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FW: TRB Centennial - Tell Us Our Story - Please Publicize and Participate

by sgbricka＠gmail.com

Apologies for cross-postings: Please see below for a request from TRB. I hope this finds each of you and your families safe and healthy- Stacey From: Houston, Russell <RHouston(a)nas.edu <mailto:RHouston@nas.edu> > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 6:24 AM To: sgbricka(a)gmail.com <mailto:sgbricka@gmail.com> Subject: TRB Centennial - Tell Us Our Story - Please Publicize and Participate Dear Stacey, I am writing to you today as Chair of ABJ30 with a request that you forward this email to all members and friends of your committee, and that you encourage them to participate in the activity described below. TRB would like to get as many responses as possible to the following three questions, which are part of TRB's April, May, and June "Tell Us 'Our' Story" Centennial Challenge. * What drew you to transportation community, and what keeps you here? <https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5155245/Tell-Us-Our-Story-April-2020-What-dr ew-you-to-the-transportation-community-and-what-keeps-you-here> * What impact do you hope to have on the world and how is the Transportation Research Board helping you make that impact? <https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5155256/Tell-Us-Our-Story-May-2020-What-impa ct-do-you-hope-to-have-on-the-world-and-how-is-TRB-helping-you-make-that-imp act> * What is your vision for the Transportation Research Board 100 years from now? <https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/5155259/Tell-Us-Our-Story-June-2020-What-is- your-vision-of-TRB-100-years-from-now> The deadline to respond to any or all of these questions is July 1, 2020. The TRB "Tell Us 'Our' Story" Centennial Challenge is designed to allow as many of TRB's volunteers and friends as possible to participate in the TRB Centennial Celebration through the submission of their stories, which make up the TRB story. In addition to posting responses to these questions on its website and publicizing them via its social media channels, TRB will be producing banners that will display some of the responses to these questions at various 2021 Annual Meeting venues. Responses to these questions will dovetail well with the theme for the 2021 Annual Meeting, which is Launching a New Century of Mobility and Quality of Life. The links above give the option to submit a response in writing (200 words or less) or provide a YouTube link to a short video (60 seconds or less) respondents take with a smart phone. If submitting a written response, respondents are asked to upload a photo of themselves that will be displayed with their quote. More information on the Tell Us "Our" Story Challenge is available on TRB's Centennial Website at https://trbcentennial.nationalacademies.org/tell-us-our-story If folks have question or need more information, they should feel free to contact me at Rhouston(a)nas.edu <mailto:Rhouston@nas.edu> . Thank you Russell Russell Houston Associate Executive Director Transportation Research Board The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 500 Fifth Street, NW | Washington, D.C. 20001 202-334-3252 | RHouston(a)nas.edu <mailto:RHouston@nas.edu> | www.TRB.org <http://www.trb.org/>

4 years, 9 months

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by Chris Parrinello

All, The abj30-news(a)chrispy.net mailing list has been migrated to a new email address: abj30-news(a)mailman.chrispy.net. The archives for this mailing list have also been migrated to a new URL: https://mailman.chrispy.net/hyperkitty/list/abj30-news@mailman.chrispy.net/ Please let me know you have any questions or run into any problems with the new mailing list. Thanks, Chris Parrinello

4 years, 11 months

TRB Annual Meeting Plans and more....

by Catherine T Lawson

ABJ30 Members and Friends, Shawn Turner (Shawn-Turner(a)tamu.edu) wants to know if anyone is interested in organizing an ADUS workshop for the 2009 TRB Annual Meeting - If you have an idea for a workshop - please let me know as soon as possible - Tom Palmerlee send out a reminder, workshop proposals are due from committee chairs on June 1. Here is the information that you'll need to provide: o Workshop Title o Workshop length (Half Day/Full Day) o Description (A paragraph description is sufficient) o Sponsoring and/or Co-Sponsoring committees o Committee Contact W. David Lee, Chair of the SCOP Subcommittee on Research, is looking for new NCHRP Draft Problem Statements - please email any ideas for the Committee to develop into a proposal. NCHRP 8-36 is intended for quick response research projects that will improve analytical methods and tools for statewide and metropolitan planning. The expected cost is under $100,000. Drafts need to be submitted by July 11, 2008. An 8-36 problem statement does not need the level of detail of a formal NCHRP proposal. The format is a one-page problem statement with: * Title * Problem Statement * Research Objective * Cost * Time Required Below are some recent suggestions for "emerging data needs" that our Committee could develop into formal research statements for the TRB website and submittals for funding: 1) Using assessor's data to gather accurate counts of numbers of housing units on parcels of land. An accurate count of Housing Units is important to augment census/ACS data. A synthesis project is needed to determine "best practices" for improving the quality of these data (e.g., through mandates or incentives) and data sharing procedures between agencies (e.g., assessors and MPOs). 2) Data needs for integrating aviation-related transport activities into mainstreaming transportation planning. Recent publications, such as TCRP 83, provide strategies for linking public transit to large airports, yet there is little available data to evaluate the effectiveness of such strategies for local planning. 3) New software modeling packages (e.g., microsimulation and visualization tools) require parking lot and parking space data, including prices charged, duration of stay, etc. A synthesis project is needed to examine "best practices" for collecting, archiving and updating parking data. 4) New ways to facilitate the delivery of data (and metadata), including portals with real time data streams and data fusion opportunities. Please let me know if you would like to help expand these problem statements or if you have additional ideas for development. The list of ideas from our last annual meeting and the outcome of the three most important issues shared at the Data Retreat are also "on the table" for further development (see attached). Hope to have the summary from the Data Retreat to share soon. Don't forget - Early Bird Special for our mid-year meeting at NATMAC expires May 6th!! http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=060e4400-a26c-430e-bda d-9174bc50f9d2 Regards, 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

16 years, 7 months

APDU Newsletter

by Ed Christopher

Over the last few months I have gotten involved with an organization that links users, producers and disseminators of government statistical data together. The organization goes by the name of the Association of Public Data Users and attached is their February newletter as a sample of what the organization is about. While the organization tends to focus more on Census and Economic data my intent is to bring our transportation world closer to them and their world closer to ours. -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 19900 Governors Dr Olympia Fields, IL 60461

16 years, 10 months

Another Lost data link

by Ed Christopher

Thought I would pass this along. It looks like just another avenue for finding data is closing. According to their website "Due to budgetary constraints, the Economic Indicators service (http://www.economicindicators.gov) will be discontinued effective March 1, 2008". Somewhat ironic is that this website is basically a compilation of links for BEA and Census that are all in one spot. I am not sure how much could really be saved by eliminating this site. http://www.economicindicators.gov/ -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 19900 Governors Dr Olympia Fields, IL 60461

16 years, 10 months

Travel Data Users Forum

by ed christopher

ABJ30 Members and select others I just thought I would pass this along. It seems pretty clear that our Travel Data Users Forum where we investigated what would happen to our travel behavior given the rising cost of energy really hit the mark. Nathan Erlbaum just passed along a link a newspaper article where he had to speak to the topic and his presentation from the Forum. http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080203/BIZ/8020303… I also gave a webinar presentation last week as part of the TMIP program which can be found and viewed at http://tmip.fhwa.dot.gov/discussions/webinars/archive/01292008_trb/. Of the many things I covered I did spend a good portion of my time on the Forum. finally, given the demand that I have had for the slides from the forum I have them posted at http://berwyned.com/ftp/session681/ -- Ed Christopher Resource Center Planning Team Federal Highway Administration 19900 Governors Drive Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) 708-283-3501 (F)

16 years, 10 months

Synthesis suggestions

by ed christopher

Nandu asked me to pass this along. Keep in mind that syntheses topics are like TCRP proposals in that anyone can submit. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Synthesis suggestions Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:57:04 -0500 From: "Srinivasan, Nanda" <NSrinivasan(a)nas.edu> To: "Ed Christopher" <edc(a)berwyned.com> Ed: These are due next week. Can you ask your committee members to suggest topics and post them at: http://www.trb.org/Studies/Synthesis/SynthesesSubmittal.asp Thanks Nanda Srinivasan Senior Program Officer National Cooperative Highway Research Program Transportation Research Board Phone: 202-334-1896 Fax: 202-334-2006 www.trb.org

16 years, 11 months

For those going to TRB

by ed christopher

For those who will be attending the Transportation Research Board's Annual meeting next week attached is the agenda for the TRB Subcommittee on Census Data for Transportation Planning. It will be Wednesday Afternoon at the Washington DC Hilton. As usual, we hope to have the notes from the meeting in the next Status Report. To get the latest update on what is going on with the CTPP, the January issue of the Status Report is now posted at http://www.TRBcensus.com/. For a direct link go to http://www.TRBcensus.com/newsltr/sr0108.pdf -- Ed Christopher Resource Center Planning Team Federal Highway Administration 19900 Governors Drive Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) 708-283-3501 (F)

16 years, 11 months

TCRP Request for Research Problem Statements for FY 2009

by ed christopher

FYI -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Request for Research Problem Statements for the FY 2009 TCRP Program Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:32:14 -0500 From: "Douple, Brenda" <BDouple(a)nas.edu> To: "Douple, Brenda" <BDouple(a)nas.edu> Attached is the referenced solicitation memo.Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. Brenda Douple Administrative Associate Cooperative Research Program The Keck Center 500 Fifth St NW Washington, DC 20001 (202) 334-2176- Phone (202) 334-2006 - Fax bdouple(a)nas.edu

16 years, 11 months

Meeting Agenda

by ed christopher

Attached is the draft agenda for our meeting. Please note that the meeting will be Monday night, January 14, 2008. It will only be 2 hours long so we have a rather restricted agenda. Of primary importance for the committee will be an open discussion on issues facing the committee. Specifically, we are being asked to define our committee's research, data, and information system-related issues and priorities. Our committee's issues will then be discuss and feed into a Retreat that the Data Section Chairs are having in March. The retreat was discussed in the newsletter that I distributed earlier today and also attached is some more background on it. For now we need to be thinking about what are our key issues. -- Ed Christopher FHWA Resource Center 19900 Governors Drive Olympia Fields, Illinois 60461 708-283-3534 (v) 708-283-3501 (f) 708-574-8131 (cell)

16 years, 11 months

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