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Subject: New TRB Job Opening - JR#070199-4, Senior Program Officer NCHRP
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 18:21:53 -0400
From: "Palmerlee, Thomas" <TPalmerlee(a)nas.edu>
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We are recruiting for an additional full-time Senior Program Officer to
support the National Cooperative Highway Research Program. The position
description is posted on the Academies website at the link noted below.
http://nationalacademies.wfrecruiter.com/jobs_details1.asp?Job_id=105112&Pa…
Questions regarding the position may be directed to Crawford Jencks or
Chris Jenks.
Thomas M. Palmerlee
Transportation Research Board
202-334-2907, tpalmerlee(a)nas.edu
Attached is the list of papers (titles only) that have been assigned to
our committee. if there are any that are of particular interest to you
let me know and I will try to get it assigned to you. Also, many of you
are in larger organizations where you might know of a particular person
who would make a good expert reviewer and be willing. Let me know who
they are and I can add them to the software. I will be making paper
assignments over the next 3 days. Finally, please understand that you
may get a paper or two that you did not volunteer to review. In the
distribution process I am continually trying to match what I believe are
your expertise with the papers in hand. Sometimes I do not hit the
mark.
Let me give a special thanks to Nathan Erlbaum our state DOT member for
prodding me to get this listing pulled together.
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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)
I am sure you need no reminder but it officially TRB paper review
season. TRB has just opened the software and chairs can begin passing
out review assignments. Well, Tom did asked me to wait until after
today but I did notice that the software has been opened and is
functional. We currently have 34 papers most of them around 22 have
something to do with travel time or speed. Of those it looks like 8-9
of the papers are directly tied to using cell phone technology for
collecting data. Some of the cell phone papers are dealing with speed
while others are dealing with more generic O-D issues. Needless to say
the reviews will not be evenly distributed and as in past years I will
have to reach far beyond the committee membership to assure that we have
the best pool of reviewers given the papers' subject areas.
While you are waiting for your paper assignments, do not forget about
the strategic plan for the committee that Catherine Lawson is working
on. here is the link to the draft that is in our mail list archives.
please pay special attention to the "REVIEW OF PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED
AREAS OF INTEREST" and provide comments back to Catherine.
http://www.chrispy.net/pipermail/abj30-news/attachments/20070802/117f09f4/S…
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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)
ABJ30 Members,
Attached please find a draft copy of the Minutes from the Chicago
Mid-Year meeting, the attendance list, a draft proposal for a strategic
planning process (sample language and action plans yet to be completed)
and an analysis of our membership by cohort. Any comments, edits,
corrections, etc. can be forwarded to lawsonc(a)albany.edu - along with
ideas for our final strategic plan and more research statements!
Thanks!
Kate
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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
Attached is the newletter covering the Data Committees Section. One item
should be of particular interest to the Urban Data Committee--the Wooton
Award. As long as I have been chair we have never had a paper accepted
for an award. Well, we now do. Investigating the Transferability of
National Household Travel Survey Data, by Abolfazi Mohammadian and
Yongping Zhang, of University of Illinois at Chicago (07-2030),
submitted by ABJ30 was accepted by the Policy and Organization group as
a recipient of this years Wooton award. I think the TRB executive board
still has to put its rubber stamp on it.
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Subject: e Newsletter Data & Information Technology Section
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:49:02 -0400
From: "Palmerlee, Thomas" <TPalmerlee(a)nas.edu>
Mike Fontaine one of our newest members has new contact information. See
below.
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Subject: New Contact Information
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:49:03 -0400
From: "Fontaine, Michael D." <Michael.Fontaine(a)VDOT.Virginia.gov>
As many of you know, I recently left Old Dominion University to re-join
the Virginia Transportation Research Council. My new contact
information is shown below in case you need to update your records.
Take care,
Mike
Michael D. Fontaine, P.E., Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Virginia Transportation Research Council
530 Edgemont Rd
Charlottesville VA 22903
Phone: 434-293-1980
Fax: 434-293-1990
E-mail: Michael.Fontaine(a)VDOT.Virginia.gov
I snagged this from the AMPO newletter. In it are some serious things
for the data community to be thinking about.
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TRB recently released Special Report 288, Metropolitan Travel
Forecasting: Current Practice and Future Direction. This report examines
metropolitan travel forecasting models that inform decisions on major
transportation system investments and policies. The AMPO Travel
Modeling Work Group and staff worked closely with the TRB committee that
produced this report, including a joint meeting in Berkeley in 2005.
The final report explores what improvements may be needed to the models
and how federal, state, and local agencies can achieve them. Were now
working with AASHTO to form a group of MPO and state DOT modeling
experts to review the study and develop a collaborative response to its
findings and recommendations. The report can be accessed at
http://www.trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=7821. This site also
includes a link to extensive data and findings of surveys of MPOs that
were used to develop the report.
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Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
FHWA RC-TST-PLN
19900 Governors Dr
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
This coming July, we will hold our midyear meeting in conjunction with
the TRB Summer Conference in Chicago. By now this should not come as a
surprise to anyone. Attached is our meeting agenda. We will be meeting
Monday morning for 1 hour 45 minutes. If you look at the agenda you
will see that we will spend most of our time focusing on what I would
call committee infrastructure and administrative matters in addition to
the planning for the Annual Meeting. While I am thinking about
administrative infrastructure also attached is Mark Norman's Summer
"State of TRB" report.
I know we will not have a large attendance at the meeting but we will be
laying the groundwork that will move the committee well into the future.
If you are planning to attend please drop me a quick email and let me
know. Thanks
--
Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
FHWA RC-TST-PLN
19900 Governors Dr
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
FYI--
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Subject: Call for Abstracts
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:57:04 -0500
From: "Stacey Bricka" <sbricka(a)nustats.com>
To: <sbricka(a)nustats.com>
Hi Everyone hope this finds you all doing well! Attached is a call
for abstracts for the 11th National Tools of the Trade Conference, to be
held in Portland in September 2008. Its sponsored by TRB Committee
ADA30, Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-sized Communities
and held every other year (the 2006 conference was in Nashville).
Please consider submitting an abstract based on recent work youve done
thats applicable or transferable to the small and medium-sized
communities. Feel free to forward this to any colleagues with relevant
research as well. Abstracts are due to me by October 1, 2007. So once
you complete your papers for the TRB annual meeting, please give this
some thought!
As always, feel free to contact me if any questions or if youd like
more information.
Thanks!
Stacey
Stacey Bricka
Research Director
NuStats
3006 Bee Caves Rd, Ste A300
Austin, TX 78746
512-306-9065 ext 2240
fax 512-306-9077
FYI
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Subject: TRB Summer Conference
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:09:18 -0400
From: "TRB Meetings Staff (email)" <TRBMeetings(a)nas.edu>
Reply-To: TRBMeetings(a)nas.edu
To: "Edward Christopher" <edc(a)berwyned.com>
Friday, June 8 is the last day to receive the Advance registration fee.
Visit the 2007 Summer Conference Website to register for the conference
being held Saturday, July 7 - Monday, July 9, 2007 at the Renaissance
Chicago Hotel.
Make your reservation for the TRB special rate of $141 (per diem) plus
the current tax of 15.4% tax. This rate is available until Friday, June
8, 2007.Rooms may be at a higher rate after this date and are subject to
availability. The hotel may not be able to provide rooms at the group
rate once the block of rooms is sold out.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
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Renaissance Chicago Hotel
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />1 West Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois60601
Reservations: 800-468-3571 (ask for the TRB rate)
Direct: 312-372-7200
Fax: 312-372-0093
Online Hotel Reservations
Note the following activities for planning your schedule:
The Environmental Faces of Environmental Sustainability Workshop
Friday, July 6, 8:00am-5:30pm
Saturday, July 7, 8:00am-3:15pm (continued)
Transforming Transportation Organizations: Tools and Techniques for
Organizational Development
Friday, July 6, 8:00am-5:30pm
Intermodal Freight Systems Tour
Saturday, July 7, 8:00amNoon
Chicago Rail Infrastructure Tour
Saturday, July 7, 2007 8:00amNoon
32nd AnnualTRBSummerPorts, Waterways, Freight & International Trade
Conference
Saturday, July 7-Monday, July 9
River/Port/HarborTour
Monday, July 9, 12:30pm6:00pm (time approximate)
Meeting Freight Transportation Data Challenges
Monday, July 9, 1:00pm-6:00pm
Tuesday, July 10, 8:00am-Noon (continued)
Pricing
Tuesday, July 10, 8:00am-5:30pm
Thank you.
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