Attached for your reading pleasure are several items dealing with things happening at TRB relevant to the Data Section and our committee. Probably the first place to start is with the item called 'TRB Items.doc'. It contains a note from Tom Palmerlee on items that TRB wants me to cover during our annual meeting. The next item and probably the most important to think about before our meeting would be the 'TRB Committee Request.doc'. It describes a major effort that is underway to support what is known as the Transportation Information Needs Assessment Study. I call it the TINA study. If you looked at our agenda you will see that I plan on spending some time on this as our committee has a direct stake in its outcome. This is important stuff. The remaining items the 'Report for the Data Section.doc' contains Tom's overview of what the Section is doing. The 'critical issues.pdf' is the latest critical issues developed by the TRB Executive Board and the last thing is the 'Data Section agenda.doc'. I am passing on the Section agenda as I thought it was instructive to know about the Section and some of the more procedural things underway. I am traveling to Washington on Wednesday for an LEHD workshop later this week so you don't have to worry about any more paper coming you way. I am rapidly running out of time... -- Ed Christopher 708-283-3534 (V) 708-574-8131 (cell) FHWA RC-TST-PLN 19900 Governors Dr Olympia Fields, IL 60461 _______________________________________________ abj30-news mailing list abj30-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/abj30-news