Civil & Environmental Engineering : Transportation

TRB facilitates the sharing of information on transportation practice and policy by researchers and practitioners; stimulates research; offers research management services; and provides expert advice on transportation policy and programs.

TRB is one of six major divisions of the National Research Council - the principal operating agency of the National Academies. TRB’s activities annually engage more than 7,000 engineers, scientists, and other transportation researchers and practitioners from the public and private sectors and academia.The program is supported by state transportation departments, federal agencies including the U.S. Department of Transportation, and other organizations and individuals.

The Public Transportation Fact Book, published annually, contains national aggregate statistical data covering all aspects of the transit industry in the United States and Canada. Two appendices, also available, provide additional in-depth information that supplements the data in the Fact Book.