Skip to main content

US Transportation Secretary to speak at TRB annual meeting

More than 13,000 people from about 70 countries, including policymakers, administrators, practitioners and researchers from government, industry, and academia, are expected to gather for the US Transportation Research Board (TRB) 96th Annual Meeting. The event will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, from 8-12 January and will involve more than 5,000 presentations at over 800 sessions and workshops covering all transportation modes. Approximately 130 sessions will addr
January 5, 2017 Read time: 2 mins
More than 13,000 people from about 70 countries, including policymakers, administrators, practitioners and researchers from government, industry, and academia, are expected to gather for the US 856 Transportation Research Board (TRB) 96th Annual Meeting.  The event will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, from 8-12 January and will involve more than 5,000 presentations at over 800 sessions and workshops covering all transportation modes.  Approximately 130 sessions will address one or more of three hot topics: transformational technologies, resilience, and public health.
 
Several panel sessions and special events include meetings with 324 US Department of Transportation officials. In the Beyond Traffic – Looking Forward to Innovation in an Era of Rapid Change, Department of Transportation secretary Anthony Foxx will discuss key trends that will impact transportation over the next 30 years and potential solutions that can be adopted.
 
The event also includes several State Department of Transportation roundtables.
 
The Chairman's Luncheon, which is attended by about 750 leaders in the transportation field from the US and abroad, takes place on 11 January.  This year's featured speaker is Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator for NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate.

More information and registration details are available on the %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal website Visit www.trb.org Website false http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/AnnualMeeting.aspx false false%>.

Related Content

  • August 31, 2018
    US NOCoE to host first TSMO awards ceremony
    The US National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE) will celebrate transportation management and operations which save lives, time and money in Washington, DC, next January. The first Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) awards ceremony is expected to attract 13,000 transportation professionals. Patrick Son, managing director of NOCoE, says the event will recognise smarter management and operational strategies to increase the capacity of existing streets. The event will take place
  • June 15, 2016
    TRB launches transformational technologies in transportation website
    The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is demonstrating its new website on transformational technologies in transportation at ITS America San Jose this week. The website includes resources about ongoing research, publications, news and events. Technologies covered include connected and automated vehicles, shared use services; unmanned aerial systems (drones); nextgen, internet of things, smarts cities; big data; and cybersecurity. Attendees can check out the new site at www.TRB.org/ main/TransTech.aspx or
  • May 18, 2012
    Stage is set for ITS America Annual Meeting
    ITS America has announced that on Monday it will hold a key discussion event concerning intelligent transportation and its role in helping to solve America’s infrastructure crisis with national leaders including Ursula Burns, chairman and CEO of Xerox; Chris Vein, deputy White House chief technology officer; Robert Brown, Ford Motor Company’s VP of sustainability, environment and safety engineering; and Martin Thall, Verizon’s VP - telematics. This is just one of numerous sessions examining ways to bring in
  • May 1, 2015
    Countdown to 2015 ITS America Annual Meeting & Expo
    There’s less than a month to go before the 2015 ITS America Annual Meeting & Expo gets under way in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania gets underway in what will be a unique and visionary event. The theme is Bridges To Innovation so for the more than 2,000 of the nation’s top transportation and technology business leaders and investors, policymakers, public agency representatives, and researchers, this will be one of the most forward looking Annual Meetings.