2018 Meeting
2018 AH010 Committee Meeting
6-9:30 pm, Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Marriott Marquis, Marquis Ballroom Salon 2 (M2)
Meeting agenda
1. Introductions and circulations of attendance roster
2. Approval of Agenda
3. TRB Staff Report -- James Bryant and Max Perchanok
4. Current Business
a. Research Activities Report -- Rhonda Young
b. NCHRP Research Problem Statements and Syntheses
c. Reports from other committees and task force liaisons
d. myTRB
e. Additional business
Dr. Leon Osborne
5. Conferences and Special Reports
a. FHWA Activities -- Roemer Alfelor
b. WMTSP/SICOP -- Rick Nelson
2017 National Winter Maintenance Peer Exchange (NWMPE), Pittsburgh, PA
c. APWA -- Rick DeVries
d. Clear Roads -- Scott Lucas
e. Aurora Program -- Tina Greenfield
f. AMS/STC -- Paul Pisano (by proxy)
g. PIARC - Anna Arvidsson
h. World Salt Symposium -- Wilf Nixon
Park City, UT 2018
i. SIRWEC -- Wilf Nixon
Slovakia 2018
j. Additional reports
6. New Activities
a. Goals and Scope
b. Subcommittees
Research -- Rhonda Young
c. Committee website -- Tae Kwon
d. Additional activities
7. Presentations, Reports or Announcements from Members, Friends and other guests
a. Wyoming DOT Connect Vehicle Pilot Project -- Rhonda Young
b. Recent Swedish Winter Research -- Anna Arvidsson
c. NAS report on Social and Behavioral Sciences in the Wx Environment -- Rick Nelson
8. Adjournment
Meeting minutes
Housekeeping Announcements: emergency numbers, harassment free environment
Introductions around the room
Agenda approved
Research – NCHRP Sythesis Submittal
NCHRP Synthesis proposal submitted by committee last year entitled “Synthesis on Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) Data: Needs, Inventory, Trends, Data Quality and Sharing”.
Effort done by Peter Jin, Wilf Nixon, Kyle Garret and Rhonda Young.
Not accepted as a project but will submit as an RNS.
Should this be considered for Aurora funding?
Need to come up with mechanism for sustainable process for generating committee research needs.
Ross Wang – section and group co-chair
Identification of young members on sign in sheet
4 young members slots per committee
MyTRB, Young member council information
Mentor/mentee program to help young members
Leon Osborne – In Memoriam
TRB Annoucements:
Research Pays Off
TR News
TRB Centennial
TRB Idea Program
TRB Global Affiliate
Roemer Alfelor – FHWA
Discussion of 2 page summary handout of recent activities
Rick Nelson – AASHTO
SICOP 2017 in Review handout
National Strategic Winter Maintenance Plan Pooled Fund Handout
Highlights “Integrating Social and Behavioral Science within the Weather Enterprise” national Academics Consensus Report Summary handout
Mark DeVries – APWA
4 page Update Memo on activities
James Bryant – Maintenance and Preservation Rep
Next year’s theme “Transportation for Smart, Sustainable, Equitable Future.”
~14,000 registrations
~6,000 papers
~3,000 papers accepted for presentation
Triennial report (TSP) needs to be done this year by the committee
Max Perchanok – Section Chair
Section awards and notable activites update
Blue Ribbon for Communications
TR New Profile
Paper Award in honor of Lee Smithson for papers starting this year that were submitted to section
Messages from technical activities council
Critical and Emerging Issues
Strategic alignment
Broadening Participation – young members, diversity
PIARC – Anna Arvidson
Transportation management during weather events project
Deicing Salt and Brine: State of the Art Report and Good Practices Summary
Snow and Ice data report published and online
Conference in Gdansk, Poland next month
Arkansas putting on conference in May and would like to have winter maintenance track
Triennial (TSP) report due March 1st
Last version was 2010
Discussion on priority areas
Template
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Scott Lucas – Clear Roads
Presentation and handout on recent activities
Zach Hans – Aurora
TAC – Analysis of CAnda
Aurora updates
New Century Research Needs
Cross cutting research needs
Statements and session ideas
Presentation by Rhonda Young, Gonzaga University on updates to the Wyoming Connected Vehicle Pilot Project.
presentations
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