Urban Data Members and Friends
This is just a quick reminder that we will have our midyear meeting in
Boston, Monday, July 11, 2005, 9:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m. in conjunction with
the TRB 2005 Summer conference.
http://www.trb.org/Conferences/JointSummer/
While time is short I hope to focus on developments of the 2006 annual
meeting while covering several emerging topics. In the next few weeks I
will be formulating a formal agenda for Boston and will get it out to
you. If there is something you would like to get on the agenda please
let me know. However, keep in mind that we do only have 2 hours.
For the Annual meeting we are currently involved in sponsoring two
Sunday workshops; One dealing with the American Community Survey
(working title--The American Community Survey--Learn all about it!), and
the other on Transferability (working title-- Transferability of
Household Travel Survey Data--Getting by without a Travel Survey).
In the next few weeks I will be formulating a formal agenda for Boston
and will get it out to you.
--
Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
FHWA RC-TST-PLN
19900 Governors Dr
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
Attached is the information for submitting workshops. Right now the only
one that I am aware of that I will be submitting is one that I am
working on with the Travel Behavior committees dealing with data
transferability--specifically transferability of household travel survey
data. If anyone else is interested in or is developing a workshop let me
know and we can coordinate.
--
Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
FHWA RC-TST-PLN
19900 Governors Dr
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
Please let Tom know if you need a hotel room during the mid-year meeting
at Boston so TRB can arrange for an overflow hotel. Thanks.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Boston TRB Midyear Meeting Hotel
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:22:09 -0400
From: "Palmerlee, Thomas" <TPalmerlee(a)nas.edu>
To: <pisarski(a)ix.netcom.com>, <ritchey(a)battelle.org>,
<edc(a)berwyned.com>,<psh(a)ornl.gov>, <hall.jim(a)uis.edu>,
<jzmud(a)nustats.com>,<michael.manore(a)bentley.com>,
<mike.griffith(a)fhwa.dot.gov>,<johns003(a)tc.umn.edu>,
<s-tucker(a)tamu.edu>, <mcneil(a)uic.edu>,"Vandervalk Anita "
<avandervalk(a)camsys.com>
This from the TRB meetings staff, We have exceeded our room block at
the Seaport Hotel on all nights except for Sunday 7/10 and Monday 7/11.
The hotel is unable to give us additional rooms and we are now working
on obtaining an overflow hotel for the shoulder dates.
I am assuming your committee members who are attending have already
gotten hotel rooms and registered for the conference. If that is not
the case, give me an idea of numbers that might need hotel space.
Tom
Thomas M. Palmerlee
Transportation Research Board
tpalmerlee(a)nas.edu, 202-334-2907
As a committee I do not know of any problem statements we are
submitting. If anyone is working on any of committee relevance let us
know. (problem statement submittals by committee is something that TRB
likes to count on our triennial reviews, i mean our triennial strategic
evaluation.)
But come NCHRP submittal in a few months I will be pushing an "broader"
update of NCHRP report 365. We will need states to help us submit. I
have also attached my most current draft.
--
Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
FHWA RC-TST-PLN
19900 Governors Dr
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
I had heard this report was out but I just snagged the link. It is the
RITA report that Congress required. If you are close to the subject you
might find the report rather general but I thought it did a nice job
presenting the enviornment in which RITA must operate.
--------------
US Department of Transportation Reports to Congress on Research
Activities
Link to report:
http://www.rita.dot.gov/publications/research_activities_of_the_department_…
--
Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
Gillian--I am drawing blanks on this one. We did have a contact at AARP
who was a data person (i believe her name was Audry) but I think someone
told me she just left or retired. I am sending this to our committee
and few others who might be able help with some leads.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: retirement population trends
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:37:40 -0800
From: "Gillian Biedler" <gbiedler(a)sacog.org>
To: <edc(a)berwyned.com>
Hi, Ed. Hope you are well. I have been looking for data on the retired
population in our area. The age proxy trick isn't going to be good
enough for this application. Do you have any suggestions on where I
might find such data, or a person whom I might contact on this
subject? Thanks for any help you can
give.Gillian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gillian van Oosten Biedler
Sacramento Area Council of Governments
Phone: 916.340.6216
Fax.: 916.321.9551
e-mail: gbiedler(a)sacog.org
Kuo-Ann- have you seen this?
CrashStat.org: NYCs First Online Crash Maps
T.A. is proud to announce CrashStat.org, a new one-of-a-kind information
resource for assessing
the safety of NYC streets. At CrashStat.org you will find maps and
tables that show how many
pedestrians and bicyclists were killed or injured, over a seven-year
period, at every intersection
and mid-block location in New York City.
http://www.crashstat.org/
--
Ed C
The time slot for our Boston Midyear meeting just came out. It will be
Mon July 11, 2005 from 9:15am-11:15am
I will keep you post when addition information, hotel etc, is posted by
TRB.
--
Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
FHWA RC-TST-PLN
19900 Governors Dr
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
In Case you haven't seen this.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Transportation Secretary Mineta Launches New Research and
Innovative Technology and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administrations
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:13:05 -0500
From: DOTNews(a)OST.DOT.GOV
Reply-To: dot.news(a)OST.DOT.GOV
To: DOTNEWS(a)mdspub01.dot.gov
U.S. Department of Transportation
Office of Public Affairs
Washington, D.C.
www.dot.gov/affairs/briefing.htm
News
DOT 28-05
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Contact: Brian Turmail
Tel.: (202) 366-4570
Transportation Secretary Mineta Launches New Research and Innovative
Technology and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administrations
New Research and Hazmat Safety Agencies to Begin Operations Ahead of
Schedule
U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta today announced
the creation of two new agencies at the U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT) - one to focus on innovation and research and the
other on pipeline and hazardous materials safety - to help the
Department more effectively execute its mission of developing and
applying innovative technologies to create the transportation system of
the 21st century. The new agencies will begin operating Feb. 20, a week
before the deadline set by Congress.
The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) and
the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) were
authorized on Nov. 30, 2004 when President Bush signed the Norman Y.
Mineta Research and Special Programs Improvement Act.
"These new agencies will help the Department focus on two
critical priorities for our nation's transportation system -- innovation
and safety," Secretary Mineta said. "RITA reflects how important
research and technology are to our core mission, while the creation of
PHMSA will continue and strengthen our commitment to safety."
RITA will be dedicated to the advancement of the department's
priorities for innovation and research in transportation technologies
and concepts. PHMSA will oversee the safety of the more than 800,000
daily shipments of hazardous materials in the United States and the 64
percent of the nation's energy that is transported by pipelines.
RITA will be composed of staff from RSPA's Office of Innovation,
Research and Education, and include the Volpe National Transportation
Systems Center in Cambridge, MA and the Transportation Safety Institute
in Oklahoma City. RITA also will house the Secretary's Office of
Intermodalism and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Staff from
the former Research and Special Programs Administration's (RSPA) Office
of Hazardous Materials Safety and Office of Pipeline Safety will form
PHMSA.
- END -
Please let me know if you plan on attending... either? or both? or none?
1. The May Census Data Conference "Census Data for Transportation
Planning:
Preparing for the Future" Beckman Center, Irvine, California, May 11-13,
2005
http://www.trb.org/conferences/censusdata/
2. The "TRB Joint Summer Meeting" Boston, Massachusetts, July 10-12,
2005
(link is not up yet on TRB Conf page: http://trb.org/calendar/)
--
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)