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

  1. NCHRP Synthesis proposal submitted by committee last year entitled “Synthesis on Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) Data: Needs, Inventory, Trends, Data Quality and Sharing”.

  2. Effort done by Peter Jin, Wilf Nixon, Kyle Garret and Rhonda Young.

  3. Not accepted as a project but will submit as an RNS.

  4. Should this be considered for Aurora funding?

  5. Need to come up with mechanism for sustainable process for generating committee research needs.

  • Ross Wang – section and group co-chair

  1. Identification of young members on sign in sheet

  2. 4 young members slots per committee

  3. MyTRB, Young member council information

  4. Mentor/mentee program to help young members

  • Leon Osborne – In Memoriam

  • TRB Annoucements:

  1. Research Pays Off

  2. TR News

  3. TRB Centennial

  4. TRB Idea Program

  5. TRB Global Affiliate

  • Roemer Alfelor – FHWA

  1. Discussion of 2 page summary handout of recent activities

  • Rick Nelson – AASHTO

  1. SICOP 2017 in Review handout

  2. National Strategic Winter Maintenance Plan Pooled Fund Handout

  3. Highlights “Integrating Social and Behavioral Science within the Weather Enterprise” national Academics Consensus Report Summary handout

  • Mark DeVries – APWA

  1. 4 page Update Memo on activities

  • James Bryant – Maintenance and Preservation Rep

  1. Next year’s theme “Transportation for Smart, Sustainable, Equitable Future.”

  2. ~14,000 registrations

  3. ~6,000 papers

  4. ~3,000 papers accepted for presentation

  5. Triennial report (TSP) needs to be done this year by the committee

  • Max Perchanok – Section Chair

  1. Section awards and notable activites update

  2. Blue Ribbon for Communications

  3. TR New Profile

  4. Paper Award in honor of Lee Smithson for papers starting this year that were submitted to section

  5. Messages from technical activities council

Critical and Emerging Issues

Strategic alignment

Broadening Participation – young members, diversity

  • PIARC – Anna Arvidson

  1. Transportation management during weather events project

  2. Deicing Salt and Brine: State of the Art Report and Good Practices Summary

  3. Snow and Ice data report published and online

  4. 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

  1. Last version was 2010

  2. Discussion on priority areas

  3. Template

  4. Use Google Docs to collaborate on document

  • Scott Lucas – Clear Roads

  1. Presentation and handout on recent activities

  • Zach Hans – Aurora

  1. TAC – Analysis of CAnda

  2. Aurora updates

  • New Century Research Needs

  1. Cross cutting research needs

  2. Statements and session ideas

  • Presentation by Rhonda Young, Gonzaga University on updates to the Wyoming Connected Vehicle Pilot Project.

presentations

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