycle Trips in Preparation for Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change— 7. Equity Analysis in Regional Transportation Guidebook can help fill the gaps in time-consuming and expensive Planning Processes, Volume 1: Guide 8 analyses. 8. Traffic Forecasting Accuracy Assessment Research 9. Guidebook for Deploying Zero-Emission Transit Buses 10. Alternative Intersection Design and Selection Data as of November 2020

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GOAL 3 As part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Advice Medicine, TRB study committees provide formal advice to the federal government through consensus studies and review U.S. DOT research programs. Additionally, TRB provides useful information that informs policy discussions at all levels of government, through workshops and research reports.

Convening to Advise Upon request, National Academies–appointed consensus study committees provide advice to Congress, executive branch federal agencies, the states, and other organizations on an array of complex and often controversial transportation topics of national significance. Committee members are selected to provide appropriate expertise and a balance of perspectives on the issues involved. Through these special expert committees, TRB also conducts periodic or continuing reviews of specific transportation research and technology programs. Policy study committee activities are subject to the requirements of Section 15 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act Amendments of 1997.

Consensus Study Committees TRB conducts advisory studies in accordance with procedures of the National Academies. Some studies are requested by Congress or executive branch agencies, while others are self-initiated studies funded by TRB. Committees of volunteer experts, supported by staff from TRB’s Consensus and Advisory Studies Division, conduct these studies.

Formal policy advice comes through TRB’s consensus studies. Each study committee produces a report with evidence-based conclusions and recommendations that are subject to the National Academies’ rigorous report review process. Reports completed in 2020 and expected to be completed in early 2021 include the following:

Transit and New Mobility Services New and expanding shared-mobility options—such as ride-hailing, shared cars, bikes or scooters, and microtransit—have proliferated. The study committee considered the role of these services as part of

8 TRB • 2020 Annual Report TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 199 of 228 regional transportation systems; specifically, the relationship to and impact of these services on existing public transit. As part of the study, the committee considered 1) how these services can improve the transportation system’s ability to further goals such as accessibility, efficiency, equity, sustainability, and safety; 2) the role transit agencies and other entities could play in managing and otherwise furthering the new mobility landscape; and 3) ways that transit agencies have coordinated with the new mobility providers, both in the United States and abroad.

The study committee’s report recommends steps to help bring about this transformation, including in urban areas with historically robust transit service.9 These steps then could increase the value and viability of transit and shared mobility services more broadly across regions.

U.S. Coast Guard’s Use of Unmanned Technologies The study committee identified, examined, and made recommendations on key considerations to guide the U.S. Coast Guard’s priorities for developing, testing, and deploying unmanned systems for maritime awareness applications. The report, Leveraging Unmanned Systems for Coast Guard Missions, examines opportunities for the Coast Guard to make greater use of unmanned aerial, surface, and underwater vehicles.10

The committee that authored the report concluded that, to remain responsive and fully relevant to its many missions, the Coast Guard should take a more strategic approach to investigating and investing in these systems by 1) establishing a central office to plan and coordinate the investments; 2) partnering with and leveraging technologies from other military services, the federal government, and the private sector; and 3) encouraging experimentation across operational units and mission areas. In December, the Chair and Ranking Member of the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure wrote a letter to U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Karl L. Schultz urging adoption of the recommendations in the report.

Mitigation Measures for Lead Emissions from Aviation Gas The study committee identified and assessed measures to reduce lead emitted from the combustion of aviation gas by piston-engine general aviation aircraft. Aviation gas continues to contain lead to provide the high octane needed for the safe operation of high-performance piston- engine aircraft, which account for about one-third of the fleet but more than two-thirds of the fuel consumed. The mitigation measures considered include expanding the availability and use of unleaded and lower-lead gasoline grades for the portion of the fleet that can use these fuels; the development and introduction of an unleaded grade that can satisfy the entire fleet; changes to operations and practices that contribute to lead emissions and exposures at small airports; and

TRB • 2020 Annual Report 9 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 200 of 228 the development of new, lead-free aviation propulsion technologies.11 Because of uncertainty about the time it will take to develop and introduce an unleaded fuel that can serve the entire fleet, the report points to the importance of taking steps now to make early and sustained progress in reducing lead emissions and exposures.

Committees That Advise on U.S. DOT Research TRB has several standing and ad hoc committees that review the research and development programs of various modal administrations in U.S. DOT, including the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Federal Transit Administration, and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). The committee charged with reviewing FRA’s rolling stock, track, train control, and human factors research to ensure it supports the agency’s safety mission issued Review of the Federal Railroad Administration’s Research and Development Program in 2020.12

TRB’s Committee for the Review of FHWA Infrastructure Research and Development is charged with advising the program regarding priorities in terms of the technical tools and products that state DOTs need to maintain and improve the performance of their pavements, bridges, and other structures. Their annual letter report highlights FHWA’s Long-Term Infrastructure Performance Program accomplishments in pavement and bridge deck data collections, development of bridge deck deterioration models, and outreach to program stakeholders during 2019.13

Input to Policy Development at All Levels of Government Although reports from TRB’s research programs and conferences and workshops do not contain formal recommendations to government, they can be an important source of information for federal, state, and local governments when these entities are making policy, legislative, and regulatory decisions.

A notable example is a series of Insight Events workshops sponsored by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP). The airline industry, airports, and their business partners have all been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2020, TRB’s Insight Event, “Flight Plan to Recovery: Preparing Airports and Their Business Partners for the Return of the Flying Public” convened experts to offer insights on a range of issues affecting the airline industry.14 The event covered public safety, passenger emotions and sense of safety and security, and financial stability. Speakers and participants considered mitigation strategies to enable recovery in the post-lockdown environment. Providing a platform to share this information helped inform airport operators across the country as they made operational and policy decisions in response to the pandemic.

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GOAL 4 Communities of Interest Collaboration TRB’s standing committees bring together individuals who share an interest and expertise in various aspects of transportation. TRB also brings experts and practitioners together through panels to work on various reports and products. All modes of transportation are represented, as well as nearly every discipline that contributes to transportation. A dedicated body of volunteers with a wide array of experience brings perspectives from across the country and around the world.

To better address critical and emerging transportation issues—along with perennial research needs in transportation—TRB restructured its standing technical committees, tightening up the structure and adding new committees where needed. Throughout the year, TRB implemented a strategic alignment of its standing committees’ volunteer structure to ensure that the talent of TRB’s thousands of volunteers can focus on 21st-century critical and emerging transportation issues within an organization that is flexible enough to respond to rapidly changing circumstances. After a year of consultation with volunteers, sponsors, and staff, a newly aligned volunteer structure was implemented, complete with new committees, refocused existing committees, and mechanisms to promote and support multimodal and multidisciplinary collaboration. Developing this new structure was an innovative and unprecedented effort of TRB volunteers and staff, who braved the challenges of systemic change to unleash new energy, spark innovation, and open new possibilities.

As TRB begins its second century, transportation is undergoing a period of rapid and transformational change. TRB serves as a big tent in which everyone can come together as equals—government, industry, and university; young people starting their professional journey and the profession’s leading lights; and CEOs and technical experts. The committees are an environment in which any and all ideas can be proposed, debated, and tested on the basis of their merit.

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My vision for TRB and the transport Strengthening Domestic industry 100 years from now is that and International Partnerships we will have transitioned to better, The transportation industry is complex and made up of a wide range of actors. TRB partners with other organizations to ensure its advice, more efficient, and accessible modes research, and collaboration includes all voices. TRB has entered into of transportation that also take into memoranda of understanding or letters of intent with several U.S. and international transportation organizations, and the Board participates in consideration the complex utility needs information sharing and sponsored sessions at major conferences and of its users. The more technologically identifies opportunities to coordinate international research on common topics. advanced society becomes, the greater the desire for community and human Considering the Future connection. I hope we, as transport- To share perspectives on the biggest issues surrounding automated vehicles and shared mobility, TRB offers the Forum on Preparing for industry professionals, reimagine and Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility Systems. Long-term goals build a transportation system that better of the program are increasing safety, reducing congestion, enhancing accessibility, increasing environmental and energy sustainability, and accommodates all of us for a truly encouraging economic development and equity. Forum members cohesive sense of community and oneness met privately in 2020 and offered two public events: one focused on scenario planning and one focused on expected impact in technology as a human race—if aliens aren’t a thing deployment from COVID-19. by then. Many supply-chain shifts were under way before the pandemic hit. Winnie Okello, Senior Civil Engineer, Responses to COVID-19 are “accelerating those tremendously,” said Pennsylvania DOT, Harrisburg Paul Bingham of IHS Markit during TRB’s Marine Board spring meeting, COVID-19 Impacts on Global Shipping.15 He stressed that, in terms of funding and infrastructure, “we’ll need to look at . . . what is going to be important to serve the economy looking toward the future, not the one from 2019 or before.”

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GOAL 5 Supporting Transportation Careers at All Levels Workforce Through its collaborative structure, TRB is an ideal home for informal mentoring. From a first job through Development seasoned expertise, TRB connects professionals to colleagues both within their industry and in the bigger picture of transportation. The Minority Student Fellows Program welcomed another outstanding class Patrice Davenport, to the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting.16 The ACRP and Director, Strategic TCRP Ambassadors programs allowed professionals Program Development a chance to represent the organization. Graduate-level aviation students present and publish work in TRR through close work with advisors as part of the ACRP Graduate Research Awards.

Research to Support the Workforce Cooperative Research Program publications offer practical insights and frameworks for transportation practitioners. Although the research is often divided by mode of transportation, the issues cross industry lines. Three popular reports in 2020 focused on workforce optimization, expanding the workforce, and promoting employee health.

Increasingly, state transportation agencies are tasked with doing more with less when it comes to managing state transportation networks. NCHRP Research Report 923: Workforce Optimization Workbook for Transportation Construction Projects provides guidance to identify construction staffing needs and effectively allocate engineering and inspection staff and consultant resources to highway construction KeAnna Dakwa, Tennessee State University, shares research on traffic circles and crash severity at the 2020 TRB Annual projects, with 35 specific staffing strategies that may help alleviate Meeting. Photo: Risdon Photography construction staff challenges.17

Although women currently are underrepresented in the transit industry, the percentage of women within transit agencies is increasing, and many transit agencies report that the percentage of women advancing into management and leadership positions has also been increasing over the past five years.TCRP Synthesis 147: Attracting, Retaining, and Advancing Women in Transit explores strategies that have been deployed effectively in transit and related industries.18

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These reports are amazing for teaching. ACRP Synthesis 113: Airport Workforce Programs Supporting Employee Well-Being details the most commonly used programs of this type.19 But it’s not like a textbook. It’s actually Benefits to employers include reduced health care costs, improved something you want to read. productivity, decreased absenteeism, improved employee recruitment and retention, and more teamwork among employees. By participating Jennifer Schildgen, Airport Planner, in well-being programs, employees can also experience personal Division of Aeronautics, Idaho Transportation Department benefits, such as improved physical health, increased job satisfaction, and other emotional benefits.

Seeing TRB’s Impact Instead of a traditional aviation textbook, which can be hard to come by in this constantly changing industry, Dr. Kim Kenville, University of North Dakota, uses ACRP Research Report 16: Guidebook for Managing Small Airports, Second Edition, in her classes.20 “This publication is just so consumable, useable, and the information is in chunks that fit perfectly into hourly lectures. The students . . . can learn more and find things easily,” notes Kenville.

Emmett Municipal Airport, outside of Boise, Idaho, “took every bit of advice” from ACRP Synthesis 74: Combining Mixed-Use Flight Operations Safely at Airports.21 Since incorporating the procedures detailed in the report into its operations, the airport has not reported any further complaints from airplane pilots about the safety of paramotors—ultralight, engine-powered paragliders that are launched by foot or dolly. This success has led airport management to consult other ACRP reports, particularly pavement guidelines for small airports.

For agencies ranging from the U.S. Forest Service to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and many local transportation agencies in between, the volumes of the NCHRP Strategic Issues Facing Transportation series are valuable resources.22 Staff at various

14 TRB • 2020 Annual Report TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 205 of 228 agencies report specific projects. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has used volumes as guidance to help integrate risk from climate TOP 10 WEBINARS change and extreme weather. California’s Contra Costa Transportation 1. The Supply Chain and COVID-19 Authority will see future cost avoidance after using the guidance to 2. How Much Will COVID-19 Affect Travel raise the elevation of SR-4 to avoid flooding. At New York State DOT, Behavior? a volume spurred discussion and reflection for the sustainability team and high-level managers. These and many other voices from the field 3. Traffic Trends and Safety in a COVID-19 World were reported in the NCHRP Impact Report 2019.23 4. Asset Management in a COVID-19 World Interactive Learning Opportunities 5. Transportation and COVID-19: Practices from Other Disease Outbreaks Every year, TRB offers approximately 100 webinars for professional 6. Turbo-Charged: Turbo Roundabout development to thousands of participants. Starting in March, TRB began Advancements presenting free rapid-response webinars, mostly around the ever-evolving COVID-19 pandemic. In March, an introductory webinar that clarified 7. Roundabouts in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices lessons learned from similar disruptions attracted 1,000 people to the live event; since then, another 1,400 have watched the recording.24 8. Why Surface Transportation Agencies Subsequent rapid-response webinars took a look at more nuanced issues, Use Drones including the supply chain and overall traffic trends, both of which hosted 9. Evaluation Load Testing for Bridges 25,26 more than 1,500 attendees. A webinar on COVID-19’s effects on asset 10. A Conversation on Speed Management management drew more than 1,000 attendees.27 Data as of November 2020

Blogs on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion In 2020, TRB began a blog on trb.org to tie together the wide range of resources available on topics that are shaping the future of transportation. The first posts in the series explored TRB’s offerings on building socioeconomic equity, transportation accessibility for people with disabilities, and improving workplace diversity and inclusion.28 Executive Director Neil Pedersen shared personal reflections on transportation’s role in addressing the racial disparity that exists in our society.

Appealing to Younger Generations with What Has Always Made Transportation Exciting We work in a groundbreaking industry that has become even more exciting over the past 10 years because of the increasing application of computer-based technology. A new video from TRB introduces a new generation to Your Future in Transportation.29 More than 10,000 views and three Telly Awards speak to the video’s success.

Many of the values that younger generations seek in a career can easily be met by a job in transportation. There are unending opportunities to continue learning and growing as the industry progresses. Not only engineers and designers but also planners and data analysts can make a difference to the world through their work in transportation. The practical, sensible results in transportation are easy to see and are constantly improving.

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GOAL 6 Communications New Ways to Tell TRB’s Story One of the most visible changes to TRB in 2020— especially as we moved to an increasingly online world—is the update to TRB’s website. The new website shows off a modern design but also highlights the clear connections to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Other new features include a blog and an events Paul Mackie, Director of Communications calendar that integrates other offerings from the National Academies. Internal codes allow social media to pull in images from the website when users post about TRB offerings. Our Global Affiliates’ logos are featured on the home page. It is a more appropriate storefront for the workings occurring behind the scenes, as TRB’s communications staff now are housed within the National Academies’ larger communications department and have a formalized strategy under new leadership.

In addition to TRB’s weekly newsletter, three mode-specific listservs send out announcements of new projects, calls for nominations, calls for problem statements, and requests for proposals as they arise. Each of these lists are made up of a couple thousand subscribers who often are responsible for further spreading the message at the university transportation centers, professional groups, consultancies, or the state DOTs they represent.

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Audience Growth The world should welcome more ideas In March, TRB surveyed subscribers of its long-standing weekly from nontechnical transportation E-Newsletter, finding insights into TRB’s community. The survey professionals who can communicate showed significant engagement from TRB’s core volunteers and friends in standing committees, panel members, and transportation agency innovations in transportation more visually professionals in the United States as well as in Australia, Canada, India, and less technically. I hope to refresh in and Spain. It also showed huge potential for audience growth with younger, female, and other underrepresented audiences. everyone’s mind that transportation safety

TRB is working on several communications initiatives that will is not only an engineering business—it is bear fruit over the next year, including a significant revision of everybody’s business. TRB has provided its communications strategic plan, a major design update to the E-Newsletter, and more ways for volunteers to engage in a valuable me with research-based tools and peer-to- way. Changes will be aimed at impressing the existing TRB community peer learning, not to mention the and reaching new audiences. knowledge I’ve gained during the four times TRB continues to reach more key audiences through multiple platforms, including growing social media presences. While Twitter I’ve attended the TRB Annual Meeting in and Facebook remain social stalwarts, TRB has focused especially Washington, D.C., in the past decade. on improving communications through LinkedIn, where researchers and professionals are looking to interact, promote their work, and find Rudynah Capone, Innovation and Technology Transfer Manager, Louisiana Transportation solutions. Research Center

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Guiding the Conversation

TRB started the year off in the news with the 2020 Advising the Nation Annual Meeting. Sessions were featured on C-SPAN, and A flurry of newspapers and other media throughout South Streetsblog USA’s The Overhead Wire did a three-part Carolina showed the continued use of TRB’s 2019 future podcast series on material presented at the meeting. interstates report, localizing the issue of the condition of Articles appeared in Forbes, Politico, and Inverse, as Interstates and using the report to explore next steps.32 well as in trade and academic publications including An outlet in Rhode Island also referenced the same TRB Transport Topics, AASHTO Journal, Freight Waves, Mass report to point to issues specific to the state.33 Transit Magazine, and more. As the year continued, TRB’s resources continued to be cited in legislation, as well as in TRB’s Committee for a Study on the Feasibility of trade and popular press. Wheelchair Restraint Systems in Passenger Aircraft continued to hold public panel sessions while conducting Transportation and Communicable its research.34 An in-depth review of travel accessibility Disease for people with disabilities by USA Today reported on the panel’s work.35 The final research is expected in 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic had an immense impact on transportation in 2020. Early on, TRB research was highlighted in an article by The Washington Post, citing Extended Research the importance of planning, as detailed in ACRP’s Airport TRR publishes outstanding peer-reviewed papers Roles in Reducing Transmission of Communicable presenting research findings. An article published in TRR Diseases.30 As the pandemic progressed, articles in The on roads and GHG emissions was covered in more than Washington Post, Politico, Transport Topics, WAMU, and a dozen media outlets, including Scientific American, Government Technology noted TRB research in topics TechCrunch, and MIT News.36 ranging from public transit subsidies to airplane safety to changing travel behavior. Since COVID-19, the inequities around transportation

Public transit ridership had begun declining even before access are more glaring than ever. I plan to continue to COVID-19. The New York Times examined the topic and work with the Communications and Engagement noted an active TRB project analyzing the causes and Committee to highlight issues of concern and how responses.31 The publication will address the applicability of the results to the post-pandemic world while remaining we as practitioners can work to create a more just relevant in the long term. transportation system.

Stephanie Brooks, Project Manager, Community Engagement, Fitzgerald & Holliday, Inc.

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2021 and the Future

As we look to the future—100 years TRB’s 2021 Annual Meeting Embraces into the future—I believe our industry a Virtual Setting will pivot away from talking in terms of Because the need for knowledge hasn’t changed, TRB’s 100th Annual Meeting (TRBAM) will be conducted as a virtual event over a series of “transportation” and will be fully focused dates throughout January 2021. The decision to go virtual was made in on “mobility.” the interest of the health and safety of all meeting attendees in light of COVID-19. Many sessions and workshops will focus on the spotlight Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, Commissioner, theme “Launching a New Century of Mobility and Quality of Life.” New Jersey DOT Through an interactive virtual event platform, attendees will be able to join from anywhere in the world; experience presentation and poster sessions, workshops, exhibits, and committee meetings; and, most importantly, connect with other attendees—just as they have all come to expect from TRBAM each January.

Upcoming Work on COVID-19 and Equity Some of the biggest challenges of 2020 were already on TRB’s radar with research in the works (see box, page 20). Research that was started before the pandemic may now point to new directions in understanding current micromobility practice and policies in the United States and methodologies for calculating overall impacts, as well as return on investment. Transit employees who operate vehicles are essential and are vulnerable to COVID-19. Consequently, the new guide for bus operator workforce management will address recruiting, training, retaining, and rewarding of these important employees.

Questions of system equity are not new to public transit services and, as the pandemic has disproportionately affected people of color and those in blue-collar essential services positions, equity is becoming a central focus in transportation. A playbook for addressing inclusion in mobility for traditionally underserved populations is under way. Forthcoming TRB syntheses will assess the equity impacts of bus network redesigns and will examine the coordination of public transit with investments in affordable housing policies.

TRB • 2020 Annual Report 19 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 210 of 228 Some communities are weighing the economic, social, and research, data, and technical analyses to inform public environmental benefits of fare-free public transportation policy decisions about whether and how such systems against the costs and benefits of current fare payment may be used on commercial aircraft. In terms of public systems and available capacity for increased ridership. A transportation, studies will test a smartphone app meant to study will examine the benefits, costs, and trade-offs to aid users with visual impairments in navigating public bus consider in eliminating partial or full public transportation systems, as well as research that will help set the stage fares. Another synthesis will document the impacts on for consistency in the design, installation, and usability revenue and equity of implementation of fare capping in of tactile walking surfaces for people with reduced mobility U.S. transit agencies. in multimodal transportation.

Guides are also expected to explore issues around general Two new standing committees also are addressing policing and people experiencing homelessness in public ongoing research related to COVID-19 and equity: the transportation. Transportation and Public Health Committee and the Equity in Transportation Committee. TRB will continue to focus on transportation accessibility for people with disabilities. A highly anticipated consensus study expected in 2021 will assess and evaluate the 2021 Critical Issues Update conditions under which it may be technically feasible to TRB’s Critical Issues in Transportation 2019 reflects the equip passenger aircraft with in-cabin restraint systems issues the Executive Committee charged TRB’s programs for motorized and nonmotorized wheelchairs. The study and committees to focus on.37 Transportation issues change is expected to advise on further actions for needed quickly and have already developed since publication.

TRB PROJECTS RELATED TO COVID-19 AND EQUITY NCHRP Synthesis Project 20-05/Topic 52-13 TCRP Project J-11/Task 39 Shared Micromobility Policies, Permits, and Practices Evaluation Framework for Fare-Free Public Transportation https://bit.ly/36AwARu https://bit.ly/2IzcVcC

NCHRP Project 08-36/Task 62 TCRP Synthesis Project J-07/Topic SH-21 Best Practice Methodology for Calculating Return on Transit Fare Capping: Balancing Revenue and Equity Investment for Transportation Programs and Projects Impacts https://bit.ly/35vg0CY https://bit.ly/36wXtWh

TCRP Project F-28 TCRP Project J-05/Topic 20-03 Practitioner’s Guide to Bus Operator Workforce Policing and Public Transportation Management https://bit.ly/38FUy05 https://bit.ly/3eXICrF TCRP Project J-11/Task 40 TCRP Project B-47 Homelessness: A Guide for Public Transportation Impact of Transformational Technologies on Underserved https://bit.ly/3lvZWXh Populations https://bit.ly/3lwkU8m Study on the Feasibility of Wheelchair Restraint Systems in Passenger Aircraft TCRP Synthesis Project J-07/Topic SA-52 https://bit.ly/35vgAAE Assessing Equity and Identifying Impacts Associated with Transit IDEA Project J-04/IDEA 91 Bus Network Redesigns https://bit.ly/3pqjkaH Comprehensive Wayfinding for All (CWall) https://bit.ly/3ks9HnZ TCRP Synthesis Project J-07/Topic SB-34 TCRP Project B-46 Coordination of Public Transit Services and Investments Tactile Wayfinding in Transportation Settings for Travelers with Affordable Housing Policies https://bit.ly/3eZGIXu Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired https://bit.ly/2Iz1z8t

20 TRB • 2020 Annual Report TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 211 of 228 Mobility technology and services update regularly, the on COVID-19’s impact on transportation and on social and population is shifting locations and behaviors in response racial equity issues in transportation, TRB will be issuing to the pandemic, and the changing economy requires new addenda to the 2019 document addressing these two topic ways of thinking about financing. In response to the focus areas.

Endnotes 1 http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/general/trb_strategic_ 23 www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/180526.aspx plan.pdf 24 www.nationalacademies.org/event/03-23-2020/trb-webinar- 2 “Tell Us ‘Our’ Story” responses can be found at https:// transportation-covid-19-practices-from-other-disease- trbcentennial.nationalacademies.org/our-story/tell-us-our- outbreaks story-challenge-responses. 25 www.nationalacademies.org/event/04-08-2020/trb-webinar- 3 www.nap.edu/catalog/25472/the-transportation-research- the-supply-chain-and-covid-19 board-1920-2020-everyone-interested-is-invited 26 www.nationalacademies.org/event/06-01-2020/trb-webinar- 4 www.trb.org/main/CallforRNSTransportationAndPandemics. how-much-will-covid-19-affect-travel-behavior aspx 27 www.nationalacademies.org/event/07-15-2020/trb-webinar- 5 www.nap.edu/catalog/25635/analysis-of-recent-public- transportation-asset-management-in-a-covid-19-world transit-ridership-trends 28 To see these and other blog posts, visit www. 6 www.nap.edu/catalog/25709/zero-emission-vehicles- nationalacademies.org/trb/blog. forecasting-fleet-scenarios-and-their-emissions-implications 29 https://youtu.be/YkT4UZL-tpo 7 www.nap.edu/catalog/25842/guidebook-for-deploying-zero- 30 The article can be found at www.washingtonpost.com/local/ emission-transit-buses trafficandcommuting/the-gao-told-the-government-in-2015- 8 www.nap.edu/catalog/25744/incorporating-the-costs-and- to-develop-a-plan-to-protect-the-aviation-system-against- benefits-of-adaptation-measures-in-preparation-for-extreme- an-outbreak-it-never-happened/2020/03/24/81cf1926-65- weather-events-and-climate-change-guidebook 55-11ea-b3fc-7841686c5c57_story.html. The ACRP report can be found at www.nap.edu/catalog/25367/airport-roles- 9 www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/the-role-of-public- in-reducing-transmission-of-communicable-diseases. transportation-and-mobility-management-in-an-era-of-new- and-expanding-shared-mobility-options 31 The article can be found at www.nytimes.com/ 10 www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/181449.aspx interactive/2020/03/13/upshot/mystery-of-missing-bus- riders.html. The project can be found at https://apps.trb.org/ 11 www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/lead-emissions-from- cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4524. piston-powered-general-aviation-aircraft 32 The articles can be found at www.kpvi.com/news/ 12 www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/181388.aspx national_news/s-c-interstates-have-backlog-of-problems/ 13 www.nap.edu/catalog/25691/long-term-infrastructure- article_0f1b17ad-31e2-5666-aa3c-d97c567f1e4b.html, program-letter-report-january-2-2020 www.charlestonchronicle.net/2020/07/19/south-carolina- interstate-systems-rate-of-fatalities-bridge-deterioration- 14 www.nationalacademies.org/event/05-28-2020/acrp-insight- travel-increase-and-congestion-among-highest-in-u-s, and event-flight-plan-to-recovery-preparing-airports-and-their- https://thetandd.com/news/local/s-c-interstates-have- business-partners-for-the-return-of-the-flying-public backlog-of-problems/article_0604ebb6-6c68-5e12-9257- 15 https://vimeo.com/showcase/7164384 623cd451411b.html. To see The Future Interstate Report, visit www.nap.edu/resource/25334/interstate. 16 www.trb.org/AboutTRB/MinorityStudent.aspx 33 www.wpri.com/news/transportation/report-majority-of-ris- 17 www.nap.edu/catalog/25720/workforce-optimization- interstate-bridges-in-need-of-replacement workbook-for-transportation-construction-projects 34 www8.nationalacademies.org/pa/projectview.aspx? 18 www.nap.edu/catalog/25741/attracting-retaining-and- key=51840 advancing-women-in-transit 35 https://stories.usatodaynetwork.com/flying-while-disabled/ 19 www.nap.edu/catalog/25919/airport-workforce-programs- bathroom-accessibility supporting-employee-well-being 36 http://news.mit.edu/2020/stiffer-roadways-improve-truck- 20 http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/162145.aspx efficiency-emissions-0611 21 www.nap.edu/catalog/23568/combining-mixed-use-flight- 37 www.nap.edu/catalog/25314/critical-issues-in- operations-safely-at-airports transportation-2019 22 www.nap.edu/catalog/25757/strategic-issues-facing- transportation-volume-7-preservation-maintenance-and- renewal-of-highway-infrastructure

TRB • 2020 Annual Report 21 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 212 of 228 Volunteer Leadership

TRB’s Executive Committee provides strategic direction and oversight of TRB’s programs and activities. The 26 appointed members of the volunteer Executive Committee include public- and private-sector executives, prominent academicians, and members of the National Academies. In addition, 16 ex officio members—top executives from TRB’s sponsoring agencies—serve on the Executive Committee. As TRB Executive Director, Neil Pedersen is the only staff member on the committee.

Transportation Research Board 2020 Executive Committee*

Carlos M. Braceras, Susan A. Shaheen, Professor, Neil J. Pedersen, Executive Executive Director, Utah Civil and Environmental Director, Transportation Department of Transportation, Engineering and Co-Director, Research Board Salt Lake City Transportation Sustainability Research Center, University of California, Berkeley

Michael F. Ableson, CEO, Susan Hanson, Distinguished Geraldine Knatz, Professor, Arrival Automotive–North University Professor Emerita, Sol Price School of Public America, Birmingham, Graduate School of Geography, Policy, Viterbi School of Michigan Clark University, Worcester, Engineering, University of Massachusetts Southern California, Marie Therese Dominguez, Los Angeles Commissioner, New York State Stephen W. Hargarten, Department of Transportation, Professor, Emergency William Kruger, Vice Albany Medicine, Medical College of President, UPS Freight for Fleet Wisconsin, Milwaukee Maintenance and Engineering, Ginger Evans, Chief Strategy Richmond, Virginia Officer, CAG Holdings LLC, Chris T. Hendrickson, Washington, D.C. Hamerschlag University Julie Lorenz, Secretary, Professor of Engineering Kansas Department of Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon Transportation, Topeka Nuria I. Fernandez, General University, Pittsburgh, Manager–CEO, Santa Clara Pennsylvania Valley Transportation Authority, Michael R. McClellan, Vice San Jose, California S. Jack Hu, UGA Foundation President–Strategic Planning, Distinguished Professor of Norfolk Southern Corporation, Nathaniel P. Ford, Sr., Chief Engineering, Senior Vice Norfolk, Virginia Executive Officer, Jacksonville President for Academic Affairs Transportation Authority, and Provost, University of Melinda McGrath, Jacksonville, Florida Georgia, Athens Executive Director, Mississippi Department of Transportation, Michael F. Goodchild, Roger B. Huff, President, Jackson Professor Emeritus, HGLC, LLC, Farmington Hills, Department of Geography, Michigan Patrick K. McKenna, University of California, Director, Missouri Department Santa Barbara of Transportation, Ashby Johnson, Executive Jefferson City Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, Director, Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Commissioner, New Jersey Brian W. Ness, Director, Organization, Austin, Texas Department of Transportation, Idaho Transportation Trenton Department, Boise

22 TRB • 2020 Annual Report TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 213 of 228 James M. Tien, Distinguished Martha R. Grabowski, Craig A. Rutland, U.S. Air Professor and Dean Emeritus, McDevitt Distinguished Chair Force Pavement Engineer, U.S. College of Engineering, in Information Systems, Air Force Civil Engineer Center, University of Miami, Coral and Professor and Director, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida Gables, Florida Information Systems Programs, (ex officio) Le Moyne College, Syracuse, Shawn Wilson, Secretary, New York (ex officio) Karl L. Schultz (Admiral, U.S. Louisiana Department Coast Guard), Commandant, of Transportation and William H. Graham, Jr. U.S. Coast Guard, Washington, Development, Baton Rouge (Major General, U.S. Army), D.C. (ex officio) Deputy Commanding General Victoria A. Arroyo, Executive for Civil and Emergency Karl Simon, Director, Director, Georgetown Operations, U.S. Army Corps of Transportation and Climate Climate Center; Professor Engineers (ex officio) Division, U.S. Environmental from Practice, Georgetown Protection Agency (ex officio) University Law Center, John T. Gray II, Senior Washington, D.C. (ex officio; Vice President, Policy and Paul P. Skoutelas, President past chair, 2019) Economics, Association and CEO, American Public of American Railroads, Transportation Association, Michael R. Berube, Washington, D.C. (ex officio) Washington, D.C. (ex officio) Acting Deputy Secretary for Sustainable Transportation, Nikola Ivanov, Director Katherine F. Turnbull, U.S. Department of Energy, of Operations, Center for Executive Associate Director Washington, D.C. (ex officio) Advanced Transportation and Regents Fellow Research Technology Laboratory, Scientist, Texas A&M Steven Cliff, Deputy University of Maryland, Transportation Institute, Executive Officer, California Air College Park, and Chair, TRB College Station (ex officio, Resources Board, Sacramento Young Members Coordinating voting; past chair, 2018) (ex officio) Council (ex officio) Jim Tymon, Executive LeRoy Gishi, Chief, Division Nicole R. Nason, Director, American Association of Transportation, Bureau of Administrator, Federal Highway of State Highway and Indian Affairs, U.S. Department Administration, Washington, Transportation Officials, of the Interior, Germantown, D.C. (ex officio) Washington, D.C. (ex officio) Maryland (ex officio) Leslie S. Richards, General Manager, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (ex officio)

* Membership as of October 15, 2020.

TRB • 2020 Annual Report 23 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 214 of 228 APPENDIX A Statement of Activities Funding Support by Program and Expenditures 2019 (Actual) 2020 (Projected*) CORE TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES State Highway and Transportation Departments (State DOTs) $7,730,000 $7,910,000 Federal Government Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) 1,450,000 1,400,000 Office of the Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Research and Technology (OST-R) 300,000 225,000 Federal Transit Administration (FTA) 187,000 187,000 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 216,000 162,000 Department of the Interior 85,000 85,000 Department of Energy (DOE) 72,000 74,000 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 72,000 74,000 U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center 72,000 74,000 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration 75,000 56,000 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 72,000 54,000 Federal Railroad Administration 72,000 54,000 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 0 25,000 Subtotal, Federal Government $2,673,000 $2,470,000 Other Fees and Sales 6,062,000 2,761,000 California Air Resources Board 77,000 79,000 American Public Transportation Association 72,000 74,000 Association of American Railroads 72,000 74,000 Subtotal, Other $6,283,000 $2,988,000 TOTAL, CORE TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES $16,686,000 $13,368,000 MARINE BOARD CORE PROGRAM U.S. Coast Guard 75,000 75,000 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 75,000 75,000 Office of Naval Research 65,000 65,000 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 40,000 40,000 Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement 30,000 30,000 Maritime Administration 19,000 19,000 U.S. Navy Supervisor of Salvage and Diving 12,000 12,000 TOTAL, MARINE BOARD CORE PROGRAM $316,000 $316,000 COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS National Cooperative Highway Research Program (State DOTs) 45,100,000 43,000,000 Airport Cooperative Research Program (FAA) 14,059,000 12,438,000 Transit Cooperative Research Program (FTA) 5,451,000 4,980,000 Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program (Governors Highway Safety Association, NHTSA) 775,000 1,262,000 National Cooperative Freight Research Program (OST-R) 224,000 32,000 TOTAL, COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS $65,609,000 $61,712,000 RAIL SAFETY IDEA PROGRAM $446,000 $383,000 EVALUATIONS OF FHWA RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM PROJECTS $0 $810,000 SECOND STRATEGIC HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM SAFETY DATA, PHASE 1 $4,494,000 $1,392,000 POLICY STUDIES $3,416,000 $2,717,000 CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, FORUMS, RESEARCH PROJECTS, AND TRB CENTENNIAL $3,548,000 $1,287,000 TRB TOTAL $94,515,000 $82,080,000

* Calendar Year 2020 comprises actual data through October and estimates for the remainder of the year.

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TRB Funding Support 2019 (Actual) 2020 (Projected*) SOURCES OF FUNDS Federal 33% Federal 32,423,000 26,945,000 State DOTs 52,830,000 50,910,000 Other 9,262,000 4,225,000 Other 5% TOTAL $94,515,000 $82,080,000

State DOTs 62%

Distribution of TRB Expenditures 2019 (Actual) 2020 (Projected*) EXPENDITURES BY MAJOR COST CATEGORY Salaries Direct Costs Indirect Costs (including fringe Travel and Consultants and Contracts 48,356,000 42,594,000 24% benefits) 20% Meetings 2% Salaries (including fringe benefits) 15,672,000 16,958,000 Other Direct Editing, Abstracting, Editing, Abstracting, and Publishing 1,929,000 1,467,000 Costs 2% Travel and Meetings 5,267,000 1,433,000 and Publishing 2% Other Direct Costs 2,333,000 1,922,000 Indirect Costs 19,712,000 19,797,000 TOTAL EXPENDITURES $93,269,000 $84,171,000 Consultants and Contracts 51%

TRB Reserve Fund 2019 (Actual) 2020 (Projected*) Fund balance, end of previous fiscal year $17,960,000 $19,206,000 Plus (minus) current fiscal year income over (under) expenditures 1,246,000 (2,091,000) BALANCE, CURRENT FISCAL YEAR $19,206,000 $17,115,000

In 1965, the TRB Executive Committee approved a reserve fund to provide for orderly adjustments in the event of a temporary shortfall in anticipated revenues for TRB technical activities. This fund, built up over the years from surplus income in excess of expenditures from nonfederal sources for any one fiscal year, is reserved for expenditures in excess of income for any later fiscal year under a fixed budget approved annually by the TRB Executive Committee.

TRB • 2020 Annual Report 25 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 216 of 228 APPENDIX B Sponsors and Institutional Affiliates Sponsors Kentucky Transportation Cabinet North Dakota Department of Jason Siwula Transportation Matthew Linneman State Transportation Departments Louisiana Department of Transportation (Listed with TRB Representatives) and Development Ohio Department of Transportation Samuel Cooper Vicky Fout Alabama Department of Transportation Juanita Owens Maine Department of Transportation Oklahoma Department of Transportation Dale Peabody David Ooten Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Maryland State Highway Administration Oregon Department of Transportation Anna Bosin Allison R. Hardt Michael Edward Bufalino Richard Y. Woo Arizona Department of Transportation Pennsylvania Department of Dianne Kresich Massachusetts Department of Transportation Transportation Brian Wall Arkansas State Highway and Stephen Woelfel Transportation Department Rhode Island Department of Christopher Dailey Michigan Department of Transportation Transportation Carol Aldrich Colin A. Franco California Department of Transportation Dara Wheeler Minnesota Department of Transportation South Carolina Department of Hafiz Munir Transportation Colorado Department of Transportation Terry Swygert Stephen Cohn Mississippi Department of Transportation Cynthia Smith South Dakota Department of Connecticut Department of Transportation Transportation Edgardo Block Missouri Department of Transportation David L. Huft Jennifer Harper Delaware Department of Transportation Tennessee Department of Transportation Drew Boyce Montana Department of Transportation David Lee Susan C. Sillick District Department of Transportation Texas Department of Transportation Stephanie Dock Nebraska Department of Roads Kevin Pete Mick S. Syslo Florida Department of Transportation Utah Department of Transportation James D. Dockstader Nevada Department of Transportation Cameron T. Kergaye Ken Chambers Georgia Department of Transportation Vermont Agency of Transportation Supriya Kamatkar New Hampshire Department of Emily Parkany Transportation Hawaii Department of Transportation Ann Scholz Virginia Department of Transportation Casey C. Abe Catherine McGhee New Jersey Department of Transportation Idaho Transportation Department Amanda Gendek Washington State Department of Ned E. Parrish Transportation New Mexico Department of Illinois Department of Transportation Anne Freeman Transportation Megan Swanson Tamara Haas West Virginia Department of Indiana Department of Transportation Transportation New York State Department of Barry K. Partridge Perry Keller Transportation Iowa Department of Transportation Robert Sack Wisconsin Department of Transportation Peggi S. Knight Diane Gurtner North Carolina Department of Kansas Department of Transportation Transportation Wyoming Department of Transportation Daniel Wadley Neil Mastin Timothy McDowell

26 TRB • 2020 Annual Report TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 217 of 228 Federal Government Marine Board Sponsors Calendar and Fiscal Year U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Safety and Environmental 2020 Core Financial Federal Aviation Administration Enforcement Support Provided by Federal Highway Administration Maritime Administration • 88 Sponsor and Sustaining Global Affiliates Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration National Oceanic and Atmospheric • 70 Organizational Affiliates from 12 nations Federal Railroad Administration Administration • More than 700 individual affiliates Federal Transit Administration Office of Naval Research National Highway Traffic Safety Office of the Supervisor of Salvage and Administration Diving, U.S. Navy Office of the Assistant Secretary of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Transportation for Research and Technology U.S. Coast Guard U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Global Affiliates U.S. Department of Energy Sustaining Circle U.S. Department of the Interior Caliper Corporation U.S. Environmental Protection Agency HDR HNTB Corporation Other Organizations Jacobs American Association of State Highway Kittelson & Associates, Inc. and Transportation Officials Michael Baker American Public Transportation Association National Transportation Safety Board Association of American Railroads Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration California Air Resource Board Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Texas A&M Transportation Institute U.S. Department of Agriculture VHB Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority WSP

TRB • 2020 Annual Report 27 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 218 of 228 APPENDIX C TRB Webinars, Conferences, and Workshops January 1 – December 31, 2020 • In-person conferences and workshops are noted with their location. JANUARY 16 Making Your Budget Work: Stormwater Management Projects at Airports 12–16 TRB 99th Annual Meeting • Washington, D.C. 17 How Rough Is Your Pavement? 27 Turning Your Aviation Research Question into a Problem Statement 19 Exploring Equity Implications of Emerging Transportation Technologies 29 Turbo-Charged: Turbo Roundabout Advancements 23 Transportation and COVID-19: Practices from Other Disease Outbreaks FEBRUARY 26 How to Guide Alternative Contracting Projects 5–6 Committee Meeting for a Study on the Feasibility of 30 Guide for Transportation Performance Management and Data Wheelchair Restraint Systems in Passenger Aircraft • Washington, D.C. 31 Designing Solid-State Roadway Lighting 11 Evaluating Load Testing for Bridges 12 To Fuel or Not to Fuel: Guidance for Providing Aircraft APRIL Fueling Services 8 The Supply Chain and COVID-19 18–19 Lead Emissions from Piston-Powered General Aviation 9 How Construction History May Enhance a Pavement Aircraft Meeting • Washington, D.C. Management System 19 Let’s Work Together: Airport Emergency Working Groups 13 Roundabouts in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices 19–20 Coast Guard Maritime Domain Awareness Committee 14 Start Your Transportation Research with TRID Meeting • Washington, D.C. 16 Demanding Data: Transactional Data for Demand-Responsive 19–20 Cybersecurity Workforce of the Federal Aviation Transportation Administration Committee Meeting • Washington, D.C. 20–21 Committee Meeting for a Study on the Feasibility of 24 How to Preserve Your Pavement Through Better Crack Seal Wheelchair Restraint Systems in Passenger Aircraft 24–25 Forum on Preparing for Automated Vehicles and Shared 21 Breaking Down Barriers: Aiding Airport Travelers with Mobility Services • Washington, D.C. Disabilities 25 American Society of Civil Engineers Geo-Congress 2020 22 Greener in Many Ways: Environmentally Sustainable Funding • Minneapolis, Minnesota* and Financing 25 Why Surface Transportation Agencies Use Drones 23 Protecting Your Airspace: Implementing Obstruction 26 Future of U.S. Science Policy Symposium at the National Management Plans Academy of Sciences • Washington, D.C. 27 The Intersection Between Health and Transportation 27 Emergency Events and Their Damage to Assets 28 Sustainable Highway Construction 28–29 Coast Guard Maritime Domain Awareness Committee MARCH Meeting 2 Greener in Two Ways: Innovative Sustainability Solutions for 30 What Role Does Ecology Have in Sustainable Transportation? Airports 4 Fast-Tracked: A Tactical Transit Study MAY 5 Quantifying the Performance of Your Pavement Preservation 7 Steel Your Bridges: Preservation Practices for Steel Bridge 8 Geosynthetics 2020: Case Studies • Charleston, South Coatings Carolina* 11 Staying Connected: Improving Your Airport’s Communication 9 A Conversation on Speed Management Strategies 11 Right-Sizing Transportation Investments 12 Attracting the Future Construction Workforce: Case Studies 12–13 Review and Update of Bureau of Safety and Environmental 12–13 Marine Board 2020 Spring Meeting Enforcement Offshore Oil and Gas Operations Inspection 13 Data-Sharing Tips for Public Transportation Agencies Program Committee Meeting • Washington, D.C. 13 Forum on COVID-19, AVs, and Shared Mobility (AV/SM)

28 TRB • 2020 Annual Report TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 219 of 228 13 Transportation Resilience Metrics Committee Meeting 13–15 Transportation Asset Management Summer Mega-Meeting* 18 Designing Landscapes to Enhance Roadside Water 14 Accelerating Automated Vehicle Acceptance Management 15 Asset Management in a COVID-19 World 19–20 Federal Highway Administration Research and Technology 16 Seismic Design Basics Coordinating Committee 20 Safe Transportation of Liquefied Natural Gas by Railroad Tank 21 You Can Get There from Here: Developing an Emissions Car Committee Meeting Roadmap for Airports 21 How Performance and Data Informs Transportation Decision 27 Evaluating Goals Under the Disadvantaged Business Making Enterprise (DBE) Program 23 Strategic Issues Affecting Highway Preservation, 28 Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Insight Event: Maintenance, and Renewal Flight Plan to Recovery—Preparing Airports and Their Business Partners for the Return of the Flying Public 27–30 Automated Vehicles Symposium 2020 28 Performance-Based Management of Traffic Signals 28 Bridge Scour Risk Management 29 Human Trafficking and Mobility of Missing and Murdered JUNE Indigenous Women 29 Standing Committee on Transportation and Public Health 1 How Much Will COVID-19 Affect Travel Behavior? Midyear Meeting 2 Traffic Trends and Safety in a COVID-19 World 29–30 Cybersecurity Workforce of the Federal Aviation 3 Enhancing Monarch Butterfly Habitats Along Roadway Administration Committee Meeting Corridors 29 Standing Committee on Environmental Analysis and Ecology 4 Evolution of Project Delivery Information Systems Virtual Seminar 10 How to Certify and Verify Pavement Surface Condition Data 30 Measures of Performance for Operating a Reliable 11 How to Use Self-Consolidating Concrete in Bridge Transportation System Applications 15 Standing Committees on Intermodal Freight Transport and AUGUST International Trade and Transportation Midyear Meeting 3–13 Roadside Safety Design and AASHTO Technical Committee on 15 Standing Committee on Marine Safety and Human Factors Roadside Safety Midyear Meeting 4 Using Otta Seal as a Surface Treatment on Low-Volume Roads 16 Transportation Experiences and Next Steps in the COVID-19 4–5 ACRP Insight Event: Introduction to Blockchain and Airport Pandemic Operations in a COVID-19 Environment 17 Let’s Work Together: Collaborative Partnering for Airports 4–6 Geospatial Data Acquisition Technologies in Design and 18 Bearing with Bridges: Bearings and Expansion Joints on Construction Summer Committee Meeting Highway Bridges 5 Managing Construction Through Electronic Ticketing 23 Construction Project Staffing Strategies for Transportation 6 Reach for the Sky: Attracting New Aviation Career Agencies Professionals 24 Pavement Deflections: Past, Present, and Future 10 Selecting Better Pavement Markings through Field Trials 25 COVID-19 Impacts on Managed Lanes 11–12 Committee Meeting for a Study on the Feasibility of 26 Transportation Resilience Metrics Meeting Wheelchair Restraint Systems in Passenger Aircraft 29 A Research Roadmap for Transportation and Public Health 12 Enter the Portal: The Transportation Performance Management Portal 29–30 Cybersecurity Workforce of the Federal Aviation Administration Committee Meeting 12 TRB AV/SM Forum Members Meeting: Review Research White Papers 30 Forecasting Zero-Emission Vehicles Fleet Scenarios and Emissions Implications 13 What’s Cooler than Cool? Cooler Pavements for Urban Heat Island Mitigation JULY 18 Public Transit Ridership Trends 7 Smooth Road Ahead: Applying Pavement Condition Data for 19 Preserving Concrete Pavement Airports 26 Delivering Bridge Projects with Building Information Modeling 8 When to Use Fully Grouted Piezometer Installations 26 Review of Federal Highway Administration Infrastructure 9 Enhance Work Zone Safety with New Technologies R&D: Expert Task Group on Bridges

TRB • 2020 Annual Report 29 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 220 of 228 26 U.S.–China Mobility Management Meeting* 20 Measuring Highway Assets Through Nondestructive 31 The Relationship Between Bicycle Facilities and Increasing Evaluation Bicycle Trips 21 Benefitting from Weigh-in-Motion Data 22 Balancing the Scales: Equity Analysis in Transportation SEPTEMBER Planning 2 How Women Fare in the Transit Industry 28 Finding the Path: Messaging Before, During, and After Weather Events 8 Envisioning the Next Generation of Traffic Management Systems 29 2020 Virtual Forum on Sustainability and Emerging Transportation Technology, Part 1 9 Fabricating Asphalt for Laboratory Testing 29 Make it Count: Estimating Market Values for Small Airports 10 Framework for Managing Data from Emerging Technologies 15 Committee on Progress and Opportunities Toward Decreasing the Risk of Offshore Energy Operations Meeting NOVEMBER 15 Incentivizing Sustainable Air Service 2 Reporting Employee Safety in Public Transportation 15–16 Cybersecurity Workforce of the Federal Aviation 5 2020 Virtual Forum on Sustainability and Emerging Administration Committee Meeting Transportation Technology, Part 2 15–16 Workshop on Transportation Law 6 Keep on Truckin’: Using Simulators for CDL Testing During COVID-19 16 On the Road Again: Engaging Students in Road Engineering Careers 9 Advancing Innovative Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility Research 17 Enhancing Pavement Foundation Resilience Through Moisture Measurement 9–10 Marine Board Fall Meeting 21 Modeling Long-Distance Intercity Travel for Sustainable 12 Celebrating TRB’s Centennial by Exploring the Future of Global Travel Transportation Research 21 Security of America’s Medical Product Supply Chain 16–18 Workshop on Traffic Simulation and CAV Modeling Committee Meeting 17 3-D Printing of Cement-Based Materials 22 Designing Beyond: Improving Airport Operations Through BIM 17–18 Transit Safety and Security Conference and American Public 23 Stay Current on Research in Progress Transit Association Midyear Safety and Security Seminar 24 Commodity Flow Survey Workshop 18 Using Roadside Animal Detection Systems to Protect Drivers and Wildlife 24 Federal Highway Administration Research and Technology Coordinating Committee 19 Paving the Way: Smart and Multifunctional Pavements 29 Capacity Impacts of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles 23 Advances in Unstable Slope Instrumentation and Monitoring

OCTOBER DECEMBER 1 Governing Data to Improve Transportation Asset Management 3 Rail in the Time of Coronavirus: Planning, Operating, and Constructing Rail 5 Introducing an Improved Design Procedure for Unbonded Concrete Overlays 8 Planning an Effective Airport Deicing Runoff Management Program 6 A Resilient Path Forward for the Marine Transportation System 9 Specifying Clay and Gravel for Road Surfacing 7 Weathering the Storm: Climate Resilience at Airports 10 Cross-Cutting Issues in Urban Congestion Pricing 8 Updating Designs for Mechanically Stabilized Earth Walls in AASHTO *TRB was cosponsor of the meeting. 13 Advancing Transportation Equity 14 How Accurate Are Traffic Forecasts? 15 Determining Social and Economic Qualifications in the DBE Program 19 Where Are We Now with Performance-Based Pavement Warranties?

30 TRB • 2020 Annual Report TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 221 of 228 APPENDIX D TRB Publications January 1 – December 31, 2020 Transportation E-C260 Managing Highway Rock Slope 212 Airports and Unmanned Aircraft Scaling Systems Research Records E-C261 TRB Forum on Preparing for • Volume 1: Managing and (online) Automated Vehicles and Shared Engaging Stakeholders on UAS 2674:1 Issue 1: January 2020 Mobility in the Vicinity of Airports • Volume 2: Incorporating UAS 2674:2 Issue 2: February 2020 E-C262 TRANSED 2018: 15th International Conference on Mobility and into Airport Infrastructure— 2674:3 Issue 3: March 2020 Transport for Older Adults and Planning Guidebook 2674:4 Issue 4: April 2020 People with Disabilities • Volume 3: Potential Use of UAS by Airport Operators 2674:5 Issue 5: May 2020 E-C263 Conference on Performance and 213 Estimating Market Value and 2674:6 Issue 6: June 2020 Data in Transportation Decision Making Establishing Market Rent at Small 2674:7 Issue 7: July 2020 Airports E-C264 Conference on Health and Active 2674:8 Issue 8: August 2020 Transportation 214 BIM Beyond Design Guidebook 2674:9 Issue 9: September 2020 E-C265 Second International Conference 215 Transportation Network 2674:10 Issue 10: October 2020 on Resilience to Natural Hazards Companies (TNCs): Impacts and Extreme Weather Events to Airport Revenues and 2674:11 Issue 11: November 2020 Operations—Reference Guide E-C266 Transportation Asset Management 2674:12 Issue 12: December 2020 in a COVID-19 World 216 Guidebook for Assessing Collaborative Planning Efforts E-C267 Summary of Transportation 1 Among Airport and Public Planning Special Reports Research Needs Related to Agencies 334 Review of the Federal Railroad COVID-19 Administration’s Research and 217 Guidance for Diversity in Airport Development Program Business Contracting and TR News Workforce Programs 335 Leveraging Unmanned Systems for Coast Guard Missions Nos. 325–330 218 Building and Maintaining Air Service Through Incentive Online Newsletters Programs Conference Proceedings 219 Advanced Ground Vehicle on the Web (online) TRB Transportation Research E-Newsletter Technologies (AGVT) for Airside 26 Public–Private Partnerships: What Operations Are the Lessons Learned? Airport Cooperative 221 Measuring Quality of Life in 27 Flight Plan to Recovery: Preparing Research Program Communities Surrounding Airports Airports for the Return of the 222 Collecting and Sharing of Traveling Public (ACRP) Research Operations and Safety Data 2 Reports 223 Performance Measures for State Transportation 14 Deicing Planning Guidelines Aviation Agencies Research Circulars and Practices for Stormwater 224 Understanding Impacts to Airports Management Systems, Second from Temporary Flight Restrictions (E-Circulars) (online) Edition E-C259 International Transportation 210 Innovative Solutions to Facilitate ACRP Syntheses of and Economic Development Accessibility for Airport Travelers 2 Conference 2018: 15th with Disabilities Airport Practice International Conference on 211 Guidance for Using the Interactive 106 Airport Risk Identification and Mobility and Transport for Tool for Understanding NEPA at Prioritization Practices Older Adults and People with General Aviation Airports Disabilities 107 Models for Law Enforcement at Airports

1 Available in print and online. 2 Entire series available in print and online.

TRB • 2020 Annual Report 31 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 222 of 228 108 Characteristics of the FBO Industry ACRP WebResources 933 Evaluating Mechanical Properties 2018–2019 of Earth Material During Intelligent (online) 109 Escalator Falls Compaction 3 Airport Stormwater Electronic 110 Airport Renewable Energy Projects 934 Traffic Forecasting Accuracy Resource Library and Training Assessment Research Inventory and Case Examples Materials, Update 111 Last Mile in General Aviation: 935 Proposed AASHTO Seismic 8 Integrating Social Media with Specifications for ABC Column Courtesy Vehicles and Other Forms Emergency Management at Airports of Ground Transportation Connections 9 Airport Emergency Plan 936 Guide to Ensuring Access to the 112 Airport Operations Training at Small Development Tool Airports Publications and Data of Federally Funded Transportation Research 113 Airport Workforce Programs Supporting Employee Well-Being National Cooperative 937 Guidebook for Implementing Alternative Technical Concepts 114 Visual Arts Programs at Airports Highway Research in All Types of Highway Project Program (NCHRP) Delivery Methods ACRP Legal Research Research Reports3 938 Incorporating the Costs and Benefits of Adaptation Measures 2 750 Strategic Issues Facing Digests in Preparation for Extreme Weather Transportation, Volume 7: 21 Update: Compilation of DOT and Events and Climate Change: Preservation, Maintenance, and FAA Airport Legal Determinations Guidebook and Opinion Letters as of December Renewal of Highway Infrastructure 939 Guidebooks for Post-Award Contract 31, 2018 899 Broadening Integrated Corridor Administration for Highway Management Stakeholders 38 Legal Issues Related to Large-Scale Projects Delivered Using Alternative Airport Construction Projects 922 Stormwater Infiltration in the Contracting Methods Highway Environment: Guidance 39 Updated Survey of Laws and • Volume 1: Design–Build Delivery Manual Regulations Applicable to Airport • Volume 2: Construction Commercial Ground Transportation 923 Workforce Optimization Workbook Manager–General Contractor 40 Permissible Uses of Airport Property for Transportation Construction Delivery and Revenue Projects • Volume 3: Research Overview 924 Foreseeing the Impact of 940 Solid-State Roadway Lighting Transformational Technologies on Design ACRP Web-Only Land Use and Transportation Documents (online) • Volume 1: Guidance 926 Guidance to Improve Pedestrian and • Volume 2: Research Overview 42 Toolkits and Resource Library for Bicyclist Safety at Intersections Airports and Unmanned Aircraft 941 Bicyclist Facility Preferences and 927 Evaluating the Effects of Recycling Effects on Increasing Bicycle Trips Systems Agents on Asphalt Mixtures with 45 Airport Environmental Research High RAS and RAP Binder Ratios 942 Evaluating the Suitability of Roadmap Narrative Report Roadway Corridors for Use by 928 Identification of Factors Contributing Monarch Butterflies 46 Recovering International to the Decline of Traffic Fatalities in Recyclables from In-Flight Service the United States from 2008 to 2012 943 Design and Access Management Guidelines for Truck Routes: 47 Commercial Space Operations Noise 929 Unsignalized Full Median Openings Planning and Design Guide and Sonic Boom Measurements in Close Proximity to Signalized Intersections 944 Guide to Calculating Ownership 48 Evaluating the Use of Spatially and Operating Costs of Department Precise Diurnal Population Data in 930 Update of Security 101: A Physical of Transportation Vehicles and Aviation Noise Studies Security and Cybersecurity Primer Equipment: An Accounting for Transportation Agencies 49 Research Roadmap on Airport Perspective Administration and Human Resource 931 A Guide to Emergency Management 945 Strategies for Work Zone Issues at State Transportation Agencies Transportation Management Plans 50 Research Roadmap on Safety Issues 932 A Research Roadmap for 946 Procedures and Guidelines for Transportation and Public Health Validating Contractor Test Data

2 Entire series available in print and online. 3 Publications released since 2001 available in print and online.

32 TRB • 2020 Annual Report TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 223 of 228 947 Implementing Information 554 Advances in Unstable Slope 271 Guidelines to Incorporate the Findability Improvements in State Instrumentation and Monitoring Costs and Benefits of Adaptation Transportation Agencies 555 Estimating and Contracting Rock Measures in Preparation for 949 Proposed AASHTO Guidelines for Slope Scaling Adjacent to Highways Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change Performance-Based Seismic Bridge 556 Asset Management Approaches to Design Identifying and Evaluating Assets 272 Existing and Emerging Highway 950 Proposed AASHTO Guide for Bridge Damaged Due to Emergency Events Infrastructure Preservation, Preservation Actions Maintenance, and Renewal 557 Utility Pole Safety and Hazard Definitions, Practices, and Scenarios 951 Proposed AASHTO Load Rating Evaluation Approaches Provisions for Implements of 273 Road User Understanding of Bicycle 558 Availability and Use of Pedestrian Signal Faces on Traffic Signals Husbandry Infrastructure Data to Support 952 Guidebook for Managing Data Active Transportation Planning 274 Zero Emission Vehicles: Forecasting from Emerging Technologies for Fleet Scenarios and Their Emissions 559 Emerging Challenges to Priced Implications Transportation Managed Lanes 953 Improving Mid-Term, Intermediate, 275 Potential Section 106 Exempted and Long-Range Cost Forecasting: Categories or Program Comments Guidebook for State Transportation NCHRP Legal Research for Federal Highway Administration Agencies 3 Projects: National Streamlining Digests Opportunities 954 Performance-Based Management of 80 Buy America Requirements for 276 Evaluating Strategies for Work Zone Traffic Signals Federal Highway Projects Transportation Management Plans 955 Guide for Quantitative Approaches 81 Legal Issues Concerning the Use of 277 Implementing Alternative Technical to Systemic Safety Analysis Transportation Facilities to Generate Concepts in All Types of Highway Revenue for State DOTs Project Delivery Methods 82 Potential Liability Associated with NCHRP Syntheses of 278 Context-Sensitive Design Options Unstable Slope Management 3 for Workhorse Bridges in Rural Highway Practice Programs Historic Districts: Practitioner’s 544 Concrete Technology for 83 Guidelines for Drafting Liability Guide and Research Report Transportation Applications Neutral Transportation Engineering 279 Information Findability 545 Electronic Ticketing of Materials for Documents and Communication Implementation Pilots at State Construction Management Strategies Transportation Agencies 546 Use of Weigh-in-Motion Data 280 Valuing Wildlife Crossings and for Pavement, Bridge, Weight NCHRP Web-Only Enhancements for Mitigation Enforcement, and Freight Logistics Credits Applications Documents (online) 281 Integrating Tribal Expertise into 547 Advancements in Use of 263 White Papers for Right-Sizing Processes to Identify, Evaluate, and Geophysical Methods for Transportation Projects Record Cultural Resources Transportation Projects 266 Developing a Physical and Cyber 282 Framework for Managing Data 548 Development and Use of As-Built Security Primer for Transportation from Emerging Transportation Plans by State Departments of Agencies Technologies to Support Decision- Transportation 267 Developing a Guide to Making 549 Incorporating Roadway Access Emergency Management at State 283 Improving Mid-Term, Intermediate, Management into Local Ordinances Transportation Agencies and Long-Range Cost Forecasting 550 Alternative Intersection Design and 268 Proposed Modifications to AASHTO for State Transportation Agencies Selection Culvert Load Rating Specifications 284 Decision-Making Guide for Traffic 551 Highway Hydraulic Engineering 269 Guide Specification for Service Life Signal Phasing State of Practice Design of Highway Bridges 285 Developing a Guide for Quantitative 552 Practices for Fabricating Asphalt 270 Developing a Guide to Ensuring Approaches to Systemic Safety Specimens for Performance Testing Access to the Publications and Data Analysis in Laboratories of Federally Funded Transportation Research 287 Planning and Implementing 553 Performance-Based Pavement Multimodal, Integrated Corridor Warranty Practices Management: Guidebook 288 Standard Definitions for Common Types of Pavement Cracking 3 Publications released since 2001 available in print and online.

TRB • 2020 Annual Report 33 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 224 of 228 289 Business Models to Facilitate 217 Improving the Health and Safety of Deployment of Connected Vehicle Transit Workers with Corresponding Infrastructure to Support Automated Impacts on the Bottom Line Vehicle Operations 218 Characteristics and Elements of 290 Highway Capacity Manual Nonpunitive Employee Safety Methodologies for Corridors Reporting Systems for Public Involving Freeways and Surface Transportation Streets TCRP Syntheses of Transit Cooperative Transit Practice (online) Research Program 144 Multimodal Fare Payment (TCRP) Research Integration Reports (online) 145 Current Practices in the Use of Onboard Technologies to Avoid 208 Strategic Communications to Transit Bus Incidents and Accidents Improve Support for Transit-Priority Projects: Report and Toolkit 146 Transit Security Preparedness 209 Analysis of Recent Public Transit 147 Attracting, Retaining, and Ridership Trends Advancing Women in Transit 210 Specifications for Demand- 148 Business Models for Mobile Fare Responsive Transportation Apps Development of Transactional Data 149 Transit Signal Priority: Current State 211 Guidebook for Detecting and of the Practice Mitigating Low-Level DC Leakage 150 Third Rail Insulator Failures: Current and Fault Currents in Transit State of the Practice Systems 151 Maintenance Planning for Rail Asset 212 Stray Current Control of Direct Management: Current Practices Current-Powered Rail Transit Systems: A Guidebook TCRP Legal Research 213 Data Sharing Guidance for Public Transit Agencies—Now and in the Digest (online) Future 55 Tax Increment Financing for Transit 214 Equity Analysis in Regional Projects Transportation Planning Processes • Volume 1: Guide TCRP Web-Only • Volume 2: Research Overview Document (online) 215 Minutes Matter: A Bus Transit Service Reliability Guidebook 72 Developing a Guide to Bus Transit Service Reliability 216 Improving the Safety, Health, and Productivity of Transit Operators Through Adequate Restroom Access

34 TRB • 2020 Annual Report TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 225 of 228 APPENDIX E TRB Staff As of September 2020 EXECUTIVE OFFICE TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES Meetings Executive Director, Neil J. Pedersen Director, Ann M. Brach Director, Meetings Department, Edward G. Leonardo Executive Assistant, Cynthia M. Baker Associate Director–Data, Information, and Deputy Director, Meetings Department, Director, TRB Human Resources, Claudette Performance Management, Thomas M. Bruce A. Millar Louard-Clarke Palmerlee Senior Conference Manager, Administrative Assistant, Frances E. Holland Associate Director–Design, Stephen F. Maher Megan E. Kaufmann Associate Executive Director, Russell W. Associate Director–Transportation Safety, Conference Manager, Samantha Stock Houston Bernardo B. Kleiner Meetings Assistant, Kate Debelack Director, Strategic Program Development, Program Manager, Second Strategic Highway Patrice A. Davenport Research Program Naturalistic Driving Study Data and Public Transportation, Stephen J. Transportation Research Resident Scholar, Mark Norman Andrle Record Journal Committee Appointments and Senior Program Officers Managing Editor, TRR Journal, Report Review Aviation and Environment, Christine L. Patricia Lockhart Gerencher Deputy Managing Editor, TRR Journal, Senior Report Review Officer, Karen S. Febey Legal Research, Robert J. Shea John R. Dodson Manager, Committee Appointments and Databases, Robert J. Summersgill Maintenance and Preservation, James W. Peer Review Production Bryant Coordinators Communications and Distance Marine Transportation and Intermodal Kisna Quimby Learning Freight; Marine Board Program Director, Rachel L. Laney Scott Brotemarkle Director, Communications/Marketing, Paul Mackie [Office of the Chief Communications Materials and Construction, Nelson H. CONSENSUS AND Officer (OCCO)] Gibson Scott Babcock ADVISORY STUDIES Distance Learning Program Coordinator, Elaine Rail and Freight, Director, Thomas R. Menzies Ferrell (OCCO) Social, Economic, and Policy, William B. Anderson Content Strategist, Beth Ewoldsen (OCCO) Scholar, Stephen R. Godwin Customer Service and Marketing Associate, Soils, Geology, and Foundations, Nancy M. Whiting Senior Program Officers Reginald Gillum Micah Himmel Traffic and Operations, Richard A. Cunard Mark S. Hutchins Information Technology and Transportation Planning, Jennifer L. Weeks Katherine A. Kortum Research Services Public Transportation, Claire E. Randall Monica A. Starnes Director, Lisa L. Loyo Administrative Coordinator, Rosa P. Allen Melissa Welsh-Ross TRB Software Engineer, Andrew T. Strassburg Associate Program Officers Program Associate, Claudia Sauls Senior Programmer–Analyst, TBD Gary A. Jenkins Associate Program Officer, Business Systems Analyst/Helpdesk Manager, Joanice L. Johnson Anusha H. Jayasinghe Michael A. DeCarmine Mary O. Kissi Senior Program Assistant, Michael T. Covington HelpDesk–Business Systems Associate, Gareth E. Driver Rhonda Levinowsky Transportation Research Information Services Freda R. Morgan Manager, William B. McLeod Ashley Vaughan Indexing Manager, Janet S. Daly Web and Software Usability Database Librarian, Sam Saffer Specialist Brie Schwartz Senior Librarian, Alexandra M. Briseno Library Assistant, Shaakira Jackson Systems Analyst–Applications Keyara Dorn

TRB • 2020 Annual Report 35 TRB Executive Committee Meeting, January 26-28, 2021 Page 226 of 228 ADMINISTRATION AND Senior Program Officers Senior Program Assistants Velvet Basemera-Fitzpatrick Anthony P. Avery FINANCE Mark S. Bush Stephanie L. Campbell TRB Finance Service Team Camille Crichton-Sumners Cheryl Keith Senior Deputy Director, TRB Program Finance, Waseem Dekelbab Thu M. Le Gary Walker [Office of the Chief Financial B. Ray Derr Jarrel McAfee Officer (OCFO)] Mariela Garcia-Colberg Tyler Smith Senior Finance Business Partners Jo Allen Gause Hana Vagnerova Alison Holdcroft (OCFO) Lawrence D. Goldstein Demisha Williams Melissa N. Pickett (OCFO) Matthew J. Griffin Publications Staff Amy M. Przybocki (OCFO) Amir N. Hanna Associate Director of Publications, Doris M. Romero (OCFO) Natalie Barnes Edward T. Harrigan Daniel R. B. Somerset (OCFO) Publishing Projects Manager, Ann M. Hartell Jennifer J. Weeks Finance Business Partners Leslie C. Harwood Anthony T. Bailey (OCFO) Senior Editors David Jared Sophia T. Ramirez (OCFO) Ellen M. Chafee Inam Jawed Shierra T. Ramirez (OCFO) Linda A. Dziobek Andrew C. Lemer Doug English Senior Finance Assistant, G. Raymond Christopher T. McKenney McDaniel (OCFO) Hilary Freer Joseph D. Navarrete Contracts Receivable Analyst II, Arun Khadka Margaret B. Hagood Stephan A. Parker (OCFO) Scott E. Hitchcock William C. Rogers Contract Manager, Mikel H. Jenkins (OCFO) Janet M. McNaughton Theresia H. Schatz Publication Sales and Affiliate Dianne S. Schwager Editors Kami Cabral Services Gail R. Staba Lea Mae Camarda Senior Membership Assistant, Administrative Coordinator, Joseph J. Snell Kelvin R. Jordan Cassandra J. Franklin-Barbajosa Associate Program Officer–Business Analyst, Supervisor, Customer Service, Sarah Kosling Sharon Lamberton Cydni Wolfinger Administrative Associate, Cynthia E. Butler Sreyashi Roy Lisa Whittington COOPERATIVE Program Associate, Sheila A. Moore Assistant Editor, Jennifer Correro RESEARCH PROGRAMS Program Coordinators Emily Griswold Senior Editorial Assistant, Kathleen Mion Director, Christopher J. Hedges Deborah Irvin Other Specialists Deputy Director and Manager, NCHRP, Systems Analyst, Roy N. Mesler Lori L. Sundstrom Brittany Summerlin-Azeez Web Developer, Natassja K. Linzau Manager, TCRP, Gwen Chisholm Smith Travel Specialists Manager, ACRP, Marci A. Greenberger Daniel J. Magnolia Program Consultants Christopher Dunne Director of Publications, Eileen P. Delaney Robert Turner II Thomas J. Helms Implementation Coordinator, Sid Mohan Andre Primus Tanya M. Zwahlen

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