ABJ30 Members and Friends,

Tom Palmerlee is asking for a copy of our Agenda for our Summer Meeting ASAP!!!! --- please review below and let me know your thoughts – sorry for the rush - thanks for your help!

Kate

DRAFT Agenda

ABJ30 Urban Transportation Data and

Information Systems Committee

Keck Center

June 8, 2011

I. Introductions – Welcome new Members and Secretary Outwater

II. Chair Report - Announcements – Kate Lawson

III. TRB Report – Tom Palmerlee (flexible, if necessary)

IV. Subcommittee Reports

ABJ30(1) Subcommittee on Census Data--Clara Reschovsky (MWCOG) & Kristen Rohanna (SANDAG)
AFD30(1) Archived Data User Service Subcommittee—Kristin Tufte (PSU)

V. Committee Liaison Reports

VI. Emerging Topic Areas

Travel Time Speed and Reliability – moving forward with subcommittee formation
Our Role in How We Travel (Special Report 304) (http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/sr/sr304.pdf)
Our Role in the Federal Transportation Program Restructuring effort – contributions from ABJ30 to the Boston sessions on this topic
New Directions

Crowd sourcing data (e.g., Bluetooth, cell phones or GPS) compiled by vendors/ sold in aggregate form for different purposes

Commercial data sets management: procurement, licensing, data evaluation, data accessibility

Urban Data Integration (UDI): land use, travel, traffic data, organizational, policy, and technical issues

Integrated urban travel forecasting models and integrated urban data collection – opportunities and threats

VII. Discussions/Preparation for Next Annual Meeting

Workshop Opportunities

AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Statistics Workshop Proposal – benchmarking datasets

Travel Time, Speed, and Reliability Workshop (level of interest?)
Urban Data Integration (UDI) – Land Use (Land-based Classification Standards), Travel (GPS), Traffic (Continuous Count and WIM) – What are the Organizational, Policy and Technical Issues facing MPOs?
Census – Finding the Numbers to Answer the Questions: Tools, Trials and Tribulations – Best Practices Roundtable -

VIII. New Business

a. Self Assessment – Preparing for our Triennial Review

b. TRB Critical Issues and Cross-cutting Issues

c. Other Business

Related Links

ABJ30 Committee website: www.trburbandata.org

Related committee websites: www.travelsurveymethods.org

New Technologies Subcommittee: http://www.travelsurveymethods.org/Tech.asp

Catherine T. Lawson, Ph.D.

Interim Chair

Geography and Planning Department

Associate Professor

University at Albany

Geography & Planning

AS 218 1400 Washington

Albany, New York 12222

(518) 442-4775

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