Hello AED20 Members and Friends,
I hope everyone is doing well. The TRB Urban Data Committee has been busy
since the Midyear meeting, so I wanted to share some information on recent
activities as well as TRB Annual Meeting information:
- *TRB registration: *TRB Annual Meeting registration is open. You can
register and reserve housing now here:
https://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/Registration.aspx
- *AED20 Committee Meeting: *We have tentatively heard that our
committee will be meeting from 1:30-3:00 on Tuesday, January 11. This will
be an in-person meeting only. TRB is restricting most committee meetings
to 90 minutes due to the need to sanitize rooms between meetings, so this
will be an efficient meeting! The final program should be available in
Mid-November, so this date/time is tentative until the final program is
released.
- *TRB Sunday workshop: *AED20 is sponsoring a workshop entitled *Equity
Considerations with Big Data in an Urban and Regional Transportation
Planning Context* on Sunday January 9 from 1:30-4:30
https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/Workshop/Details/17113 [Thanks To Vijay
Sivaraman and Leta Huntsinger for leading this workshop! Please consider
attending if you will be at TRB.]
- *AED20 webinar next week: *A working group from AED20 developed a
webinar that is being presented next week: *Designing and Implementing
Smart Cities*, October 28 1:00-2:30 Eastern
https://www.trb.org/Calendar/Blurbs/182518.aspx [Thanks to Charlotte
Frei, Angshuman Guin, Jinghua Xu, Zak Patterson, and Robert Kluger for
organizing! Please consider attending, but note that there may be a fee
depending on whether your employer is a TRB sponsor]
- *NCHRP Statement: *Also, we have an NCHRP statement that has been
submitted for funding consideration entitled *Assessing Big Data Privacy
and Utility Trade-offs for Transportation Agencies*. [Thanks to Zak
Patterson, Vince Bernardin, Bilal Farooq, Samiul Hasan, Godwin Badu-Marfo,
and Kara Selke for all of their hard work getting this ready.]
TRB relies on volunteers to make the program run, so I do want to
acknowledge all the hard work that many of you have put into the committee
over the last year. I hope that I will see many of you in person this
January.
Mike
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Michael D. Fontaine, P.E., Ph.D.
Associate Director / Virginia Transportation Research Council
Virginia Department of Transportation
434-293-1980 (W) / 434-882-3201 (C)
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