How does research impact transit riders’ daily trips? Recorded at #TRBAM, a live Transit Unplugged episode hosted by Paul Comfort explores how #TCRP research is improving transit from Honolulu to Baltimore. Listen: https://ow.ly/JE3750Yoemt
#TRBAM sparked conversations around new research and research gaps. If you have a great idea for an upcoming #TRBwebinar, submit your suggestion today!
https://ow.ly/QtkS50YbSut
Watch the chat from #TRBAM between TRB Executive Committee chair Leslie Richards and Seval Oz, Senior Advisor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research (OST-R) and Technology, USDOT on personal and administrative visions of transportation.
https://ow.ly/Pwqf50Y4x0p
And another TRB Annual Meeting behind us! 😊 #DYK? This was the 105th AM... Yes, that's right, TRB is over 100-year-old! ⏳ Also, #TRBAM is the largest #transportation #research and #engineering event in the world. 🌎🙌🚁🛩️✈️🚀 #airports #airtravel #aviation #safetyfirst #wearewsp @trb.org
Is road safety as easy as ABC? Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's 30x30 campaign aims to reduce fatalities 30% by 2030.
Watch David Harkey's #TRBAM Deen lecture on this crisis, crashworthiness, comprehensive countermeasures, communicating, contribution, & commitment.
https://ow.ly/AKBb50Y0LPs
Overheard at #TRBAM in DC:
Why in the world is this wheelchair user choosing to ride in the street against traffic on a busy arterial rather than use these beautiful brick-lined sidewalk?
Oh wait... never mind.
Poster: "White Man's Road... thru Black Man's Home!"
Map of proposed freeway alignment through Washington DC's urban grid
Museum exhibit entitled "D.C> Says No Freeways!" Including a binder with project plans, subtitled "Would your home be spared?" Posters including "DC is not LA! Stop Freeway Blight!"
When people say transportation research should get "back to basics," what do they mean? 🙃
This exhibit comes to mind – on the 4th Fl of the MLK Library, just a few blocks from #TRBAM
#CrossroadsConvening
That's a wrap for the 2026 #TRBAM!
Thank you all for being part of a fantastic event! We'll see you next year, January 10 - 14, 2027!
It makes me sad that #trbam has cut out and been denied so many voices that are needed in the sector, and it makes me sadder how so much of the online chatter seems pretty much like it’s fine.
Look for Cameron Bennett at #TRBAM - he led the drafting of Oregon's bill this session but I don't think he's on Bluesky.
We wrapped up #TRBAM Wednesday! PATH's Anthony Patire caught up w/ friends; MCP student Yutong Li looked at alum Stephen Wong's poster; students Jingchun Wang and Yi Ju took a TRB pic; we spotted alum Asha Weinstein Agrawal at the poster session; and director Scott Moura caught up with eCal alumni!
We wrapped up #TRBAM this afternoon with three poster sessions by UC Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering students Jingchun Wang and Yi Ju; Mechanical Engineering recent grad MEng Luai Abuelsamen; and PATH's Hao Liu; and a lectern session by TE PhD student Tyler Truksa
Heard at #TRBAM
"google bike routing maybe has done more to make bicycle transportation worse than anything else in the last decade"
The Crossroads conference is tomorrow in DC - I'll be there and hope to see you as well. The transportation equity research the world needs to hear and #TRBAM doesn't want you to see ;)
Observations from #TRBAM
1. Fewer Committees makes for less specialization that advances technical knowledge ⬇️
2. ITE volunteers offer wonderful insight into practitioner perspectives that compliment state DOTs ⬆️
3. People coming together ⬆️
4. Students are the future ⬆️
What's the bill number?
At #TRBAM I heard of bills in Illinois and Florida to rein in e-motos. There's a lot of interest in good legislative ideas
Also heard strong interest in education and PSAs using Highway Safety Office funds, and a device identification guide coming from NHTSA in the future
We're at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting this week. Some favorite talks so far have covered:
- Crash prediction and innovations for safety
- Measuring economic development and health impacts
- Advancing automation
- Methods workshops
#TRBAM @nationalacademies.org
One research idea I heard at #TRBAM is just determining the actual speeds that people operate e-bikes and e-motos at
Nobody was aware of real world data on operating speeds by e-bike class
There's limited data on e-bike operating speeds generally, but it shows that operating speed isn't top speed
At #TRBAM I was surprised how worried bicycle researchers were about e-motos, and the threat of heavy handed restrictions on all e-bikes as an overreaction
E-bike bankruptcies were not mentioned at all, and consumers still have tons of choices (including e-motos)
Definitely keeping the faith
Make time for the poster presentations at #TRBAM today before they're gone! Talk to researchers about their work on everything from motorcycles to emerging network modeling!
https://ow.ly/LgI550XWfgl
For those who work on equity issues in transportation, this was a disruptive year, but researchers and advocates aren't going anywhere. Tomorrow theyll prove it.
My new @usa.streetsblog.org piece reflecting on #TRBAM week and the present political moment.
usa.streetsblog.org/2026/01/14/o...
ITS Berkeley kicks off Day 3 at #TRBAM! Today, faculty & Berkeley Lab researchers present on Mobility & Traffic, Aviation & Air Mobility, EV & Energy Systems, AI & Modeling and Earthquake Impacts on Airport Operations. Check out the ITS TRB Schedule: its.berkeley.edu/news/its-ber...
@trb.org #TRBAM Monday was a great opportunity to reach out present SDSU's new TASS Metric for grading walk and bike quality around transit stations with the CPBS. Anybody interested in meeting up for lunch or coffee tomorrow anytime after 8 am to discuss your thoughts on what good TOD looks like?
We had a great day catching up with alumni at #TRBAM. Good to see Robert Bertini (and Anurag Pande); Shashi Nambisan, Manuel Romana, Reg Souleyrette, and Casey Emoto; Soomin Woo (her student Juhyeong Kim and Berkeley student Yu Ji); Shashi Nambisan and our former postdoc Praveen Vayalamkuzhi!
We were busy with poster sessions Tuesday afternoon at #TRBAM! Postdoc Cheng-Kai Hsu, Berkeley Engineering student Xuanmian He, Berkeley I School recent alum Adithi Suresh presented posters, and our students gathered for a photo!
Productive Tuesday #TRBAM morning with panels, posters, and meetings! Berkeley Lab's Xiaodan Xu and student Xuanmian He presented posters, UC Berkeley lecturer Michael Hanowsky led Managing Airfield & Airspace Operations Committee, Wei-Bin Zhang attended Senior Fellow Kristin White panel session!
