Re: [ABJ30-Friends] TRB Urban Data Committee Meeting, TUES, June 22 at NATMEC, 7amPT/10amET, will you attend in person or by GoToMeeting? - ABJ30-Friends

11 Jun 2010

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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 Principal Oxford Systematics, Box 126 Heidelberg 3084 Australia
 Senior Consultant Demis BV, delft, The Netherlands
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	- 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
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 Visiting Professor, CTS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London
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...
  Emily Parkany &lt;emily.parkany(a)gmail.com&gt; 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))** 