11 Jun
2010
11 Jun
'10
11:06 p.m.
items of relevance (i was on IUrban data for many many committee refresh cycles, but have
had no involvement requested for many years)
1) Im actually flying home to australia from a SHRP2 Expert Review meeting on reliability
on 21 june, and so am in an excellent position to comment on links to SHRP2
2 as the initial chair of the metadata subcommittee, I think the links now to the
underpinnings of urban dat have weakened a lot- just as data observatories etc are growing
(at lats!)
3 im working on governance issues in urban data (wider than just transport) this area is
growing in importance around the world (im in europe working on a second stage project
proposal for a network t link the different countries with interests right now, but there
i no TRB connection at this point)
I could of course expand on any of these if they were of any interest to the current
committee directions
have a good meeting.. as im in th e air for about a day inclduing all 22 june, so I cannot
join on gotomeeting this time
Marcus Wigan
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Dr Marcus Wigan, Personal website http://go.to/mwigan Personal email
m.wigan(a)hertford.oxon.org
Principal Oxford Systematics, Box 126 Heidelberg 3084 Australia
Senior Consultant Demis BV, delft, The Netherlands
University of Melbourne
- Professorial Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering,
- Partner, GAMUT, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, University of Melbourne
Emeritus Professor of Computing and of Transport Systems, Napier University Edinburgh
Scotland
Visiting Professor, CTS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London
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Emily Parkany <emily.parkany(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to send out the following reminders about the TRB ABJ30 Urban
Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee Mid-Year Meeting.
This year the meeting will be during NATMEC in Seattle at 7am
Pacific/10am
Eastern on Tuesday, June 22.
1) *Please reply* to me, emily.parkany(a)gmail.com and tell me whether
you
will attend in person or via GoToMeeting (a web meeting system). The
GoToMeeting login instructions will follow, but we're trying to get a
feel
for the number of attendees. I will try to ask individual committee
members
how they will attend the meeting--it would be great if you could respond
to
me before I send out an individualized invitation. Everyone is invited
to
the meeting (in person or via GoToMeeting).
2) Please send links to additional websites or information like the
bottom
of the draft agenda that follows.
3) Please send further comments to me by Thursday, June 17, related to
the
*Preparation for Next Annual Meeting and State of the Committee
*discussion
that we started in May. See Section VI of the agenda below.
Thank you,
Emily
The draft agenda for our meeting follows here:
*DRAFT Agenda*
*ABJ30 Urban Transportation Data and *
*Information Systems Committee*
Seattle Sheraton Hotel
June 22,2010
Tuesday, 7:00am-8:15am (PDT)
*GoToMeeting instructions for the meeting will follow*
I.* **Introductions *
II. *Chair Report* - Announcements Kate Lawson
III. *TRB Report* Tom Palmerlee *(flexible, if necessary)
*
IV. *Subcommittee Reports*
a. ABJ30(1) Subcommittee on Census Data--Clara Reschovsky (MWCOG)
& Kristian
Rohanna (SANDAG)
b. AFD30(1) Archived Data User Service Subcommittee--Shawn Turner
(TTI)
V. *Research Statements/NCHRP*
a. Status of former statement and an idea for carrying the ideas
further (Elaine Murakami)
· Suggested new title: Promoting Transportation Data
Efficiencyto
Improve Transportation, Environmental and Energy Planning
· Additional volunteers to help Elaine in rewriting this?
b. Other research statement ideas of the committee?
c. Cooperative Research Program for Metropolitan Issueswhat do we
need to do to move this forward?
VI. *Discussions/Preparation for Next Annual Meeting and State
of
the Committee*
[Please send your ideas on these issues to
emily.parkany(a)gmail.com by June 17. We will try to summarize your
thoughts
onto Powerpoint slides to help spark the discussion. With this people
can
participate before the meeting, at the meeting, and on the phone. (The
ideas exchanged on May 13 will be included.)]
a. Is this committee the right home for Travel Time, Speed and
Reliability?
· Prepare for paper reviews?
· How can we work with the new Data Section/TRB Task Force,
*Data
for Decisions and Performance Measures*?
· How can we work with the results of the SHRP 2 Reliability
projects?
b. New requirements for urban data collection and measurement
· Interest of the committee?
· We need data for addressing sustainability, livability, job
impacts, performance measures, etc.
· Related to new TRB task force: *Data for Decisions and
Performance Measures* and *Travel Survey Methods Subcommittee: New
Technologies*
c. Do we have the right skills? What skills do we need new hires
to
have? Can a TRB workshop or other training address this?
d. What are the right subcommittees for this committee? Should we
be
co-sponsoring subcommittees?
VII. *New Business*
a. TRB Critical Issues and Cross-cutting Issues
c. Other Business
*Related Links*
[Please send additional related links to emily.parkany(a)gmail.com to be
included in the final agenda and minutes.]
ABJ30 Committee website: www.trburbandata.org
Related committee websites: www.travelsurveymethods.org
New Technologies Subcommittee:
http://www.travelsurveymethods.org/Tech.asp
TRB 2011 Calls for Papers: http://tinyurl.com/TRB2011CallforPapers*
*(Including
Cybermining Telecommunications and Social Networking Tools to Infer
Travel
and Activity Choices (ABJ40))**