If you are getting this you have been added to the "newly created" TRB Urban Data Committee's "friends and members" list serve. Hopefully by having a list serve we can do a better job getting information out to a wider group of people. In the past, under my chairmanship, I will be the first to admit that I did not do such a good job of keeping the Friends email list up and functioning. The listserve should help with that. To post to the list the email address is ABJ30-friends(a)chrispy.net. The software keeps an archive of all posts which can be found at http://www.chrispy.net/pipermail/abj30-friends/. To subscribe or unsubscribe just go to http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/abj30-friends. If you go to the subscribe/unsubscribe page you will see that to log in you will need your subscribed email address and password. The software passwords will be automatically sent out every month and you will have the ability to decide for yourself if you want a monthly reminder. You can always just email me or Catherine Lawson (our new Chair at lawsonc(a)albany.edu) and we can unsubscribe you. Finally, if you post something over 40 meg, you will get a notice that it is being held until the list administrator clears it. This is part of our spam blocking mechanism. You will also get a held notice if you post from an email address that is different from your subscribed email address. Again this it is part of Spam control process. If you have any questions, etc please give me a call or email. -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 19900 Governors Dr Olympia Fields, IL 60461