January 7th marks the beginning of the 80th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board. The Subcommittee on Census Data for Transportation Planning will hold its meeting on Monday, January 8th 2001, between 8:00 AM and noon in the Bancroft Room of the Washington Hilton. The agenda is attached. Issues on the agenda include; the coding process going on in Jefferersonville Indiana, the upcoming changes to Urban Area Definitions and a presentation of the Census Bureau's online data dissemination system known as the American FactFinder. In addition, we will bring people up to date on the Census Transportation Planning Package and will have some spirited discussion of the American Community Survey (and its future) as well as the subcommittee's research initiatives. Just as in past year's we will share the information that comes out of our meeting on this list serve as well as in the "status report" newsletter which can be found online at http://www.mcs.com/~berwyned/census/ If you will be in Washington for the TRB meeting feel free to drop in on our meeting. --------- Ed Christopher (Subcommittee Chair) Bureau of Transportation Statistics 202-366-0412