Statewide Data Trends Self Evaluation Membership Roster Friends of the Committee Statewide Liaison 2002 Mid-Year Meeting 2003 Annual Meeting 2004 Mid-Year Meeting 2004 Annual Meeting 2005 Mid-Year Meeting 2005 Annual Meeting August, 2000 – Performance Measures - Madison, WI March, 2001 – Data Integration – Washington DC July, 2001 – Adding Value with Data Collection Programs – Vail, CO March, 2002 – Using Spatial Data, Tools and Technologies to Improve the Delivery of Transportation Programs – Charleston, SC May, 2003 – Data Partnering – Duck Key, FL June, 2004 -- Data Business Plans March 2005 | Rev. 2-19-04 ## Minutes of Committee Meeting ABJ20 (A1D09) - Statewide Transportation Data and Information Systems 8:00 a.m. - Noon, Tuesday, January 13, 2004 Hilton Hotel, Caucus Room Attendance (see attached). There were twenty committee members and twenty-four non-members in attendance at the annual meeting. Agenda (see attached). General Items for the Record There were no "general items" or "policy changes" presented at the beginning of the Committee Meeting. Committee Program Welcome and Introductions – Anita Vandervalk, P.E Committee Chair, Anita Vandervalk, formally welcomed the newest members: Tim Baker, Colorado DOT Jim Hullett, Georgia DOT Presentations began with a report from Barna Juhasz, Federal Highway Administration entitled: "FHWA Master Plan for Research" The Master Plan will apply to any research supported by the OHPI office with the objective to get additional stakeholder involvement from: AASHTO, TRB, and professional organizations. Additional information can be found at: www.fhwa.dot.gov/RNT4U FHWA is looking at improving the traffic data reported in HPMS. A research project was initiated to review routes with over 50,000 AADT. There is concern about the return on investment (ROI). If anyone is doing activities or studies in this area, FHWA would be interested in knowing about it. There is also a need to get a standard approach for reviewing Urban Area boundaries and Functional Classification issues. The following FHWA sponsored workshops are planned in 2004: Motor Fuel (January, February), HPMS Data Partnering (February), HPMS Submittal Software (March), Highway Finance Analysis System (Spring). Barna noted that Session 272, "Systematic Evaluation of Customer Needs and Data Programs", sponsored by our committee, was an excellent session. Our committee will post more information on the web-site http://members.tripod.com/~TRBstate/ Anita continued with the following report on the papers reviewed and sessions sponsored by our committee, in 2003. There were nine (9) papers reviewed. Two (2) of the nine papers were rejected and four (4) of the nine will be published. The committee also co-sponsored two workshops. Following this committee meeting, we participated in an afternoon session on Meta-Data, and a poster session and evening session on Data Partnering. We also co-sponsored a poster-session the following morning. Anita distributed a Circular (Number E-C06x) on the "Data Requirements in Reauthorization Legislation" workshop that was held November 19, 2003 in Washington, D.C. One of the main topics addressed by Anita is that we want to focus on the research agenda for this committee. We want to get an officially designated sub-committee to deal with research. The research sub-committee currently includes Jim Hall (chair), Jonette Kreideweis, Tom Teneyck, Trish Hendren, Rob Bostrom and Tremain Downey. Other committee members should let Anita know if they are interested in participating on this sub-committee. Jim will be calling a meeting in February or March. Rich Margiotta, Cambridge Systematics, presented updates on the latest work with Archive Data User Service (ADUS). The next report from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics was presented by Rick Kowalewski, Deputy Director. It was noted that the focus will be on the reauthorization changes and core programs, including freight, travel, geo-spatial data, system performance, airline, and others. These focus areas are from the Administration. Copies of the NHTS report are available on the web-site. Also, they are co-sponsoring a workshop on the use of the NHTS data. A survey was done to collect data from the disabled population and non-disabled population ("freedom travel" report) and it is on the BTS web-site. A study of access to inter-city transportation (geo-spatial application) is also posted on the web-site. They are looking at standardization of CRASH data for safety risk analysis. Concerning freight data - they are looking at preparing a commodity flow survey and preparing for workshops this year. GEO-FREIGHT is an inter-modal freight GIS tool to display data and evaluate bottlenecks. A composite index has been put together for freight and transportation activities. The freight indicator has been consistent with the correlation between the composite index and the nation's economy. The second indicator will be out in February. This has to do with air travel transaction pricing index. This looks at what people actually pay for tickets. There is a desire to use our Statewide Transportation Data and Information Systems Committee, to engage the stakeholder community to do these studies in the other areas of travel besides freight studies. Tremain Downey noted that when this report was done in California, he was requested by his managers to explain the data. As stakeholders, we would request that a coordinated effort be used to prepare these studies. Carol Brandt, BTS, next presented a report on the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) E-government Initiative. This initiative was created to improve sharing of geo-spatial data among all levels of government. The most important part of this initiative is that the data collectors can continue to do their business as they do now. This effort involves creating middleware data that allows sharing of geospatial data through the web (Geodata.gov). The standards are moving through the ANSI process and draft versions are available on the internet. The AASHTO SCOP Report was presented by Committee Chair, Anita Vandervalk, for Jonette Kreideweis. The SCOP Data Task Force assisted in developing a roster of State DOT contacts who are responsible for statewide data programs. Our committee would like to distribute a copy of this roster. The SCOP Data Task Force prepared a summary of future focus areas for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Ron McCready noted that there are three research proposals that SCOP worked on with our committee: (1) Update the AASHTO Guidelines for Traffic Data Programs, (2) Synthesis to Assess Where Data Groups Are Organizationally Located in State DOTs, (3) Recommendation for SCOP funding for a National Census Data Conference for Transportation Planning. Regarding item #1, they will be looking for panel memberships, if the proposals get selected for projects to pursue through the RFP process. Regarding item #2, a task order for contractors should be out in mid-February. Regarding the NCHRP Process, the SCOP Data Task Force interests are also represented on research panels for NCHRP 8-48: "Using American Community Survey Data for Transportation Planning" and the NCHRP work being done to develop an updated "Commuting in America" report. There is also an applied research program and it is a contractor program for two to two and one-half years in duration. This program is supported by the states which use SPR funds. This program has been going on since 1953. This is a great pool for applied research, which makes it attractive to the states. Lately, the states are looking at freight and inter-modal studies, not just "Transportation Planning" issues. This program is a $31 million dollar per-year program. Three sources of research proposals were noted: (1) State DOTs, through the Research Advisory Committee of AASHTO, (2) any AASHTO sub-committee, and (3) FHWA. The recommendation is for the ABJ20 (A1D09) committee to establish a research sub-committee and work closely with SCOP and work with the State DOT folks to submit proposals for research projects. There is a lot to be done on the data side. As noted earlier (item "c" above), volunteers for the sub-committee include: Jonette Kreideweis, Tom TenEyck, Jim Hall, Trish Hendren, Tremain Downey, Rob Bostrom with Jim Hall, chair. The SCOP Data Task Force also drafted a resolution to continue National Transportation Library mandates and funding. The resolution was passed by SCOP and by the AASHTO Board of Directors at their annual meeting in September 2003. The SCOP Data Task Force interests and considerations were also represented on the planning team for the national workshop on Data Requirements in Transportation Reauthorization Legislation held in Washington in November, 2003 (see item (c) above). Regarding FHWA Capacity Building, a data tool, methods and models element will be developed by the SCOP Data Task Force and added to the work SCOP is doing to identify priority areas for FHWA capacity building. Anita continued committee business with a discussion about the committee newsletter and thanked Trish Hendren for her work in getting the newsletter started. It is prepared about three times a year, and we would like to get additional help from committee members in soliciting topics for the newsletter. Kim will help until June and Mark Hallenbeck can help after the NATMEC Conference. Trish will let folks know 6-8 weeks ahead of the publication dates, so that we have time to get articles for the newsletter. By February 13, we will need to send information to Trish for the next publication at the end of February. BREAK State DOT Update - State DOT members Mark Hallenbeck - Washington DOT - Washington DOT is starting to update the statewide Transportation Plan to include travel time performance. They will discuss this at NATMEC in June. There is a Data Council in the state DOT now to make sure that data becomes available universally, as information systems change within the DOT. The key is the use of GIS within the Department. The state is also establishing a statewide emergency operations center. Pat Hu - Oakridge National Laboratories - They have developed a web tool to analyze the data for the National Household Travel Survey. They are also continuing their involvement in commodity flow survey and geo-freight data. They are also looking at how and where food is transported to secure the food supply. TRB Report - Tom Palmerlee - Tom presented his annual report entitled: "Report to Committees at the 2004 Annual Meeting." (see attached.) Major topics in the report include: Reorganization: Promise and Challenge, which is an explanation of the new committee organization structure. Most of the committees under Tom's direction became part of the Data and Information Systems Section of the Policy and Administration Group. It allows sections to be more active in addressing critical and cross-cutting issues. Addressing Critical and Cross-Cutting Issues: TRB has expanded the opportunities for joint sponsorship of sessions and meetings in an effort to assure that committees under the new organization structure continue to connect to their customers and key partnering committee Security Activities - this is one of the cross-cutting issues that will be addressed. A workshop is scheduled for spring of 2004. Triennial Strategic Planning Paper Awards Diversity Future Activities Cooperative Research Programs, Reorganization of USDOT Research, National Research Council Studies, TRB Circulars, NCHRP Reports and NCHRP Projects. The TRB Report also includes an Appendices of TRB Calendar Selections in 2004. Next year's theme for TRB: Transportation from the User's Perspective with concentration on security, funding, renewal. State DOT Reports resumed after the TRB Report - (in the interest of time, the state representatives were asked to keep the rest of the reports brief) Tom Tenyeck and Kim Feroni - PennDOT Bureau of Planning and Research provided a report on the following topics: ITS Data - Traffic data is obtained on a monthly basis from microwave and acoustic sensors located on the interstates and major arterials in the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. After analysis of the data was completed, approximately 59% of the Pittsburgh data and 63% of the Philadelphia data was accepted for inclusion in the state's Roadway Management System. PennDOT uses a statewide contract for Traffic Count Services, utilizing the services of twelve vendors, with each PennDOT District using at least four vendors for volume counts, three vendors for classification counts, and four vendors for manual counts. Preparation is underway for the 2004 traffic counting season and there will be significant increases in the number of counts collected by PennDOT partners. PennDOT is requiring that 30% of all counts collected are classification counts. This increase of 5% over previous years will support the truck data needs in PennDOT and conform to the Pavement Design Guide and the Traffic Monitoring Guide. HPMS data quality reviews were conducted during the fall of 2003. These reviews examined the data provided to PennDOT by nine data providers including PennDOT District Offices, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, and Rural Planning Organizations, with an overall accuracy rate of 96.85%. PennDOT is adding an interactive capability to the PennDOT traffic website to allow users the ability to click on the map and retrieve and locate traffic information. This capability is expected to be operational on the website in March 2004. PennDOT is also the lead agency for the Homeland Security database. The database will need more data on local roads. Tim Baker - Colorado DOT - The CDOT GIS section has been reorganized along functional lines. There are three business units: Applications, Data, and Mapping units. A survey was done of customers and users of the data. Results indicate that the data is being used for planning purposes and for project level work, as a first source and is supplemented with additional data as needed. They are also creating their metadata to correspond to the database. They will present the design of the geometric data system to their management. They want to make sure that the department needs match HPMS requirements. There is also a need to link the inventory data to the Railroad Crossing file. The CDOT is in the process of updating the rail-crossing inventory and is photographing all public at-grade crossings. The CDOT has been taking an active role in the update of the Denver Regional Travel Demand Model. They are studying the possibility of developing a statewide travel model in the future. CDOT is also working with the Texas Transportation Institute to develop area wide cost estimates for use in congestion performance measures. They have begun to collect travel time data on 40 Mobility Corridors in an effort to monitor the change in travel times as a representation of the State System. The State has formed a Freight Advisory Committee chaired by the Department's Executive Director. Plans are being made for CDOT to conduct a Freight Assessment to help identify the next steps in the enhancement of freight activities Jack Stickel - Alaska DOT - The Travel Information System (CARS) was implemented with a sub-system Road Weather Information System (RWIS) known as "511 Travel In The Know" on April 23, 2003. It provides weather related information and construction information and is part of the national 511 deployment coalition. ADOT has twenty-three RWIS sites and will deploy additional sites over the next two years. The public web site is http://www.dot.state.ak.us/iways/roadweather/index.html Paul Knight, of the Pennsylvania State University Department of Meteorology, visited the Alaska DOT to share his research (Developing An Interactive Mesonet for PennDOT) for the National Weather Service/FHWA to provide guidance for the RWIS system. This will allow ADOT to gain knowledge in best practices for data archive, metadata, data exchange, user interfaces, partnerships and mesonets. Alaska DOT also completed the HAS-GIS Implementation Plan Final Report (December 2003), which is a master plan for upgrading existing transportation data systems to a GIS environment in the next 3-5 years. The Division of Program Development is also establishing data support for the Department's asset management program, the Maintenance Management System (MMS). The support includes data collection/inventory standards, legacy transportation database data archive, linear reference system and spatial locations, and long-range GIS integration. An HPMS workshop was also completed with DOT staff. Jim Hullett - Georgia DOT - The Office of Transportation Data was established in October, 2002. They do not have OPRs (Office of Primary Responsibility) established at this time, but they plan to meet with internal, and external customers to determine needs and to look at future models of what is needed for improvement. They are documenting their processes and are now shifting from mainframe to ORACLE. They are also migrating over to a new linear referencing system. They are also conducting outreach efforts to the MPOs. Anita and Tom noted that a Peer Exchange is planned, prior to NATMEC. The focus will be on: "Development of Data Business Plans to support decision making in State DOTs What, Who, Why we collect data" Barna will check on where the request went to for funding of this Peer Review. Ed Christopher - FHWA Resource Center - They are working with the Idaho DOT on a peer review and with Wisconsin DOT on a training session in their computer lab on the use of the CTTP data. Bill Walsek - Maryland DOT - They are building a relational database for road inventory segments for every public road in the state. They would then be able to tie their road inventory data to their mapping products more quickly. Currently, this is about a two to three year effort. Jon D. Fricker - (Indiana) Purdue University - The results have been sent on surveys of how states are handling geometric input to the HERS data. The WIM data is also incorporated into a spreadsheet each day, within four minutes, for review. Jim McQuirt - Ohio DOT - Ohio unveiled its largest transportation initiative since the original creation of the interstate highway system. The plan devotes $5 billion dollars over the next 10 years toward Ohio's highway network. Parts of the plan are being implemented, but full implementation is dependent upon the Reauthorization of the transportation act and the enactment of a new energy bill. The 30 year transportation plan, known as "Access Ohio" was just completed. Use of geo-referenced data was critical to this effort. A new Office of Roadway Safety and Mobility was created to increase safety and reduce congestion on Ohio's freeways. A Permitted Lane Closure Map was also implemented statewide to provide information on lane closures to the public throughout the state. They are also completing a "Statewide Playbook", which was created for police agencies, emergency responders and local agencies impacted by ODOT's detour routes. It defines how ODOT will manage traffic control any time there is a long term closure on any section of the interstate system. Rob Bostrom - Kentucky Transportation Cabinet - There are changes occurring in Kentucky, they have a new Republican Governor, for the first time in thirty (30) years. Kentucky has started a statewide traffic model update. There is also an on-going functional class review. They are reviewing the number of vehicle classification count stations needed. The GPS effort in the state was completed. The state and local maintained roads have been inventoried using GPS. A "Speed Estimation" research study was also done for air quality analysis purposes. This study is based on HERS equations. A new Freight Team was formed with action teams formed as needed. An Archive Data Management prototype research study is also being done. Rob is also our committee liaison to the Statewide System Policy, Planning and Process Section. He noted that this group was very helpful in planning the Reauthorization Workshop meeting that was held in November. Rob also reported that the Asset Management Task Force is now approved as a full standing committee. The following additional report was provided by Rob: Planning Data Review of functional class system designations for specific roads and generic guidelines. Establishment of adequacy ratings for all projects in Six Year Plan (ongoing construction plan). Adequacy ratings are similar to old S AP sufficiency ratings. Entire state (75,000 miles) has been GPSed (both local and state-ntained at about 2-meter accuracy) and GIS coverage is being updated using GPS data. Highway Information System (statewide integrated database) is transitioning to EXOR. Review of count stations resulting in the consolidation of many redundant stations. Research Ongoing study on estimating speeds in areas lacking travel demand models. Will variant of HERS speed estimation procedure. Data will be used for air quality conformity and possibly congestion performance measures. Ongoing Archived Data Management System study to establish prototype for using data from major ITS systems (especially ARTIMIS - Greater Cincinnati and TRIMARC - Louisville). Mobility Analysis KYTC's mobility analysis team has held a day-long workshop on congestion performance measures. The team is planning to help develop performance measures for the Plan ( annual strategic planning report), examine the use of new travel time based congestion PMs (rather than capacity/level of service) for use in the Six Year Plan (construction plan), and to look at economic scenario analysis using travel time based PMs for statewide planning purposes. Travel Demand Modeling The Travel Demand Model Users Group has successfully served as a focus for tracking model development issues, training, model interfaces (source data and issues related to modeling), tools related to modeling (e.g. traffic simulation), and as a partnering prototype/springboard. KYTC's consultant has analyzed the NHTS add-on data and determined that Kentucky's travel characteristics (trips/HH, etc) are very similar to national averages. The Kentucky Statewide Traffic Model is being updated. It will contain many new features including conversion to TransCAD, network being a true GIS, improved truck modeling, rail layer, and more accurate speed estimation. Modal Issues The Cabinet has formed a freight team to publicize various freight issues and started a web page and newsletter tracking relevant issues.KYTC is working with the FHWA Office of Freight to evaluate and test the Freight Analysis Framework. Bill Cloud - Montana DOT - The mapping data collection has been organized to also include historical maps. Montana DOT is migrating their mapping program from Microstation to ArcView files. An interstate/interchange ramp inventory is also being done. There are concerns about the Urban Boundary updates required by FHWA for HPMS. Bill recommended that this would be a good topic for presentation at the February HPMS Data Partnering workshop in Texas. Barna recommended that each state may need to identify what they are using to determine the Urban boundaries so that FHWA knows what is being compared to what. Jim Hall - Univ. of Illinois - Jim reported that Illinois is using GIS for road conditions and for traffic information. They are also investigating wireless access to database information. They are also working on getting a bike trail system. Tremain Downey - California DOT - The following report was submitted by Tremain: "California DOT's data programs increasingly reflect the need to bring data collectors, data owners, data users and decision makers together. Additionally, transportation decisions require collaboration and partnerships with local and regional agencies and other interests. Upcoming transportation reauthorization increases the need for enhanced collaborative data and decision-making efforts. California continues its efforts to strengthen linkage between data users, collectors, customers and transportation infrastructure decision support internal and external to the Department. Decision Support is our focus. Our data programs advance improved infrastructure delivery and operational investment decisions by developing and deploying a "transportation decision framework" to support early and collaborative decision-making. Key outcomes include improving the likelihood of transportation plan and project approvals, maximizing the value and return-on-investment of scarce transportation revenues, and bringing external stakeholder and transportation systems user concerns such as the economy, environment and community impacts earlier into decision-making. This means our data programs consider more than just highway and multimodal transportation data. We are in progress, but its difficult when data programs are viewed as expendable during financially challenged times. Components of the proposed framework include multimodal transportation systems data, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data and applications deployed throughout the department and externally; transportation system performance measures for use in performance based planning and programming, and emphasized consideration of impacts on the economy, environment and people. We are actually working with a Tri-Agency Partnership (California EPA, Transportation and Resources Agencies), Metropolitan Planning Organizations, the University of California and others to enhance collaborative planning efforts in the California Central Valley. This collaborative effort affects more than just transportation decisions. So extensive collaboration is underway and hopefully, the framework will enhance decision support. A challenge confronting this effort is the "data dump." Here's a quote that captures this challenge: "it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information." - Peter Drucker (Claremont Business School). The challenge for the data programs is to not do a "data dump." Instead data programs must work with the decision experts (process owners, stakeholders, etc) to frame the decisions and determine information requirements to make the decisions. Data is just data until its used to influence decision making. Then data becomes information. But first, someone needs to collect it, management it and distribute it. And before that, someone needs to determine what information (including quality, timeliness, scale, accuracy, etc) is needed to make decisions. And even earlier, someone needs to identify the decision points and decisions. The above must occur during a period of scarce resources when normally, work on data decreases. The opportunity is to fix decision support to better enable decision-making." Kim Hajek - TxDOT - TxDOT implemented the first digital Travel Map of Texas, through the use of GIS data sets maintained by the Transportation Planning and Programming Division Mapping Branch. Other uses of GIS data in the DOT include the Shuttle disaster recovery efforts in February, 2003, to identify the detailed county road network in east Texas and also for work related to the 4,000 mile Trans Texas Corridor development in the state. Our future programs will focus on addressing two areas: Mobility and System Preservation. TxDOT has an inter-agency contract with TTI to work with the MPOs to gather information for use in establishing the new Urban boundaries in Texas for approval by FHWA. San Antonio, Texas will be the site of the HPMS Data Partnering Workshop February 24-26, 2004. TxDOT also completed a Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) Workshop in December, 2003, with the FHWA State Planning Engineer, Kirk Fauver, and Rob Rozycki, FHWA headquarters, to investigate Sample Adequacy issues in Texas' HPMS sample panel. TxDOT continues to partner with the Department of Public Safety and the contract vendor, Team IBM in the development of a statewide Crash Records Information System which is scheduled for full implementation in June, 2005. A data collection project is also underway to collect GPS data on all railroads in the state. This project is known as "TxRail." Carl Fisher - Federal Railroad Administration - Informed the committee that accident data is now available from the FRA web-site. Leni Oman - Washington State DOT - Leni noted that she was going to be discussing "Partnering on Environmental Spatial Information" at the evening Data Partnering Session which was sponsored by our committee. Leni noted that there was a lot more work to be done in partnering on environmental data. At the conclusion of the State presentations, Anita discussed the Committee Strategic Plan and Future Directions for the Triennial Self Evaluation. A handout was distributed. Anita asked each of us to look at how this committee can help us do our jobs. We need to look at the stated goals and let Anita know how this committee can help. Regarding Part C of the document, Anita needs comments from us. Part B is fairly complete. The two most important parts are the goal areas. Anita proposed a slight change in the committee scope and she requested comments from the committee by February 11. Other Committee Business 2 004 TRB Sessions, sponsored by A1D09 (see 4.c above) 2004 Plans - Our committee is planning to have the Mid-Year Meeting at NATMEC, June, 2004. Reports from Committee Liaisons for TRB 2004 Meetings: Rob Bostrom - Statewide System Policy, Planning and Process Section - They have identified twelve themes from Neil Pederson to be used for the mid-year meeting. Rob will try to work with this group for three to four years. Ed Christopher - Urban Data - NCHRP 8-48 - American Community Survey data is being used for Transportation Planning purposes. The Urban Data Committee will have their mid-year meeting at NATMEC. The ADUS sub-committee was moved under pavement management. There is a concern about this. It was noted that Alan Pisarski is the Section Chair of the data committees. They may get a paper out about results of surveys being done. Jack Stickel - Data Integration - a questionnaire is going to be sent out to the data committees to identify common areas of interest in transportation data integration across various transportation data and business areas. Potential sessions for 2005 include "Data Stewardship" (formal presentation or poster session) and "Location Management for Transportation Data Integration: Current Best Practices" workshop (full day - 4 two-hour panels). Jack is also going to try to get the asset management group involved with us, via the data integration committee. Kim Hajek - Performance Measurement - The Performance Measurement Committee (A5022) will be hosting the "2nd National Conference on Performance Measurement" at the Beckman Center in Irvine, California on . Workshops will also precede the conference. During 2003, the Performance Measurement Committee formed a sub-committee on Communications to publish a biannual Committee newsletter and to begin work on a Committee website. They also want to pursue increasing the number of committees to which they have active liaisons. They are currently active with thirteen TRB and AASHTO Committees. (This includes our Statewide Transportation Data Committee) There was much discussion in their committee on the efforts focused on research. They have identified the following items as key focus areas: (1) Tools and techniques, (2) Decision-making, (3) Case Studies, (4) Outcomes, (5) Communications, and (6) Education. The next step will be to develop specific areas from each of these topics to address Performance Measurement in these areas. They will be looking at potential topics to co-sponsor with other committees at the 2005 Annual Meeting. There may be an opportunity for us to co-sponsor a session with them. There is no specific topic identified yet for this effort. Committee Newsletter - Trish Hendren will try to publish the next newsletter at the end of February. Kim will help until June and Mark Hallenbeck after June. \Website Update - logon to our website at http://members.tripod.com/~TRBstate/ for additional information about our committee. Research Problem Statements - a research sub-committee has been formed to address research topics. Call for 2005 Papers - A 2005 Session Subcommittee was formed including Jim Hall, Jack Stickel, Jonette, Kim Hajek, Jim McQuirt, Ron Vibbert and Anita. Anita will call a teleconference of this group in March to begin that process. Other Business There being no further business, the meeting Adjourned at 12:15 p.m. Distribution of Minutes Committee Members Group Council Chair TRB Staff Representative Attachments Attendance List Agenda TRB Report