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) PurdueUniversity - 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
2004
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.