What is the TRB AKP50 Committee?

This committee is concerned with the interactions between the vehicle and traveled surfaces as they affect safety, comfort, convenience, sustainability and economics (including user costs). It promotes the evaluation, modeling and understanding of these interactions and the studies that identify, quantify, measure, and model the factors that influence these interactions. The committee is also concerned with target values and limiting criteria for these factors and applying the results toward the improvement of the vehicle-surface relationship and asset management decisions.

What do TRB Standing Committees Do?

TRB standing committees provide opportunities for transportation researchers and practitioners to join together in the following activities.

• Stimulating research by developing and publishing research problem statements, issuing calls for papers, submitting research problem statements to the NCHRP and TCRP, and defining and publishing critical issues and research needs.

• Keeping the transportation community apprised of recent and ongoing research through sessions at TRB Annual Meetings, specialty conferences and workshops, committee meetings, informal networking, responses to requests for information, and referrals to other experts.

• Synthesizing and disseminating research results through sponsorship of workshops and conferences, compilation of bibliographies, and publication of compendiums of research papers and state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice reports.

• Reviewing and recommending research papers for publication by TRB and for TRB-sponsored awards.

• Cosponsoring special activities and providing liaison with other transportation-oriented agencies in the United States and in other countries.

• Encouraging participation in TRB by students and professionals entering the transportation field.