ABJ30-Friends May 2010

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Workshop Co-sponsored with Travel Survey Methods (ABJ40)

by Catherine T Lawson

ABJ30 Members and Friends, I am very pleased to announce that our Committee will be co-sponsor the following Workshop at the Annual Meeting, Travel Survey Methods (ABJ40) is the Primary Committee for this Workshop - Current and Emerging Practices in Collecting and Estimating External Travel This workshop will address the importance of external travel in urban areas, current practices in external data collection, synthetic models for estimating external travel, analysis and use of external data, and emerging data collection technologies. It will include issues and lessons learned in roadside intercept and license surveys; external data for regional and state-wide models; external freight traffic; and video, cellular, GPS, other potential means of collecting external data. We will be looking for your participation and pre-workshop help - let me know if you are interested in helping Gus Rousseau (new Chair of ABJ40) (GRousseau(a)atlantaregional.com<mailto:GRousseau@atlantaregional.com>) with this exciting topic! Regards, Kate Catherine T. Lawson, Ph.D. Director, MRP Program Associate Professor University at Albany Geography & Planning AS 218 1400 Washington Albany, New York 12222 (518) 442-4775 (518) 442-4742 FAX (518) 209-1155 CELL

14 years, 7 months

ABJ30 Mid-year meeting agenda: requesting discussion input and related web links

by Emily Parkany

Hi! After our lively discussion on Thursday, Kate and I put together the attached agenda for the mid-year meeting. The meeting will be on Tuesday, June 22 from 7am-8:15 Pacific time. Dial-in information will be provided for committee participants not able to attend NATMEC. Please review the attached that has also been posted on the commitee website: www.trburbandata.org . I have included the discussion items and web-links in the body of this email. PLEASE SEND any additional thoughts about the discussion items to me before the meeting (reply all or emily.parkany(a)gmail.com ) so that I can prepare a few Powerpoint slides to spark the discussion. Similarly, please send related web links/sites to me to include in the final agenda and minutes. Thank you! Emily ** *Discussions/Preparation for Next Annual Meeting and State of the Committee* a. Is this committee the right “home” for Travel Time, Speed and Reliability? · Prepare for paper reviews? · How can we work with the new Data Section/TRB Task Force, *Data for Decisions and Performance Measures*? · How can we work with the results of the SHRP 2 Reliability projects? b. New requirements for urban data collection and measurement · Interest of the committee? · We need data for addressing sustainability, livability, job impacts, performance measures, etc. · Related to new TRB task force: *Data for Decisions and Performance Measures* and *Travel Survey Methods Subcommittee: New Technologies* c. Do we have the right skills? What skills do we need new hires to have? Can a TRB workshop or other training address this? d. What are the right subcommittees for this committee? Should we be co-sponsoring subcommittees? *Related Links* ABJ30 Committee website: www.trburbandata.org Related committee websites: www.travelsurveymethods.org New Technologies Subcommittee: http://www.travelsurveymethods.org/Tech.asp TRB 2011 Calls for Papers: http://tinyurl.com/TRB2011CallforPapers* *(Including Cybermining Telecommunications and Social Networking Tools to Infer Travel and Activity Choices (ABJ40))**

14 years, 7 months

Discussion Items for the Mid-Year Agenda (ABJ30: TRB Urban Data Committee)

by Emily Parkany

Hi! Kate Lawson and I were emailing about the agenda for the Mid-Year Meeting at NATMEC in June in Seattle and I was thinking that it may make sense to have discussions among the participants (in-person and on the phone). I came up with the following discussion topics. Please feel free to edit these (responding to the listserve or me: emily.parkany(a)gmail.com ) and add your own suggestions. 1) Do we need new sources of data? Have people been following the status quo or is the practice moving towards using archived ITS data for planning, GPS surveys, location-based data, etc. 2) Do we have the right skills? What skills do we need new hires to have? Can a TRB workshop or other training address this? 3) Do we have the right subcommittees? What is the impact of census data and archived data among the participants? Should the commitee be considering other subcommittees (for example: travel time, speed, and reliability---and the SHRP 2 Reliability efforts)? 4) Is the urban data committee the right "home" for Travel Time, Speed, and Reliability? [I lean towards yes.] Is there much coordination between these researchers (for example, folks on SHRP 2 Reliability projects) and the committee? Do these topics interest you? Kate suggests that they fit under a "Preparing for the Annual Meeting/State of the Committee" Discussion theme. The mid-year meeting is not very long but this may be our chance to raise some of these issues. When we put an agenda together, I will ask you to think about these topics and I'll solicit opinions that we can put into a Powerpoint presentation to start the discussion. This way, I hope that people can participate before the meeting, in the room, and on the phone. I look forward to hearing from you. Emily Emily Parkany Secretary, ABJ30 Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems

14 years, 7 months

Krishnan Viswanathan/camsys is out of the office.

by Krishnan Viswanathan

I will be out of the office starting 05/10/2010 and will not return until 05/17/2010. I will respond to your message once i am back on May 17th.

14 years, 7 months

agenda items for NATMEC Mid Year Meeting?

by Catherine T Lawson

ABJ30 Committee Members and Friends, Tom Palmerlee has asked me to provide him with a "very short agenda with primary items to be included in the Final Program" for our Mid Year meeting in Seattle - we need to it to him by Monday, May 17th - Draft Primary items: 1) Next steps for Travel Time, Speed, and Reliability - early plans for paper review strategies and coordinating with other Committees 2) Cross-cutting topics - planning for paper sessions and poster sessions 3) Research Statements - status of previous submissions, new topics? 4) Cooperative Research Program for Metropolitan Issues - what do we need to do to move this forward? Other topics you would like to include or changes to this list? Anyone in the Seattle area that we should invite to speak? Thanks! Kate Catherine T. Lawson, Ph.D. Director, MRP Program Associate Professor University at Albany Geography & Planning AS 218 1400 Washington Albany, New York 12222 (518) 442-4775 (518) 442-4742 FAX (518) 209-1155 CELL

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