TY - BOOK AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Oil in the Sea IV: Quick Guide for Practitioners and Researchers DO - 10.17226/27155 PY - 2023 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27155/oil-in-the-sea-iv-quick-guide-for-practitioners-and PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Environment and Environmental Studies KW - Earth Sciences AB - 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. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academy of Sciences TI - Toward a New Era of Data Sharing: Summary of the US-UK Scientific Forum on Researcher Access to Data DO - 10.17226/27520 PY - 2024 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27520/toward-a-new-era-of-data-sharing-summary-of-the PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Policy for Science and Technology AB - 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 12–13, 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. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Olga Selezneva A2 - Dean Wolf TI - Tools for Assuring WIM Data Quality: Practical Guide DO - 10.17226/27234 PY - 2023 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27234/tools-for-assuring-wim-data-quality-practical-guide PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - Weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems provide an estimate of the static weight of moving vehicles. WIM data is used for transportation and freight planning, pavement and bridge design, and highway safety investigations. NCHRP Research Report 1070: Tools for Assuring WIM Data Quality: Practical Guide, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, provides state departments of transportation with new procedures to help practitioners improve accuracy and increase the reliability of WIM data. Supplemental to the report are NCHRP Web-Only Document 370: LTPP Data Analysis: Practical Tools and Procedures to Improve WIM Data Quality and six Excel spreadsheet tools. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - José Holguín-Veras A2 - Cara Wang A2 - Juvena Ng A2 - Diana Ramírez-Ríos A2 - Jeffrey Wojtowicz A2 - Oriana Calderón A2 - Benjamin Caron A2 - Carlos Rivera-González A2 - Sofía Pérez A2 - Joshua Schmid A2 - Woojung Kim A2 - Abdelrahman Ismael A2 - Julia Coutinho Amaral A2 - Catherine Lawson A2 - Daniel Haake TI - Planning Freight-Efficient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools DO - 10.17226/26737 PY - 2022 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26737/planning-freight-efficient-land-uses-methodology-strategies-and-tools PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - Land-use planning is essential to fostering quality of life and harmony among the myriad social and economic activities that take place and compete for space in urban and metropolitan areas. Land-use planning also profoundly affects the commercial supply chains that deliver the goods and services that constitute urban and regional economies, and contribute to the quality of life. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 998: Planning Freight-Efficient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools is designed to prepare practitioners to make land-use decisions that minimize the private and external costs associated with the production, transportation, and consumption of goods by providing them with the tools needed to analyse the freight efficiency of current and future land uses in their jurisdictions, and identify and select land-use and transportation initiatives. Supplemental to the report are a tool for assessment of the overall impacts of freight land uses, a document about the research effort, and a presentation. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Olga Selezneva A2 - Dean Wolf A2 - Syed W. Haider A2 - Munum Masud TI - LTPP Data Analysis: Practical Tools and Procedures to Improve WIM Data Quality DO - 10.17226/27233 PY - 2023 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27233/ltpp-data-analysis-practical-tools-and-procedures-to-improve-wim-data-quality PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - Highway agencies use weigh-in-motion (WIM) technology to collect vehicle weight and axle load data on roadways. NCHRP Web-Only Document 370: LTPP Data Analysis: Practical Tools and Procedures to Improve WIM Data Quality, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, is a supplemental document to NCHRP Research Report 1070: Tools for Assuring WIM Data Quality: Practical Guide, and provides a research overview and data analyses to enhance understanding of different factors affecting WIM measurement accuracy and to develop practical tools and procedures to improve accuracy and increase the reliability of WIM data. The document describes the development and use of to develop practical tools and procedures aimed to improve the accuracy and increase the reliability of WIM data. Supplemental to the document are four presentations. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Charles Minicucci A2 - Julie Liao TI - Innovations for Tackling Tuberculosis in the Time of COVID-19: Current Tools and Challenges: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief DO - 10.17226/26404 PY - 2021 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26404/innovations-for-tackling-tuberculosis-in-the-time-of-covid-19 PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Health and Medicine AB - The Forum on Microbial Threats of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Health and Medicine Division hosted a virtual workshop on July 22, 2021 to evaluate the current status in tuberculosis (TB) eradication and the impact that COVID-19 has had on the global fight against TB. With support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, the workshop examined technological and strategic innovations that can be leveraged to meet the targets set by the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis and the END TB Strategy from the World Health Organization. Workshop discussions comprised four main topics: gaps and challenges in diagnostic technologies, including point-of-care testing; promising potentials of vaccination approaches, including existing tools in the development pipeline and new vaccine platforms; possibilities and encouraging progress toward achieving a shorter, non-toxic treatment regimen; and opportunities for engaging increased and sustained commitments to achieve targets for ending TB in the face of challenges from COVID-19 and future disease threats. This Proceedings of a Workshop-in Brief summarizes the presentations and discussions that occurred during the workshop. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Jeanette Beebe A2 - Raymond Wassel A2 - Kaley Beins A2 - Kathryn Z. Guyton TI - Artificial Intelligence Tools and Open Data Practices for EPA Chemical Hazard Assessments: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief DO - 10.17226/26540 PY - 2022 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26540/artificial-intelligence-tools-and-open-data-practices-for-epa-chemical-hazard-assessments PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Environment and Environmental Studies AB - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA’s) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Program identifies and characterizes the human health hazards of chemicals found in the environment. Human health risk assessments cover hazard identification as well as dose-response analyses for cancer and noncancer outcomes that are obtained from IRIS assessments. Human health risk assessments are highly important as they are used to inform a broad range of risk-related decisions across the agency. These assessments involve systematic reviews of the scientific literature, which obtain, evaluate, and summarize information to answer a research question in a transparent manner. At the request of the Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment within EPA's Office of Research and Development, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to explore opportunities and challenges in using advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and data science to enhance human health risk assessments. The workshop was held virtually on May 25 and 26, 2022. This publication summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Robert Pool TI - Frontiers in Data Analytics and Monitoring Tools for Extreme Materials: Proceedings of a Workshop SN - DO - 10.17226/26983 PY - 2023 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26983/frontiers-in-data-analytics-and-monitoring-tools-for-extreme-materials PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Engineering and Technology KW - Space and Aeronautics AB - One of the major challenges in materials science today is developing materials that can survive and function in extreme environments, such as the high-radiation environments found in a fission or fusion reactor or the ultra-high temperature experienced by a hypervelocity vessel or a spacecraft traveling through Earths atmosphere on its return to the planets surface. What is needed to discover such materials was the topic of a 2-day workshop held at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on October 5-6, 2022. That workshop, titled Materials in Extreme Environments: New Monitoring Tools and Data-Driven Approaches, brought together an international collection of experts on the testing and measurement of materials in extreme environments and on discovering and developing new materials. This Proceedings of a Workshop recaps the presentations and discussions that took place during the 2 days of the workshop. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Ronald Daniels A2 - Lida Beninson TI - The Next Generation of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences Researchers: Breaking Through SN - DO - 10.17226/25008 PY - 2018 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25008/the-next-generation-of-biomedical-and-behavioral-sciences-researchers-breaking PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Education KW - Health and Medicine KW - Behavioral and Social Sciences AB - 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. Among 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. The 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. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Frank Gallivan, Jemae Hoffman, Nelson/Nygaard, Thompson Consulting TI - Tools for a Sustainable Transit Agency DO - 10.17226/25042 PY - 2018 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25042/tools-for-a-sustainable-transit-agency PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Report 197: Tools for a Sustainable Transit Agency explores the development of practical tools for improving sustainability at transit agencies:The Sustainability Routemap: An interactive PDF, similar to a website, that guides the user to improve a transit agency’s sustainability program through application of change management principles, best practice examples, and references to online tools.The Sustainability ChecklistThe S+ROI Calculator: An Excel workbook that quantitatively evaluates potential sustainability projects in terms of financial, social, and environmental returns.The S+ROI Calculator BRT ExampleThe S+ROI Calculator Solar Panel ExampleThe tools are available to download as a .zip file.Disclaimer - This software 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 "TRB") 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. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Issues for Science and Engineering Researchers in the Digital Age SN - DO - 10.17226/10100 PY - 2001 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10100/issues-for-science-and-engineering-researchers-in-the-digital-age PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Behavioral and Social Sciences KW - Education ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Sustainability Concepts in Decision-Making: Tools and Approaches for the US Environmental Protection Agency SN - DO - 10.17226/18949 PY - 2014 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18949/sustainability-concepts-in-decision-making-tools-and-approaches-for-the PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Environment and Environmental Studies AB - In its current strategic plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) describes a cross-agency strategy to advance sustainable environmental outcomes and optimize economic and social outcomes through Agency decisions and actions. Sustainability has evolved from an aspiration to a growing body of practices. The evolution includes a transition from the development of broad goals toward the implementation of specific policies and programs for achieving them and the use of indicators and metrics for measuring progress. Without losing focus on implementing its existing regulatory mandates, EPA's incorporation of sustainability considerations into its decision-making about potential environmental, social, and economic outcomes involves shifting from a focus on specific pollutants in an environmental medium (air, water, or land) to a broader assessment of interactions among human, natural, and manufactured systems. EPA has indicated that it will need to consider the use of a variety of analytic tools and approaches to assess the potential sustainability-related effects of its decisions and actions in response to complex environmental challenges. Sustainability Concepts in Decision-Making: Tools and Approaches for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency examines scientific tools and approaches for incorporating sustainability concepts into assessments used to support EPA decision making. Using specific case studies, this report considers the application of analytic and scientific tools, methods, and approaches presented in the 2011 NRC report Sustainability and the U.S. EPA. This report examines both currently available and emerging tools, methods, and approaches to find those most appropriate for assessing and/or evaluating potential economic, social and environmental outcomes within an EPA decision context. Sustainability Concepts in Decision Making also discusses data needs and post-decision evaluation of outcomes on dimensions of sustainability. A broad array of sustainability tools and approaches are suitable for assessing potential environmental, social, and economic outcomes in EPA's decision-making context. The recommendations of this report will assist the agency to optimize environmental, social, and economic outcomes in EPA decisions. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council A2 - Dominic A. Brose A2 - Lynette I. Millett TI - Sustainability Considerations for Procurement Tools and Capabilities: Summary of a Workshop SN - DO - 10.17226/13476 PY - 2012 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13476/sustainability-considerations-for-procurement-tools-and-capabilities-summary-of-a PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Computers and Information Technology AB - Federal laws, regulations, and executive orders have imposed requirements for federal agencies to move toward the sustainable acquisition of goods and services, including the incorporation of sustainable purchasing into federal agency decision making. Since the federal government is such a significant player in the market, its move to incorporate sustainable procurement practices could have a profound impact on the types of products being developed for the market as a whole. The General Services Administration (GSA) has played a key role in furthering sustainable procurement practices throughout the federal government. GSA is responsible for formulating and maintaining government-wide policies covering a variety of administrative actions, including those related to procurement and management. GSA has several ongoing activities related to sustainable procurement to assess the feasibility of working with the federal supplier community - vendors and contractors that serve federal agencies to measure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the supply chain while encouraging sustainable operations among suppliers. GSA has also been actively developing programs to assist federal agencies in making sustainable procurement decisions. As federal agencies cannot directly fund the development of sustainable procurement tools, they are particularly interested in understanding how to foster innovation and provide incentives for collaboration between developers and users of tools for sustainable purchasing throughout the supply chain. The training of procurement professionals is also a priority for these agencies. To assist efforts to build sustainability considerations into the procurement process, the National Research Council appointed a committee to organize a two-day workshop that explored ways to better incorporate sustainability considerations into procurement tools and capabilities across the public and private sectors. The workshop was designed to help participants assess the current landscape of green purchasing tools, identify emerging needs for enhanced or new tools and opportunities to develop them, identify potential barriers to progress, and explore potential solutions. The workshop provided an opportunity for participants to discuss challenges related to sustainable purchasing and to developing new procurement tools. Sustainability Considerations for Procurement Tools and Capabilities reviews the presenters' recommendations and tools currently used in sustainable procurement, such as databases for ecolabels and standards, codes, or regulations and other nontechnological tools such as policies, frameworks, rating systems, and product indexes. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Kellyn Betts TI - The Promise of Genome Editing Tools to Advance Environmental Health Research: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief DO - 10.17226/25136 PY - 2018 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25136/the-promise-of-genome-editing-tools-to-advance-environmental-health-research PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Biology and Life Sciences KW - Environment and Environmental Studies AB - Advances in genome editing - the process for making precise additions, deletions, and alterations of DNA and RNA - have opened the door for studying biological mechanisms of health and disease. On January 10-11, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Standing Committee on Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions held a 2-day workshop to explore what role genome and epigenome editing tools could play in advancing environmental health research and decision-making. This publication highlights the presentation and discussion of the workshop. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Economic Development Research Group, Inc. TI - Development of Tools for Assessing Wider Economic Benefits of Transportation DO - 10.17226/22502 PY - 2014 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22502/development-of-tools-for-assessing-wider-economic-benefits-of-transportation PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) S2-C11-RW-1: Development of Tools for Assessing Wider Economic Benefits of Transportation describes spreadsheet-based tools designed to help calculate a transportation project's impact on travel time reliability, market access, and intermodal connectivity.The report includes an accounting system designed to incorporate the three metrics into economic benefit and economic impact analyses.Disclaimer: This software 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 "TRB") 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. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Yannis C. Stogios A2 - Andy Brijmohan A2 - Hani Mahmassani A2 - Jiwon Kim A2 - Ying Chen A2 - Peter Vovsha TI - Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into Operations and Planning Modeling Tools DO - 10.17226/22388 PY - 2014 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22388/incorporating-reliability-performance-measures-into-operations-and-planning-modeling-tools PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-L04-RR-1: Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into Operations and Planning Modeling Tools explores the underlying conceptual foundations of travel modeling and traffic simulation and provides practical means of generating realistic reliability performance measures using network simulation models.SHRP 2 Reliability Project L04 also produced a report titled Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into Operations and Planning Modeling Tools Application Guidelines that provides an overview of the methodology and tools that can be applied to existing microsimulation and mesoscopic modeling software in order to assess travel time reliability.SHRP 2 Reliability Project L04 also produced another publication titled Incorporating Reliability Performance Measures into Operations and Planning Modeling Tools: Reference Material that discusses the activities required to develop operational models to address the needs of the L04 research project.The L04 project also produced two pieces of software and accompanying user’s guides: the Trajectory Processor and the Scenario Manager.Software Disclaimer: These materials are 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 “TRB”) be liable for any loss or damage caused by the installation or operation of these materials. 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. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Analytical Tools for Asset Management DO - 10.17226/13851 PY - 2005 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13851/analytical-tools-for-asset-management PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 545: Analytical Tools for Asset Management examines two tools developed to support tradeoff analysis for transportation asset management. The software tools and the accompanying documentation are designed to help state departments of transportation and other transportation agencies identify, evaluate, and recommend investment decisions for managing the agency’s infrastructure assets.The software tools associated with NCHRP Report 545 are available in an ISO format. Links to instructions on buring an .ISO CD-ROM and the download site for the .ISO CD-ROM are below.Help on Burning an .ISO CD-ROM ImageDownload the NCHRP CRP-CD-57.ISO CD-ROM Image ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Framework and Tools for Estimating Benefits of Specific Freight Network Investments DO - 10.17226/14600 PY - 2011 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/14600/framework-and-tools-for-estimating-benefits-of-specific-freight-network-investments PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - TRB’s National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 12: Framework and Tools for Estimating Benefits of Specific Freight Network Investments provides a framework and tools designed to help estimate the private and public benefits of potential freight infrastructure investments.The evaluation framework is intended to assist public planning and decision-making processes regarding freight; to supplement benefit/cost assessment with distributional impact measures; and to advance public-private cooperation.The framework is capable of handling projects that span all of the different modes and able to assess benefits from a variety of project types, including those that are designed to improve freight operations, as well as those that would generate more capacity through infrastructure expansion. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Tools for Communicating Railroad-DOT Mitigation Strategies DO - 10.17226/22250 PY - 2014 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22250/tools-for-communicating-railroad-dot-mitigation-strategies PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Renewal Project R16B has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled Tools for Communicating Railroad-DOT Mitigation Strategies. This report summarizes the background, approach, and activities conducted in the R16 Report, along with the tools developed during the final phase of an earlier SHRP 2 project, Strategies for Improving the Project Agreement Process Between Agencies and Railroads. SHRP 2 Renewal Project R16 also developed another supplemental report about establishing a collaborative forum between transportation agencies and railroads. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Countermeasures Assessment and Security Experts, LLC and Transportation Resource Associates, Inc. TI - Tools and Strategies for Eliminating Assaults Against Transit Operators, Volume 1: Research Overview DO - 10.17226/25115 PY - 2018 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25115/tools-and-strategies-for-eliminating-assaults-against-transit-operators-volume-1-research-overview PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Report 193: Tools and Strategies for Eliminating Assaults Against Transit Operators, Volume 1: Research Overview provides the materials and methodology used to produce potential countermeasures and strategies to prevent or mitigate assaults against transit operators.Transit industry policies, practices, and operating procedures related to preventing, mitigating, and responding to operator assaults are not uniform. The policies and procedures set by the transit agency and situational and design factors can shape mitigation approaches. The format, scale, and implementation of these measures vary greatly among transit agencies. Many agencies have written policies that address workplace violence prevention, but they vary widely in content, scope, and application. Relevant skills and training required by transit operators to address this issue vary as well.Volume 1 documents the materials used to develop TCRP Research Report 193: Tools and Strategies for Eliminating Assaults Against Transit Operators, Volume 2: User Guide. The User Guide includes an operator assault risk management toolbox developed to support transit agencies in their efforts to prevent, mitigate, and respond to assaults against operators. The User Guide also provides transit agencies with guidance in the use and deployment of the vulnerability self-assessment tool and the route-based risk calculator and includes supportive checklists, guidelines, and methodologies. ER -