Transportation Programming, Planning, and Systems Evaluation

We received some additional resource information suggested by one of our new members. Please note that all members should have the ability to make posts to committee website, so keep the resources and information coming!

Strategic planning and management guidelines for transportation agencies By Gene R. Tyndall, John Cameron, Robert C. Taggart, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, United States. Federal Highway Administration

http://books.google.com/books?id=kh53_-DXV8MC&lpg=PP1&ots=PmgZjv_hea&dq=Strategic%20planning%20and%20management%20guidelines%20for%20transportation%20agencies&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

The Transportation Planning Process: Key Issues
http://www.planning.dot.gov/documents/briefingbook/bbook.htm

Urban Transportation Planning in the United States: An Historical Overview – Fifth Edition
http://tmip.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/clearinghouse/158

Given the recent interest and alignment of ADA50 with the topic of Performance Measurement, these links may be of some use to members and friends of the committee…

A web-based library of performance measures, emphasizing environmental and community measures, developed through SHRP 2 Capacity project C02 is now available on line. A companion to final report C02: Performance Measurement Framework for Highway Capacity Decision Making, this SHRP 2 product links performance measures to key decision points in the transportation project planning process. The performance measures library is included in the newly released website: Transportation for Communities—Advancing Projects through Partnerships (TCAPP) at: transportationforcommunities.com. TCAPP is the framework that will eventually house all products of Capacity research.

The following information regarding NCHRP’s Virtual Conference on Research Needs in Transportation Planning was recently received. The registration link is embedded in the message below. If any members or friends of ADA50 participate, please let me know and/or post your thoughts on the virtual conference. We may also want to follow up with submitting our research needs statements as requested to be included in the virtual conference: 

Please pass on the information below to your committees – A “Virtual Conference on Research Needs in Transportation Planning” will be kicked off via a webinar on March 8, 2010. You may have seen the announcement through TRB or AASHTO.  This effort is funded by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 8-36(95).

We’d specifically like to encourage you to invite members and friends of TRB committees that focus on issues related to transportation planning to participate.  You can forward on the message below with the registration link.  In addition, a web site has been developed for this research effort, www.TransportationPlanningNeeds.com, and includes information on a set of “breakout sessions” that will focus on sets of planning topics in order to gather focused input on research needs in these topic areas; it also includes forums for discussing these topics.

Finally, if your committee has recently developed a set of research priorities or research statements, please pass them onto our team via e-mail to me at mgrant@icfi.comor Kathleen Rooney or Terence Plaskon (cc:ed here). We’d like to include all of your research planning efforts in the review and discussions on research needs. Thank you! 

-Michael

Michael Grant

Principal

ICF International

9300 Lee Highway

Fairfax, VA 22031

Ph: 703-218-2692

mgrant@icfi.com      

Attached for your review and use are the Committee meeting minutes from the 2010 TRB Annual Meeting 2010 Annual Meeting Minutes ADA50.

A big thank you to Ray Balentine for taking the notes at the meeting and producing the minutes!