The University of Baltimore is hosting a two-day conference, June 6-7, 2000, on "Developing Public Policy Applications with the American Community Survey and Community Administrative Records" The conference is co-sponsored by the Census Bureau and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The focus is on research interests related to HHS, including "welfare-to-work transitions, economic development, education policy, rural development, housing policy, neighborhood safety, energy and the environment, homelessness, and GIS." Conference web site is at: http://www.ubalt.edu/jfc/Conf/Flyer.htm This is not a transportation-related conference, but may be useful to USDOT, MPO, COG and State DOT staff interested in ACS research. Very interesting..... Chuck. ******************************************************* e-mail: cpurvis(a)mtc.ca.gov Chuck Purvis, AICP Senior Transportation Planner/Analyst, Planning Section Metropolitan Transportation Commission 101 Eighth Street, Oakland, CA 94607-4700 (510) 464-7731 (voice) (510) 464-7848 (fax) WWW: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/ MTC DataMart: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/datamart/ MTC FTP Site: ftp://ftp.abag.ca.gov/pub/mtc/planning/ Personal WWW: http://home.earthlink.net/~clpurvis/ *******************************************************