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@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
Geography & Planning
AS 218 1400
(518) 442-4775
(518) 442-4742 FAX
lawsonc@albany.edu