Between now and the annual meeting you will be receiving a variety of
emails from me dealing with TRB activities and business. attached is a
solicitation from Anne Canby and Mark Norman for any Big issue policy
studies that we, as a committee might want to toss in the hopper. if you
have any thoughts bring them forward and also bring them to our
committee meeting. we can deal with them as a group at the end of our
committee meeting under 'committee activities and directions'.
--
Ed Christopher
Metropolitan Activities
Midwest Resource Center
Federal Highway Administration
19900 Governors Drive
Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461
708-283-3534 (V)
708-283-3501 (F)
Marcus asked that I pass this around. Please circulate to anyone you
think may be interested.
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Subject: TRB Urban Metadata Subcommittee: Agenda items TRB2003
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:47:10 +1100
From: Marcus Wigan <oxsys(a)optusnet.com.au>
Dear Subcommittee Members and Friends
We have been allocated 12noon-slot on tuesday for the metadata
subcommittee meeting, in a room at the Hilton that is as yet
undetermined.
BRIEF
the developments reported at the last meeting have progressed, but
slowly. Adoption of metadata vocabularies and standards has not moved
very far as yet, but several major surveys have begun to determine
metadata specifications, and in particular the NESSTAR project at the
Uk SSDA (Social Science data Archive) described last year, has been
involved in an initial XML/DTD/ Nesstar demonstration related to
transport. The Scottish executive adopted a NESSTAR access for the
Scottish Household Survey (which has only a limited transport
coverage) late last year.
papers by Wigan, Hine and Grieco(presented at TRB2002 due out right
now in TRR) and bu Axhausen and Wigan (presented at Survey
conference in 2002, book du out in a couple of months) will shortly
be published.
The related issues of data interworking have begun to be taken up by
a 5000 series committee on information systems, and the library
committee has also begun to focus on these areas.
In view of the slow takeup, a session was not promoted for 203
meeting, after two, one in 2001 and one in 2002, and planning for
2004 is a prime agenda item for 2003 subcommittee meeting.
To this end I would appreciate input from the subcommittee and
friends on their encounters with metadata developments, and work that
they area aware of that may or may not yet have reached publication.
It is now timely to formulate a series of problem statements on
metadata needs and research actions, which we could then coordinate
with the Library and Information systems committee perspectives, as
it is now timely to focus of the work that needs to be done now that
awareness of the concepts has reached a reasonable level.
For those likely to be in Europe in August 2003, the IATBR meeting in
Lucerne, organised by Kay Axhausen at ETH, has a full week long
working stream for the development discussion and comparsion and
hopefully agreement of XML/DTDs for transport and related items and
survey usage. This will be chaired by M R Wigan.
this meeting will be an excellent working platform to bring together
different developing approaches, and I strongly urge all of you to
bring this opportunity to the attention of interested parties.
I am proposing that the Subcommittee plan a meeting at the European
Transport Conference to be held in Strasbourg 8-10 October 2003, as
this is becoming the TRB equivalent for the EU, and will be an
excellent forum to bring in developments in several EU projects of
interest to our subcommittee. These include the GTF initiative, and
other outcomes of the SPOTLIGHTS and BRIDGES programs and their
emergent successors.
1. Please indicate if you are likely to be able to
TRB Jan 2003 [ ] TRB subcommittee meeting jan 2003 [
]
IATBR 2003 Lucerne Aug 2003 [ ]
AET 2003 Strasbourg Oct 2003 [ ]
2. Please forward items for the Agedna. Suitable items include
- updates on work and initiatives you are aware of
- reports on work undertaken that you have been involved with
- broad or specific problem statement indications
(these will probably overlap with GIS and library areas at the first
stage)
I am requesting (see 'cc' fields) the relevant TRB Staff to pass this
brief to the committee chairs of GIS and spatial information, Urban
data and Information Systems (our parent committee, Chaired by Ed
Christopher), the Information Systems Committee (Chaired by Jeff
Western) and the Library committee for the reasons cited in the
brief.
Would the committee Chairs please circulate this brief to those on
their committees who have an interest, and to the full Urban data
committee members and friends list.
I welcome input on the Agenda items, and form other committee chairs
to make best use of the subcommittee meeting.
For those who would like to discuss the subject but who cannot make
the subcommittee meeting, I will in Washington from saturday night to
thursday early pm and would be happy to make an arrangement to meet.
Marcus Wigan
Urban Data and Information Systems committee Subcommittee Chair,
Urban Metadata
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Dr Marcus Wigan, Working presently in : Australia
* Principal Oxford Systematics, Box 126 Heidelberg 3084 Australia
* Professor of Transport Systems, TRi Napier University Edinburgh
Scotland
* Hon Principal Research Fellow and A/Prof Dept Civil and
Environmental Engineering University of Melbourne
* Hon Senior Fellow, Dept Geography and Environmental Science,
Faculty of Arts, Monash University
Email:Base address oxsys(a)optusnet.com.au Website: http://go.to/mwigan
Alternate email addresses usually redirected to base:
m.wigan(a)napier.ac.uk mwigan(a)hotmail.com
marcus.wigan(a)arts.monash.edu.au m.wigan(a)civenv.unimelb.edu.au
Australia: Tel +61 39 459 9671 Fax + 61 39 459 8663 Mobile +61 410 489
029
UK: Tel +44 131 455 5140 Fax +44 131 5141 Mobile +44 788 0988
521
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does anyone have or know of anyone who information that we can pass
along to Tom Palmerlee on this?
--
Ed Christopher
Metropolitan Activities
Midwest Resource Center
Federal Highway Administration
19900 Governors Drive
Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461
708-283-3534 (V)
708-283-3501 (F)
Attached is the draft agenda for our meeting this January. One ae where
I built in some time is towards the end. That is the part where we can
go around the room and mention any relative that we know about in our
receptive organizations. I am encouraging people bring handouts. In
year's past i have used 60 as my handout planning number.
--
Ed Christopher
Metropolitan Activities
Midwest Resource Center
Federal Highway Administration
19900 Governors Drive
Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461
708-283-3534 (V)
708-283-3501 (F)
as we get closer to the TRB annual meeting we will be seeing more and
more invites etc. if anyone is planning on going to this let me know as
i will be in town. my plans call for arriving on saturday (january 11)
and staying through sunday (january 19).
--
Ed Christopher
Metropolitan Activities
Midwest Resource Center
Federal Highway Administration
19900 Governors Drive
Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461
708-283-3534 (V)
708-283-3501 (F)
I am starting to get involved with the initial planning of the 2004
North American Travel Monitoring and Exposition Conference (NATMEC). In
January, at the TRB meeting I will be involved with a group working on
the initial planning meeting. As part of that grouup I am sure that we
will start to begin a list of potetial topic areas from which the
sessions will be constructed. Below is a strawman list of topics that I
have seen floating around. Needless to say, I am asking you if there are
any ideas for subject areas and/or topics I should be tossing into the
mix.
Some potential NATMEC subject areas
Classification counting
WIM
Operations Planning
ADUS and ITS
New Data Collection Techniques.
