FYI…For those of you interested in Freight Data issues
--this came from the TRB ABJ90 Freight Data Committee, ABJ40 Travel Survey
Methods Committee, and the AT016T Task Force on Innovations in Freight
Transportation Modeling. Submissions are due August 1st for the 2008 TRB
conference.
Call for
Papers
87th TRB Annual Meeting
January 2008
The TRB committees on Travel Survey Methods (ABJ40), and Freight Data
(ABJ90), and Task Force on Innovations in Freight Transportation Modeling
(AT016T) invite papers on the collection of freight data for use in freight
planning, modeling freight, and integrating freight into the urban
transportation planning process. Freight data is important for both
understanding the movement of commodities and developing methods for modeling
these movements within the context of transportation systems and planning for
future transportation needs. This call for papers is on freight survey methods
and the challenges and opportunities for advancing the practice of collecting,
measuring, and understanding freight data and its impact on transportation.
The committees welcome papers on topics related to freight surveys including:
·
Survey
Methods: challenges and solutions for collecting accurate data on
the types and amounts of freight being transported nationally, regionally, and
locally.
·
Non-response
Issues: how survey methods are dealing with non-response and the
methods used to adjust freight data to account for any non-response bias.
·
New
Technologies: new methods for collecting data on freight including
sampling and data expansion.
·
Innovative
Approaches: how freight surveys are being designed and implemented
including methods for sampling and the techniques for collecting the data.
·
Data
Needs for Modeling: how are data needs for modeling being identified
and addressed in the survey process and how are the data being integrated and
used in the freight models.
Please indicate ABJ40 or ABJ90 on the Submission Review form to
indicate a response to this call for papers. Papers for the 2008 Annual
Meeting must be submitted electronically no
later than August 1, 2007. Authors who submit papers are requested
to send the paper number and title by August 1, 2007 to Benjamin Ritchey
(Committee on Freight Data) ritchey@battelle.org or Dr. Kara
Kockelman (Committee on Travel Survey Methods) kkockelm@mail.utexas.edu. Further
information about this call for papers may be obtained from:
David Pearson, Texas Transportation Institute,