this is something tom p sent around to his committee chairs. i am not
sure how we can fit in but if anyone has any ideas toss them on the
table...
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: TRB Core Support from BTS
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:30:47 -0500
From: "Tom Palmerlee" <tpalmerlee(a)nas.edu>
To: edc(a)berwyned.com
This is an update on negotiations curerntly underway between TRB and BTS
on 2004 core support funding. Many of you may already be aware that BTS
has proposed a significant reduction in TRB core support in its 2004
budget. While some of the modal administrations have provided the
minimum sponsor level of $60k, BTS has made annual core support in the
$300k range. This amount has its origin in the mid-1990s when BTS first
became a sponsor. It is my understanding that BTS wanted to encourage
more data and information technology at TRB in general and at the annual
meeting in particular. As you all know, the annual meeting program is a
product of the standing committees with each getting its 2+ sessions.
At that time, I think there was only one data committee so the
opportunities for growth in a new area were limited. BTS's proposal at
that time was to provide core funding at a level that could support an
additional senior program officer to staff an expanded suite of
committees relating to transportation data and information technology.
That strategy was successful. Today, depending on how you count, there
are about a dozen committees focusing on transportation data and
information technology issues. Counting workshops, sessions and
committee meetings, these committees organized nearly 60 events at the
2003 annual meeting. That's a two fold increase, just in the four years
I have been at TRB.
The 2004 budget is refocusing and sharpening its programs in response to
guidance from the Secretary's office. There are five core data
programs, as follows:
BTS Core Data Programs
Freight Data
Travel Statistics
Transportation Economics
Airline Statistics
GIS
Cross-cutting Programs
These will provide a research grounding in transportation and
statistics:
Transportation Research
Methods and Standards
The impact on tRB of a reduction in core support of this size could be
significant. TRB, already estimating a tight budget, will likely to have
to reduce staff available to the support committees.
Last week Mark Norman, Steve Godwin (TRB Policy Division Director) and I
me with BTS Acting Director Rick Kowalewski, and BTS' new outreach
coordinator Thomas Bolle, The point was made that TRB collectively, and
the data committees in particular encompass many activities relevant to
the proposed BTS core programs and, with active staff and committee
support, TRB could provide effective mechanisms for BTS to connect with
specialists in those areas and with the data user community. Rick
indicated a willingness to reconsider to core funding level for next
year.
Thomas Bolle and I are now leading an effort to refine that concept,
with the support of staff from both organizations. We are likely to be
asking your help in this effort. I am optimistic that we will have a
more favorable outcome within the next few months. I'll keep you
informed about our progress.
Tom
Thomas M. Palmerlee
Senior Program Officer Transportation Data
Transportation Research Board
National Research Council
500 Fifth St. NW, Room 419
Washington, DC 20001
202-334-2907
tpalmerlee(a)nas.edu
i am trying to get a rough idea of who is thinking about attending the
Joint Summer Meeting of the Planning, Economics, Finance, Freight, and
Management Committees. It is in July and will piggy back onto a freight
and ports meeting in Portland, Oregon. Both events run from July 13-18,
2003 with the joint Summer Meeting of the Planning, Economics, Finance,
Freight, and Management Committees beginning on Wednesday, July 16. We
are calling this event our Urban Data Committee midyear meeting.
let me know if are even thinking about going.
-----
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)
see below...re: the midyear meeting in portland.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Summer Tour in Portland
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:11:16 -0500
From: "Tom Palmerlee" <tpalmerlee(a)nas.edu>
To: paul.bingham(a)globalinsight.com, edc(a)berwyned.com,
pisarski@ix.netcom.com,s-tucker@tamu.edu
Let me know how many of our members will be interested in this tour so I
can
pass the information on to Joedy. This tour is likely to be at the end
of the
Ports portion of the conference and at the beginning of the Planning et
al.
Thanks.
Tom
---------------------- Forwarded by Tom Palmerlee/NationalAcademies on
02/06/2003 10:17 AM ---------------------------
Joedy Cambridge
02/06/2003 09:42 AM
To: Elaine King/NRC/NationalAcademies@NAS, Tom
Palmerlee/NationalAcademies@NAS, Kimberly
Fisher/NationalAcademies@NAS,
Claire Felbinger/NRC/NationalAcademies@NAS
cc:
Subject: Summer Tour in Portland
Dave Grier, a member of A1B55 is working with the folks at the
Bonneville Lock &
Dam, about an hour's drive from downtown Portland, to arrange a tour of
the
facilities. If you think some of your folks might be interested in
this tour,
please let me know so that I can plan accordingly re the date/time for
the tour.
To get some idea of what folks would see, please view attached photos,
