With Spring in the air the Transportation Research Board committees and subcommittees are making their plans for the annual meeting. For many of them one the activities is to issue Calls for Research papers focused on topics that the committee is interested in. With Public Health being one of the three critical issue areas for the 2017 Annual Meeting the Health and Transportation Subcommittee worked with several other committees on a suite of health related calls for research papers. They include;

Impact of Freight on Public Health
Transportation and Environmental Health Governance
Critical Issues Associated with Arterials (Major Roads) and Public Health
Data, Methods, and Models to Integrate Transportation and Public Health

All four of the Calls can be found on the Subcommittee's website at http://www.trbhealth.org/ or on the TRB website by signing in through your MyTRB account (https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/CallForPapers/index)

All papers for publication and/or presentation must be submitted by August 1, 2016. Only complete papers, conforming to TRB standards and format will be considered. Papers may also be submitted for presentation only. Each paper will be peer-reviewed according to TRB procedures. TRB paper specifications and information on how to submit can be found online at (http://www.trb.org/GetInvolvedwithTRB/Public/GetInvolvedSubmitaPaper.aspx)

Feel free to pass the calls for research along to you networks.

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Ed Christopher
Transportation Planning Consultant
708-269-5237