<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="https://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <channel>
    <title>Research in Progress (RIP)</title>
    <link>https://rip.trb.org/</link>
    <atom:link href="https://rip.trb.org/Record/RSS?s=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" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
    <description></description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <copyright>Copyright © 2026. National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.</copyright>
    <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
    <managingEditor>tris-trb@nas.edu (Bill McLeod)</managingEditor>
    <webMaster>tris-trb@nas.edu (Bill McLeod)</webMaster>
    <image>
      <title>Research in Progress (RIP)</title>
      <url>https://rip.trb.org/Images/PageHeader-wTitle-RIP.jpg</url>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/</link>
    </image>
    <item>
      <title>SAFE Schools For Safer Future
</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/2628212</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Seatbelts Are For Everyone (SAFE) is a Kansas state initiative program launched in 2008 by DCCCA Inc. (Developing Caring Communities Committed to Action) to increase teen restraint compliance through education, positive reinforcement, and enforcement. This teen-led, peer-to-peer program aims to reduce the number of teen motor vehicle injuries and fatalities. The SAFE program has been a component of the Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office (KTSRO) for over a decade. The program was expanded to Oklahoma and Missouri in 2014 and 2016 respectively, and Iowa adopted the program in 2021. 
The goal of the current research project is to understand the efficacy of the SAFE program through a multifaceted approach. This project will be conducted in two parts; the first part includes surveying high school students on the topics of seatbelt, traffic laws and other safe driving behaviors covered by the SAFE program that can help in understanding their attitudes, perceptions, knowledge and experience regarding road safety and how it differs between students participating SAFE and non-SAFE schools. In addition, this part will also include socioeconomic analysis to determine the influence of equity factors on the driving behaviors and perception of Kansas teen drivers. The second part of the study will include conducting literature review, examining Kansas fatal and serious injury crashes involving teens over a 13-year period, from 2010 to 2023, and their potential contributing factors, identifying various safety programs, best practices and initiatives across the nation focused on improving teen safety and emphasizing the importance of educating and training young drivers during their early driving phases. It is critical to instill safe driving behavior for young people from an early age to foster a safety culture and better mobility in the future.
]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:27:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://rip.trb.org/View/2628212</guid>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Assessing Potential of Bike Share Networks and Active Transportation to Improve Urban Mobility, Physical Activity and Public Health Outcomes in South Carolina</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1578216</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Description: There is need for evidence-based research about how, when, where, and why people undertake active travel, like bicycling and walking, and about how the built environment and infrastructure may or may not accommodate active travel. As stated in the National Physical Activity Plan, transportation and public health entities should collaborate to “improve and expand existing data collection sources to assess active transportation patterns and trends that include local-area data.” Charleston, South Carolina has the conditions necessary to promote active travel, such as supportive stakeholders and a walkable built environment, as well as the tools to study the conditions under which active travel may thrive. This research will conduct a case study on active travel in Charleston, focusing on issues such as route conditions and the use of bike share programs to better understand how Charleston’s built environment is meeting the health, physical activity, and transportation needs of the community. 

Intellectual Merit: Qualitative, quantitative, and geospatial methods will be used to evaluate active transportation, physical activity, and health outcomes in Charleston, South Carolina.
Broader Impacts: Research results will be beneficial to communities which are undertaking active transportation and bike share initiatives to improve mobility, reduce congestion, promote sustainability, increase levels of physical activity, and bring about desirable public health outcomes.
Technology Transfer: The research team will engage local officials, decision makers, and community stakeholders by communicating its data analysis and results, for example through infographics, formal meetings, and a guidebook. Findings will also be published and presented in national engineering and city planning forums, and will be disseminated to municipalities and other stakeholders via strategic technology transfer channels.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:32:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://rip.trb.org/View/1578216</guid>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title> 
Public vs Private Transportation Network Accessibility and Maternal-Infant Health Outcomes Across the Urban-Rural Boundary  in Kalamazoo County, Michigan  
</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1483611</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This project is twofold. The first part of the project deals specifically with the benefits of
multimodal transportation modeling to understand community structure of public health access in a community. Maternal risk and infant outcomes are examined in Kalamazoo County, MI with respect to transportation network accessibility by public transit and private vehicle across the urban-rural continuum. Infants born to mothers just outside the urban core had a higher rate of poor outcomes. Maternal risk factors, by contrast, were associated with the accessible rural areas – areas outside the city proper, but within 30 minutes by car to services. When as much variability as possible (departure time, routes, modes, time of day) was included in the model, very detailed community structure information emerged. This structural information is not specifically causal, but differences in behaviors and use of services, as well as differences in urban poverty and rural poverty were apparent. The second part of the project considered raster-based methods to provide insights into siting intervention locations at efficient and equitable locations for repeating cases of risk – in this case, repeating cases of sexually transmitted infections. The results provide metrics for decision makers to compare intervention locations by efficiency and equity across multimodal optimization. 
]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:03:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://rip.trb.org/View/1483611</guid>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Indiana Community Impact Assessment Workshop</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1227416</link>
      <description><![CDATA[No summary provided.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:58:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://rip.trb.org/View/1227416</guid>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>