TRB 2013 ANNUAL MEETING HIGHLIGHTS Deploying ...

1 TR NEWS 285 MARCH APRIL TransportationSecretary Ray LaHoodoutlines high-speed railinitiatives of the ObamaAdministration in a sessionexamining Economic andSocial Impacts of High-Speed Rail Broen,TeachAmerica, uses theTRB ANNUAL Meetingmobile app to check Fraser (left) andAvril Gordon Joseph,Achievement FirstBrooklyn High School,New York, conclude theirwinning argument at adebate on federalspending on infrastructurein a special session hostedby the NationalAssociation for UrbanDebate New AttendeesWelcome Session offeredan overview of TRB, tipson networking andnavigating the MEETING ,and information on careerdevelopment andcommittee Service Award recipient, was the fea-tured speaker at the Chairman s Luncheon.

2 Details and HIGHLIGHTS appear on the 2013 ANNUAL MEETING HIGHLIGHTSD eployingTransportation ResearchDoing Things Smarter, Better, FasterFace-to-face interaction and technological inno-vation converged at the Transportation ResearchBoard s 92nd ANNUAL MEETING , January 13 17,2013, in Washington, A record-setting crowd ofmore than 11,700 transportation professionals,researchers, and policy makers attended more than750 sessions and workshops on topics from Super-storm sandy to the Moving Ahead for Progress in the21st Century Act (MAP-21). Approximately 40 ses-sions explored the theme of Deploying TransportationResearch: Doing Things Smarter, Better, Faster andcommittee meetings, major award presentations, andexhibits provided opportunities for attendees to shareknowledge and new TRB ANNUAL MEETING mobile applicationallowed participants to view sessions and events, nav-igate interactive floor plans, and create a personalizedschedule the app was downloaded more than8,000 times before and during the MEETING .

3 Other nav-igation tools included an interactive Google map, aCompendium of Papers flash drive, ANNUAL MeetingOnline, and Facebook and Twitter John P. Broomfield delivered the 2013 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture on HolisticApproach to Maintenance and Preservation of Trans-portation Infrastructure. John C. Horsley, ExecutiveDirector of the American Association of State Highwayand Transportation Officials and the W. N. Carey, Jr., ANNUAL Meetingphotographs by Risdon NEWS 285 MARCH APRIL 201316 INTERSECTIONS(Left to right:) KewenWang, Li Zhenbong, andYiping Wu, BeijingUniversity, plan theirAnnual MEETING Bertini,Portland State University,explains OperationsSection goals to first-timemeeting attendees at theWelcome TechnicalActivities Council providesleadership, facilitation,and coordination for TRB sstanding Lacosta,National HighwayInstitute, discusses theMaintenance LeadershipAcademy and othertraining initiatives of theFederal HighwayAdministration (FHWA).

4 The Exhibit Hallfeatured approximately200 displays from TRBsponsors and otherorganizations.(Left to right:) JorgeProzzi, University of Texas,Austin; Henri Van Damme,French Institute of Scienceand Technology forTransport, SpatialPlanning, Development,and Networks (IFSTTAR);TRB Executive DirectorRobert E. Skinner, Jr.; andPatrick Mall jacq, IFSTTAR,sign a letter of agreementbetween TRB and IFSTTARat the InternationalParticipants Lotan, RanNaor Foundation, Israel,and Fred wegman , SWOVI nstitute for Road SafetyResearch, The Netherlands,sign a memorandum ofunderstanding.

5 Bothorganizations focus onroad safety TechnicalActivities Council (frontrow, left to right:) PaulJovanis, Johanna Zmud,Thomas Wakeman,Council Chair KatherineTurnbull, Mark Norman,Lucy Phillips Priddy, andHarold (Skip) Paul; (backrow, left to right:) MarkKross, ThomasKazmierowski, PeterMandle, Paul Carlson,David Wilcock, andAnthony 2013 ANNUAL MEETING HIGHLIGHTSTR NEWS 285 MARCH APRIL 201317 SESSIONS ANDWORKSHOPSJ eannie Beckett,Beckett Group, leadsparticipants in a workshopon Freight Sowah,Georgia Institute ofTechnology, presents herdoctoral research onmanaging ancillarytransportation assets at asession on innovativeresearch from FHWA sDwight David EisenhowerTransportation the Human FactorsLuncheon, RobertStrassburger, AutoAlliance, discusses the roleof smartphone technologyin driving safety.

6 Includingthe costs and Morris,University of Minnesota,Twin Cities, participates indiscussion at the HumanFactors Lewis, RhodeIsland Department ofTransportation (DOT),discusses the future of thesecond Strategic HighwayResearch Program (SHRP 2)research products for in aworkshop on Fosteringand Nurturing ResearchAgendas explore tools forresearch coordinators onTRB committees. Yaye Keita, Universityof Illinois, shares herresearch on the factorsthat determine transitaccess by car owners andtheir session exploredStrategies to MitigateImpacts of Heavy LoadsAssociated with theEnergy Sector on Low-Volume Koser (farright), Pennsylvania DOT,examines Marcellus shaledevelopmental impactson his state s were (left toright:) Jack Olson, NorthDakota DOT; KenSkorseth, South DakotaState University; JohnBarton, Texas DOT; TimZiegler, PennsylvaniaState University.

7 AndMark Nahra, WoodburyCounty, 2013 ANNUAL MEETING HIGHLIGHTSTR NEWS 285 MARCH APRIL 201318 SESSIONS ANDWORKSHOPS(continued)Anne Goodchild, Univer-sity of Washington, presentsopportunities for freightlogistics to help meet energyand environmental Vaa, NorwegianPublic Roads Administration,guides discussion on Benefitsof Winter Maintenance andRoad Condition Zapata, ArizonaState University, answersaudience questions on Char-acterization of UnsaturatedSoil Nixon, Universityof Iowa, shares research onwinter maintenance at aspotlight session on Innova-tive Approaches for Improv-ing the Effectiveness ofOperations and Mainte-nance Bhatt (right)

8 ,Delaware DOT, outlines hisagency s efforts to improveefficiency at a session onCurrent Strategies for StateDOT Leadership, moderatedby Hyun-A Park (left), SpyPond Partners, LLC. TRB Minority StudentFellow Chelse Hoover (left),Texas Southern University,discusses her research on cal-culating delay time usingglobal positioning a special session onSuperstorm sandy , HollyBamford, National Oceanicand Atmospheric Adminis-tration, shares ways to helpcoastal communities preparefor and recover from Ocel, FHWA, mod-erates Phased-Array Ultra-sonics and Their Use inFabrication and Fusco Rowe (left),Straughan Environmental,Inc.

9 , and Dayna Sherwood,Paul Carpenter Associates,Inc., moderated a panel onthe Effects of Noise 2013 ANNUAL MEETING HIGHLIGHTSIn a session on TRB sTransit Innovations Deserv-ing Exploratory Analysis(IDEA), Phil Winters, Univer-sity of South Florida,describes his travel assis-tance device for transit Baker, University of Birmingham,explains climate change spossible effects on theUnited Kingdom s rail NEWS 285 MARCH APRIL 201319 SESSIONS ANDWORKSHOPS(continued)Kirk Steudle, MichiganDOT, muses on the futureof transportation at aspotlight session onProviding Leadership inTransportation a poster session onNondestructive Evaluationand Field Testing ofBridges, DoroteaSigurdardottir, PrincetonUniversity, shares researchon Streicker Patel,Virginia DOT, participatesin a panel discussion onVariations in Best-ValueSelection.

10 Technical VersusPrice Russo,University of Naples,examines road design,road safety evaluation,and computerizedmanagement of data forroad networks at a sessionfor young Srivastava,National Aeronautics andSpace AdministrationAmes Research Center,addresses audiencequestions on AppliedResearch Opportunities inAirport and Lowe (right),Maryland State HighwayAdministration, presentsinformation onMaryland s WatershedResources Registry at asession on Current Issues inTransportation and Elnahal,Massachusetts DOT,imparts experiences in theABCs of AcceleratedBridge Construction in a session onTravel Time Estimation andProcessing were (left toright:) Wenjing Pu, Metro-politan Washington Councilof Governments; KavehFarokhi Sadabadi, Universityof Maryland; Chaoqun Jia,University of Massachusetts,Amherst; Mike Fontaine, Virginia Center for Trans-portation Innovation andResearch.