Author: Transportation Research Board

Medium- and heavy-duty trucks, motor coaches, and transit buses - collectively, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, or MHDVs - are used in every secto...

U.S. Arctic waters north of the Bering Strait and west of the Canadian border encompass a vast area that is usually ice covered for much of the yea...

There are approximately 4,000 fatalities in crashes involving trucks and buses in the United States each year. Though estimates are wide-ranging, p...

While there is a limited data on safety-sensitive professionals, substance use disorders potentially affect pilots and flight attendants at the sam...

In the past few years, interest in plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has grown. Advances in battery and other technologies, new federal standards fo...

Medium- and heavy-duty trucks, motor coaches, and transit buses - collectively, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, or MHDVs - are used in every secto...

Steel is a common component of U.S. infrastructure, but that steel can corrode when buried in soil, rock, or fill. Steel corrosion is estimated to ...

Nearly everyone experiences fatigue, but some professionssuch as aviation, medicine and the militarydemand alert, precise, rapid, and well-informed...

Evidence from the public health sector demonstrates that health care is only one of the determinants of health, which also include genes, behavior,...

The electric vehicle offers many promisesincreasing U.S. energy security by reducing petroleum dependence, contributing to climate-change initiativ...

Every year roughly 100,000 fatal and injury crashes occur in the United States involving large trucks and buses. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety A...

Advancing the state of aviation safety is a central mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Congress requested this re...

Addressing climate change is essential and possible, and it offers a host of benefits - from better public health to new economic opportunities. Th...