ASCE still retains some offices at the United Engineering Foundation at its new location on Park Avenue, New York City.
Today ASCE is a worldwide leader for excellence in civil engineering. With a mission to advance professional knowledge and improve the practice of civil engineering, ASCE is a focal point for the development and transfer of research results, and technical policy and managerial information. ASCE delivers the highest quality publications, programs and services to its worldwide membership, demonstrating a daily commitment to sustaining the profession. [www.asce.org].
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) is a unit of the National Research Council, a private, nonprofit institution that is the principal operating agency of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. The Board's mission is to promote innovation and progress in transportation by stimulating and conducting research, facilitating the dissemination of information, and encouraging the implementation of research results. The board's activities are organized under five divisions; technical activities, studies and information services, administration and finance, cooperative research programs, special programs.
One of the most important activities of the Transportation Research Board is the dissemination of current research results. A primary goal of the publications program is to circulate current information and research on transportation policy and practice as expeditiously and broadly as possible. TRB's varied activities annually draw on more than 4,000 engineers, scientists, and other transportation researchers and practitioners from the public and private sectors and academia, all of whom contribute their expertise in the public interest. The Board is supported by state transportation departments, the various administrations of the U.S. Department of Transportation and other federal agencies, industry associations, and other organizations and individuals interested in the development of transportation.
