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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Transportation Research Board page on 22 August 2020, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is a division of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, formerly the National Research Council of the United States, which serves as an independent adviser to the President of the United States, the Congress and federal agencies on scientific and technical questions of national importance. It is jointly administered by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine.
As one of seven major divisions of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the TRB promotes innovation and progress in transportation through research in an objective and interdisciplinary setting. It stimulates research and offers research management services that promote technical excellence; provides expert advice on transportation policy and programs; and disseminates research results broadly and encourages their implementation. The TRB hosts some 200 standing committees that address specific aspects of transport and the TRB Annual Meeting attracts more than 14,000 attendees.
The Transportation Research Board was established in 1920 as the "National Advisory Board on Highway Research" and changed its name to the "Highway Research Board" from 1925 until 1974, when it was renamed again as the "Transportation Research Board." Initially being solely involved in the sharing of information, it has commissioned ad-hoc research since 1950, became more involved in multi-modal transport in the 1960s, and has extended its operations further more recently.
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| 1994 publication date | Low-Floor Transit Buses: A Synthesis of Transit Practice | Research Report ( PDF) 2.5MB ยท 52 pagesAuthors: Rolland D. King Publisher: Transportation Research Board |
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| 8 January 2015 | Fourteen HNTB Professionals to Present at the Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting | HNTB Corporation |