{"id":57,"date":"2018-04-23T13:38:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trbstatewide.wordpress.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2022-06-15T09:45:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:45:23","slug":"statewide-travel-demand-forecasting-committee-2018-meeting-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trbstatewide.trbappcon.org\/wordpress\/statewide-travel-demand-forecasting-committee-2018-meeting-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Annual Subcommittee Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2017 Activities<\/h2>\n<p>Committee meeting presided over by Rob Bostrom\/CDM Smith with about 35 in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s meeting minutes were approved<\/p>\n<p>2017 Paper Review summary: 8 papers received, 1 published and 1 presented. Phil Mescher coordinated.<\/p>\n<p>Website\/TFR: The website has been transferred from Alan Horowitz\/AJH Associates to TRBstatewide.wordpress.com. Greg Macfarlane (Transport Foundry) is the custodian. Need to count visitors and assess usefulness of site. The committee will work to coordinate content with the Traffic Forecasting Resource WIKI. A group has been formed to add content to the wiki: David Kurth, Vince Bernardin, Rob Bostrom, William Allen and Rob Schiffer.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Discussed Annual Meeting session of importance to the subcommittee (specific ones noted on agenda), mostly session 708.<\/p>\n<p>Reported results of research subcommittee topics, covered in New Research. Subcommittee members include Jonathan Avner, Rob Schiffer (lead), Vince Bernardin, Marin Outwater, Rob Bostrom and Thomas Hill.<\/p>\n<h2>Research Results<\/h2>\n<p>Rick Donnelly\/WSP presented <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1pJlOi3Kvstm0sRBk5FsnRCg5QIZU2SYA\">(see attached ppt)<\/a> on the completed NCHRP Project 20-05 synthesis study which is published as NCHRP Synthesis 514.<\/p>\n<p>Colin Smith\/RSG presented on the ongoing National Freight Model <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1ZvN4Wkz_ibsyMmOT-Ar4HdRpT3XRKHii\">(see attached ppt)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Greg Erhardt\/University of Kentucky presented on preliminary results of NCHRP 08-36 task 137: Assessing the Utility and Costs of Statewide Travel Demand Models (see attached ppt)<\/p>\n<h2>Linkages with other TRB Committees\/Parent committee\/Sections<\/h2>\n<p>TRB Central \u2013 Jennifer Weeks gave an overview of the 2018 TRB conference<\/p>\n<p>Rob Bostrom requested liaisons for key committees and other TRB units that relate to statewide travel demand modeling. Our goal is to put liaison reports on the web page. Liaison volunteers include:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mega Regions Subcommittee (ADA20) \u2013 Karem Oryani\/independent<\/li>\n<li>Planning Applications Conference \u2013 Greg Giaimo\/ODOT.<\/li>\n<li>Long Distance Travel Data Subcommittee (ABJ10) \u2013 Rob Schiffer\/Stantec<\/li>\n<li>Travel Forecasting Resource (ADB45) <a href=\"http:\/\/tfresource.org\/Statewide_Models\">http:\/\/tfresource.org\/Statewide_Models<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; Rob Bostrom<\/li>\n<li>Parent Committees \u2013Statewide multimodal planning (ADA 10) and Transportation Demand Forecasting (ADB40) \u00a0&#8211; Rob Bostrom and Phil Mescher\/Iowa DOT<\/li>\n<li>NHTS \u2013 Krishnan Viswanathan\/Cambridge Systematics<\/li>\n<li>Integrated modeling \u2013John Abraham\/HBA Spectro<\/li>\n<li>FHWA \u2013 Jeremy Raw\/FHWA<\/li>\n<li>Visualization in Transportation (ABJ95) &#8211; EunSu Lee\/New Jersey City University<\/li>\n<li>Freight Committee \u2013 Tianjia Tang\/FHWA<\/li>\n<li>Small and Medium Sized Communities\/Rob Schiffer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ADA00 Transportation System Policy, Planning and Process Section Meeting \u2013 Rob B. \u00a0\u00a0 Libby Rushley is chair.<\/p>\n<p>Travel Analysis Methods Section \u2013 ADB00, Chandra Bhat Chair<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Technical Presentations<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Texas SAM update<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1rbDdDNc40lNTOST3gKZLxaYgwHD5rc0H\"> (see ppt) <\/a>Mike Chaney\/Alliance<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ontario Provincial Model \u2013 Paul Semple<\/p>\n<h2><strong>New Research <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Research ideas being developed by committee are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Big data and OD patterns \u2013 Vince Bernardin is leading<\/li>\n<li>Visitor (especially tourist) travel \u2013 Rob Schiffer and Thomas Hill are leading.<\/li>\n<li>Ideal Network for Travel Demand Models \u2013 Jonathan Avner is leading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Possible new topics include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National model<\/li>\n<li>Economic analysis with statewide models<\/li>\n<li>CAV and statewide models<\/li>\n<li>International model (s)<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic update of NCHRP Synthesis 514.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These topics will be developed with our research committee prioritizing at least one topic for submittal in 2018. Coordination will be made with parent committees.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Upcoming 2018 Activities<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Work on TFR by group mentioned in 2017 activities.<\/li>\n<li>Research subcommittee \u2013 develop consensus ideas and get submitted by August 1<sup>st<\/sup> with drafts by June 1<sup>st<\/sup> for committee review.<\/li>\n<li>2019 statewide modeling Peer Exchange \u2013 Greg Giaimo is coordinating this and it will likely be held at the 2019 PAC in Phoenix<\/li>\n<li>Hold mid-year subcommittee meeting, possible at Kansas City at the August. Rob Schiffer will take the lead.<\/li>\n<li>Paper review in August-September, led by Phil Mescher.<\/li>\n<li>Call for papers at beginning of June, led by research subcommittee and co-chairs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 Activities Committee meeting presided over by Rob Bostrom\/CDM Smith with about 35 in attendance. Last year&#8217;s meeting minutes were approved 2017 Paper Review summary: 8 papers received, 1 published and 1 presented. Phil Mescher coordinated. Website\/TFR: The website has been transferred from Alan Horowitz\/AJH Associates to TRBstatewide.wordpress.com. Greg Macfarlane (Transport Foundry) is the custodian. 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