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by Ed Christopher

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

20 years, 9 months

[Fwd: TRB Workshop Proposals due June 15]

by Ed Christopher

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

20 years, 10 months

Boston TRB Midyear Meeting Hotel

by ed christopher

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

20 years, 10 months

[Fwd: REMINDER: FY 2006 Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Problem Statements DUE June 15, 2005!!!!]

by Ed Christopher

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

20 years, 10 months

RITA reports on research direction

by Ed Christopher

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)

20 years, 11 months

[Fwd: retirement population trends]

by Ed Christopher

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

20 years, 11 months

Online NY crash data

by Ed Christopher

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

21 years

Boston Midyear Meeting

by Ed Christopher

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

21 years

Transportation Secretary Mineta Launches New Research andInnovative Technology and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials SafetyAdministrations

by ed christopher

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 -

21 years

Upcoming meetings

by ed christopher

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)

21 years

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