[H+T--Friends] Re Arterial Roads

Ed, I don't have time but you may find useful information on our project website www.ucl.ac.uk/street-mobility especially publications including working papers. Please let us know if you use anything, as it helps in our reporting to funders. Regards Jenny Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone ---- h+t--friends-request(a)chrispy.net wrote ---- Send H+T--Friends mailing list submissions to h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to h+t--friends-request(a)chrispy.net You can reach the person managing the list at h+t--friends-owner(a)chrispy.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of H+T--Friends digest..." Today's Topics: 1. TRB Arterial health Task Force~~Special Request (Ed Christopher) 2. Re: TRB Arterial health Task Force~~Special Request (Amy Ingles) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 11:17:11 -0500 From: Ed Christopher <edc(a)berwyned.com> Subject: [H+T--Friends] TRB Arterial health Task Force~~Special Request To: TRB Health and Transportation <h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net> Message-ID: <942ac720-3e32-f972-85a8-729cf4d051a9(a)berwyned.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed I am writing you to see if you have time and interest to help the TRB Arterial Health Task Force with a small project. Earlier this year, FHWA published a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) that seeks comments on the National Performance Management Measures. This rule making will create national performance management measures and standards to be used by the States to meet the national transportation goals identified in section 1203 of MAP-21. This rule making also establishes the process to be used by States to set performance targets that reflect their performance measures. The FHWA anticipates issuing up to three rule makings in this area. This rule making also covers Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) and Freight issues. As of this writing, August 9, there were 7,780 comments submitted. So why is the Arterial Health Task Force interested in this. After looking though the NPRM and reading some of the comments submitted it became clear that some of the comments might help contribute to the mission of the Task Force. The Arterial Health Task Force was established to inform the planning, design and operation of arterials while considering public and population health. The Task Force will achieve its mission by developing a catalogue of research problem statements where we have unanswered questions, points of disagreement or only anecdotal evidence. An example might be to try to answer the questions of the impacts of living close to major roadways form a health perspective. Evidence suggests that there may be some negative health implications, but there is disagreement on issues of roadway size, proximity and health severity. With that as background, the comment period on these proposed performance measures ends August 20, 2016. As part of the comment process, the general public is allowed to read the comments submitted to the docket. The proposed rules and the docket can be viewed at https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=FHWA-2013-0054 What we are looking for are for people to scan through the comments and see if there are any ?research? type questions that we can tease out of the comments and discuss with the Task Force Members. For example, the League of American Bicyclists and others have pointed out that ?the rule proposes that congestion mitigation be measured by delay for drivers and vehicles". They note that "it fails to measure people not adding to that congestion because they are biking, walking or taking transit?. From the Task Force perspective, this raises questions about what the metric(s) should be and how do we develop metrics that account for all the modes--some of which have more positive health benefits than others. I know this might sound like a daunting task, but if this is an area where you have an interest, you are working on your own comments or you want to just help out, I am hoping that you can spend some time and look through the Docket. In the coming days I suspect that more and more comments will be added. If you go through the docket and generate any ?research? type questions relevant to the Task Force, or have any questions of your own, feel free to pass them along to me. To view the docket go to https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=FHWA-2013-0054. Also, if you are interested in learning more about the Task Force visit our website at http://www.trbarterialhealth.org/. We have had three meeting since we began in January and our notes are posted. For this exercise we are not looking for comments or a discussion of the proposed rules--that should be left for the Docket. Instead we are looking for research questions that the comments may evoke. Thank you Ed Christopher, Task Force Chair edc(a)berwyned.com ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 12:34:21 -0400 From: Amy Ingles <amyingles888(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [H+T--Friends] TRB Arterial health Task Force~~Special Request To: TRB Health and Transportation <h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net> Message-ID: <CAO15osVJoX6hoVAT0Unck8t=MFvxu_CL-VOmE2D0eRWhpeqF2g(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi, Ed. When would you like this to be completed? I'd like to help but the next two weeks are going to be pretty hectic for me. On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Ed Christopher <edc(a)berwyned.com> wrote: