As TRB’s reach continues to grow, we are working to become more diverse in our partnerships more inclusive of new stakeholders, and more global in our outlook. As one of six major program divisions of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, our mission is to provide leadership in transportation innovation and progress through research and information exchange, conducted within a setting that is objective, interdisciplinary, and multimodal.
This innovation cannot occur without the participation of more than 7,000 engineers, scientists, and other transportation researchers and practitioners from the public and private sectors and academia, all who contribute their expertise in the public interest by participating on TRB committees, panels, and task forces. Others get involved and support TRB activities as TRB Global Affiliates, by participating in TRB sponsored conferences, workshops and webinars, authoring technical papers, contract research reports, and much more. All of this work culminates at our Annual Meeting each year which attracts the more than 13,000 transportation professionals that make up the broader TRB community.
Participate in the TRB Annual Meeting, the largest transportation engineering event in the world. The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting are held every year in January at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, D.C. The information-packed program is usually attracts more than 13,000 transportation professionals from around the world.
More about the Annual Meeting here: http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/AnnualMeeting.aspx
Join a committee or a subcommitee:
Contact us and send a brief email summarizing your background and why you are interested in participating with AV070.
Login to MyTRB (https://www.mytrb.org/) and sign-up as a “friend” of a committee to receive correspondence and updates, and to begin participating. Go to Committees on the menu bar, then select Become a Friend of the Committee.
Volunteer to serve as a reviewer of research papers, to work on a committee project, or to give a presentation or preside at a session.
Participate in committee meetings, which generally are open to anyone who wishes to attend.
Express your interest in joining as a formal member of the committee at the first opportunity.
Submit an ACRP Idea: nothing is easier than sharing an industry need with IdeaHub, the portal for posting ideas that will be reviewed by the ACRP Oversight Committee for selection to the next year Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP). Are you an airport operator facing an operational or technical issue in the field? Are you a researcher or academic thinking about an original research need? You do not need to develop the idea into a comprehensive research statement. The ACRP IdeaHub community will help you to do so! You can post all year long your ideas here: https://crp.trb.org/ideahub/
Become an ACRP Ambassador: the ACRP Ambassador program presents experienced airport industry professionals with a prestigious opportunity to volunteer for and represent ACRP. Ambassadors tell the ACRP story, help practitioners access and apply research to solve airport problems, serve as conduit of information between airports and ACRP, and strive to develop the next generation of airport leaders: http://www.trb.org/ACRP/ACRPAmbassadors.aspx
Become an ACRP Champion: ACRP’s Champion program is a new initiative to help early- to mid-career young professionals grow and excel within the airport industry. Through this program, ACRP provides airport industry executives with the opportunity to sponsor promising young professionals within their organizations to become the point of contact with ACRP for their organization: https://www.trb.org/ACRP/ChampionFAQ.aspx
Explore more options at http://www.trb.org/GetInvolvedwithTRB/JoinSupportTRB.aspx