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@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@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