5 Jan
2009
5 Jan
'09
6:09 a.m.
ABJ30 Members and Friends,
Another task for our upcoming TSP is a review of our "Identified Areas
of Interest" - below is a retelling of our previously listed areas --
Please confirm your general level of interest, interest in contributing
to the development of research statements, conference or workshop ideas
or special interest (e.g., special e-working group).
Members and Friends are encouraged to respond to this listserv, contact
the Chair directly (lawsonc(a)albany.edu), bring ideas to WDC TRB meeting
and/or respond to post-meeting follow-up --
Original Set of Topics (with some expansions)
1. Using census data in transportation planning (now expanded in our
Subcommittee - combined with Continuous Census Data (American Community
Survey)
2. Monitoring traffic and transit systems
3. Using ITS-generated data in planning
4. Using household travel survey data in describing traveler
characteristics and metropolitan travel patterns
5. Combining data sources
6. Studying issues of privacy and confidentiality (combined with
"Privacy and Data Ownership Concerns")
7. Creating standards for meta-data (data about data) and meta-analysis
(comparative data analyses) - (see
http://www.trb.org/committees/datasection/DataSection-Metadata.pdf -
what should ABJ30 do now?)
8. Continuous Personal Travel Data - surveys
9. Archiving IT Data for Planning and other Applications (now expanded
in our joint ADUS Subcommittee)
10. Use of global positioning systems and other technologies in urban
transportation data (consider approaching Travel Survey Methods - New
Technologies Subcommittee as a joint Subcommittee?)
11. Small Area Land Use and Socioeconomic Data (consider expanding to
include Administrative Data, such as parcel data, building permits,
public works maintenance records for sidewalks, parks and trails bike
path data, etc.)
12. Information from Data (expand to include Data Visualization - and
form joint Subcommittee with ABJ95 Visualization in Transportation)
Additional ideas from Members and Friends to formalize and include as
"Identified Areas of Interest for 2009" - consider Workshop/Conference
to develop research agenda(s) and move forward with ideas for mid-year
and 2010 Annual Meeting -
New Areas of Interest to Consider for 2009
More focus on GIS as an integration base -
Data integration - more than combining sources - consider integration at
the time of data creation
Data accessibility - web-based dissemination that allows user to
interact with raw data sources to acquire exactly what they need,
including visualization of data as a "guided tour" of where the key data
elements or policy issues are located "at a glance"
More cooperation with Travel Survey Methods (including joint
Subcommittee on New Technologies)
New focus on Household Travel Surveys - new technologies for data
collection, analysis and visualization
New formats and panels for Household Travel Surveys that integrate with
existing data systems (e.g., local count programs, weather, public
health community, school systems, etc.)
Intercept surveys, including electronic passive data collection, such as
license plate, road permits, other administrative data sources
Travel time and speed data - floating car program rather than "one-off"
research projects
Transit surveys - new technologies, new formats for gathering
information including GPS
Truck travel surveys - consider formalizing linkage to Freight Data
Committee and Subcommittee on Truck Surveys
Focus on data needs for new generation of activity-based models -
including parcel data for land use models, GPS for validating
microsimulation models, consideration of impact on data needs for
integrating Open Source travel forecasting models with existing
off-the-shelf modeling software
More??????
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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
lawsonc(a)albany.edu