The 2010 TRB 89th Annual Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C., on January 10th-14th, 2010. FEHRL will exhibit its many projects at booth number 3608. TRB will cover all transportation modes, with more than 3,000 presentations in nearly 600 sessions addressing topics of interest to all attendees—policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. The spotlight theme for 2010 is Investing in Our Transportation Future – Bold Ideas to Meet Big Challenges. The expected attendance is more than 10,000 transportation professionals. Please click here to see the FEHRL programme.

OPEN CALL FOR PROJECT TEAM EXPERTS for the execution of the work called for in the grant agreement SA/CEN/ENTR/000/2007-22 European Standardisation in the field of Intelligent Transport Systems. The deadline is January 7th  and applications should be submitted via national standards bodies. For further information, please consult this document (.pdf).

The International Transport Forum is offering a “Young Researcher Award” (under 35) to recognise a young researcher, or researchers. Participants are asked to submit a paper based on the 2010 Forum theme: “Transport and Innovation”.

 The International Transport Forum (ITF)  and the International Association of Public Transport (UITP),  have partnered to offer an award for "Outstanding Innovation in Public Transport". The award will recognise innovative projects or initiatives that improve or have improved the quality, sustainability, and inter-modality of public transport services. The award will be presented at the 2010 International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany, on 27 May 2010.

The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) has called for a minimum standardisation of markings, traffic lights and traffic signs for pedestrian crossings where it is claimed that one quarter of 8,000 pedestrians deaths occur in Europe.