At our committee meeting last week we began to address the topic of the
Transportation Information Needs Assessment (TINA) Study. In response
to the suggestions from some committee chairs, TRB has decided to
increase the number of ways for us to provide inputs to this important
study. One way is to have a website to capture our ideas. At the
website you will be asked to identify and then elaborate on "what are
the unmet transportation information needs for you and/or those you work
with or support?" For each session you can only have three unmet needs
but that does not mean that you can not go through the form multiple
times.
The TINA website http://www.nustats.com/TRB4 will be open for all of
you (committee members and friends) to provide your responses from
January 30 to February 17, 2006. Please note our committee code ABJ30
Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems when providing
information related to transportation information needs. Your responses
will come back to me for integration into our report back to TRB.
Keep in mind that we have been encouraged to think broadly about
information needs and not use budgetary or other constraints as
barriers. I look forward to your ideas. Remember do not feel
constrained.
For some more background I have attached what TRB passed out to its
chairs prior to the Annual Meeting.
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Ed Christopher
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Attached for your reading pleasure are several items dealing with things
happening at TRB relevant to the Data Section and our committee.
Probably the first place to start is with the item called 'TRB
Items.doc'. It contains a note from Tom Palmerlee on items that TRB
wants me to cover during our annual meeting.
The next item and probably the most important to think about before our
meeting would be the 'TRB Committee Request.doc'. It describes a major
effort that is underway to support what is known as the Transportation
Information Needs Assessment Study. I call it the TINA study. If you
looked at our agenda you will see that I plan on spending some time on
this as our committee has a direct stake in its outcome. This is
important stuff.
The remaining items the 'Report for the Data Section.doc' contains Tom's
overview of what the Section is doing. The 'critical issues.pdf' is the
latest critical issues developed by the TRB Executive Board and the last
thing is the 'Data Section agenda.doc'. I am passing on the Section
agenda as I thought it was instructive to know about the Section and
some of the more procedural things underway.
I am traveling to Washington on Wednesday for an LEHD workshop later
this week so you don't have to worry about any more paper coming you
way. I am rapidly running out of time...
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Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
FHWA RC-TST-PLN
19900 Governors Dr
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
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