TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD
COMMITTEE ON
TRANSPORTATION DEMAND
FORECASTING
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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD
COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION DEMAND FORECASTING
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NEW ON THE SITE INNOVATIONS IN TRAVEL MODELING CONFERENCE
2008 TRB SPECIAL REPORT 288 TRB RESEARCH NEEDS STATEMENTS |
COMMITTEE CHAIR: Tom Rossi (email) TRB STAFF CONTACT: Kim Fisher (email)
SCOPE The focus of this committee includes the development, application, and dissemination of improved demand forecasting techniques, within the integrated context of the interaction of transportation demand with the land-use form, demographic composition, and technological state of the activity-travel environment. All aspects related to theory, data estimation, and application are of direct interest to the committee, with an emphasis on research developments that have the potential to be implemented in the near future.
REGISTRATION & PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: INNOVATIONS IN TRAVEL MODELING 2008 PORTLAND, OREGON JUNE 22 to 24, 2008
Jointly sponsored by the Transportation Research Board, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, Oregon Department of Transportation, Portland Metro, and Portland State University. This conference will build on the highly successful ITM06 conference in Austin, examining innovative and promising advances in travel modeling, with an emphasis on moving state-of-the-art research into practice. The conference will focus on an open exchange of ideas between researchers and practitioners regarding recent advances in travel modeling, opportunities and challenges related to implementation, and directions for further research and development. Transportation professionals involved in the research, teaching, implementation, and use of travel models will find this conference timely and informative. The conference will include tracks focusing on activity-based models, linking demand and dynamic network models, communicating forecasts, policy and pricing analyses, and freight modeling. Workshops on activity-based models and climate change modeling are slated for Sunday afternoon before the conference. All sessions will be structured to permit audience participation in the conference. The link to the conference registration website can be found here. Click on the button "begin registration." You'll also find hotel information on the right-hand side. The preliminary program can be found here.
METROPOLITAN SURVEY ARCHIVE
Surveys are important resources that provide us with valuable information about travel preferences or change in travel behavior of people, over a period of time, across the population. Surveys entail large investment both in terms of time and money. In order to maintain these valuable resources the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the Federal Highway Administration, both part of United States Department of Transportation, have funded a project at the University of Minnesota to develop a Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive to store, preserve, and make publicly available, via the internet, travel surveys conducted by metropolitan areas, states and localities. The archive can be found at http://www.surveyarchive.org/. For any questions, clarifications or information related to the project, you can contact the principal investigator Dr. David Levinson.
TRB SPECIAL REPORT 288
TRB Special Report 288, Metropolitan Travel Forecasting: Current Practice and Future Direction, examines metropolitan travel forecasting models that provide public officials with information to inform decisions on major transportation system investments and policies. The report explores what improvements may be needed to the models and how federal, state, and local agencies can achieve them. According to the committee that produced the report, travel forecasting models in current use are not adequate for many of today’s necessary planning and regulatory uses. The findings of the surveys of metropolitan planning organizations used to help develop this report are available online. On Wednesday, January 16, 2008, a TRB 2008 panel discussed the new report. Their presentations can be found here.
TRB RESEARCH NEEDS STATEMENTS
In 2007, the Research Agenda subcommittee assembled four Research Needs Statements and submitted them to TRB on behalf of ADB40. This subcommittee will update and expand upon these statements on an ongoing basis, with input from ADB40 members and friends. Click here to see the current Research Needs Statements.
REMEMBERING GORDON W. SCHULTZ "Gordon was always enthused about advancing the state of the art in a practical manner...He was not only a world-class modeler, but also a skilled analytic transportation planner. He will be sadly missed by the transportation planning profession and many, many individuals whose paths have crossed his." - from Remembering Gordon W. Schultz
GORDON W. SCHULTZ FELLOWSHIP GEORGIA
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Announcement: "This fellowship, in honor of Gordon W. Schultz, is to be awarded on an annual basis to a graduate student in travel demand modeling and analysis at the Georgia Institute of Technology within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who exhibits the essential qualities that Gordon brought to our profession: intellectual discipline combined with a passion for innovation, problem-solving, and practical application."
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