TRB 17th National Tools of the Trade Conference
Boise, Idaho
Summer 2022
Call for Abstracts
Submission Due Date: FEBRUARY 18, 2022
Sponsored by Transportation Research Board Committees
AEP10, Transportation Planning Policy and Processes
AEP20, Transportation Needs of National Parks and Public Lands
Tools of the Trade is a national conference providing practical techniques for transportation professionals in small (under 50,000) and medium-sized (50,000 - 250,000) communities. All practitioners, researchers, academics, and others involved in transportation planning are encouraged to attend.
The conference seeks easy-to-implement, cost-effective, and innovative tools, data, models, processes, and techniques that address current federal planning factors in small and medium-sized communities and public lands. In addition to traditional transportation planning issues, we seek answers to the following questions:
- How do you efficiently execute performance-based planning?
- How do you improve public involvement in the planning process?
- How do you promote safe, active transportation options?
- How do you build effective partnerships among agencies, communities and public lands?
- How do you support transit, shared, and micro-mobility solutions to urban areas and public lands?
- How do you plan, prioritize and implement emerging and innovative technologies?
- How do you deal with freight demand, traffic, and parking?
- How do public lands and gateway communities work collaboratively to plan for or react to catastrophic weather events, issues of transportation equity, or address visitation spikes?
A range of presentation styles will be supported, including podium sessions, panel discussions, “lightning sessions,” posters and workshops. Students are encouraged to submit abstracts on their practical/analytical work to be considered for a best student poster award of $500.
Questions? Please contact: Claire Randall, TRB Staff