@BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Oil in the Sea IV: Quick Guide for Practitioners and Researchers", abstract = "This booklet provides key insights from Oil in the Sea IV: Inputs, Fates, and Effects, published in 2022, which benefited from significant advancements in scientific methods to detect the input and fates of oil in the sea, and from lessons learned from the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in 2010. Going beyond previous reports, Oil in the Sea IV includes analysis of human health impacts of oil in the sea, oil in the Arctic marine environment, and prevention and response efforts that can help to both reduce the amount of oil reaching the sea and minimize its effects. The booklet is meant to serve as a reference guide to all those involved in oil spill research and response.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27155/oil-in-the-sea-iv-quick-guide-for-practitioners-and", year = 2023, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", title = "Toward a New Era of Data Sharing: Summary of the US-UK Scientific Forum on Researcher Access to Data", abstract = "Data are at the forefront of efforts to solve many of today's greatest problems, including climate change, misinformation and disinformation, the threat of future global pandemics, and the quest by people everywhere to lead better lives. But if researchers are going to use data to contribute to the solutions of problems, data need to be available for them to use. Over time, data have become increasingly voluminous, complex, and heterogeneous. Massive volumes of data are being generated by new devices and methods, and many of these data are not easy to analyze, interpret, or share. Groups that generate data may be reluctant to share them for a variety of professional, personal, financial, regulatory, and statutory reasons.These issues were addressed during the US-UK Scientific Forum on Researcher Access to Data held in Washington, DC, on September 12\u201313, 2023. Organized by the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society, the forum examined the constellation of issues surrounding researchers' access to data, best practices and lessons learned from exemplary research disciplines, and new ideas and techniques that could drive research forward. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions of the forum.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27520/toward-a-new-era-of-data-sharing-summary-of-the", year = 2024, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Shaun J. Germolus", title = "Agricultural Operations on Airport Grounds", abstract = "The increasing need to use airport land for non-aeronautical revenue and decrease operating expenses may generate consideration of on-airport farming operations and agricultural leasing.The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Synthesis 117: Agricultural Operations on Airport Grounds compiles literature and practices at airports to initiate and manage agricultural operations on airport grounds.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26543/agricultural-operations-on-airport-grounds", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Daniel Boyle", title = "On-Street Bus Operations Management", abstract = "New technologies, especially automatic vehicle location (AVL) systems, provide much more real-time information on bus locations than had previously been available. Theoretically, availability of this information can be expected to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of on-street bus operations management.The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Synthesis 166: On-Street Bus Operations Management provides an overview of the current practices in real-time management of street operations at North American transit agencies.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26836/on-street-bus-operations-management", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Use of Probe Data for Freight Planning and Operations", abstract = "As freight transportation volumes have grown rapidly\u2014further spurred by pandemic-driven e-commerce growth\u2014state departments of transportation (DOTs) have become increasingly reliant on probe data to monitor freight infrastructure performance, manage demand, and understand freight infrastructure needs.\nNCHRP Synthesis 611: Use of Probe Data for Freight Planning and Operations, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, documents current state DOT practices regarding the use of probe data in freight planning and operations management applications to close this gap in understanding.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27249/use-of-probe-data-for-freight-planning-and-operations", year = 2023, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Virtual Airport Ramp Control Operations Facilities: A Guide", abstract = "Virtual ramp control (VRC) implementations have increasingly been occurring at airports over the past 5 years. More airport operators are interested in potentially implementing a VRC system as the technology proves viable.\nACRP Research Report 256: Virtual Airport Ramp Control Operations Facilities: A Guide, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, aims to develop a guide that provides U.S. airport operators and their stakeholders with a roadmap and key information for implementing VRC systems at airports of all sizes.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27268/virtual-airport-ramp-control-operations-facilities-a-guide", year = 2023, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Energizing Data-Driven Operations at the Tactical Edge: Challenges and Concerns", isbn = "978-0-309-67023-4", abstract = "Significant efforts are ongoing within the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to improve national security and competitiveness by harnessing the growing power of information technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. Product and process technologies are being researched, experimented with, and integrated into future warfighting concepts and plans. A significant part of this effort is focused on integrating operations, from the strategic to the tactical and across all lines of effort. A question that must be asked in considering these future warfighting concepts is: how will the devices that enable the knowledge-based future be powered? The abundant energy supplies that characterize peacetime operating environments may not be readily available at the far reaches of the force projections - the tactical edge - during conflict. Understanding the energy challenges associated with continued data collection, processing, storage, analysis, and communications at the tactical edge is an important part of developing the plans for meeting the future competition on the battlefield.\nThis report identifies challenges and issues associated with energy needs at the tactical edge as well as any potential for solutions to be considered in the future to help address these challenges. The recommendations of Energizing Data-Driven Operations at the Tactical Edge address understanding these requirement needs and the cascading effects of not meeting those needs, integrating energy needs for data processing into mission and unit readiness assessments, and research into product and process technologies to address energy-efficient computation, resilience, interoperability, and alternative solutions to energy management at the tactical edge. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26183/energizing-data-driven-operations-at-the-tactical-edge-challenges-and", year = 2021, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "LuAnn Theiss and Gerald L. Ullman and Jon Jackels", title = "Safe and Effective Temporary Traffic Control for Mobile Operations on Two-Lane Roadways", abstract = "Mobile operations can either move continuously along the roadway as during most striping operations, or intermittently as during a pothole patching operation. Mobile operations on two-lane roadways present unique challenges to transportation agencies, not the least of which is the highly variable conditions encountered in the field.\nThe TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 354: Safe and Effective Temporary Traffic Control for Mobile Operations on Two-Lane Roadways describes the available Temporary Traffic Control (TTC) strategies currently in use, itemizes the perceived hazards and practical challenges associated with implementation of those strategies, and explains how maintenance crews can adjust TTC strategies based on actual field conditions.\nSupplemental to the report are a Guidelines Document and a PowerPoint Presentation. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26893/safe-and-effective-temporary-traffic-control-for-mobile-operations-on-two-lane-roadways", year = 2023, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Christian Valdes and Vincent Mestre and Alan Hass and Sarah Farsalas and Bernard Barry", title = "Primer and Framework for Considering an Airport Noise and Operations Monitoring System", abstract = "Airports use Noise and Operations Monitoring Systems (NOMSs) to collect, manage, analyze, and communicate data such as flight tracks and procedures, aircraft identification, noise measurements, noise abatement program performance, and weather. NOMSs are also used to respond to community noise complaints and provide stakeholders with information about aircraft activity and noise, thus fostering trust and transparency.The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Research Report 237: Primer and Framework for Considering an Airport Noise and Operations Monitoring System is a comprehensive resource to help airport industry practitioners assess the potential benefits and costs of acquiring, maintaining, and updating a NOMS or flight tracking tools without permanent noise monitors.Supplemental to the report are Appendices A though K.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26527/primer-and-framework-for-considering-an-airport-noise-and-operations-monitoring-system", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Planning the Future Space Weather Operations and Research Infrastructure: Proceedings of a Workshop", isbn = "978-0-309-45433-9", abstract = "In response to a request from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - and with the support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation - the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted a two-part virtual workshop, \"Space Weather Operations and Research Infrastructure,\" on June 16-17 and September 9-11, 2020. The overall goals of the workshop were to review present space weather monitoring and forecasting capabilities, to consider future observational infrastructure and research needs, and to consider options toward the further development of an effective, resilient, and achievable national space weather program. This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26128/planning-the-future-space-weather-operations-and-research-infrastructure-proceedings", year = 2021, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Michael J. Walk and Kelly Blume and James P. Cardenas and Paul Anderson and Zachary Elgart and Luis David Galicia", title = "Third-Party Contracts for Fixed-Route Bus Operations and Maintenance: Performance Metrics", abstract = "Transit agencies can provide fixed-route bus transit services through direct operation, contracting out to a third party, or a combination of both. Contracting out can be done to another transit agency or a private firm, and may include specific modes, routes, or garages. The quality and cost efficiency of outsourced service depend on local, contractual, and managerial factors.\nTCRP Synthesis 171: Third-Party Contracts for Fixed-Route Bus Operations and Maintenance: Performance Metrics, from TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program, focuses on the performance metrics used in contracts for fixed-route bus operations and maintenance, extending the 2018 findings of TCRP Synthesis 136: Contracting Fixed-Route Bus Transit Service.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27074/third-party-contracts-for-fixed-route-bus-operations-and-maintenance-performance-metrics", year = 2023, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Geoff Morrison and Rex Hazelton and Elise Emil and Henry Canipe and John Hildreth and Dennis Halacho", title = "Decision Making for Repair Versus Replacement of Highway Operations Equipment", abstract = "Equipment failures often require state transportation agency fleet managers to consider whether the equipment should be repaired or replaced. The decision-making process typically considers a variety of factors.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 1046: Decision Making for Repair Versus Replacement of Highway Operations Equipment is a handbook to help determine the basis for decisions about what to do with a downed piece of equipment as well as a guide for formulating such decisions in a cost-effective way.Supplemental to the report are a customizable Excel tool, a video explaining its Economic Analysis Module, and a video explaining its Decision Module.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27041/decision-making-for-repair-versus-replacement-of-highway-operations-equipment", year = 2023, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Leila Hajibabai and Ali Hajbabaie and Rasool Mohebifard and Amir Mirheli and Henry Canipe and Wei Fan", title = "Replacement of Highway Operations Equipment: Formulation of Long-Range Plans and Budgets", abstract = "State highway agency equipment fleet assets are vital to the delivery of agency programs, projects, and services. These fleets represent a significant capital investment and require recurring maintenance, operational expenditures, and timely replacement to achieve the desired level of performance, reliability, and economy.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 1017: Replacement of Highway Operations Equipment: Formulation of Long-Range Plans and Budgets is both a handbook on concepts for making long-range investment decisions and a guide for formulating cost-effective long-range plans for equipment replacement.Supplemental to the report is a Long-Range Replacement Management tool to support the planning and budgeting processes. Any software included is offered as is, without warranty or promise of support of any kind either expressed or implied. Under no circumstance will the National Academy of Sciences or the Transportation Research Board (collectively \u201cTRB\u201d) be liable for any loss or damage caused by the installation or operation of this product. TRB makes no representation or warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, in fact or in law, including without limitation, the warranty of merchantability or the warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, and shall not in any case be liable for any consequential or special damages.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26937/replacement-of-highway-operations-equipment-formulation-of-long-range-plans-and-budgets", year = 2023, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Ronald Daniels and Lida Beninson", title = "The Next Generation of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences Researchers: Breaking Through", isbn = "978-0-309-47137-4", abstract = "Since the end of the Second World War, the United States has developed the world's preeminent system for biomedical research, one that has given rise to revolutionary medical advances as well as a dynamic and innovative business sector generating high-quality jobs and powering economic output and exports for the U.S. economy. However, there is a growing concern that the biomedical research enterprise is beset by several core challenges that undercut its vitality, promise, and productivity and that could diminish its critical role in the nation's health and innovation in the biomedical industry.\nAmong the most salient of these challenges is the gulf between the burgeoning number of scientists qualified to participate in this system as academic researchers and the elusive opportunities to establish long-term research careers in academia. The patchwork of measures to address the challenges facing young scientists that has emerged over the years has allowed the U.S. biomedical enterprise to continue to make significant scientific and medical advances. These measures, however, have not resolved the structural vulnerabilities in the system, and in some cases come at a great opportunity cost for young scientists. These unresolved issues could diminish the nation's ability to recruit the best minds from all sectors of the U.S. population to careers in biomedical research and raise concerns about a system that may favor increasingly conservative research proposals over high-risk, innovative ideas.\nThe Next Generation of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences Researchers: Breaking Through evaluates the factors that influence transitions into independent research careers in the biomedical and behavioral sciences and offers recommendations to improve those transitions. These recommendations chart a path to a biomedical research enterprise that is competitive, rigorous, fair, dynamic, and can attract the best minds from across the country.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25008/the-next-generation-of-biomedical-and-behavioral-sciences-researchers-breaking", year = 2018, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Michael James, Alexandria Salton, Matthew Calton, Micah Downing, Blue Ridge Research and Consulting, LLC and Brigham Young University Kent Gee and Sally Anne McInerny", title = "Commercial Space Operations Noise and Sonic Boom Measurements", abstract = "As the frequency of commercial space operations and number of licensed launch sites in the United States continue to grow rapidly, accurately assessing the impacts of propulsion noise and sonic booms on surrounding communities will become even more critical.\nThe TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Web-Only Document 47: Commercial Space Operations Noise and Sonic Boom Measurements develops a well-documented, high-fidelity database of acoustic measurements acquired using a consistent data collection and analysis protocol.\nUltimately, the acoustic database developed during this effort will enable future researchers to validate and enhance the models used to predict community noise exposure from space transportation activities.\nA database is included as part of the publication.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25834/commercial-space-operations-noise-and-sonic-boom-measurements", year = 2020, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Kenneth P. Neubauer and Edward Shea and Stephen Rice and Nathan Polsgrove and Dave Fleet", title = "Airside Operations Safety: Understanding the Effects of Human Factors", abstract = "Despite dedicated efforts involving changes in technologies and procedures, the number of annual runway incursions in the United States has shown little to no improvement.\nThe TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Research Report 246: Airside Operations Safety: Understanding the Effects of Human Factors provides a review of the current state of human factors research and the related resources that are available to U.S. airport operations personnel.\nSupplemental to the report are an Executive Summary (to be released soon) and a White Paper.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26779/airside-operations-safety-understanding-the-effects-of-human-factors", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Planning the Future Space Weather Operations and Research Infrastructure: Proceedings of the Phase II Workshop", isbn = "978-0-309-69366-0", abstract = "Affecting technological systems at a global-scale, space weather can disrupt high-frequency radio signals, satellite-based communications, navigational satellite positioning and timing signals, spacecraft operations, and electric power delivery with cascading socioeconomic effects resulting from these disruptions. Space weather can also present an increased health risk for astronauts, as well as aviation flight crews and passengers on transpolar flights.\nIn 2019, the National Academies was approached by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Science Foundation to organize a workshop that would examine the operational and research infrastructure that supports the space weather enterprise, including an analysis of existing and potential future measurement gaps and opportunities for future enhancements. This request was subsequently modified to include two workshops, the first (\"Phase I\") of which occurred in two parts on June 16-17 and September 9-11, 2020.\nThe Phase II workshop occurred on April 11-14, 2022, with sessions on agency updates, research needs, data science, observational and modeling needs, and emerging architectures relevant to the space weather research community and with ties to operational needs. This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of that workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26712/planning-the-future-space-weather-operations-and-research-infrastructure-proceedings", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Respiratory Health Effects of Airborne Hazards Exposures in the Southwest Asia Theater of Military Operations", isbn = "978-0-309-67910-7", abstract = "More than 3.7 million U.S. service members have participated in operations taking place in the Southwest Asia Theater of Military Operations since 1990. These operations include the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War, a post-war stabilization period spanning 1992 through September 2001, and the campaigns undertaken in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks. Deployment to Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Oman, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Afghanistan exposed service members to a number of airborne hazards, including oil-well fire smoke, emissions from open burn pits, dust and sand suspended in the air, and exhaust from diesel vehicles. The effects of these were compounded by stressors like excessive heat and noise that are inevitable attributes of service in a combat environment.\nRespiratory Health Effects of Airborne Hazards Exposures in the Southwest Asia Theater of Military Operations reviews the scientific evidence regarding respiratory health outcomes in veterans of the Southwest Asia conflicts and identifies research that could feasibly be conducted to address outstanding questions and generate answers, newly emerging technologies that could aid in these efforts, and organizations that the Veterans Administration might partner with to accomplish this work.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25837/respiratory-health-effects-of-airborne-hazards-exposures-in-the-southwest-asia-theater-of-military-operations", year = 2020, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "WSP USA", title = "Business Models to Facilitate Deployment of Connected Vehicle Infrastructure to Support Automated Vehicle Operations", abstract = "State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and other government agencies recognize the value of connected vehicle (CV) technologies in helping achieve the strategic objectives of saving lives and relieving congestion. Several agencies are currently planning and preparing for a future where CV technologies could become a part of their routine business operations. A core consideration in any such planning effort is an assessment of the need for and the nature of public CV infrastructure investments to support applications based on CV technologies.The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Web-Only Document 289: Business Models to Facilitate Deployment of Connected Vehicle Infrastructure to Support Automated Vehicle Operations presents methods to identify the most plausible CV infrastructure investments, shows how to build effective business case arguments, and details specific business model options during project procurement and delivery.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25946/business-models-to-facilitate-deployment-of-connected-vehicle-infrastructure-to-support-automated-vehicle-operations", year = 2020, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Ricondo Craig Leiner and RSG Thomas Adler", title = "Transportation Network Companies (TNCs): Impacts to Airport Revenues and Operations—Reference Guide", abstract = "Transportation network companies (TNCs) have become an increasingly popular form of transportation since initially permitted at some airports in 2014. While many airports receive significant revenue from TNCs, others have recorded declines in parking revenue and rental car transactions that are perceived to be a direct result of TNC operations.The TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program's ACRP Research Report 215: Transportation Network Companies (TNCs): Impacts to Airport Revenues and Operations\u2014Reference Guide identifies strategies and practical tools for adapting airport landside access programs to reflect the evolution of ground transportation modes such as TNCs and autonomous vehicles.A searchable statistical database of the airport survey and the Airport Mode Choice and Ground Simulator Template (an Excel-based simulation template), which shows how the mode-choice model is applied to estimate revenue impact, supplement the report.In July 2020, an errata for this publication was issued.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25759/transportation-network-companies-tncs-impacts-to-airport-revenues-and-operations-reference-guide", year = 2020, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }