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January 31, 2002
2002 Transportation Research Board
Statewide Transportation Data and Information Systems
A1D09
Washington Hilton, State Room
January 15, 2002
Summary of Committee Meeting
Ron Tweedie, Chair, opened the meeting at 8 a.m. and adjourned it at noon.
The participant total was 58 (19 members and 39 friends).
The agenda and list of participants are attached.
For the 81st annual meeting, the committee sponsored
two paper sessions (128 and 237) and co-sponsored a workshop (Census Data
2000 and Beyond). Ron Tweedie,
Anita Vandervalk, and Bill Walsek participated in a Transportation and Operations
Data meeting as committee representatives.
In addition, Anita Vandervalk is leading the NATMEC organization
effort for the Florida DOT and Jonette Kreideweis chairs the AASHTO Standing
Committee on Planning (SCOP) data task force.
This year due to TRB rotation requirements, a new committee Chair and
Secretary were introduced.
Ms. Anita Vandervalk, Florida DOT, is the Chair and Ms. Kim Hajek, Texas
DOT, is the Secretary. Their
terms run for 3 years.
The meeting followed the agenda with a few minor exceptions.
Several handouts were provided during the meeting.
A list of the handouts is provided as a reference.
Copies of handouts or additional information about the presentations
are available from the presenters.
Presentations 1) Agenda item # 3 - Bill Walsek, Maryland DOT, summarized a TRB Conference Nov 27, 2001 titled “Strategic Issues for Improved Monitoring to Support Transportation Operations” in Wash. DC. He focused on a draft paper that when finished will serve as a starting point for wider discussion and consensus development on identifying the data requirements for transportation management and operations, as a first step toward defining, developing, and implementing the necessary data systems. Copy of Handout
2) Agenda item # 3A - Mike Freitas, FHWA, discussed the proposed “National
Information Infrastructure” a legislative proposal being considered for the
highway reauthorization to fund the establishment of a national data center
to process data from established ITS Operation Centers.
3) Agenda Item # 4 - Tony Esteve mentioned the recent release of the Traffic
Monitoring Guide; plans for an updated traffic monitoring NHI training course;
and the recently established HPMS, motor fuel, and traffic monitoring Communities
of Practice webpages. Jim Getzewich
mentioned an HPMS CD training course recently made available to the States.
Tom Howard and Ralph Erickson mentioned the Motor Fuel Smart
Tool Application designed to improve the quality and timeliness of fuel data
reporting. Motor fuel conferences
were held December 13-14, 2001 in Chicago and January 24-25 in Atlanta.
4) Agenda items # 5 and 6 - Rich Margiotta, Cambridge Systematics, discussed
the status of the “Research Approach for Estimating the Transportation Contribution
to Particulate Matter Pollution” and the ASTM Subcommittee E17.54 “Standards
for Archiving ITS Data”. The
ASTM committee is looking for State members and funding is available to cover
travel. For information contact
Rich at: ram@camsys.com
5) Agenda item # 7 - Jonette Kreideweis, MN DOT, discussed the activities
of the Data Task Force of the AASHTO Standing Committee on Planning and the
upcoming Spatial Data peer exchange meeting March 23-24 in Charleston, South
Carolina.
Copy of Handout
6) Agenda item # 8 - Arnim Meyburg, Cornell University, discussed the
results of the TRB conference “Data Needs in the Changing World of Logistics
and Freight Transportation held in Saratoga Springs, New York on November
14-15, 2001. Copies of the
Synthesis report were distributed and are available at
www.dot.state.ny.us
Ron Tweedie recommended establishing a subcommittee to look at freight
data needs.
7) Agenda item # 9 - Mark Hallenbeck, Wash. TRAC, discussed major data
initiatives in Washington State brought in by a new DOT Secretary.
Accountability, openness, and the improved operation of
facilities are new priorities.
Far greater emphasis is placed on the collection of data to address operational
performance, freeway facilities, freight, and border crossings.
A data integration project using a web-accessible
data center is getting underway.
Research continues on spatial and remote sensor systems.
Copy of Presentation
8) Agenda item # 10 - Ron Matzner, Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC),
discussed an FGDC/OMB Geospatial Information Initiative to build a National
Spatial Data Infrastructure.
Implementation teams will be used to carry out the plans.
TRB Report
Tom Palmerlee discussed the “TRB in the Future” summit to be held March
4-5 in Washington, to guide where TRB should be 5 years from now, and the
results of this year’s paper review process.
Comments on the futures project should be directed
to Anita Vandervalk. TRB is
planning to improve its paper review website.
TRB offices are moving to a new building in June.
Copies of a draft report “Enhancing the Value of Data Programs”
from the peer review project in last July in Vail were distributed.
Comments should be provided to Jim Hall.
Ron McCready, NCHRP, mentioned several studies to be approved in March
including the American Community Survey, the Environmental Information Management
Support System, the A-36 SCOP plan for quick turnaround projects, and similar
speed-up activities for environmental projects.
He encouraged State staff interested in getting projects
approved to voice their support to their State NCHRP representatives.
State Roundtable
Montana - Bill Cloud - New initiatives include the Infrastructure Information
Management Project to convert data systems from mainframe to Oracle, establishing
GPS coordinates for local roads to complete the highway system, and establishing
a complete GIS statewide system.
Ohio - Jim McQuirt - Work continues on several fronts to create a ramp
inventory, a website videolog system, a GIS warehouse for legacy systems,
the statewide model and origin/destination surveys, a latitude/longitude
systems for crash data, and preparing the Access Ohio 25 Year Plan.
Minnesota - Jonette Kreideweis - The State is implementing a Moving Minnesota
initiative to reduce bottlenecks, is focusing on internal organization performance,
and is working on a statewide data model.
A WIM quartz piezo system was acquired, and the installation
of continuous classification data is planned.
Pennsylvania - Barbara Mason Haines - The State continues its best practices
study, has a project with West Virginia University to study the factoring
process and the location of permanent sites, continues to track the performance
and maintenance of pavements, and puts much emphasis on data to support the
2002 Pavement Design Guide.
Kentucky - Rob Bostrom - Work is underway to provide GPS coordinates for
the State road system, improve the Mobile 6 model, modify the AP model for
air quality, develop a model to estimate VMT by county, improve truck flow
information, develop a traffic control analysis to help maintenance, and
continue improving the archive of ITS data.
Maryland - Bill Walsek - Maryland is in the early stages of building a
more comprehensive GIS road network to better serve the needs of traffic
operations staff in the agency. The new GIS road network will be database
driven and developed using principles contained in the NCHRP 2-27, NSDI,
and Unetrans models. One design goal is to have the database serve
as a common foundation for GIS line work, cartography, and web page content
publishing.
Texas - Kim Hajek - The STARS system work continues to migrate the traffic
data sets into an Oracle web-based system.
A GPS inventory of the on-system roads is expected to be
complete in 18 months. A crash
record information system will be enhanced and include intersection data.
A GIS strategic mapping program will cover the complete
State system. A GIS rail update
is being done to better identify line abandonment and provide better information
on line operation and crossings.
California - Martha Tate-Glass - Work continues on a data integration
prototype to tie in traffic data and traffic operations.
The statewide GIS program involves a major collaborative
effort and will tie in the business processes and identified needs.
A truck travel survey was completed.
A household travel survey is underway.
Florida - Anita Vandervalk - The staff is busy with the preparations for
NATMEC. Efforts are underway
to coordinate traffic data and ITS operations to improve the data process.
Remote sensing research projects are being pursued.
Future Meetings
Using Spatial Data, Tools and Technologies to Improve Delivery of Transportation
Programs, TRB Peer Exchange, March 23-24, 2002, Charleston, South Carolina.
Information on upcoming peer reviews and conferences is
available at www.nas.edu/trb
The mid-year meeting has been scheduled in conjunction with NATMEC and
the International WIM Conference May 12-16, 2002, in Orlando Florida.
For details see www.natmec.org
. An agenda item for the
mid-year meeting will be discussion of forming several subcommittees (freight,
environmental, and urban data)
Follow Up Items
Establish a subcommittee on Freight Data Needs (Ron Tweedie).
Recommend that TRB committee members provide educational, experience,
and interest resumes to the committee chairs to allow a better match of
papers to members in the paper review process (Anita Vandervalk).
Attachments:
1. Agenda
2. List of participants
Reference List of Handouts
1) Bill Walsek “Summary - Strategic Issues for Improved Monitoring to
Support Transportation Operations.
2) Tony Esteve - 2001 Traffic Monitoring Guide brochure
Highway Community Exchanges, Office of Highway Policy
Information:
www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim
Tom Howard - Motor Fuels “Smart Tool Application,
Motor Fuel Seminar Registration Form, Highway Finance Data Smart Tool Project,
CD on Attribution and Apportionment of Federal Highway Tax Revenues: Process
Refinements, and brochure titled “Your State’s Share: Attributing Federal
Highway Revenues to each State
3) Rich Margiotta - Research Approach for Estimating the Transportation
Contribution to Particulate Matter Pollution
- ASTM Subcommittee E17.54 “ Standards for Archiving ITS Data”
4) Jonette Kreideweis - Short list of 2001 activities of the AASHTO Standing
Committee on Planning
- Handout describing the Spatial Data peer exchange March 23-24, 2002
in Charleston, WV
5) Arnim Meyburg - Conference synthesis report “Data Needs in the Changing
World of Logistics and Freight Transportation
6) Mark Hallenbeck - “Washington State Dot Sponsored Data System Improvement”,
Powerpoint presentation
7) Ron Matzner - The I-Team Geospatial Initiative
8) Tom Palmerlee - Draft report “Enhancing the Value of Data Programs”
from the peer review in July 23-24,2001 in Vail, Colorado
9) Shawn Turner - Guidelines for Developing ITS Data Archiving Systems.
INTERNET ADDRESSES:
Committee Website:
https://members.tripod.com/~trbstate
Committee Chair: Anita Vandervalk, apv@camsys.com
Secretary: Kim Hajek, khajek@dot.state.tx.us
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