TRB 2022 Meeting Minutes

Annual Meeting Agenda – Statewide Travel Demand Forecasting AEP50(3) – Subcommittee of AEP50
Tuesday, 7:30 PM EST – 9:00 PM EST, 1/11/2022

7:30 Welcome/Introductions

• Presiding: Rob Bostrom, CDM Smith and Rebekah Anderson, Ohio DOT (for David Ory, WSP)
• TRB Liaison: Anusha Jayasinghe, TRB
• Committee Backup: Liza Amar, CDM Smith
• Intros – 22 attending, see scanned list on website

7:35 Approve Last Year’s Minutes – see website: TRB Statewide Modeling Subcommittee (trbappcon.org)
Approved

7:40 Existing Committee Activities

• 2021 Activities
  • Paper reviews
  • Wiki and Web site status – Andrew Rohne, RSG webmaster, Michelle Bina, Cambridge Systematics, wiki lead
    • Andrew noted that some of the presentations are up and in the website but not linked/live yet
  • Research subcommittee – Greg Giaimo, Ohio DOT, Vince Bernardin, Caliper, Jeremy Raw, FHWA, Rob Schiffer, FuturePlan Consulting, Rob Bostrom – focus on Peer Exchange
• 2022 Annual Meeting related activities
  • o TRB liaison – Anusha J.
    • 9k registered but not sure of the final count
    • Exec committee working on how transportation severs broader society goals (safety and security, climate changes, public health, and equity,
    • Strategic update
    • Changed demographic definitions to align with US census; so asking all to update TRB profiles
      • Rebekah recommended searching yourself in the TRB system to see if you have multiple email addresses as well.
    • Thinking of equity
    • External strategic alignment; internal staff reorganization – new deputy director; new director of operations
    • Jan 8-12, 2023 is next year’s annual meeting
  • Planning and Forecasting events –
    • Greg noted that the committees got half as many sessions this year due to restrictions of COVID and the convention center
    • Anusha is unsure if this will continue but expects more sessions next year
    • Greg asked if we are a joint subcommittee; Rob noted that we are listed in the program as such but neither subcommittee knows if this is the case.
    • Anusha and Rob can check
    • Joint subcommittee: AEP50 and AEP10 (Transportation Planning, Policy and Process)
• Research Results – Jeremy Raw
• Linkages with other TRB committees – liaison confirm interest and/or report on committee activities
  • Transportation Planning Policy and Processes Committee (ADEP10) – work with William Frawley to determine if they are still a parent committee – Rob Bostrom
  • Travel Forecasting Resource http://tfresource.org/Statewide_Models AEP50(4)- Michelle Bina,
  • Transportation Planning Analysis and Application (AEP15) – Greg Giaimo and Rob Schiffer, cancelled this year
  • Parent Committee – Transportation Demand Forecasting (AEP50) – Rob Bostrom
  • Long Distance Subcommittee: discussed what is a long distance trip (50 or 100 miles) NYC = 100 but Oregon = 50; International conference in Portugal is still being scheduled, maybe for May
    • Krishnan noted that there is not funds identified for a long distance trip survey
    • Oregon and Ohio are jointly funding a long distance survey in ActivitySim
• Technical Presentations
  • Iowa Statewide Model: Incorporating Rightsizing – Rob Schiffer
  • SHIFT Regional Model – Liza Amar, CDM Smith
  • Florida Evacuation Model – Krishnan Viswanathan, Cambridge Systematics
  • Illinois Statewide Model Development – Steve Tuttle, RSG

8:45 Research Focus Areas Status

• Virtual Peer Exchange for Statewide Models to Develop Research Topics
  • see results of 2004 Peer Exchange at: http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/circulars/ec075.pdf
  • think that it will be in June 2022; funding delayed from March; in Columbus; focus on interaction and needs with SWMs and association with federal data sources; States will talk about the FHWA sources that they use and FHWA will provide demos
• List of states/contacts have been identified but can speak up if want to participate
• Hybrid (in-person and virtual) participation

8:55 Upcoming Years Activities

• Sessions for 2023 meeting – coordinate with parent committee
• Related conferences
  • PAC was virtual in 2021 and committee is / would like to plan for 2023 conference; Julie Dunbar is no longer a co-chair as she is rotating off and it will just be Hanna.
  • ITM will push from 2022 to 2023
  • Tools of Trade conference (small and medium sized MPOs) from 2020 is pushed to August 2022 in Boise Idaho
  • Rebekah noted that this is a discussion at the section level – her understanding is that TRB has had to layoff staff and not enough staff members at TRB to put on a conference.
  • 2022 Census Data for Transportation Planning Conference held June 7-9, 2022 in Reno
• Paper Reviews – coordinate with parent committee

9:00 Adjourn

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