Past Conferences (1996-2006) of Interest to TRB Urban Transportation Data Committee

This page provides information on recently held conferences of interest to committee members and friends. Check back here periodically to check if conference proceedings or other summaries are available. The following conferences are referenced on this page:

This conference was held April 28 - May 1, 1996 in Irvine, California, at the Beckman Center meeting facility on the UC Irvine campus. This conference was sponsored by the Transportation Research Board, the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Transit Administration, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

The objectives of this conference were to:

Proceedings have been released (March 1997) in TRB Conference Proceedings 13: "Decennial Census Data for Transportation Planning: Case Studies and Strategies for 2000." The proceedings are in two volumes.

Conference on Activity-Based Travel Forecasting

This conference was held June 2-5, 1996, in New Orleans, Louisiana. This conference was part of the Travel Model Improvement Program sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Transit Administration, the Office of the Secretary of Transportation, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The objectives of the conference were to:

One of the parallel workshops planned for the Activity-Based Travel Forecasting conference was related to data needs and requirements to support activity-based travel behavior models. Results of this conference may be of interest to planners and practitioners involved in the collection and analysis of travel survey data.

Proceedings for the New Orleans conference are available online at: http://tmip.fhwa.dot.gov/clearinghouse/docs/abtf/. Hard copies of the conference proceedings are available upon request to the TMIP program office.

Mid-Year Meeting of the Transportation Research Board - Transportation Data Committees

The TRB and the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)co-hosted the mid-year meetings of the TRB Transportation Data Committees in conjunction with the URISA Annual Meeting. TRB's standing data committees and task forces represent national, statewide and urban transportation interests including GIS-T, survey methods and freight data. The purpose of this collaborative endeavor was to enhance the transportation data programs within each organization and to educate transportation professionals on the latest in information technology; and to increase awareness of the resources available through URISA and TRB.

URISA is a leading interdisciplinary society of over 3,700 professionals and organizations dedicated to promoting the use of information systems and technology in all levels of government and the private sector. URISA provides an educational forum for providers and users of spatial informationb, information technology and related services.

The TRB Mid-Year Meeting was held Saturday and Sunday, July 27-28, 1996, at the Red Lion Inn in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The URISA annual meeting was held Saturday, July 27th, through Thursday, August 1st, 1996.

Visit the URISA home page at www.urisa.org to find out more information about URISA and their annual meetings!

The urban data committee co-hosted a session with the statewide data committee on Sunday, July 28th, on MPOs and State DOTs: Developing Strong Data Management Partnerships. Speakers at this session included Mr. John Coil, Denver Regional Council of Governments; Mr. Ron Sprengeler, Colorado State DOT; Mr. Wayne Bennion, Wasatch Front Regional Council; Mr. David Blake, Utah State DOT; and the chairs of the statewide data committee (Ron Tweedie, New York State DOT) and the urban data commitee (Chuck Purvis, Metropolitan Transportation Commission.)

Second National Conference on Women's Travel Issues

This conference was held October 23-25, 1996, at the Hotel Radisson Lord Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland. It was sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration and the Women & Planning Division of the American Planning Association. The Second National Conference on Women's Travel Issues had three objectives:

To bring together and synthesize the best work from a variety of disciplines on the travel patterns, needs, and attitudes of women and their families, with emphasis on traditionally underrepresented or minority women and households;
To evaluate the planning and policy implications of these findings; and,
To identify missing information or areas in need of additional research and to suggest a series of research questions.

Copies of the Conference Proceedings were distributed at the Women in Transportation Task Force meeting at the TRB Mid-Year Meetings in Seattle, Washington, this past July, 1999. Copies are available from the Federal Highway Administration, Office of Highway Information and Management. Visit the OHIM website at: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/womens/wtipage.htm

You may also want to visit the Conference web site at:

http://w3.arizona.edu/~drachman/wm_trvl/wm_trvl.htm

Conference on Urban Design, Telecommuting and Travel Behavior

This conference was held October 27-30, 1996, at the Hospitality House in Williamsburg, Virginia. This conference is also a part of the Travel Model Improvement Program.

This conference examined developments in urban design and telecommuting and identify their potential impacts for reducing motor vehicle travel, congestion, accidents, air pollutaion and energy consumption while maintaining accessibility. The conference charge was to identify transferable principles and results and determine where additional research is needed. The conference was to identify ways to implement these improvements and to incorporate their effects into the travel demand forecasting process.

If you have any questions about arrangements for this conference, please contact Lynette Engelke at (817) 277-5503. Questions about the conference program should be addressed to Gordon Shunk at the same number.
Conference proceedings are online at the TMIP Web Site.

Conference on Information Needs to Support State & Local Transportation Decision-Making Into the 21st Century


This conference was held March 2-5, 1997, in Irvine, California at the National Academy of Sciences Beckman Center. This by-invitation conference was sponsored by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO), and the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO).

This Conference addressed policy issues regarding data and analytical methods development that can be addressed nationally through ISTEA reauthorization. Conference attendees were invited from all states, representative metropolitan planning organizations, and national interest groups to assure broad representation of the transportation planning and policy communities. Significant efforts were made to include front-line analysts who have extensive experience in answering policy questions and responding to federal reporting requirements.

The Conference provided an opportunity for participants to:

Participants identified and discussed needs for data and new analytical methods to support state and local transportation decision-making in the future. A conference proceedings will be published containing the resource papers and summary of conference discussions to provide input to the U.S. Department of Transportaiton and other federal agencies in their development of new data-related activities designed to improve transportation planning at all levels of government. Particular emphasis was placed on data and analytical methods development that can be addressed nationally through ISTEA reauthorization.

Proceedings for this conference are included as TRB Conference Proceedings #14. 

American Planning Association 88th National Conference

The American Planning Association's national conference was held April 5-9, 1997, in San Diego, California at the San Diego Marriott. The conference included over 200 sessions, 50 mobile workshops, and a host of social events.

Members and friends of the TRB Urban Transportation Data Committee participated in a session entitled: What to Expect for Census 2000, on Wednesday, April 9th at the San Diego Marriott.

Online proceedings for the 1997 APA Conference are available at: http://www.asu.edu/caed/proceedings97/

Sixth Conference on Transportation Planning Methods Applications

This conference was held May 19-23, 1997, in Dearborn, Michigan. This biennial conference is sponsored by the Transportation Planning Applications Committee (A1C07) of the Transportation Research Board, and was hosted by the Michigan Department of Transportation and the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments.

Transport Surveys: Raising the Standard - International Conference on Transport Survey Quality and Innovation


This conference was held May 24-30, 1997, in Eibsee, Germany. This international conference was sponsored by SOCIALDATA GmbH (Munich), the Transportation Research Board (Washington, DC), the Dutch Ministry of Transport and the Transport Research Centre (RMIT, Melbourne).

This Conference was held at the Eibsee Hotel (about 100 km south of Munich). Leading specialists from around the world met to debate in depth the key issues affecting transport survey methodology into the next century. One of the main aims of the conference was to encourage a dialogue among survey specialists and between those who design, apply and use the results of transport surveys.

The Conference was designed around two sets of parallel workshops, with twelve streams in all. These covered: multi-instrument and multi-method surveys; respondent sampling, weighting and non-response; item sampling, weighting and non-response; quality indicators; multi-day and multi-period data; respondent burden; hypothetical situations; practitioners' future needs; modelers' needs; rols of qualititative versus quantitative methods; data presentation; and questionnaire design.

Joint Mid-Year Meeting of TRB Economics, Finance, Administration and Planning Committees

Mid-Year Meetings for the TRB committees related to economics, finance, administration and planning was held July 20-23, 1997, in Portland, Maine.

Eighth Meeting of the International Association of Travel Behavior Research (IATBR)

This conference was held September 21-25, 1997, in Austin, Texas. This Eighth Meeting continues the tradition set in the previous meetings to provide a focused forum for assessing state-of-the-art developments in travel behavior and applications, and identifying the principal emerging trends, challenges and opportunities in this important area of transportation research.

Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS) Symposium

 This symposium was sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The symposium was held October 29-31, 1997 at the Holiday Inn Bethesda in Bethesda, Maryland. 

The symposium included presentation of four papers commissioned by the FHWA. These papers are based on the data collected from the 1995 NPTS. This two-day symposium was intended to provide opportunity for individuals with an interest in personal transportation issues to learn about the latest research, exchange information and ideas of the implications for transportation policy and planning, and to make recommendations about future transportation research and development. The symposium consisted of general sessions, presentations, breakout sessions, demonstrations and networking opportunities.

Copies of the Conference Proceedings are available from the FHWA Office of Highway Policy Information, in "Searching for Solutions: A Policy Discussion Series, Number 17, February 1999."

Users may want to visit the NPTS Home Page (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) at: http://www-cta.ornl.gov/npts/index.html

North American Travel Monitoring Exhibition & Conference (NATMEC '98)

 This conference was held May 11-15, 1998 in Charlotte, North Carolina. FHWA's Office of Highway Information Management and the North Carolina Department of Transportation are co-sponsors. This is a continuation and expansion of the National Traffic Data Acquisition Conference (NATDAC) series.

The conference provided an opportunity to examine and share state-of-the-art technology, knowledge, and progress in traffic data collection, analysis, and use. A comprehensive program included presentations on traffic counting, vehicle classification, weigh-in-motion, vehicle occupancy, freight movement, travel time, etc. Opportunities for data collection from intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) were discussed.

Conference on Transportation, Land Use and Air Quality: Making the Connection

 This specialty conference was sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Urban Transportation Division and Urban Planning & Development Division. Cooperating organizations include the Air & Waste Management Association and the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. The conference was held May 17-20, 1998 at the Benson Hotel in Portland, Oregon.

Transportation Research Board: Mid-Year Meeting of Transportation Planning, Data & Economics Committees

 The mid-year meeting for the TRB committees on transportation planning, data and economics was held July 12 - 14, 1998 in Seattle, Washington at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

The urban transportation data & information systems committee and the Census data for transportation planning subcommittee met on Tuesday, July 14th. Minutes from these meetings will be posted as they become available.

Committee members discussed possible future mid-year meetings of the TRB data committees. There was a general groundswell of support for hosting the mid-year meeting for the data committees in conjunction with the USDOT conference on national travel surveys. This national travel survey conference is scheduled for early July 1999, at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. More details to follow.

Workshop on Statewide Travel Demand Forecasting

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This workshop was held December 6-8, 1998 at the National Academy of Science's Beckman Center near the University of California Irvine campus. The hotel venue was the Four Seasons Hotel in nearby Newport Beach, California.

Workshops were organized into six themes: management, data needs, federal requirements, GIS, model applications, and freight. Plenary sessions included discussions on statewide policy issues, best practices, problems & opportunities, and research needs.

The conference was sponsored by the TRB Committees on Statewide Multimodal Planning and Statewide Transportation Data and Information Systems and the Travel Model Improvement Program.

Seventh TRB Conference on Transportation Planning Methods

 The Seventh biennial TRB Conference on the Application of Transportation Planning Methods was held March 7 - 11, 1999 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. This conference was sponsored by the Transportation Research Board, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation and Construction, and the Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization. The applications conference provides transportation planners a forum for the timely exchange of ideas, methodologies and experiences.

Conference proceedings are on a CD.

Travel Model Improvement Program Conference (TMIP IV)

 The fourth conference of the USDOT Travel Model Improvement Program (TMIP) was held April 18 - 21, 1999 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The subject of the conference was the TMIP program, TRANSIMS, and the TRANSIMS deployment plans.

Quality Transportation Planning

 This one-day workshop was sponsored by the American Planning Association's Transportation Planning Division. It was held the Saturday before the regular APA national conference in Seattle -- Saturday, April 24, 1999 at the SeaTac International Airport Main Terminal, Conference Room.

Transportation Planning Research Needs and Requirements

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This TRB workshop was held April 25 - 28, 1999, at the National Academy of Sciences Beckman Center, in Irvine, California.

This workshop was the "research needs" followup conference to the February 1999 "issues" conference.
Conference proceedings are included in the report "Refocusing Transportation Planning for the 21st Century" (TRB Conference Proceedings #20, June 2000).

TRB Conference on Personal Travel: The Long and Short of It

 This conference was co-sponsored by the Transportation Research Board, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and the Federal Highway Administration. It was held June 28 - July 1, 1999, at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the conference was to discuss results and analysis of data from surveys such as the Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS) and the American Travel Survey (ATS).

International Conference on Survey Non-Response

This conference was co-sponsored by several non-transportation organizations, including the American Statistical Association and the Council of American Survey Research Organizations (CASRO). It was held October 28 - 31, 1999, at the Portland Hilton in downtown Portland, Oregon.

International Association of Travel Behavior Research Conference

The triennial conference of the International Association of Travel Behavior Research was held July 2-7, 2000, at the Sheraton Mirage Hotel in the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia.

North American Transportation Monitoring Exhibition and Conference (NATMEC 2000) 

The conference was held August 27 - 31, 2000, at the Marriott West Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin. NATMEC 2000 was sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Transportation Research Board, Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
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Eighth Conference on the Application of Transportation Planning Methods

This biennial conference was held April 22-26, 2001 in Corpus Christi, Texas.

The conference provides transportation planners a forum for the exchange of innovative and contemporary ideas, methodologies and experiences. The goal of the sponsors is to provide an outlet for new techniques and methods without the time lag associated with traditional journals and conferences. The program emphasizes practical, innovative and timely technical and policy approaches to transprotation planning.

The Urban Data Committee (A1D08) and the Survey Methods Committee (A1D10) held their mid-year meetings in on Sunday, April 22nd, in conjunction with the Corpus Christi conference.

International Conference on Transport Survey Quality and Innovation

This was the follow-up to the 1997 Eibsee/Grainau, Germany conference on Transport Survey Quality. The conference was held August 5-11, 2001 at the Kruger National Park, South Africa.

The proceedings from the Kruger Conference were published by Pergamon Press in 2003: "Transport Survey Quality and Innovation" edited by Peter Stopher & Peter Jones.

North American Travel Monitoring Exhibition and Conference (NATMEC)

 The conference was held May 12-16, 2002 in Orlando, Florida.

Transportation Research Board Data Committees held their mid-year meetings in Orlando in conjunction with the NATMEC conference.

8th National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Communities

The conference was held September 18-20, 2002 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

9th Conference on the Application of Transportation Planning Methods

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The conference was held April 6-11, 2003 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Conference web site is at: http://www.ltrc.lsu.edu/TRBConference/.

TRB Mid-Year Meeting, 2003

The "Joint Summer Meeting of the Ports, Waterways, Freight, International Trade, Planning, Economics, Finance, and Management Committees" was held July 13-18, 2003, at the Doubletree-Lloyd Center Hotel in Portland, Oregon.
The Urban Data Committee meeting was held Thursday, July 17th at 2:00 PM.

10th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research (IATBR)

 IATBR Logo The conference was held August 10-15, 2003 in Lucerne, Switzerland at the Schweizerische Hotelfachschule Luzern (Swiss Hotel Management School Lucerne).

The IATBR web site with more information about the Swiss conference is at: http://www.ce.utexas.edu/iatbr/.


North American Travel Monitoring Exhibition & Conference (NATMEC)

The North American Travel Monitoring Exhibition and Conference (NATMEC) was held June 27 - 30, 2004 at the Loews Coronado Bay Hotel in San Diego, California. The mid-year meeting for three TRB committees, including the Urban Transportation Data Committee and the Statewide Transportation Data Committee, was heldSunday, June 26th. More information on the conference is available on the conference web site, at: http://www.trb.org/Conferences/NATMEC/.
Seventh International Conference on Travel Survey Methods

The Seventh International Conference on Travel Survey Methods was held August 1-6, 2004 at the Los Sueños Resort on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. More details about the Costa Rica conference is available at the International Steering Committee for Travel Survey Conferences, at: http://www.its.usyd.edu.au/isctsc/costaricaconference.asp.
Ninth National Conference on Transportation Planning for Small and Medium Sized Communities

This conference, sponsored by the TRB Committee on Transportation Planning Needs and Requirements of Small and Medium Communities (ADA30), was held September 22 - 24, 2004 at the Doubletree Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
National Household Travel Survey Conference: Understanding Our Nation's Travel

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) convened a workshop to bring together professionals working with the National Household Travel Survey data at the federal, state, and local levels, as well as, other transportation researchers, academics, and practitioners in the areas of travel behavior, travel and air quality forecasting, transportation and environmental policy, and survey methods. The workshop was held November 1-2, 2004 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC. More information is available on the conference web page, at: http://www.trb.org/calendar/event.asp?id=125  .
Conference for Research on Women's Transportation Issues

The Third Conference for Research on Women's Transportation issues, sponsored by the TRB Committee on Women's Issues in Transportation (ABE70), was held November 18 - 20, 2004 at the Chicago Marriott in Chicago, Illinois. The Conference focused on data-driven comparative analyses of 1) men and women's travel patterns or safety or security risks currently and over time, 2) different sub-groups of women, and 3) women internationally. More information on this conference is available on the TRB web site, at: http://www.trb.org/Conferences/Women/ .
10th TRB Transportation Planning Applications Conference

The Tenth TRB Transportation Planning Applications Conference, sponsored by the TRB Committee on Transportation Planning Applications (ADB50), was held April 25 - 28, 2005 at the Doubletree Hotel - Lloyd Center in Portland, Oregon. Powerpoint presentations from this conference were once available on the conference web site, at: http://www.trb-portland-05.com/ [web site is inactive].

TRB Conference on Census Data for Transportation Planning: Preparing for the Future

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The TRB held a conference on May 11 - 13, 2005, at the Beckman Center in Irvine, California. The overall objectives of the conference were to:

More information on the conference are available on the TRB web site at: http://www.trb.org/conferences/censusdata/. This web page also includes draft versions of the resource papers presented at the May conference.

Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) Conference

The TRB sponsored a conference on July 8-9, 2005, at the Boston Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center in Boston, Massachusetts, to discuss the status, use and future of the national Commodity Flow Survey (CFS). Specific objectives of the conference were to:

More information on the conference is available from the TRB web site, at: http://www.trb.org/conferences/cfs/

TRB 2005 Summer Conference

TRB held the joint mid-year committee meeting and 2005 Summer Conference, on July 10 - 12, 2005, at the Boston Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center in Boston, Massachusetts. The Urban Transportation Data & Information Systems Committee (ABJ30) held a mid-year committee meeting in Boston.

More information on the conference is available from the TRB web site, at: http://www.trb.org/Conferences/JointSummer/

Data Requirements in Transportation Reauthorization Legislation: What is Included and What are the Impacts on the Data Community?

TRB convened this conference at the Keck Center (TRB Headquarters), on December 8-9, 2005, in Washington DC. According to the TRB website, "this meeting will identify and refine the data issues associated with surface transportation reauthorization legislation programmatic proposals. Federal, State and Local officials and practitioners who manage data systems or must assure quality data will be available for their programs will focus on new and expanded requirements, in order to inform the state and MPO data communities about new responsibilities they are likely to face when new legislation is enacted. The meeting will be an opportunity to look at requirements across programs, and to suggest efficient data strategies for transportation organizations."

Information on this conference is available on the TRB web site, at: http://www.trb.org/Conferences/ReauthorizationData/

North American Travel Monitoring Exposition and Conference (NATMEC)

This biennial conference was held June 4-7, 2006 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis. More information on this conference is posted on the NATMEC web site: www.natmec.org or http://www.trb.org/conferences/natmec/


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