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by Ed Christopher

Attached is the Newsletter developed for the Data Section of TRB. -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 19900 Governors Dr Olympia Fields, IL 60461

16 years, 3 months

TRB Urban Data Committee

by Ed Christopher

To our Members and Friends Below is listing the of the "formal" TRB meeting activities listed under the Urban Data and Information Systems Committee (ABJ30). Please note that our meeting this year will only be only 2 hours on Monday night, January 14, 2008. I will send out an agenda shortly. Click a function title to retrieve details. No.Sponsor Function Title Location Time Integrating Archived 170 ABJ30 Traffic H - Monroe West Sunday, 1:30 PM5:00 PM Operations Data into Planning Data Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Spectacular 252 ABJ30 Data Mega H - InternationalCenterMonday, 9:30 AM12:00 PM Session ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieved Data Users Service ABJ35 (ADUS) Joint H - Chevy Chase Monday, 12:15 PM1:15 PM Subcommittee of ABJ35, ABJ30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Urban Transportation ABJ30 Data and H - State Monday, 7:30 PM9:30 PM Information Systems Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Technology Innovations in 611 ADC20 Monitoring H - Georgetown West Tuesday, 7:30 PM9:30 PM Traffic and Air Pollution ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Advances on the 633 ABJ30 Urban Data H - Lincoln West Wednesday, 8:00 AM9:45 AM Front ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Travel Data Users Forum: How Will the 681 ABJ30 Changing Cost H - Lincoln West Wednesday, 10:15 AM12:00 PM of Energy Affect Personal Travel? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Census for Transportation ABJ30 Planning H - Lincoln South Wednesday, 2:30 PM4:00 PM Subcommittee, ABJ30(1) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hotels: Marriott (M), Hilton (H), Shoreham (S)

16 years, 3 months

FHWA Transportation Planning Cooperative Research Announcement

by ed christopher

I snagged this from a "planning" committee for which I am a friend. It is filtering its way through the "planning" committees. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: David.Kuehn(a)dot.gov [mailto:David.Kuehn@dot.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:27 AM To: Fisher, Kimberly Cc: Micozzi, Martine Subject: FHWA Transportation Planning Cooperative Research Announcement I would appreciate if you would forward the following to your Committee Chairs. Thank you and happy holidays. FHWA Office of Planning posted a broad agency announcement (DTFH61-08-R-00011) for transportation planning cooperative research. The announcement requests research projects that could lead to transformational changes and revolutionary advances for transportation planning in one or more of the following focus areas: congestion management, global climate change, freight planning, public involvement, environmental justice and visualization in planning or tools and techniques that support state, Tribal or local planning capacity building. Pre-proposals are due February 15, 2008. A copy of the notice is posted at http://www1.fbo.gov/spg/DOT/FHWA/OAM/DTFH61%2D08%2DR%2D00011/listing.html and a formatted text version is located at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep/step/proposal.htm. For further information, please contact David Kuehn at 202 366 6072 or David.Kuehn(a)dot.gov.

16 years, 4 months

[RE: [ABJ30] Committee Member Rotation]

by Ed Christopher

I thought I would pass this along. I am not sure who knows and who doesn't know that Nandu will be leaving his contractor job at FHWA and going to NCHRP. Right now we are thinking that he may have to rotate off or move into some sort of liaison position. Certainly I hope Nandu stays a friend of the committee. Please join me in wishing Nandu good luck in his new job. Personally I will miss working him on an almost day-to-day basis. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: [ABJ30] Committee Member Rotation Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:12:56 -0400 From: <Nanda.Srinivasan(a)dot.gov> To: <edc(a)berwyned.com> References: <4724E5D3.6B46DAF8(a)berwyned.com> <4726141D.6500818B(a)berwyned.com> Ed: As you are aware, I am going to work for TRB (NCHRP) from November 12, 2007. I might have to rotated off the committee, depending on TRB rules. Thank you Nanda Srinivasan

16 years, 5 months

Committee Member Rotation

by Ed Christopher

April 14, 2008 is our committee's official rotation date. According to the TRB rules a third of the committee must rotate every third year and no one (except emeritus) can serve for more than 9 years without special dispensation from the TRB Executive Director. This is why TRB makes its committee appointments for a period of three years. The way TRB operationalizes this is to look at the committee members as serving terms. Everyone's term on the Urban Data committee is up in April of 2008 but some are eligible to serve additional years as they are only in their first or second term. There are others, like myself, who are in our third terms and must rotate off. I am asking the Executive Director for two exceptions, Catherine Lawson and Shawn Turner, whom I will explain shortly. In the attached PDF is a summary of our committee by member including their start date, term, affiliation, gender and state. There is also a table I developed for myself when trying figure out who was in what term. I found it very helpful in trying to figure out the terms. Personally, I would like to see TRB develop a mechanism where 1/9th of the committee rotates every year which would still give TRB its one-third every 3 years and provide for a continuous churning of members. Maybe the new chair can take on the issue. But I digress Hopefully you have looked at the PDF and found yourself. If you are in your first or second term both myself and the incoming chair want to know if you would like to continue your membership with the committee. TRB suggests that we give you three choices, "I want in", "I want out", I want in but I am willing to go". But I would hope that you would all want to stay. In summarizing the rotation, there are 10 of us who have to rotate off the committee. Of those 10 I will be seeking a special continuance for two, Catherine Lawson and Shawn Turner. Catherine has been recommended and approved by TRB to succeed me as chair. Her term will officially start on the rotation date for the whole committee, April 15, 2009. The other member's term I am seeking to extend is Shawn Turner. Shawn has just assumed the chairmanship of the Joint ADUS Subcommittee. The subcommittee is joint between us and the Traffic Monitoring Committee and Shawn is our critical link to it the subcommittee. I think that is about it for now. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask. And remember, if you are in your first or second term I need to know your interest in staying on for another term. If you are rotating off I am truly sorry but we have all been around long enough to know the rules. I just hope that we still all stay together as a community. -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 19900 Governors Dr Olympia Fields, IL 60461

16 years, 5 months

Data Section Newsletter

by Ed Christopher

FYI. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Data Section Newsletter Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:25:06 -0400 From: "Palmerlee, Thomas" <TPalmerlee(a)nas.edu> Please distribute to your committees. Tom Thomas M. Palmerlee Transportation Research Board 202-334-2907, tpalmerlee(a)nas.edu

16 years, 6 months

[Fwd: Fwd: Call for Poster - Communicating Transportation Concepts]

by Ed Christopher

I snagged this as a friend of the Land Use Committee. Please pass it along to anyone interested. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: Call for Poster - Communicating Transportation Concepts Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:42:57 -0400 From: Jonathan Gifford <jgifford(a)GMU.EDU> Reply-To: Jonathan Gifford <jgifford(a)GMU.EDU> To: TRANS-DEV-MEMBERS-L(a)mail04.GMU.EDU References: <6E2DC00A3FD8C3448F139180ACF61FE30370403E(a)ENA300.nrc.na.int> Please see the attached poster sessions on communicating with the public from the Planning and Environment Group at TRB (which is our committee's parent group). Thanks. -Jonathan Jonathan Gifford, Professor & Director, Master's in Transportation Policy, Operations & Logistics School of Public Policy George Mason University 3401 Fairfax Drive MS3B1 Arlington, VA 22201 U.S.A. +1-703-993-2275 / fax +1-801-749-9198 jgifford(a)gmu.edu http://policy.gmu.edu/faculty/gifford/ Begin forwarded message: > From: "Fisher, Kimberly" <KFisher(a)nas.edu> > Date: September 20, 2007 6:49:44 PM EDT > To: blackvt(a)trpc.org, "Brigham, Tom" <Tom.Brigham(a)hdrinc.com>, > CHoward(a)psrc.org, jgifford(a)gmu.edu, jmfaris(a)ix.netcom.com, Kevin J > Krizek <kjkrizek(a)tc.umn.edu>, GOULIAS(a)GEOG.UCSB.EDU, k- > turnbull(a)tamu.edu, libby.rushley(a)dot.state.oh.us, pendyala(a)asu.edu, > peeta(a)purdue.edu, trossi(a)camsys.com, Weeks(a)pbworld.com, > zimmermanc(a)battelle.org > Cc: MSchwart(a)CH2M.COM > Subject: Call for Poster - Communicating Transportation Concepts > > Please find attached to this email a call for poster being issued > by the Planning and Environment Group. Please distribute this call > to your members and friends. > > Thank you, > > Kimberly M. Fisher > Transportation Research Board > 500 Fifth Street, NW > Washington, DC 20001 > ph. 202.334.2968 > fx 202.334.2003 > email kfisher(a)nas.edu > > Communicating with John and Jane Public ! > Communicating Transportation Concepts to Non-Professional Audiences > Entries Due October 25 > > Transportation matters to the public. Congestion, neighborhood > land use decisions, and new transportation facilities really matter > to the public. But how many public meetings have you attended > where the transportation planner or engineer tries to explain > future level of service or higher density development only to lose > the audience. Or how many policy boards have listened to several > technical presentations on the merits of various transportation > alternatives and then asked Can you just tell us which is best? > > > Transportation professionals are all struggling with ways to > communicate critical transportation concepts to a non-technical > audience. Some have found tools, graphics, or just the right words > to explain a concept. However, despite our best efforts, opinion > research shows we face a skeptical public. We need fresh and > creative ideas and we need to share those ideas with the profession > at large. How can the public and press not just transportation > performance geeks get the picture? > > > Heres your chance to help make a difference. > > The Transportation Research Boards Planning and Environment Group > is holding a competition to find top methods for communicating > transportation concepts to non-professional audiences. The > concepts could range across the transportation profession level > of service, transit oriented design, congestion, high density > residential development, travel demand, transportation demand > forecasting, alternative evaluation, average daily traffic > volumes. The communication forms we are interested in also range > widely --- graphics, illustrations, photos, software, > demonstrations, interactive exercises or games. The entries will > be evaluated by a panel of judges representing technical as well as > communication disciplines. The winner will be announced at the TRB > 2007 Annual Meeting in Washington in January. The top ten entries > will be showcased in a poster session at the TRB Meeting, and > featured in a Transportation Research News article. > > > Who can submit an entry? > Students, professors, transportation professionals, journalists, > media and advertising specialists, and anyone else who might have > an interest. All are welcome! > > > What should my entry be? > Your entry should include an explanation of the communication tool > and the setting is designed for. Please limit your explanation to > about 200 words. The text and accompanying graphics, > illustrations, photos, software applications, or other > documentation should be in one of three files formats - pdf, Word > or PowerPoint files. > > How will entries be judged? > A small group of transportation professional, journalists, and > communication specialists will judge the entries on difficulty of > the concept, how well the concept is communicated, and finally how > widely the concept is used in transportation planning. > > > When is my entry due? > On October 25, 2007. Winners will be notified November 15, 2007. > > Where do I send the entry? > Kfisher(a)nas.edu > > Who do I contact for more information? > Kim Fisher > Transportation Research Board > 202.334.2968 > kfisher(a)nas.edu >

16 years, 7 months

NATMEC 2008 Call for Presentations

by ed christopher

As you see when you you at the call for abstracts the committee is heavily invested in NATMEC. Please consider submitting abstracts where relevant, plan on attending next summer and pass this on to anyone you think might be interested. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: NATMEC 2008 Call for Presentations Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:24:17 -0400 From: "Floyd, David" <DFloyd(a)nas.edu> CC: "Palmerlee, Thomas" <TPalmerlee(a)nas.edu> Dear Colleagues, North American Traffic Monitoring Exposition and Conference 2008 is encouraging interested individuals to submit abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 2008 conference at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC, August 6-8, 2008. The conference will be a forum for exchange and dissemination of information related to the collection, management, and use of monitored traffic data in all applications. Look for more information at www.natmec.org. The conference planning committee has developed a set of sessions based on systematic input from traffic professionals and from past conference participants. A listing of the proposed sessions and descriptions along with the conference details can be found at http://www.trb.org/conferences/2008/NATMEC/Sessions.pdf The planning committee is specifically seeking participation in these sessions and the submission process will ask you to choose a session. Abstracts on other topics will also be considered for inclusion in the conference program. Submittal Process You will need to prepare and abstract in file, using Word or similar software. Submit abstracts to http://www.trb.org/submissions/default.asp?event=294 . After logging in you will need to enter the software as an Author and then click on Create a new paper. You will be asked for a title, short abstract and to identify which session best fits you submittal. You can only pick one session or No Session Selected. The Planning Committee may well consider other sessions where your abstract might better fit.. After completing this screen you will be given another screen and asked to upload your word processing file with the abstract. You MUST upload a file with the abstract. This is a redundancy with the software that can not be changed and we apologize for this redundancy. Abstracts should not be more than 500 words in length and should clearly convey the material that will be presented and relevance to the session topic. Individual presentations will be approximately 20 minutes in length; panel presentations may vary in length. Formal papers are welcome but are not required. Sales presentations on specific products or services will not be accepted. Abstract Deadline: October 1 Schedule Mid November Notification of Submitters August 6, 2008 Conference Starts Questions or Problems Contact Planning Committee Chair Dave Gardner of Ohio DOT, dave.gardner(a)dot.state.oh.us, (614) 752-5740, with questions about topics or relevance of subjects. On the submission process, check with David Floyd, Dfloyd(a)nas.edu , 202-334-2966, or Tom Palmerlee, tpalmerlee(a)nas.edu or 202-334-2907.

16 years, 7 months

[Fwd: Circular posted - Peer Exchange on Information Assets to Support Transportation Decision Making April 17-18]

by ed christopher

FYI -- 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, 7 months

FYI--Confernece notice

by Ed Christopher

Got this from Tom Palmerlee. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Distribute to urban data Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:55:59 -0400 From: "Palmerlee, Thomas" <TPalmerlee(a)nas.edu> Your distribution list might be interested in this symposium. Tom -----Original Message----- From: mkevany(a)plangraphics.com [mailto:mkevany@plangraphics.com] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:50 AM To: Palmerlee, Thomas Subject: Misc Hi Tom. UDMS asked me to pass on the attached announcement for their conference. I wonder if you can get it into whatever publicity channel you have access to. Should be very interesting and it has become very academic the past few years. Hope all is well with you. MIke K

16 years, 7 months

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