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 ABJ90 Freight Data, ABJ40 Travel Survey Methods, and AT016T Task Force on Innovations in Freight Transportation Modeling 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(a)battelle.org or Dr. Kara Kockelman (Committee on Travel Survey Methods) kkockelm(a)mail.utexas.edu. Further information about this call for papers may be obtained from: David Pearson, Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, Texas, : (979) 845-9933, Email: david-pearson(a)tamu.edu