Tim Lomax, TTI - National Transportation Data Requirements and Programs (ABJ10)
Mission: The mission of the Data and Information Systems section is to advance the application of data and information systems to address transportation needs. Section activities should advance the state of the practice and build awareness of data and technology applications and their value for transportation practitioners, researchers, and decision makers. The Section achieves this mission by providing focused opportunities for collaboration and support for its member committees.
Strategic Goals:
Sustain data and information system programs for transportation planning and decision support
address critical and crosscutting issues (section-level appropriate)
Workshop objective: develop a tactical approach to meet section mission and strategic goals
Agenda
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Activity
7:30 AM
8:00 AM
Breakfast
8:00 AM
9:30 AM
On Site Only-Discussion of Relationships of TRB Strategic Initiatives/issues vs. Section Action Plan Items; previous efforts, background materials (see below for references)
NCHRP Report 666: Target-Setting Methods and Data Management to Support Performance-Based Resource Allocation by Transportation Agencies (2010)
NCHRP 643 Implementing Transportation Knowledge Networks – a framework for managing access to knowledge resources (2009)
NCHRP 20-90 Improving Management of Transportation Information – gathering information on categorization schemes and best practices for managing data and information resources, including capture, storage, findability, and access (RFP posted 9/2/2010)
NCHRP 20-89 Intellectual Property Stewardship Guide for Transportation Departments – anticipated to include source code (RFP posted 10/11/2010)
NCHRP 20-24(37) project
Measuring Performance among State DOTs: Sharing Good Practices (2006-2010 various topics completed)
Measuring Performance Among State DOTs (2006 AASHTO report)
20-24(37)F Establishment of Comparative Performance Measures Program Infrastructure to Support National System Performance Data Collection and Analysis (Completion Date: 2/16/2011)
Other
“Decision Making in the 21st Century: What’s New” (July 11, 2010)
“Transitioning to a Performance-Based National Surface Transportation Program” (July 11, 2010)
Summary of 2010 “GAO National Expert Panel on Performance Measures”
* Identified Themes:
Making data more useful, usable (visualization, analysis, user-oriented AI applications, advance computational methods, dissemination strategies)
Data for emergency response: training, planning, real time management
Data, measurement tools, and analysis methods for infrastructure monitoring (connections between the data section and asset managers)
Reporting the state of transportation data on an annual basis