Meeting Information January 12
Data and Information Systems Section (ABJ00)
Revised 12/31/2008
Agenda 1
Guests 1
Key Dates for Committees 2009 2
Midyear Meetings 2009 3
Joint Summer Meeting, Seattle, July 19-22, 2009 3
Other 3
Data Related 2009 Meetings 4
Agenda
Monday, January 12, 8:00am-12:00pm, Hilton, State Room
8:00 AM 9:30 AM Introduction & Committee Strategic Issues
Chairs, based on their initial work of Triennial Strategic Plans (TSP), report Priorities, Challenges & Opportunities for Collaboration
9:30 AM 9:45 AM Break
9:45 AM 10:00 AM TRB Group Chairs
Cindy Burbank, PB, Policy and Organization Group
Paul Bingham, Global Insight, Inc., Freight Systems Group
10:00 AM 11:00 AM Congressional Staff Panel
Moderator: Michael Morris, North Central Test Council of Governments
Stephen Gardner – Senate Commerce Committee
Susan Binder – Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Jackie Schmitz – House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (invited)
11:00 AM 11:50 AM Organization Perspectives - Organization leaders report their Priorities, Challenges & Opportunities for Collaboration with TRB
AASHTO Standing Committee on Planning (SCOP), Janet P. Oakley, Director, Policy and Government Relations, AASHTO
David Winter, FHWA Highway Policy Information
Steve Smith, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Rolf Schmitt, FHWA Freight Office
11:50 AM 12:00 PM Wrap Up Johanna Zmud
Guests
Susan Binder, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Paul Bingham, Global Insight, Inc., Freight Systems Group
Cindy Burbank, PB, Policy and Organization Group
Stephen Gardner, Senate Commerce Committee
Michael Morris, North Central Test Council of Governments
Janet Oakley, AASHTO
Rolf Schmitt, FHWA Freight Office
Jackie Schmitz, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (invited)
Steve Smith, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
David Winter, FHWA Highway Policy Information
Membership
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Chair
Johanna P. Zmud
President
NuStats, LLC
TRB Staff Representative
Thomas M. Palmerlee
Associate Director, Technical Activities Division
Transportation Research Board
Members
Thomas Geoffrey Bolle
Director of Government, International, and Public Affairs
Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA)
C. Douglass Couto
Director, Transportation, State, and Local Government
Citrix Systems, Inc.
Scott R. Drumm
Manager, Research and Strategic Analysis
Port of Portland, Oregon
David W. Gardner
Manager, Traffic Monitoring Section
Ohio Department of Transportation
Ralph A. Gillmann
Travel Monitoring Team Leader
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
James P. Hall
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois, Springfield
Frances D. Harrison
Chief Technical Officer
Spy Pond Partners, LLC
Patricia S. Hu
Center Director
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Shinya Kikuchi
Professor
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
Kara M. Kockelman
Associate Professor and William J. Murray Jr. Fellow
University of Texas, Austin
Jonette Rae Kreideweis
Director, Office of Transportation Data and Analysis
Minnesota Department of Transportation
Catherine T. Lawson
Associate Professor
University at Albany
Michael Anthony Manore
Consultant
Harvey J. Miller
Professor and Chair
University of Utah
Ellen M. Oman
Director, Office of Research and Library Services
Washington State Department of Transportation
Joseph L. Schofer
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Northwestern University
Reginald R. Souleyrette
Iowa State University
Jack R. Stickel
Transportation Planner, Highway Database Manager
Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities
Shawn M. Turner
Research Engineer
Texas Transportation Institute (TTI)
Simon P. Washington
Professor
Arizona State University
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Key Dates for Committees 2009
Matt Miller, or 202-334-2608, is the resource person on these issues.
· Annual Meeting Paper Publication Decisions due by February 2. Enter your recommendations in AMP and let Matt know. The publication limit of 25% for those papers your committee reviewed.
· Wootan Award Nominations. Each Policy and Organization Group committee nominate best paper by February 15. Send nomination to Matt. See http://www.trb.org/Committees/AB000/Wootan.pdf for information.
· Triennial Strategic Plan. Chairs circulate draft plan before the annual meeting and schedule discussion at committee meetings. Matt sends updated 2009 draft Annual Report to chairs on March 1. Chairs submit to Section chair and TRB staff by April 15. (Research and Education Section committees using an alternative schedule.) See http://www.trb.org/Committees/AB000/ for both the template and the guidelines.
· Research Needs Statements. Committees should assess research priorities and update their research needs statements in the Technical Activities Division database, http://rns.trb.org/. Each committee has one person who can enter or modify their research needs statements. See Matt if person needs to be changed. Funding topics is a completely independent process. Funding Sources for Transportation Research: Competitive Programs that will be posted at www.TRB.org/ResearchFunding is a new guide to funding. See also the summary of Cooperative Research Program key dates that Matt distributed in the electronic chair packets.
· Chair Travel Support during April, 2009-April, 2010. TRB helps defray transportation and subsistence expenses of Chairs of committees for either the TRB Annual Meeting or the committee's midyear meeting when they cannot obtain funds elsewhere and to the extent funds are available in the TRB annual budget. Chairs should indicate their choice well before midyear meetings. Matt Miller will be contacting chairs in the April-May period about their intent.
Midyear Meetings 2009
Joint Summer Meeting, Seattle, July 19-22, 2009
Transportation Asset Management Committee (ABC40)
Library and Information Science for Transportation Committee (ABG40)
Section - Data and Information Systems (ABJ00)
National Transportation Data Requirements and Programs (ABJ10)
Statewide Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee (ABJ20)
Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee (ABJ30)
Highway Traffic Monitoring Committee (ABJ35)
Geographic Information Science and Applications Committee (ABJ60)
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (ABJ70)
Freight Transportation Data (ABJ90)
Visualization in Transportation Committee (ABJ95)
Other
Travel Survey Methods Committee (ABJ40), National Planning Applications Conference, Houston, May 17-21, 2009
Information Systems and Technology Committee (ABJ50), AASHTO Information Systems Conference, Seattle, May 3-6, 2009
Statistical Methodology and Statistical Computer Software in Transportation Research Committee (ABJ80)
Visualization in Transportation Committee (ABJ95)
Data Related 2009 Meetings
Midwest Traffic Data Workshop: Successful Strategies in the Collection and Analysis of Data. March 24-25, 2009, Columbus, OH
Data and Tools for Understanding the Goods Movement – Air Quality Connection, June 2-3, 2009, Irvine, CA
North American Transportation Statistics Interchange, June 22-23, 2009, Washington, DC (by invitation)
Integrated Corridor System Management Modeling Best Practices Workshop. September 14-15, 2009, Irvine, CA
North American Freight Flows Conference: Understanding Changes and Improving Data Sources, September 16-17, 2009, Irvine, CA
8th National Conference on Transportation Asset Management: Putting the Asset Management Pieces Together, October 19-21, 2009, Portland, OR (includes a data track and a safety track0
Developing a Research Agenda for Transportation Infrastructure Preservation and Renewal, November 12-13, 2009, Washington, DC
Group Chairs
Policy and Organization Group –Cindy Burbank
Investing in Our Transportation Future – BOLD Ideas to Meeting BIG Challenges
TAC strategic plan. The Technical Activities Council (TAC) has developed action items to address the 7 strategies. Note: Tom add MRN 7 TAC action items.
Strategy 1: Identify and address emerging critical and cross-cutting issues.
Strategy 2: Increase the involvement of key constituencies and groups.
Strategy 3: Identify research needs, monitor ongoing research, and ensure the effective sharing of research results
Strategy 4: Optimize the effectiveness and value of the TRB annual meeting and conferences
Strategy 5: Ensure the quality, stature, accessibility and usefulness of TRB publications and products
Strategy 6: Take Maximum Advantage of New Technologies, Communications, and Information Innovations
Strategy 7: Ensure the effectiveness of standing committees and recognize research leadership
TAC did a survey of all TRB committee members. Cindy challenged the chairs to introduce themselves to new attendees who have white ribbons.
Keep good activities and accomplishments by TRB members and activities.
Scott Drumm. Note the challenge of public sector constraints to blogs and webinars.
Cindy GHG strategies welcome input on data and data systems requirements.
Freight Systems Group – Paul Bingham
Organizational Prespectives
Committees
Ideas
Curriculum of issues for the Section.
Information Systems and Technology Committee (ABJ50)
Committee to set up a wiki. Midyear at the AASHTO Iinfromation System
Statewide Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee (ABJ20)
Safety Model Minimum of Roadway Improvements (MIRE), visualization, IT , technologies (vehicle class, etc.), webinars, data businsess plans, performance measures, VMT, Risk Analysis including no action, how good is good enough?
ADUS Joint Subcommittee of ABJ35 and ABJ30
Have created a Wiki to share information and research.
Developing Research needs statements
Challenge in reaching out to operations with some push back, especially in coordinating paper reviews.,
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications Committee (ABJ70)
Want to identify problem areas that AI offers application benefits. Most of participants are academic.
Visualization in Transportation Committee (ABJ95)
Visualizing data and visual analytics. Seventy per cent of papers applied to visualizing data.
Core crossing cutting areas are ROI, education and training, ethics and legal issues, and transportation data. Held two webinars this year.
Geographic Information Science and Applications Committee (ABJ60)
Research Roadmap. Looking out 10 to 20 years to see where geospatial technology in transportation should be and how the technology can impact transportation grand challenges. About 50 people attended the workshop. The first draft of the roadmap out this spring, with three time frames. The document will be posted on the committee web site, Abj60.org. An article will appear soon in ARC News, going to 800,000 readers. Two circulars on Advanced GIS and Improving Geospatial Infrastructure. The committee emphasis is now how can the geospatial tools be used to improve decisions.
Highway Traffic Monitoring Committee (ABJ35)
A challenge is improving interaction with operations committee. Mechanistic pavement design guide has new traffic data requirements. The WIM subcommittee is new and an importment link to pavement management. Performance measures is an interest. Safety is a growing area of interest. Interest in a wiki for research needs statements.
National Transportation Data Requirements and Programs (ABJ10)
Focus areas: data as an asset, identify and connect issue oriented system, transportation resilience, international trade and impact on border crossing. A subcommittee on passenger travel data has just been formed.
Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee (ABJ30)
Taking better care of the data you have.
Making the most of the data you have.
Archived data
The virtual project (for modeling) Kim Fisher.
Interested in the data report card (self evaluation tool) for our areas.
Data Self Evaluation (Report Card)
Center for Clean Air Policy
They are pushing a policy study.
Library and Information Science for Transportation Committee (ABG40)
Metadata subcommittee.
Funding sources for transportation research. See Funding Sources for Transportation Research: Competitive Programs www.TRB.org/ResearchFunding, is a new guide to funding.
Freight Data Committee (ABJ90)
Performance measures
Interaction of freight flows and land use.
Freight Data Research in 2008 and Priorities for the Future workshop focused on research that has been done.
Other
The 8th National Conference on Transportation Asset Management has both a data track and a safety track.
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