Happy New Year! In today's TRB e-newsletter there was some exciting news. TRB announced its new realignment and Health has a seat at the table as the committee on Transportation and Public Health (AME70). It is located under the new Transportation and Society (AME00) section which is under the new Sustainability and Resilience Group (AM000). As to any of the specifics I am assuming that we will hear more at the Annual Meeting in two weeks. Our meeting will be Monday afternoon, January 13 at 3:45. The meeting is open to public and the agenda is attached. ---------------------------------- TRB announces a major strategic realignment of its volunteer structure In an effort to ensure that the talent of TRB’s thousands of volunteers can best focus on 21st century critical and emerging transportation issues, the Technical Activities Council and Technical Activities Division of TRB are announcing a new volunteer structure. TRB is positioning itself to be the premier source of ideas, knowledge, and innovations. A key part of this effort is a review and strategic alignment of the organization's standing technical committees. More information about the new structure and other resources, included an introductory letter and Frequently Asked Questions, can be found here. http://www.trb.org/AboutTRB/TADStrategicAlignment.aspx -- Ed Christopher Transportation Planning Consultant 708-269-5237 _______________________________________________ H+T--Friends mailing list H+T--Friends(a)chrispy.net https://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends

Hi Ed - This is great! I'm studying the org chart now. I wish I was attending this year--seems like important conversations will be happening. Will people actually meet according to this structure this year? On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 11:35 AM Ed Christopher &lt;edc(a)berwyned.com <mailto:edc@berwyned.com>> wrote: Happy New Year! In today's TRB e-newsletter there was some exciting news. TRB announced its new realignment and Health has a seat at the table as the committee on Transportation and Public Health (AME70). It is located under the new Transportation and Society (AME00) section which is under the new Sustainability and Resilience Group (AM000). As to any of the specifics I am assuming that we will hear more at the Annual Meeting in two weeks. Our meeting will be Monday afternoon, January 13 at 3:45. The meeting is open to public and the agenda is attached. ---------------------------------- TRB announces a major strategic realignment of its volunteer structure In an effort to ensure that the talent of TRB’s thousands of volunteers can best focus on 21st century critical and emerging transportation issues, the Technical Activities Council and Technical Activities Division of TRB are announcing a new volunteer structure. TRB is positioning itself to be the premier source of ideas, knowledge, and innovations. A key part of this effort is a review and strategic alignment of the organization's standing technical committees. More information about the new structure and other resources, included an introductory letter and Frequently Asked Questions, can be found here. http://www.trb.org/AboutTRB/TADStrategicAlignment.aspx -- Ed Christopher Transportation Planning Consultant 708-269-5237 _______________________________________________ H+T--Friends mailing list H+T--Friends(a)chrispy.net <mailto:H%2BT--Friends@chrispy.net> https://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends -- Kelly Rodgers Executive Director, Streetsmart <http://welcome.thinkstreetsmart.org/> kelly(a)thinkstreetsmart.org <mailto:kelly@thinkstreetsmart.org> 503.442.7165 Portland, OR /Please note I am working in Pacific Standard Time./ _______________________________________________ H+T--Friends mailing list H+T--Friends(a)chrispy.net https://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends

It is good news, but just a starting point. For committee meetings TRB does not provide speaker phones that I know of. I do know that in past years they have done some experimenting. That said, if someone wants to use a cell phone to conference out that could be an option. I will say that given how crowded the room typically is would be a challenge for any conferencing system. On 12/30/2019 3:27 PM, Leslie Meehan wrote: our meeting on speaker phone I can provide a conference line. Would love to stay plugged into the conversation. Of Ed Christopher attachments or click links from unknown senders or unexpected email - STS-Security. *** https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.trb.org/AboutTRB/TADStrategicAlignme… -- Ed Christopher Transportation Planning Consultant 708-269-5237 _______________________________________________ H+T--Friends mailing list H+T--Friends(a)chrispy.net https://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends