TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Reducing Fuel Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles, Phase Two: Final Report SN - DO - 10.17226/25542 PY - 2020 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25542/reducing-fuel-consumption-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions-of-medium-and-heavy-duty-vehicles-phase-two PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Environment and Environmental Studies KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - Medium- and heavy-duty trucks, motor coaches, and transit buses - collectively, "medium- and heavy-duty vehicles", or MHDVs - are used in every sector of the economy. The fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of MHDVs have become a focus of legislative and regulatory action in the past few years. This study is a follow-on to the National Research Council's 2010 report, Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium-and Heavy-Duty Vehicles. That report provided a series of findings and recommendations on the development of regulations for reducing fuel consumption of MHDVs. On September 15, 2011, NHTSA and EPA finalized joint Phase I rules to establish a comprehensive Heavy-Duty National Program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption for on-road medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. As NHTSA and EPA began working on a second round of standards, the National Academies issued another report, Reducing the Fuel Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles, Phase Two: First Report, providing recommendations for the Phase II standards. This third and final report focuses on a possible third phase of regulations to be promulgated by these agencies in the next decade. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership: Third Report SN - DO - 10.17226/21784 PY - 2015 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/21784/review-of-the-21st-century-truck-partnership-third-report PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Engineering and Technology KW - Energy and Energy Conservation AB - The 21st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP) works to reduce fuel consumption and emissions, increase heavy-duty vehicle safety, and support research, development, and demonstration to initiate commercially viable products and systems. This report is the third in a series of three by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that have reviewed the research and development initiatives carried out by the 21CTP. Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership, Third Report builds on the Phase 1 and 2 reviews and reports, and also comments on changes and progress since the Phase 2 report was issued in 2012. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership, Second Report SN - DO - 10.17226/13288 PY - 2012 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13288/review-of-the-21st-century-truck-partnership-second-report PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Engineering and Technology KW - Energy and Energy Conservation AB - In July 2010, the National Research Council (NRC) appointed the Committee to Review the 21st Century Truck Partnership, Phase 2, to conduct an independent review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP). The 21CTP is a cooperative research and development (R&D) partnership including four federal agencies-the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-and 15 industrial partners. The purpose of this Partnership is to reduce fuel consumption and emissions, increase heavy-duty vehicle safety, and support research, development, and demonstration to initiate commercially viable products and systems. This is the NRC's second report on the topic and it includes the committee's review of the Partnership as a whole, its major areas of focus, 21CTP's management and priority setting, efficient operations, and the new SuperTruck program. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Alternatives to the Indian Point Energy Center for Meeting New York Electric Power Needs SN - DO - 10.17226/11666 PY - 2006 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11666/alternatives-to-the-indian-point-energy-center-for-meeting-new-york-electric-power-needs PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Energy and Energy Conservation AB - Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, many in the New York City area have become concerned about the possible consequences of a similar attack on the Indian Point nuclear power plants—located about 40 miles from Manhattan, and have made calls for their closure. Any closure, however, would require actions to replace the 2000 MW of power supplied by the plants. To examine this issue in detail, the Congress directed DOE to request a study from the NRC of options for replacing the power. This report presents detailed review of both demand and supply options for replacing that power as well as meeting expected demand growth in the region. It also assesses institutional considerations for these options along with their expected impacts. Finally, the report provides an analysis of scenarios for implementing the replacement options using simulation modeling. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Guiding the Selection and Application of Wayside Energy Storage Technologies for Rail Transit and Electric Utilities DO - 10.17226/22911 PY - 2010 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22911/guiding-the-selection-and-application-of-wayside-energy-storage-technologies-for-rail-transit-and-electric-utilities PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 51: Guiding the Selection and Application of Wayside Energy Storage Technologies for Rail Transit and Electric Utilities is designed to help identify and implement effective wayside energy storage systems for rail transit. Energy storage applications addressed in the report include braking energy recapture, power quality voltage sag regulation, peak power reduction, and the development of energy storage substations. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Meeting the Energy Needs of Future Warriors SN - DO - 10.17226/11065 PY - 2004 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11065/meeting-the-energy-needs-of-future-warriors PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Conflict and Security Issues KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - The central characteristic of the evolution of the combat soldier in recent years is an increasingly sophisticated array of sensing, communications, and related electronics for use in battlefield situations. The most critical factor for maintaining this evolution will be the development of power supply systems capable of operating those electronics effectively for missions up to 72 hours long. To address the challenge, it is important that new approaches be sought on how to integrate and power these electronics. To assist in addressing this problem, the Army requested the National Research Council to review the state of the art and to recommend technologies that will support the rapid development of effective power systems for the future warrior. This report presents the results of that review. It provides an assessment of various technology options for different power level requirements, power system design, and soldier energy sinks. The report also describes future design concepts, focusing on low-power systems. Recommendations for technology development and system design are presented. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Gaël Le Bris A2 - Loup-Giang Nguyen A2 - Beathia Tagoe A2 - Philip Jonat A2 - Cedric Y. Justin A2 - Eugene Reindel A2 - Katherine B. Preston A2 - Phillip J. Ansell TI - Preparing Your Airport for Electric Aircraft and Hydrogen Technologies DO - 10.17226/26512 PY - 2022 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26512/preparing-your-airport-for-electric-aircraft-and-hydrogen-technologies PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - Design innovation for electrically powered and hybrid-electric aircraft is accelerating rapidly. While there are many potential benefits of electric aircraft and hydrogen technologies, not all air service can be replaced by electrically powered aircraft in the near term. The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Research Report 236: Preparing Your Airport for Electric Aircraft and Hydrogen Technologies offers an introduction to the emerging electric aircraft industry, gives estimates of potential market growth, and provides guidance to help airports estimate the potential impacts of electric aircraft on their facilities and to be prepared to accommodate them. A series of appendices provides details on the assumptions and methods used in the research as well as helpful references for airport planning. Accompanying this report is a toolkit (including instructions for how to use the toolkit) that includes a database of more than 100 electric aircraft and may be used by airports to estimate future electric power requirements at their airport based on local characteristics, such as climate, aviation activity levels, and existing electrical demand. ER - TY - BOOK TI - Consumer Health Information Technology in the Home: A Guide for Human Factors Design Considerations SN - DO - 10.17226/13205 PY - 2011 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13205/consumer-health-information-technology-in-the-home-a-guide-for PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Behavioral and Social Sciences KW - Health and Medicine AB - Every day, in households across the country, people engage in behavior to improve their current health, recover from disease and injury, or cope with chronic, debilitating conditions. Innovative computer and information systems may help these people manage health concerns, monitor important indicators of their health, and communicate with their formal and informal caregivers. Human factors is an engineering science dedicated to understanding and improving the way people use technology and other things in the environment. Consumer Health Information Technology in the Home introduces designers and developers to the practical realities and complexities of managing health at home. It provides guidance and human factors design considerations that will help designers and developers create consumer health IT applications that are useful resources to achieve better health. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Powering the U.S. Army of the Future SN - DO - 10.17226/26052 PY - 2021 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26052/powering-the-us-army-of-the-future PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Conflict and Security Issues AB - At the request of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology, Powering the U.S. Army of the Future examines the U.S. Army's future power requirements for sustaining a multi-domain operational conflict and considers to what extent emerging power generation and transmission technologies can achieve the Army's operational power requirements in 2035. The study was based on one operational usage case identified by the Army as part of its ongoing efforts in multi-domain operations. The recommendations contained in this report are meant to help inform the Army's investment priorities in technologies to help ensure that the power requirements of the Army's future capability needs are achieved. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Personnel Supply and Demand Issues in the Nuclear Power Industry DO - 10.17226/19747 PY - 1981 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/19747/personnel-supply-and-demand-issues-in-the-nuclear-power-industry PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - KW - Environment and Environmental Studies ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Advanced Technologies for Gas Turbines SN - DO - 10.17226/25630 PY - 2020 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25630/advanced-technologies-for-gas-turbines PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Energy and Energy Conservation AB - Leadership in gas turbine technologies is of continuing importance as the value of gas turbine production is projected to grow substantially by 2030 and beyond. Power generation, aviation, and the oil and gas industries rely on advanced technologies for gas turbines. Market trends including world demographics, energy security and resilience, decarbonization, and customer profiles are rapidly changing and influencing the future of these industries and gas turbine technologies. Technology trends that define the technological environment in which gas turbine research and development will take place are also changing - including inexpensive, large scale computational capabilities, highly autonomous systems, additive manufacturing, and cybersecurity. It is important to evaluate how these changes influence the gas turbine industry and how to manage these changes moving forward. Advanced Technologies for Gas Turbines identifies high-priority opportunities for improving and creating advanced technologies that can be introduced into the design and manufacture of gas turbines to enhance their performance. The goals of this report are to assess the 2030 gas turbine global landscape via analysis of global leadership, market trends, and technology trends that impact gas turbine applications, develop a prioritization process, define high-priority research goals, identify high-priority research areas and topics to achieve the specified goals, and direct future research. Findings and recommendations from this report are important in guiding research within the gas turbine industry and advancing electrical power generation, commercial and military aviation, and oil and gas production. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Jennifer D. Franz A2 - Heather Taylor Holbert A2 - Laurie A. Garrow A2 - Geoffrey D. Gosling A2 - Mark Vande Kamp A2 - Lisa Harmon A2 - Stephanie Ward TI - Guidebook on Conducting Airport User Surveys and Other Customer Research DO - 10.17226/26444 PY - 2021 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26444/guidebook-on-conducting-airport-user-surveys-and-other-customer-research PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - Airport user surveys have traditionally been used to obtain information for facility planning. More recently, however, surveys are being used to measure satisfaction as a way to identify actions that could improve the customer experience and increase non-aeronautical revenues, particularly those from passenger terminal concessions.The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Research Report 235: Guidebook for Conducting Airport User Surveys and Other Customer Research provides airport managers and staff involved in customer research, as well as airport consultants and other stakeholders, with guidance on the effective use of airport user surveys and other customer research techniques.Supplementary to the report is Appendices A through L. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Combat Hybrid Power System Component Technologies: Technical Challenges and Research Priorities DO - 10.17226/10595 PY - 2002 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10595/combat-hybrid-power-system-component-technologies-technical-challenges-and-research PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Engineering and Technology AB - This book provides the detail from the NRC Committee on Assessment of Combat Hybrid Power Systems. This committee targeted three emerging technology areas: advanced electric motor drives and power electronics, battery technologies for military electric and hybrid vehicle applications, and high temperature wideband gap materials for high-power electrical systems. This committee also addressed three additional emerging technologies: high power switching technologies, capacitor technologies and computer simulation for storage system design and integration. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues Update: 2008–2017 DO - 10.17226/24655 PY - 2016 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24655/graduate-research-award-program-on-public-sector-aviation-issues-update-2008-2017 PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Results Digest 25: Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues Update: 2008–2017 provides initial information for the 2016–2017 academic year of the Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues (ACRP Project 11-04). The report also includes abstracts for student papers from the 2015–2016, 2014-2015, and 2013–2014 academic years, and lists papers from prior academic years beginning in 2008–2009. Abstracts for the earlier papers are available in ACRP RRD 14 and ACRP RRD 19.The program, sponsored by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and administered by the ACRP, is designed to encourage applied research on airport-related aviation system issues and to foster the next generation of aviation community leaders. Under the program, up to ten awards of $10,000 each are made to full-time graduate students for successful completion of a research paper on public-sector airport-related aviation issues during the academic year.Candidates must be full-time students enrolled in a graduate degree program at a North American accredited institution of higher learning during the academic year. Successful papers are presented at the TRB Annual Meeting following completion of the program, and exceptional papers have been published in subsequent volumes of the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Meredith Linscott A2 - Amy Posner TI - Guidebook for Deploying Zero-Emission Transit Buses DO - 10.17226/25842 PY - 2021 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25842/guidebook-for-deploying-zero-emission-transit-buses PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - The zero‐emission bus (ZEB) market, including Battery Electric Buses and Fuel Cell Electric Buses, has seen significant growth in recent years. ZEBs do not rely on fossil fuels for operation and have zero harmful tailpipe emissions, improving local air quality. The increase in market interest has also helped decrease product pricing.The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Research Report 219: Guidebook for Deploying Zero-Emission Transit Buses is designed to provide transit agencies with information on current best practices for ZEB deployments and lessons learned from previous deployments, industry experts, and available industry resources. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Combat Search and Rescue in Highly Contested Environments: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief DO - 10.17226/25156 PY - 2018 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25156/combat-search-and-rescue-in-highly-contested-environments-proceedings-of PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Conflict and Security Issues AB - The Personnel Recovery (PR) and Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) missions are core mission functions of the U.S. Air Force (USAF). PR refers to the broad range of operations and forces that provide recovery of personnel, whether the environment is hostile or peaceful. CSAR refers to more specialized operations in which an isolated person (IP) or persons are recovered from hostile environments, typically with the existence of threats to the recovery force. The USAF has successfully performed these missions in the past. Increasingly, however, highly contested operating environments have emerged with the development, growth, and proliferation of Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) environments and Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS). A 3-day workshop focusing on the needs of IPs was convened and examined the nature and consequences of the threat to the CSAR and PR mission, the current PR force structure, equipment and training for the IP, and technologies that might increase the survival of the IP moving into the 2030 timeframe. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Seismic Safety Technology and Regulations: A Look at the Near Future (Summary of a Symposium) DO - 10.17226/18641 PY - 1992 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18641/seismic-safety-technology-and-regulations-a-look-at-the-near PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - KW - Earth Sciences ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Weather and Climate: The Report DO - 10.17226/18685 PY - 1975 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18685/weather-and-climate-the-report PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - KW - Earth Sciences ER - TY - BOOK TI - Engineering Research and Technology Development on the Space Station DO - 10.17226/9026 PY - 1996 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9026/engineering-research-and-technology-development-on-the-space-station PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Space and Aeronautics ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council A2 - Rutherford H. Platt A2 - Susan B. Mockler TI - Natural Disasters and Energy Policy: A Summary of the Forum on Natural Diasters and Energy Policy, June 12, 2001, Washington, DC DO - 10.17226/10303 PY - 2002 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10303/natural-disasters-and-energy-policy-a-summary-of-the-forum PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Earth Sciences ER -