The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administation’s Office of Research and Technology is sponsoring a forum to provide insight into research and technology the agency sponsors.

The forum will be held in conjunction with the 84th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Salon III, 2660 Woodley Road, NW., Washington, DC 20008, on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2005.
FMCSA notice published in Tuesday’s Federal Register said, “presenters will speak about current FMCSA projects and the status of studies and technologies under consideration. Speaker topics will cover the Crash Causation Study, Electronic On-Board Recorders, the HazMat Operational Test, Vehicle Infrastructure Integration and Fatigue Management Technologies.
The keynote address will feature a trucking association representative who will discuss both safety partnerships between industry and FMCSA and the role that research and technology plays in helping the trucking industry move towards safer, more efficient and secure operations.
There will be an opportunity for attendees to talk with FMCSA subject-matter experts in an open question and answer session. Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the forum starts at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 1 p.m.
According to the notice, the forum is listed as a session in the TRB Annual Meeting Program, and all registrants are welcome to attend. TRB registration is not required to attend the forum, which is open to the public at no cost.
To register for the TRB Annual Meeting, visit http://www.trb.org.
To attend the forum only, you can send an e-mail to R&TPartnerships@fmcsa.dot.gov.