1. TRB Updates for Midyear Webinars July 2017
Transportation Research Board
TRB Updates for Midyear Webinars July 2017

2. Topics New Webinar Feature in MyTRB
New Event on Sunday at Annual Meeting
Changes
Paper Review Questions and Instructions
Compendium and AMOnline
Submitting Papers
Enhancements - Areas of Expertise

3. New Webinar Features in MyTRB
With your MyTRB account you can:
See the upcoming schedule
Easier pre-populated registration
Review your history and PDHs
Submit an idea – convenient link to forms
October 15, 2017 deadline for webinars Jan. 1 - June 30, 2018.
TRB State DOT Representatives have a reporting feature
Get additional guidance on registration, fees, writing learning objectives, links to RCEP.net for PDH certificates

4. New Sunday Event Being Piloted
Careers in Motion Fair
Networking event to support expanding workforce
Recent graduates to executives can interact with perspective multimodal employers
Sunday January 7, 2018
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Convention Center
Access with Annual Meeting Registration or ‘Expo-Only’ Sunday pass that includes Exhibits & Welcome Session
Contact Patrice Davenport
if your organization would like to exhibit

5. Paper Review Refinements
Quality of Writing criterion has been reworded to emphasize:
Paper must be written well enough to be readily understood
Poor English grammar is sufficient grounds for rejection
Very poorly written papers may be reject on that basis alone without completing the rest of the review.
* Expect more strict review to improve TRR editorial time & cost efficiency
The instructions for Authors, Reviewers, Review Coordinators, and Event Planners has been reviewed and revised to clean up material that has accrued over time.
Please encourage your review coordinators and reviewers to take advantage of this option in applicable cases. It may seem harsh at first, but we will be doing these authors a favor if it encourages those who are not adept at writing in English to get their papers edited to some degree before submitting them. And it will certainly make it easier for reviewers who are reviewing a large number of papers.

6. Compendium & AMOnline
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The Compendium of Papers will no longer be produced.
All the same content will still be accessible, but not in the Compendium format.
Eliminates duplication and saves costs
AMOnline.trb.org
Download
Compendium
Accepted papers for presentation can no longer opt out of inclusion in AMOnline.
Registrants and sponsors have not been able to find a portion of papers from Annual Meeting sessions in AMOnline
If a paper is accepted for presentation only, authors will have the option to replace their paper with an extended abstract

7. Areas of Expertise Voluntary feature in MyTRB paper review
Helpful key words that enable Paper Review Coordinators/Committee Chair (PRC) to match Reviewers with Papers
Requires action from both PRC and Reviewers.
PRC/Chair selects terms
Reviewers then pick from the list
Both need to be done before August 15th paper assignment

8. Areas of Expertise Enhancements: Up to 15 terms can be defined
Reviewers will have MyTRB access in early July
Moved up on the calendar to allow time for your Reviewers to pick
One page quick reference sheets

9. Thank You Other links of possible interest:
Revised Requirements for Submitting Papers (author guidelines):
Instructions for Paper Reviewers: