The schedule for ABJ30--Urban Data and Information Systems is starting
to fall together. Here are the dates and times of our committee
meetings.
Published Meetings
ABJ30
Monday, January 23, 2006, 8:00am-12:00pm, Hilton, Georgetown East
Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee
Ed Christopher, Federal Highway Administration, presiding
ABJ30(1) Wednesday, January 25, 2006, 4:30pm- 6:00pm, Hilton, Georgetown
East
Robert T. Sicko, Mirai Associates, presiding
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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
Quick update
Annual Meeting time slotting: We are getting the same times we had last
year. The Committee is meeting Monday afternoon. The Census
Subcommittee is slotted for Monday night. In many respects these are
prime times since they are early in the week. We have no other "formal"
subcommittees with scheduled meetings. Is someone starting one who
wants some time?
Our paper review is only going HO-Hum. We are sitting with 32 papers and
only 47% of the reviews are in with 1 day to go. After the reviews come
in, the process of selecting papers begins. This is not an easy
especially when reviewers do not provide any comments. But I digress.
We have 2 Sunday workshops getting organized. In the morning we have one
on the Transferability of Household Travel Survey Data and in the
afternoon one on the American Community Survey.
If anyone else has anything that they are working on relevant to the
annual meeting let us know.
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Ed C
Please pass to this along to folks who you think might be interested.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Abstract Deadline August 26 - NATMEC 2006 Call for
Participation
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:28:36 -0400
From: "Palmerlee, Thomas" <TPalmerlee(a)nas.edu>
To: <edc(a)berwyned.com>
This is a reminder the NATMEC abstract deadline is Friday, August 26
NATMEC 2006 Improving Traffic Monitoring Data for Transportation
Decision-making is encouraging interested individuals to submit
abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 2006 conference in
Minneapolis, June 4-7, 2006. 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.
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/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=188. 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. 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: August 26
Schedule
August 26 Abstract Submission Deadline
Early October Notification of Submitters
June 4, 2006 Conference Starts
Problems
Contact Brian Canepa, bcanepa(a)nas.edu or 202-3342966, or Tom Palmerlee,
tpalmerlee(a)nas.edu or 202-334-2907.
For now I am done with the paper review assignments. The Urban Data
Committee has 32 papers on its plate while I am brokering a review of
another 9 papers on health and obesity with 3 other committees. Of our
32 papers about 22 were dealing with travel times/speed or a related
aspect. Modeling real time travel time from various types of probe
devices like GPS units and cell phones seems to be the hot topic area.
In fact we had 6 or 7 papers dealing with cell phones as probes.
According to TRB deadlines reviewers have until September 15th to get
their reviews back but PLEASE do not wait that long. Finally, if you did
not get any papers to review and you think you should have please let me
know.
--
Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
FHWA RC-TST-PLN
19900 Governors Dr
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
Please distribute far and wide.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Call for Participation NATMEC 2006- Deadline August 26
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:17:59 -0400
From: "Palmerlee, Thomas" <TPalmerlee(a)nas.edu>
To: <edc(a)berwyned.com>
NATMEC 2006 Improving Traffic Monitoring Data for Transportation
Decision-making is encouraging interested individuals to submit
abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 2006 conference in
Minneapolis, June 4-7, 2006. 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.
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/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=188. 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. 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: August 26
Schedule
August 26 Abstract Submission Deadline
Early October Notification of Submitters
June 4, 2006 Conference Starts
More Information
Contact Brian Canepa, bcanepa(a)nas.edu or 202-3342966, or Tom Palmerlee,
tpalmerlee(a)nas.edu or 202-334-2907.
Ed - isn't that the way it is with most data sets? The closer you are,
the more your heartburn. According to Horwood's Laws of Data (thanks to
Mark Hallenbeck for making these available), Law #4 says that "The
respectability of existing data grows with elapsed time and distance
from the data source to the investigator."
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However, if you hire someone and don't look
too closely you will get fine data set. I probably got to close to
mine....
We are in discussions about doing an external survey here in KC and have
had the same concerns brought up. May look at license capture.
Anyone done one of those recently?
R. Todd Ashby, AICP
Assistant Director of Transportation
MARC
600 Broadway, Suite 300
Kansas City, MO 64105-1554
816-474-4240
816-421-7758 (fax)
tashby(a)marc.org
-----Original Message-----
From: a1d08-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net
[mailto:a1d08-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Ed Christopher
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:38 PM
To: Elaine Murakami; Jonette Kreideweis; ABJ30 Members List
Subject: [ABJ30] external travel surveys
sometimes our surveys do not quite go the way we planned.
--
Ed Christopher
708-283-3534 (V)
708-574-8131 (cell)
FHWA RC-TST-PLN
19900 Governors Dr
Olympia Fields, IL 60461