ABJ30 Members and Friends,
Shawn Turner (Shawn-Turner@tamu.edu)
wants to know if anyone is interested in organizing an ADUS workshop for the
2009 TRB Annual Meeting –
If you have an idea for a workshop – please let me
know as soon as possible –
Tom Palmerlee send out a reminder, workshop proposals are
due from committee chairs on June 1. Here is the information that you’ll
need to provide:
o
Workshop Title
o Workshop length (Half Day/Full Day)
o Description (A paragraph
description is sufficient)
o Sponsoring and/or Co-Sponsoring
committees
o Committee Contact
W. David Lee, Chair of the SCOP Subcommittee on Research, is
looking for new NCHRP Draft Problem Statements – please email any ideas
for the Committee to develop into a proposal.
NCHRP 8-36 is intended for quick response research projects
that will improve analytical methods and tools for statewide and metropolitan
planning. The expected cost is under $100,000. Drafts need to be
submitted by July 11, 2008. An 8-36 problem statement does not need the
level of detail of a formal NCHRP proposal. The format is a one-page
problem statement with:
Below are some recent suggestions for “emerging data
needs” that our Committee could develop into formal research statements
for the TRB website and submittals for funding:
1)
Using assessor’s data to
gather accurate counts of numbers of housing units on parcels of land. An
accurate count of Housing Units is important to augment census/ACS data. A
synthesis project is needed to determine “best practices” for
improving the quality of these data (e.g., through mandates or incentives) and
data sharing procedures between agencies (e.g., assessors and MPOs).
2)
Data needs for integrating
aviation-related transport activities into mainstreaming transportation
planning. Recent publications, such as TCRP 83, provide strategies for
linking public transit to large airports, yet there is little available data to
evaluate the effectiveness of such strategies for local planning.
3)
New software modeling packages
(e.g., microsimulation and visualization tools) require parking lot and parking
space data, including prices charged, duration of stay, etc. A synthesis
project is needed to examine “best practices” for collecting,
archiving and updating parking data.
4)
New ways to facilitate the delivery
of data (and metadata), including portals with real time data streams and data
fusion opportunities.
Please let me know if you would like to help expand these
problem statements or if you have additional ideas for development. The
list of ideas from our last annual meeting and the outcome of the three most
important issues shared at the Data Retreat are also “on the table”
for further development (see attached). Hope to have the summary from the
Data Retreat to share soon.
Don’t forget – Early Bird Special for our
mid-year meeting at NATMAC expires May 6th!!
http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=060e4400-a26c-430e-bdad-9174bc50f9d2
Regards,
Kate
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Catherine T. Lawson, Ph. D.
Director, MRP Program
Associate Professor
University at
Geography & Planning
AS 218 1400
(518) 442-4775
(518) 442-4742 FAX
lawsonc@albany.edu