ABJ30-news February 2007

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[Fwd: Freight Cooperative Research Project Announcement]

by Ed Christopher

Even if you have not been following the developments of the National Freight Cooperative Research Program its worth a look to see what they have come up with. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Freight Cooperative Research Project Announcement Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:49:30 -0500 From: "Palmerlee, Thomas" <TPalmerlee(a)nas.edu> To: <thomas.bolle(a)bts.gov>,<edc(a)berwyned.com>,<dave.gardner(a)dot.state.oh.us>,<fdharrison(a)gmail.com>,<hall.jim(a)uis.edu>,<psh(a)ornl.gov>,<kkockelm(a)mail.utexas.edu>,<jonette.kreideweis(a)dot.state.mn.us>,<michael.manore(a)bentley.com>,<harvey.miller(a)geog.utah.edu>,<Ralph.Gillmann(a)fhwa.dot.gov>,<ritchey(a)battelle.org>,<drumms(a)portptld.com>,<kikuchi(a)vt.edu>,<Simon.Washington(a)asu.edu>,<reg(a)iastate.edu>,"Vandervalk Anita " <avandervalk(a)camsys.com>,<jzmud(a)nustats.com> Fyi

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Passing along a request

by ed christopher

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: FW: comparative analysis of commuting? Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:49:43 -0500 From: "Alan Pisarski" <alanpisarski(a)alanpisarski.com> To: "'Murakami, Elaine'" <Elaine.Murakami(a)fhwa.dot.gov>,"'Ed Christopher'" <edc(a)berwyned.com>, "Gen Giuliano" <giuliano(a)rcf.usc.edu>,"Gen Giuliano" <giuliano(a)rcf.usc.edu> HEY GUYS: THE NOTES BACK AND FORTH BELOW WILL PROVIDE BACKGROUND ON THE PAPER ATTACHED. COULD BE A STRONG LINK RE CTPP GROUPS OR URBAN DATA COMM. FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE. Regards, AEP Alan E. Pisarski 6501 Waterway Drive Falls Church Va. 22044 703 941-4257 alanpisarski(a)alanpisarski.com -----Original Message----- From: Alan Pisarski [mailto:alanpisarski@alanpisarski.com] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 5:05 PM To: 'Thomas Sick Nielsen' Subject: RE: comparative analysis of commuting? I respond here briefly. I have just read your paper and enjoyed it very much. I do need to think on it more because a lot of the measures are not intuitively obvious. I use much coarser geographic units in Commuting in America III given the need for a national perspective. Please look at my chapter on flows and you will see what I mean. It shows that suburb to suburb flows grow dramatically with area size and the focus on the center declines. This might seem in conflict with your findings but I believe that they can be shown to be consistent. I have felt that although most trips are suburb to suburb -- that most destinations are closer to the center than their home origin, which is the same as saying the work distribution will almost always be tighter to the center than the households'. Your other view re connectivity -- functional integration -- is very important. One measure of that that I use is the % of workers leaving their home county to work. Again a coarser measure than yours. I enclose a map of Georgia that helps make that point. The book addresses how very rapidly it is growing. My sense is that if all the counties (now about 33) in the region each kept their workers "at home" we would have 33 hamlets that were merely adjacent rather than a great metropolitan area. I further believe that as specialization increases we will see this kind of integration increase with the consequent increases in work trip lengths. One of the phenomena we are seeing increasingly is people living in the suburbs of one area (e.g. Baltimore; commuting into the suburbs of another (Wash D.C.) I will pass your paper to others who have such an interest. One of which would be Gen. Giuliano. But more to the point of your interests I will pass this to the TRB Urban Data committee. Its members comprise state and metropolitan area planning agencies and they have the skills and interests to parallel yours. Best regards, I will stay in touch. Alan E. Pisarski Alan E. Pisarski 6501 Waterway Drive Falls Church Va. 22044 703 941-4257 alanpisarski(a)alanpisarski.com -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Sick Nielsen [mailto:SICK@life.ku.dk] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:22 AM To: alanpisarski(a)alanpisarski.com Subject: comparative analysis of commuting? Dear Mr. Pisarski I recently ordered "Commuting in America" and then thought about sending our preliminary results on comparative analysis of commute patterns to you. Attached you find a paper that uses commute data to compare interactions in metropolitan areas of the US, UK, Denmark and for now Barcelona in Spain. It is partly based on GIS-based mapping of interaction patterns - and focusses on the increasing scale of functional integration, as well as commuting biases as a stepping stone to conclude on interrelations between metropolitan form and the commuting system. Would you happen to know any US-based researchers that does similar work - and whom might be interested in participating in comparisons between US and Europe? Comparability between the different surveys is of course a problem - but at least general patterns and development trends can be compared. For now - it is my plan to refine the comparisons that I have sketched in the paper - and to include France (in co-operation with INRETS, Marne-de-Valle) and possibly the Czech republic. The Czech republic is interesting as they have had significant changes to the urbanisation patterns within the time-frame covered by comparable commute data (which is generally from around 1980 until present in European countries - the UK go further back - but they have made changes to the methodology recently). I would be happy to receive any comments or feed back! Sincerely Thomas Sick Nielsen Thomas Sick Nielsen, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Science Rolighedsvej 23 DK-1958 Frederiksberg C Email: sick(a)life.ku.dk Web: http://en.sl.life.ku.dk/omskovoglandskab/medarbejdere/sick.aspx? Tel: +45 35 28 18 30 Mobile: +45 26 200 360

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Committee Business

by Ed Christopher

For those who could not make the annual meeting we talked a little about the future of the committee leadership and membership. On the membership side, we are all up for rotation April 14, 2008. What this means is that some members will have to rotated off as they have served out their 3, three-year terms while the others will be considered for reappointment. I will send out details on that process a little later. What I really wanted to get to is the committee leadership. Along with the committee rotation comes my rotation and ultimate "official" departure. A chair can serve 2 consecutive three-year terms and I am in my last year of my last term. Added to this I am just finishing up my 12th year as a committee member which means I was extended one term beyond the maximum committee member life span of 3, three-year terms. In short, I gotta go. Or put another way, my "rein of terror" is coming to end. The big step for the committee is to find a new chair. TRB has guidance on this and I have attached what the TRB Leadership Guide has to say on the matter. The bottom line is that I am notifying everyone that we need a new chair and I am looking for your nominations or thoughts for the new chair. Self nominations are certainly welcome and in fact that is what I did. Since Tom and I will be openly discussing this, it is ultimately a TRB staff decision, you can let your thoughts be known to either Tom or I or both. Here is the link to the Leadership Guide which is the bible for TRB chairs. Chapter 5 talks about committees, their responsibilities and what a committee chair might be getting themselves into. The job does take a certain time commitment but I have also found it very rewarding. http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/dva/DivAGuide.pdf Finally, the next chair does not have to come from inside the committee so if know someone who would be good and interested please feel free to pass this along or have them contact Tom and/or me. -- 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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[Fwd: Cross-Group Session Proposals for the 2008 Annual Meeting]

by Ed Christopher

Got this from Tom P. It pertains to having cross-group sessions at the annual meeting that do not count against our committee quota. Below is the Process. While I think we may have had cross group sessions in the past, our NHTS session (07), some of the ADUS stuff and our Obesity session (06) we have never played in this arena before. Anyway, if there are any cross group issues that you have and can get developed, see below, by the deadline let me know and we can toss in the hopper. Realizing that we will unlikely have something for 2008 keep this in mind for the next cycle. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Cross-Group Session Proposals for the 2008 Annual Meeting Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 11:43:16 -0500 From: "Palmerlee, Thomas" ?TPalmerlee(a)nas.edu> CC: ?tpalmerlee(a)nas.edu> For each annual meeting the Technical Activities Council (TAC) approves some cross-group session proposals at their June meeting. These sessions then don?t count against a committee?s session quota. The Policy and Organization Group (POG) needs to endorse our proposals and forward them to the TAC. I know it is ridiculously early but the POG will be considered proposals on its March 7 and April 24 conference call. If your committee has cross-group topics you want to push, send them to Johanna or me. An example would be some sort of session dealing with data and information technology issues for safety. The following is a template that we used for this year?s conference. It will probably be to early for much detail on participants so don?t worry about that. Tom Cross-Group Session Proposal Session Title: Session Chair: Session Organizer: Session Description: Include key points to be addressed. Participants: Confirmed or potential participants, their status (invited, confirmed,?) and presentation titles Cooperating Groups: TRB Groups or Other Organization, include contacts

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2008 NATMEC Program Call for Topics

by Ed Christopher

Please pass this along to anyone who you think would be interested. Thanks -------- Original Message -------- Subject: TRB: 2008 NATMEC Program Call for Topics Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:06:23 -0500 From: "Floyd, David" <DFloyd(a)nas.edu> To: <edc(a)berwyned.com> Call for Topics for the 2008 NATMEC Program, Washington, DC The North American Travel Monitoring Exposition and Conference (NATMEC) will be held in Washington, D.C. in May-June, 2008. We have received positive feedback on the relevance of the 2006 program to existing traffic monitoring programs. The planning committee is starting work on the program and wants to build on that success. We want to craft a program that will bring you to Washington. Let us know about (a) issues that will help you do your job better and (b)what you have done that could help others. The committee has set up a web site to receive your suggestions. Go to http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2262BCM3F2F to propose topics that you would like to see on the program. Submit all that are important to you. View the 2006 program information to see sessions we held last year , http://trb.org/Conferences/NATMEC/. Give us both important topics for you that we dealt with in 2006 as well as new topics. Please respond no later than Wednesday, March 20th The committee will analyze the topics submitted to develop an initial set of sessions to use with a Call for Presentations. In July, we will be asking you to tell us which sessions you can help with. Contact me with any questions about potential topics for the program and David Floyd at dfloyd(a)nas.edu about any problems with submitting issues to the web site. Once the committee has picked topics, we will be back to you as we set out to populate the program with speakers. Glenda Fuller NATMEC Planning Committee Roadway Data Manager Idaho Transportation Department Phone: 208-334-8217 Email: glenda.fuller(a)itd.idaho.gov

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Draft Minutes - please provide your Show 'n Tell info for the record

by Catherine T Lawson

ABJ30 Committee Members and Friends, Attached please find a copy of the draft minutes from the January 23rd meeting (to conserve space - powerpoint files will be inserted in final posted version). We need your comments, corrections and/or additions to the minutes AND we need your Show 'n Tell paragraph to share in the final posted version. You can email me directly - lawsonc(a)albany.edu - We are also looking for research statement paragraphs or just early ideas that can be circulated and that might "grow" into an entry in the TRB database. Thanks for your help! Kate --- _____________________________ Catherine T. Lawson, Ph. D. Director, MRP Program Associate Professor University at Albany Geography & Planning AS 218 1400 Washington Albany, New York 12222 (518) 442-4775 (518) 442-4742 FAX lawsonc(a)albany.edu

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[Fwd: 2007 ADUS subcommittee minutes]

by Ed Christopher

FYI-from our Joint Subcommittee. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 2007 ADUS subcommittee minutes Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 15:26:56 -0500 From: <Ralph.Gillmann(a)dot.gov> The Joint Subcommittee of the Highway Traffic Monitoring (AFD30) and Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems (ABJ30) Committees met at the 2007 TRB meeting. Attached are the draft committee minutes. Please send any corrections or changes.Several items were promised at the meeting and are as follows: 1. Should we have a mid-year meeting? If so, where? At the Joint Summer Conference - July 7-9, 2007, Renaissance Chicago Hotel, Chicago, Illinois? (http://trb.org/conferences/2007/Joint%20Summer/2007SummerConfFlyer.pdf) The ITS America annual meeting - June 4-6, 2007, Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, California? Unless there is significant support for a mid-year meeting, we will not meet.2. A link to the ITS Standards Forum for ADUS: the forums are at http://serv4.itsware.net/bb/index.php - scroll down and select the ADUS Archiving Data forum near the bottom - anyone can view but (free) registration is necessary to post. 3. "The scope of this subcommittee includes all aspects of the archiving and management of highway traffic data collected via intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and other systems designed for traffic operations. The focus is on management of data over time: data transfer, fusion, structure, storage, documentation, dissemination, etc. for analysis of variations, trends, patterns, etc. This is incorporated in the National ITS Architectures Archived Data User Service (ADUS)."I suggest we clarify whether the scope includes incident data.4. Research Needs Statements (RNS) format - attached. Please send draft RNSs to Shawn Turner (Shawn-turner(a)tamu.edu).Ralph GillmannActing Chief, Travel Monitoring & SurveysFederal Highway Administrationralph.gillmann(a)dot.govAttachments: minutes, attendees, RNS format

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[Fwd: Fw: Selection of Deputy Director of the U.S. Census Bureau]

by Ed Christopher

Some good news for us. Jay at least knows who we are and has even been at some of our census conferences. FROM THE DESK OF CHARLES LOUIS KINCANNON I am delighted to announce the appointment of Preston Jay Waite as Deputy Director of the U.S. Census Bureau. He replaces Hermann Habermann, who retired on January 3. Jay began his Census Bureau career in 1971 after earning master's degrees in mathematics and computer science at Utah State University, and has written extensively in professional journals and publications. During his tenure at the Census Bureau, Jay has received numerous awards, including two gold medals and two presidential rank awards. In 2000, Jay was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Jay's expertise and experience at the Bureau is extensive. He has worked for over 10 years in each of the Bureau's program areas, Demographic, Economic and most recently as the Associate Director of the Decennial. He has proven himself as a tireless worker and a person of high integrity. As most of you know, Jay is the visionary and architect of the 2010 re-engineered census, including the ACS and the transition to hand held computers for major field activities, and we are fortunate that he assumes his new role at this critical time. Please join me in congratulating Jay on his assignment.

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