TRB Section on Travel Analysis Methods (ADB00)

TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD

The TRB Section on Travel Analysis Methods is a family of six standing committees and task forces, organized under the Technical Activities Council of the Transportation Research Board. The TRB is a division of the National Research Council (NRC), which is jointly administered by the National Academy of Science (NAS), the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine (http://nationalacademies.org/).

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2006/2007 Calendar

Calls for Papers and Abstracts

• TRB 85th Annual Meeting (January 2006): PAPERS WERE DUE AUGUST 1, 2005
  • Geospatial Technologies and Activity-Based Approaches (ADB60T, ABJ60)
  • Valuation, Verification and Validation of Activity-Based Models (ADB60T)
  • Evaluation of the Appropriateness and Robustness of Rigorous Statistical Methodologies versus Soft Computing for Transportation Modeling Applications (ABJ70, ABJ80)
• 11th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research (Kyoto, August 2006). ABSTRACTS WERE DUE SEPTEMBER 1, 2005
• IATBR Kyoto Site http://term.kuciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp/iatbr06/
• Call for Abstracts

Committees, Task Forces and Subcommittees

The following is a list of the existing committees and task forces, their scopes, and their current chair.

• Committee on Traveler Behavior and Values (ADB10), Dr. Ram Pendyala, chair.
  • The committee will be concerned with promoting research and disseminating research results on traveler values, attitudes, and behavior. Traveler values and attitudes refer to motivational, cognitive, situation and disposition factors determining human behavior. Traveler behavior refers primarily to the modeling and analysis of travel demand, based on theories from a variety of scientific fields. These include but are not limited to time use and activity-based approaches, longitudinal methods, and spatial behaviorat any level of aggregation (e.g., individual, household, community, and so forth). The committee will serve as a forum for the development, testing, and dissemination of new interdisciplinary methods of inquiry.
  
  
  • Subcommittee on Time Use and Activity Patterns, ADB10(1), Cynthia Chen, chair
  • Subcommittee on Route Choice and Spatial Behavior, ADB10(2), Srinivas Peeta, chair
  • Subcommittee on International Travel Behavior [IATBR], ADB10(3), Kay Axhausen, chair
  • Subcommittee on Understanding Behavior Process: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, ADB10(4), Sean Doherty and Kelly Clifton, co-chairs


• Committee on Telecommunications and Travel Behavior (ADB20), Dr. Susan Handy, chair.
  • Conceptual, methodological, and/or empirical studies of the interrelation between telecommunications and traveler behavior, and the interaction between the demand for travel and the demand for communication via voice or data.


• Committee on Transportation Network Modeling (ADB30), Dr. Ali Haghani, chair.
  • The committee will promote research and information exchange related to the understanding of the factors affecting the performance of transportation systems, particularly the dependence of the quality of service on systems’ characteristics and operating policies; modelling the technological and behavioral relationships that determine the performance of transportation systems; and the development and use of decision models for determining the quantity and quality of the supply of transportation facilities and services. The committee will serve as a focus for the development, adaptation, and implementation of quantitative and computer-based methodologies for the above purposes. The scope and activities of the committee will cut across traditional modal boundaries, seeking unifying conceptual and methodological frameworks, yet highlighting the differences particular to the various modal contexts. As such, it will foster effective and rapid sharing of information and experiences among researchers, practitioners, regulators and decisionmakers in the various modal contexts, in both the private and public sectors.
  
  
  • Subcommittee on Network Transit and Commercial Fleet, ADB30(1), Amelia Regan, chair
  • Subcommittee on Network Equilibrium Modeling, ADB30(2), Travis Waller, chair


• Committee on Transportation Demand Forecasting [www.trb-forecasting.org] (ADB40), Dr. Chandra Bhat, chair.
  • The focus of this committee includes the development, application, and dissemination of improved demand forecasting techniques, within the integrated context of the interaction of transportation demand with the land-use form, demographic composition, and technological state of the activity-travel environment. All aspects related to theory, data estimation, and application are of direct interest to the committee, with an emphasis on research developments that have the potential to be implemented in the near future.
  
  
  • Subcommittee on Emerging Methods, ADB40(1), Joan Walker and Karthik Srinivasan, co-chairs
  • Subcommittee on Integrated Land Use and Transport Modeling, ADB40(2), Eric Miller and Doug Hunt, co-chairs


• Committee on Transportation Planning Applications (ADB50), Mr. Jerry Faris, chair.
  • This committee is concerned with the application of new or improved transportation planning methods and techniques and their practical application at the regional, corridor, and site level of analysis.


• Task Force on Moving Activity-Based Approaches to Practice (ADB60T), Dr. Kostas Goulias, chair.
  • In the next several years, several large metropolitan planning organizations will be using regional models that are activity-based. These models will need to address questions that span from the very short-term and operational orientation of issues to the very long-term visionary type of policy explorations. This task force will develop a plan to achieve the vision and provide the initial impetus to move activity-based approaches to practice using primarily educational and outreach tools.

The TRB Section ADB00 Home Page is hosted by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland, California.

Site launched: 17-May-2005
Site last updated: 31-May-2006
http://trb.mtc.ca.gov/urban/tam/