Hi - hope this finds you all doing well! Please see below a request for information in support of NCHRP 8-98. If you have questions, please email Bill Eisele (cc'd above).
I will be sending out a more detailed email with ABJ30 updates, but in the meantime, we hope you'll "save the date" for our mid-year meeting at NATMEC (http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/conferences/2014/NATMEC/Program.pdf ): Monday June 30, noon to 2 pm CT.
Thanks
Stacey
Stacey G. Bricka, Ph.D.
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
512.407.1123
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Hello everyone,
Are you aware of documented practices or studies for identifying, classifying, evaluating, and mitigating truck freight bottlenecks? This documentation could be part of freight plans, congestion studies, congestion management process (CMP) activities, goods movement studies, etc. If so, we would love to review any documented practices and experiences!
The Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), in association with Cambridge Systematics and the University of Washington, is performing a literature review for National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 8-98 "Guide for Identifying, Classifying, Evaluating, and Mitigating Truck Freight Bottlenecks." The ultimate goal of the project is the development of a practitioner guidebook on this topic. Our working title of truck bottleneck is "any condition that acts as an impediment to efficient truck travel, leading to travel times in excess of what would normally occur."
If you have any documented practices we can review (U.S. or international), please send them to me by Friday May 9th at bill-eisele(a)tamu.edu<mailto:bill-eisele@tamu.edu> .
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Thanks,
Bill
Bill Eisele, Ph.D., P.E.
Senior Research Engineer | Program Manager
Mobility Analysis
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
3135 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843-3135
Tel 979.845.8550 | Fax 979.845.6008
http://mobility.tamu.edu<http://mobility.tamu.edu/>
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ABJ30 Members and Friends,
I am so very thankful to all of you for your support and interest in Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems over the last 6 years of my chairship! I look forward to attending the mid-year committee meeting at NATMEC as a "retired-Chair" (I'll try to sit next to Ed Christopher in the "retired-chair section"). I am leaving you in very capable hands of our new leader, with the ever-present support of all our amazing Subcommittee Chairs and Co-chairs - Stacey, welcome to the wonderful world of chairing ABJ30 as you officially take the reins, and welcome our new members, and please say "goodbye and thank you" to our retiring members! See you in Chicago in June!
Regards,
Kate
Catherine T. Lawson, Ph.D.
Chair, Geography and Planning Department
Director, Lewis Mumford Center
Associate Professor
University at Albany
Geography & Planning
AS 218 1400 Washington
Albany, New York 12222
(518) 442-4775
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