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Call for Posters - ABJ30(1) ACS & CTPP Data

by Mara Kaminowitz

*Call Title* *Applications for Small-Area ACS and CTPP Data: New Data, New Challenges* *Sponsoring Committee* Census Data for Transportation Planning Subcommittee of the Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee, ABJ30(1) *Call Description* The Census Data for Transportation Planning Subcommittee of the Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee, ABJ30(1) invites you to submit posters for a session focusing on the innovative use of small area ACS and CTPP geography for transportation planning and related applications. Posters will be displayed at the TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, January 2015. Authors of the most innovative posters will be invited to present at the subcommittee meeting. *Background* The American Community Survey 5-Year data and the Census Transportation Planning Products special tabulation have given practitioners access to a wealth of current data in geographic units as small as Census Block Groups. Data topics include a wide range of demographic, social, economic, and transportation data including journey-to-work ("commuter") flows. This level of geographic detail allows for a finer level of detail in activities such as transit planning, site selection, model validation, program analysis, and community outreach. While these data sets have significant potential it is not a panacea for all programmatic and research tasks. High margins of error mean small-area data may not be as accurate as is needed for a project and it is a challenge to display it without giving a false sense of precision. Aggregation and derived margins of error create further challenges to statistical analysis. Small area data may not fit well into locally created geographic boundaries (towns, watershed, etc.). Transferring data from older geographies such as 2000 Census tracts to newer small area geographic units is often needed for analysis but can be hard to accomplish without further reducing the accuracy of the data. *Evaluation Criteria* A broad range of abstracts relating to the topic are welcome. Preference will be given to posters which emphasize the following: · Practical and applied ("real world") uses of small-area geography · Posters that display solutions for the statistical challenges that come from working with small-area geography · Innovative visualization of margins of error · Topics that address applications towards urban planning A session-development subcommittee will review all abstracts to identify those that most effectively demonstrate innovative analyses and communication techniques conveying the value of small geography ACS and CTPP data. The subcommittee hopes to identify posters representing a diverse array of uses and applications. Applicants will be notified in late-September of their selection. *Poster Session Guidelines* Those selected for this session will prepare a poster for presentation at the 2015 Annual Meeting in January. *Participants are not required to prepare a paper*. Each presenter will be provided with a table and a 4’ x 8’ vertical panel for displaying posters and other materials. An electrical connection will be available at each station. Telephone and internet connections will not be available. TRB's guidelines for poster presenters are available at http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/archive/Guidelines/PosterPresenters.pdf. Presenters are expected to attend and participate in this session. Presentation teams are welcome. *Submission Instructions* A special deadline for submittals has been established. Interested candidates should submit an abstract explaining their project and poster concept by 11:59 pm EDT on *Wednesday, September 3, 2014*. The abstract should be no more than a single one-sided page in length (approximately 500 words) and include: · Contact information (name, agency/organization, phone number, email address) · Title of your proposed poster for use in the Annual Meeting agenda · Explanation of the project, research, or process using CTPP/ACS data and how the data were used · Any innovative discoveries or lessons learned about small-area use of this data that would be useful to the transportation community · Preliminary description of the information to be conveyed in your poster You are welcome to include links to on-line materials that illustrate visualization or graphic communication concepts described in your abstract but this will not substitute for the information requested in the abstract. The subcommittee will not consider sales presentations on products or services. Abstracts should be in a PDF format and submitted to: Mara Kaminowitz mkaminowitz(a)baltometro.org Include the term “*ABJ30(1) Poster Abstract*” in the subject line. *For More Information* Questions about the poster session or the abstract submittal process should be directed to: Clara Reschovsky creschovsky(a)mwcog.org 202-962-3332 Mara Kaminowitz mkaminowitz(a)baltometro.org 410-732-0500

11 years, 8 months

CTPP Webinar and Discussion

by Mara Kaminowitz

CTPP Webinar and Discussion Thursday, July 17, 1-3pm EDT The Census Data for Transportation Planning Subcommittee of the Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee (a subcommittee of the Transportation Research Board) invites you to a webinar and discussion on the newest CTPP data release. We will have three speakers present their work with the CTPP data followed by an open discussion on user's experiences accessing and working with the new data set. This will be a great opportunity for CTPP users to share their knowledge as well as see what others in the field are doing. For those who do not work with CTPP, this will be a chance to learn what the data set is about and how it can be used. Agenda: I. Jim Hubbell, Mid-America Regional Council 101 Exciting Uses of CTPP Data II. Vladimir Livshits, Maricopa Association of Governments Developing and validating regional travel forecasting models with CTPP data: MAG experience III. Brian Bresolin, Santa Barbara County Association of Governments Santa Barbara County State of the Commute: A comparison of the CTPP and LEHD Commute Flows IV. Participant discussion on CTPP experiences If you have any questions, please contact Clara Reschovsky at creschovsky(a)mwcog.org or Mara Kaminowitz at mkaminowitz(a)baltometro.org. How to join the meeting: 1. Please join my meeting. https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/248570913 2. Join the conference call: Phone: 866-528-2256 Access Code: 763-7719 Meeting ID: 248-570-913 GoToMeeting® Online Meetings Made Easy® Not at your computer? Click the link to join this meeting from your iPhone®, iPad® or Android® device via the GoToMeeting app.

11 years, 8 months

MyTTI: Linking your profile with ABJ30

by Bricka, Stacey

Dear Friend of the TRB Standing Committee on Urban Transportation Data & Information Systems (ABJ30): Thank you for your participation as a Friend of our committee. Management of a committee's Friends list will now be a function performed by chairs through TRB's new, self service portal called "MyTRB." The goal of MyTRB is to centralize the functionalities that TRB volunteers and Friends need to carry out their roles within TRB. Therefore, if you would like to continue to participate as a Friend of ABJ30, please read and follow the instructions included in this note. MyTRB Help Desk To help users and to identify ways to enhance the new system, TRB has opened a MyTRB help desk. The help desk can be reached by phone at 202-334-1738 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET Monday to Friday. The help desk can also be reached at MyTRB(a)nas.edu<mailto:MyTRB@nas.edu>. If at any time you run into difficulty with the system, please contact the MyTRB helpdesk. To Continue to Be a Friend of the Committee There are two steps that you must take in order to ensure that you continue to be a Friend of the committee. 1) MyTRB New User Signup TRB imported information from its old volunteer database into MyTRB. Therefore, there is the potential that a profile for you may already be in the MyTRB system. Go to https://www.MyTRB.org and follow the "New Users Signup" process. If a profile already exists for you in the system, you will receive an email that will allow you to create your password. If no profile exists in MyTRB that matches the email you have provided, you will be prompted to create a profile. To help avoid confusion, please use your official e-mail address since benefits and access to certain features is keyed, in part, off your email. If you believe the profile TRB has for you on file may be linked to an old e-mail address that you no longer have access to, please contact the MyTRB help desk with both the old and new e-mail addresses. Wait for a response from the help desk before attempting to login for the first time. Once in MyTRB, please take a moment to ensure that your profile is up-to-date. Navigation within MyTRB is controlled by the links that appear in the gray bar below the burgundy TRB header on the website. To view your existing profile, hover over "My Account" and then click on "Edit Profile." 2) Linking Yourself as a Friend of a Committee After logging in to MyTRB, access to the "Become a Friend of a Committee" page is available under the "Committee" dropdown. Locate the name of the committee you would like to become a Friend of and click "submit." You may "Friend" as many committees as you like. TRB has created a short video demonstrating this process that is available at http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/MyTRBVideos/How_to_Become_a_Friend_of_… Subsequent Logins For subsequent logins, please bookmark https://www.MyTRB.org. A link to MyTRB will be made from TRB's main website in subsequent weeks. MyTRB's Basic Features MyTRB will allow you to do the following: * maintain your own contact information and profile; * nominate yourself as a Friend of a committee or task force; * manage your publication subscriptions; * accept invitations to join standing committees and task forces; and * purchase TRB publications. Thank you and if you have any questions or concerns, please contact MyTRB(a)nas.edu<mailto:MyTRB@nas.edu> or call the MyTRB help desk at 202-334-1738. Stacey G. Bricka, Ph.D. Research Scientist and Program Manager Mobility Management Texas A&M Transportation Institute 505 E Huntland Dr, Suite 455 Austin, TX 78752 Tel 512.407.1123 | Fax 512.467.8952 http://tti.tamu.edu/mobility-mgmt

11 years, 8 months

ABJ30 at NATMEC

by Bricka, Stacey

Please join us for the ABJ30 mid-year meeting, to be held on Monday June 30 from 12:15 to 1:45 pm *Central Time*. For those attending NATMEC, the meeting will be held in the Montreaux 3 room (grab your lunch and meet us there). For those not attending NATMEC, you can join us remotely (see access details at the end of this email). The agenda was designed to be discussion-oriented, with the goal of identifying priority research topics and annual meeting themes. If you are unable to join us, please email your thoughts to me and I'll make sure they are included. Thanks and hope to see you soon- Stacey DRAFT AGENDA: a. Introductions and Roundtable discussion: Urban Transportation Data & Information Systems research and project activities (agenda assumes 2 minutes for each attendee) b. Research Topics/RNS (discussion led by Jan-Mou Li and Vladimir Livshits) c. Topic ideas for the Transportation Data User's Forum (discussion led by Ed Christopher and Nancy McGuckin) d. Annual Meeting Planning (discussion led by Stacey Bricka) 1. Please join my meeting, Monday, June 30, 2014 at 12:15 PM Central Time. https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/462595248 2. Join the conference call: 866-528-2256 Access Code: 7637719 Meeting ID: 462-595-248 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stacey G. Bricka, Ph.D. Research Scientist and Program Manager Mobility Management Texas A&M Transportation Institute 505 E Huntland Dr, Suite 455 Austin, TX 78752 Tel 512.407.1123 | Fax 512.467.8952 http://tti.tamu.edu/mobility-mgmt

11 years, 8 months

2015 Transportation Research Board Data Contest Announcement

by Bricka, Stacey

(apologies for cross-postings) 2015 Transportation Research Board Data Contest Announcement The main objective of the 2015 Transportation Research Board Data Contest is to provide a platform for researchers, practitioners and students to learn about cutting edge statistical methods employed in the transportation field. The TRB Contest allows for a fair comparison of various statistical methods on a common dataset. Submissions are requested from all communities - researchers, practitioners and students. For the 2015 TRB data contest we have identified research datasets on (1) Transportation Safety and (2) Travel Behavior. The authors can choose to participate in one of the two submissions. The complete details of the datasets, and contest guidelines are provided http://stmm.mcgill.ca/TRBDataContest.html The 2015 TRB data contest is sponsored by the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Committee (ABJ70). The contest is also co-sponsored by Statistics (ABJ80), Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee (ABJ30), Committee on National Transportation Data Requirements and Programs (ABJ10), Transportation Demand Forecasting (ADB40) and Traveler Behavior and Values (ADB10) Please direct all questions or comments related to the 2015 TRB Data Contest to Naveen Eluru (naveen.eluru(a)mcgill.ca<mailto:naveen.eluru@mcgill.ca>) or Anuj Sharma (anujpals(a)gmail.com<mailto:anujpals@gmail.com>) or Matthew Karlaftis (mgk(a)mail.ntua.gr<mailto:mgk@mail.ntua.gr>). ************************************** Naveen Eluru Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics McGill University Montreal, Canada Ph: 514 398 6823 Fx: 514 398 7361 http://www.mcgill.ca/civil/people/eluru http://stmm.mcgill.ca/ **************************************

11 years, 9 months

Fwd: U.S. Census Bureau Releases: "Modes Less Traveled - Bicycling and Walking to Work in the U.S.: 2008-2012"

by Lawson, Catherine T

Fun facts! From: "U.S. Census Bureau" <census(a)subscriptions.census.gov<mailto:census@subscriptions.census.gov>> Date: May 8, 2014 at 12:31:01 PM EDT To: <lawsonc(a)albany.edu<mailto:lawsonc@albany.edu>> Subject: U.S. Census Bureau Releases: "Modes Less Traveled - Bicycling and Walking to Work in the U.S.: 2008-2012" Reply-To: <census(a)subscriptions.census.gov<mailto:census@subscriptions.census.gov>> [ACS Banner] U.S. Census Bureau Releases: "Modes Less Traveled - Bicycling and Walking to Work" The U.S. Census Bureau released the report, "Modes Less Traveled - Bicycling and Walking to Work in the United States: 2008-2012<http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkP…>," which highlights the trends and socio-economic and geographic differences between motorized and non-motorized commutes. This report - the Census Bureau's first focusing only on biking and walking to work - is one of many that examines specific aspects of commuting, including workplace location, working from home, long commutes and specific travel modes. The figures in this release come from data collected from questions in the Census Bureau's 2008-2012 American Community Survey (ACS). The questions asked include: * How did this person usually get to work last week? If this person usually used more than one method of transportation during the trip, mark (X) the box of the one used for most of the distance. * How many people, including this person, usually rode to work in the car, truck, or van last week? * What time did this person usually leave home to go to work last week? * How many minutes did it usually take this person to get from home to work last week? Organizations use the statistics from the ACS to design programs that ease traffic problems, reduce congestion and promote carpooling. In addition, police and fire departments use ACS statistics to plan for emergency services in areas where many people work. The ACS provides local statistics on a variety of topics for even the smallest communities. Highlights include: * The West had the highest rate of biking to work at 1.1 percent, and the South had the lowest rate at 0.3 percent. * Among large cities, Portland, Ore., had the highest bicycle-commuting rate at 6.1 percent. * The Northeast showed the highest rate of walking to work at 4.7 percent of workers, whereas the South had the lowest rate at 1.8 percent. Several of these places were "college towns," including Ithaca, N.Y., where about 42.4 percent walked to work. * Among large cities, Boston was one of the highest walking-to-work cities at 15.1 percent. The ACS provides reliable statistics that are indispensable to anyone who has to make informed decisions about the future. 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11 years, 10 months

FW: Job openings - Urban Big Data Centre

by Bricka, Stacey

Please circulate to your networks. Stacey Stacey G. Bricka, Ph.D. Texas A&M Transportation Institute 512.407.1123 From: Piyushimita Thakuriah [mailto:Piyushimita.Thakuriah@glasgow.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 4:00 PM To: Bricka, Stacey Subject: Job openings - Urban Big Data Centre Dear colleagues, The University of Glasgow is seeking to make several appointments associated with the new Urban Big Data Centre funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council's (ESRC) Big Data Network Phase 2. The centre's work will focus on developing urban Big Data management and linkage solutions, and research on methods to address urban challenges relating to social justice, dynamic resource management, lifelong learning, urban engagement and environmental sustainability in cities. The project will be led by the University of Glasgow, with the Universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge, Reading, Bristol and Illinois-Chicago as partners. For further information please visit http://urbanbigdatacentre.co.uk Informal enquiries are welcome and can be directed to Professor Vonu Thakuriah, on +44 (0) 141 330 4079 or email Piyushimita.Thakuriah(a)glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:Piyushimita.Thakuriah@glasgow.ac.uk> Research Associate in Urban Methods, Modelling and Simulations http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIP257/research-associate-in-urban-methods-modell… Research Associate in Transport Informatics http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIP780/research-associate-in-transport-informatic… Lecturer in Transport Studies http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIP515/lecturer-in-transport-studies/ Reader/Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Urban Big Data and Quantitative Methods http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIP784/reader-senior-lecturer-lecturer-in-urban-b… Professor in Urban Big Data and Quantitative Methods http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIP213/professor-in-urban-big-data-and-quantitati… Research Associate in Education http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIP264/research-assistant-associate/ Research Associate in Computing Science http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIP266/research-assistant-associate/ Research Associate in Computing Science http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIP268/research-assistant-associate/ Research Associate in Computing Science http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIP270/research-assistant-associate/ Research Associate in Computing Science http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIP271/research-assistant-associate/ IT Service Officer http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIP272/it-service-officer/ Please circulate to your networks. Thanks, Vonu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Piyushimita Thakuriah (Vonu), PhD Director, UK ESRC Urban Big Data Centre Halcrow Chair of Transport Professor, Urban Studies & Affiliated Professor, School of Engineering University of Glasgow, UK Faculty Page URL: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/vonuthakuriah/ Urban Big Data Centre: http://urbanbigdatacentre.com/ Urban Transport Research Group: http://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/urbantransportationresearch/ Email: Piyushimita.Thakuriah(a)glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:Piyushimita.Thakuriah@glasgow.ac.uk> * Phone: +44-141-330-4079<tel:%2B44-141-330-4079> Call for Papers: Workshop on Big Data and Urban Informatics: https://urbanbigdata.uic.edu/workshop-2014/call-for-papers/ The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401

11 years, 10 months

FW: ABJ30 information request - truck bottlenecks

by Bricka, Stacey

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 ---------- 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/> [cid:image001.jpg@01CF5EE1.61572F70]

11 years, 10 months

Fond Farewell and many thanks to all the members and friends of ABJ30

by Lawson, Catherine T

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 (518) 442-4742 FAX (518) 209-1155 CELL

11 years, 11 months

CALL FOR PAPERS ON BIG DATA AND URBAN INFORMATICS

by Lawson, Catherine T

ABJ30 Members and Friends, Our Joint Subcommittee - CT&S has the following announcement: CALL FOR PAPERS ON BIG DATA AND URBAN INFORMATICS WORKSHOP ON BIG DATA AND URBAN INFORMATICS WITH SUPPORT FROM NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, 11-12 AUGUST 2014, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, USA Big Data has opened up several opportunities to obtain new insights on cities. We invite papers at the intersection of the urban social sciences and the data sciences to be presented in an NSF-sponsored workshop to be held on Aug 11-12, 2014, in the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. We hope that the workshop will generate discussions in this emerging area of research, with the goal of long-term community-building on the topic. Travel funds will be available for presenters. We welcome papers that discuss research results as well as idea pieces of work in progress which highlight research needs and data limitations. Workshop papers will be published in an online workshop proceeding. Selected papers will be published, after additional peer-review, in an edited book. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers with an interest in the use of Big Data for urban analysis. The focus will be on understanding of urban systems, and related examples of urban applications, methods and tools. We are seeking papers that clearly create or use such novel sources of information for urban and regional analysis. Urban and regional analysis spans a broad range of areas. A far from complete list of areas include transportation, environment, public health, land-use, housing, economic development, labor markets, criminal justice, population demographics, urban ecology, energy, community development and public participation. We invite original research, including position papers, on theoretical developments and applications demonstrating the use of urban Big Data, and the next-generation of Big Data services, tools and technologies for urban informatics. We are interested in papers that use Big Data in one or more of the following five themes: 1) Theoretical developments and knowledge discovery in urban systems; 2) Planning and operational uses of urban Big Data; 3) Urban Big Data measurement, analysis and methodological questions; 4) Information management for urban informatics; 5) Institutional issues, organizations, networks and infomediaries in urban Big Data. Travel funds of up to $700 will be available for a single presenter per paper, on a reimbursement basis. Student presenters will be able to compete for an additional limited pool of funds, for upto an additional $250 per student presenter. Dates: Extended abstracts of 750-1000 words are due April 1, 2014. Full papers for accepted presenters will be due July 15, 2014. For more information on the workshop, please visit http://urbanbigdata.uic.edu/workshop-2014/call-for-papers/ For additional information, please contact Prof. Nebiyou Tilahun at ntilahun(a)uic.edu<mailto:ntilahun@uic.edu> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Piyushimita Thakuriah (Vonu), PhD Director, Urban Big Data Centre Halcrow Chair of Transport Professor, Urban Studies & Affiliated Professor, School of Engineering University of Glasgow, UK URL: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/vonuthakuriah/ Urban Transport Research Group: http://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/urbantransportationresearch/ Email: Piyushimita.Thakuriah(a)glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:Piyushimita.Thakuriah@glasgow.ac.uk> * Phone: +44-141-330-4079<tel:%2B44-141-330-4079> Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA Journal) The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 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 (518) 442-4742 FAX (518) 209-1155 CELL

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