Transportation Research Board (TRB)

Transportation Research Board (TRB):

            The (Since 1974) Transportation Research Board, organized in 1920 as the Highway Research Board (HRB), is a private nonprofit organization. It operates under the auspices of the commission on societal Technologies of the National Research Council, which, in turn, is a part of the National Academy of Engineering. The TRB is supported by the several state highway and transportation departments, the Federal Highway and Urban Mass Transportation administrations, and many other educational, technical and industrial organizations interested in transportation in the broadest sense. The Board provides a forum for the discussion and publication of the results obtained by individual research workers or organizations. It also organizes committees of experts to plan and suggest research work and to study, correlate, and publish their results. Its annual meeting is by far the largest single gathering of engineers, administrators, researchers, and teachers interested in highways and other forms of transportation. The Board’s staff also handles arrangements for workshops and conferences on special subjects. In addition, it has conducted special research projects, the most notable of which was the $27 million AASHO test road.