Minutes for ADA10(2), 2006 Annual Meeting 8:00AM, Jan. 23, 2006 Hilton Kalorama Room SUMMARY OF ACTION ITEMS Greg Giaimo to begin coordination with Paul Agnello, David Cipra, Shuming Yan and Charlie Howard on reworking National Model proposal and pursuing to implementation. All subcommittee members and friends from state DOT s should be proactive in contacting their organizations NCHRP point of contact to ensure support for the NCHRP 365 update (project B-07). David Cipra to forward Freight Demand Modeling conference announcement to Greg Giaimo for distribution to subcommittee mailing list. Rob Bostrom to begin coordination with Susan Liss, Chuck Purvis and Rob Shiffer on ATS statement of support, back ground information, contacts list and suggested action items. Draft document to be complete by February 15. Greg Giaimo to begin discussions with Charlie Howard, Kim Fisher, Dane Ismart and Rob Bostrom on the possibility of the subcommittee moving to full committee status. Greg Giaimo to get new information to Alan Horowitz for web site posting Tom Rossi and Chuck Purvis to draft call for papers for QA/QC, validation etc. of statewide travel demand models. Tom Rossi to seek cosponsorship from ADB40. Charlie Howard/Greg Giaimo will work with Kim Fisher to implement. Charlie Howard to determine if next years annual meeting will include some sort of venue that might accommodate the issue of modeling staff retention by state DOT s. MINUTES Greg Giaimo (Chair) calls the meeting to order, those present introduce themselves. Chair distributes meeting agenda and minutes of 2005 meeting. Membership discussion Chair reviews the member ship policy developed the previous year, official members consisted of all those present at 2005 meeting who indicted they wanted to be members while friends list is anyone active in any subcommittee activity. Chair brings up issue of maintenance of this list, suggested open, unbureaucratic method. General consensus is to keep membership list as broad as possible. Agreed upon method as follows: anyone requesting to be an official member of the subcommittee is. Anyone active in any subcommittee activity not otherwise a member is a friend. Names will only be removed from the list as their contact information becomes out of date (or by their own request). The following persons request admittance as full members of the subcommittee and are thus adopted as same:
Charles Purvis, Metropolitan Transportation Commission David Cipra, Wisconsin DOT Jack Klodzinski, Florida s Turnpike Enterprise Shuming Yan, Washington State DOT J. Michael Heath, Alliance Transportation Group, Inc. Discussion of Existing Subcommittee Activities 1. NCHRP Synthesis 36-09, Statewide Travel Forecasting Models Rob Bostrom distributes handout and summaries project being conducted by subcommittee member Alan Horowitz (who was unable to attend annual meeting). Mr. Bostrom goes over the study origins (with our subcommittee), the study review panel members and the current status. Project is currently in final draft editorial review and therefore should be released sometime early this year. He next briefly describes the methodology of the study including its use of a survey of state DOT s as well as reliance on the peer exchange results. Then he discusses some results of the study such as the wide variety of statewide modeling methods, trend towards commodity based approaches and innovative features such as nested zone structures, tour/activity based components and integration of freight/passenger/land use/economic models. Lastly he discusses the reports recommendations, the main group paralleling the subcommittees current research agenda developed via the peer exchange but also adding several additional items as follows: Improvements in traffic assignment approaches Intermodal freight networks Better data for nonfreight commercial vehicles Better public source commodity flow data Innovative ODME methodologies Improved curricula for transportation planning graduate programs 2. NCHRP 8-36 Project, Scoping Study for Development of a National Travel Model Chair distributes copies of the subject problem statement. Charlie Howard indicates funding had been set aside for this but that the NCHRP review indicated some concern over the scope which needed to be recast more from the states perspective. It should be made clear that such a model is primarily intended to benefit states and their statewide modeling efforts by providing a consistent context on national passenger and freight flows within which they can base their statewide efforts. Mr. Howard also indicates that several states need to attach their names to the project to get it off the ground. Bob Gorman pointed out the current Federal efforts on a national freight model and it was agreed that reference to and coordination with that effort are a necessary part of this study. A committee of state DOT s to pursue the rewrite and implementation was formed as follows:
Greg Giaimo (Ohio), Paul Agnello (Virginia), David Cipra (Wisconsin), Shuming Yan (Washington) 3. NCHRP Project 365 Update Chair passes out original problem statement from Ed Christopher and indicates the subcommittees research objectives related to transferable parameters and long distance travel were successfully pursued by including statements regarding statewide, rural and long distance travel in the 365 update proposal. Hal Rumpca confirms that the project is number B-07 and is up for NCHRP voting this March. Chuck Purvis indicates that a more recent problem statement is available and that he would pass it along to Greg Giaimo. 4. Statewide Modeling Peer Exchange Document Chair indicates that the final documentation for the September 2004 Peer Exchange was published last year at: www.trb.org/publications/circulars/ec075.pdf 5. Freight Demand Modeling Conference Chair announces that the subject conference will be held September 25-27, 2006 in Washington DC. Chuck Purvis indicates it will be at the Keck Center. Chair indicates the subcommittee was unsuccessful in its goal to place a member on the steering committee for the conference but that it now appears that some subcommittee members are on it anyway. David Cipra indicates he is on the steering committee. He mentions that he is excited about the focus of the conference which will begin by examining the state of the practice and then move towards where we should be going with particular emphasis on moving away from the aggregate commodity flow representations towards more detailed logistics based models. He indicates that an announcement flier will be coming out soon and that he will forward it to Greg Giaimo for distribution to the committee mailing list. 6. Statement of Support for ATS This task was originally assigned to Tom Cooney, however, Rob Bostrom mentions he has had recent health problems, therefore Rob now takes over leadership of this task. Lee Giesbrecht indicates that funding of all BTS data collection programs is in serious trouble. Chuck Purvis indicates we should begin mobilizing our members to write letters immediately. A variety of people to which this letters should be written are mentioned such as the FHWA and FTA Administrators. Mr. Geisbrecht indicates that BTS s budget through the next reauthorization is set (2009) and there is no funding for the surveys. He indicates something like the 1995 ATS would be in the $22-24 million range. The subcommittee reaches a consensus that our effort should be to try to persuade the Federal administrators to reallocate budgets to fund the surveys around the originally planned
2008 time period rather than lobbying for funding in the next reauthorization which would then be several more years away. David Cipra indicates that any request to the states to write letters of support for ATS/NHTS etc should include some guidance on what benefits there are from this to a state DOT admistrator. A committee is formed to follow up on this task consisting of: Rob Bostrom, Rob Schiffer, Chuck Purvis They will contact Susan Liss for additional support and draft a document by February 15 consisting of the following: Background information on what these surveys are, what benefits they have for state DOT s and why they are currently in trouble and need support. Statement of Support List of suggested action items including contact information for those whom which it would be appropriate to write letters. 7. Promotion from Subcommittee to Committee Dane Ismart is the second person to bring up the issue of the subcommittee lobbying for full committee status so Chair temporarily deviates from the agenda to discuss the issue. Mr. Ismart gives some history on how the subcommittee began and indicates he feels it has matured enough and has broad enough interests that are different enough from the parent committees to warrant a full committee. Rob Bostrom (the first person to mention the issue) concurs. Charlie Howard (parent committee chair) has no objection. Chuck Purvis indicates it will be a difficult process. The general consensus of the subcommittee is to pursue the issue, therefore Chair appoints a committee as follows to investigate this matter further: Charlie Howard, Greg Giaimo, Rob Bostrom, Dane Ismart 8. Linkages with other TRB Committees Chair distributes a list of possible committees with which the subcommittee would like to maintain liaison. Chair indicates that due to the broad range and scope of statewide model interests it makes more sense to pursue coordination with other related groups than to pursue more limited independent efforts. Chair asks for members that are also members of the listed committees to volunteer as liaisons. Name Rob Bostrom Lee Giesbrect Jack Klodzinski Tom Rossi Rob Schiffer Greg Giaimo Dane Ismart Paul Hershkowitz Committee Statewide Data and Information Systems (ABJ20) Travel Survey Methods (ABJ40) Freight Transportation Data (ABJ90) Transportation Demand Forecasting (ADB40) Transportation Planning Applications (ADB50) Statewide Multimodal Trans. Planning (ADA10) Highway Capacity and Quality of Service (AHB40) Trans. Planning for Small & Medium Sized (ADA30)
Greg Giaimo and Rob Bostrom will approach several other committee members/friends who weren t present at the annual meeting to serve as the subcommittee liaison for certain other committees that weren t covered. 9. Web Site Status/Parent Committee Web Site Charlie Howard indicates parent committee web site is still in transition and will be discussed at parent committee meeting. Chair indicates subcommittees web site is currently maintained by Alan Horowitz at: www.uwm.edu/~horowitz/statewide.html but that this site is relatively inaccessible. Mr. Giaimo and Mr. Howard will coordinate on possibly linking in web site once issues with parent committee web site are addressed. In the mean time, Mr. Giaimo will ensure that Alan Horowitz receives up to date information for posting on web site. Existing Research Topics Status Report Bob Gorman begins the discussion by indicating the Federal Government has Rick Donnelly under contract to develop a workshop to assist states in understanding statewide models. It will be a one day workshop. Chair indicates that Rural Trip Making and National Model research topics have been addressed by existing activities previously described. Chair indicates that Validation Standards has been changed to Validation Guidelines per direction from the parent committee. Discussion ensues on the proper way to address this. There is some talk of whether to use NCHRP 8-36 or a full NCHRP project. Chuck Purvis proposes that the topic should be a bit broader look at the complete quality assurance/quality control process for statewide models. Greg Giaimo proposes that rather than immediately moving to an NCHRP project we might consider a call for papers/annual meeting session, to begin to solicit ideas on this topic. Tom Rossi seconds this idea adding that this approach would be better than just obtaining the opinion of single researcher as would be the case with an NCHRP project. The subcommittee reaches consensus on this approach. Chair appoints Tom Rossi and Chuck Purvis draft the call for papers. Tom Rossi as subcommittee liaison to ADB40 will also seek cosponsorship from that committee. Chair indicates that Long Distance Travel Data, Improved Freight Data action items have been addressed by existing activities previously described. Chair indicates that DOT Staffing Levels research topic has not been addressed to date. Charlie Howard indicates that next years annual meeting theme related to institutional and financial arrangement for meeting the needs of the 21 st century may present
opportunities to address this issue at next years annual meeting. Greg Giaimo will work with Charlie Howard to see if such an opportunity exists once this is better defined. Presentation on South Dakota Traffic Generator Study Hal Rumpca presented some findings from their study of large retail traffic generators which indicated the trip generation and travel shed of these generators was much greater in rural areas than is contained in ITE. ATTACHMENTS Synthesis Study Summary Presentation Original National Travel Model Research Proposal South Dakota DOT Research Problem Statement SD2005-02 Participant Affiliation Phone Number Email Address Lee Giesbrecht BTS 202-366-2546 lee.giesbrecht@dot.gov Paul Hershkowitz WSA 517-323-0500 phershkowitz@wilbursmith.com Tom Rossi Cambridge 617-354-0167 trossi@camsys.com Julie Dunbar Dunbar 309-661-1767 j.b.dunbar@gte.net Bahram Jamei VA 703-383-2214 bahram.jamei@vdot.virginia.gov Travis Dunn Booz Allen Hamilton dunn_travis@bah.com Ray Stokes Burgess & Niple 614-214-9228 rstokes@burnip.com Chuck Purvis Metro (San Fran) 510-817-5755 cpurvis@mtc.ca.gov Rob Bostrom WSA 859-254-5759 rbostrom@wilbursmith.com Greg Giaimo OH 614-752-5738 Greg.Giaimo@dot.state.oh.us Peuget Sound RC (Seattle) 206-464-7122 choward@psrc.org Charlie Howard Anselem (Hal) Rumpca SD 605-773-3852 hal.rumpca@state.sd.us Bob Gorman FHWA 202-366-5001 robert.gorman@fhwa.dot.gov Rob Schiffer Cambridge 850-219-6388 x203 rschiffer@camsys.com Paul Agnello VA 804-786-2531 paul.agnello@vdot.virginia.gov Dane Ismart Louis Berger 407-399-2325 dismart@louisberger.com Jack Klodzinski URS-FLA TPK 407-532-3999 x3819 jack.klodzinski@dot.state.fl.us Alliance Trans. Grp. 512-821-2081 mike_heath@alliance-transportatio Mike Heath Shuming Yan WA 206-464-1276 yans@wsdot.wa.gov David Cipra WI 608-264-8722 david.cipra@dot.state.wi.us