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From: "Fisher, Kimberly" <KFi...@nas.edu>
Subject: First in a flurry of emails - 2015 NCHRP Projects and panel nomination opportunity
Date: May 16, 2014 1:25:10 PM CDT
To: "Alix Bockelman (abock...@mtc.ca.gov)" <abock...@mtc.ca.gov>, "Barbara Arens (ar...@pbworld.com)" <ar...@pbworld.com>, "'bhaz...@mag.maricopa.gov'" <bhaz...@mag.maricopa.gov>, "Bilotto, Claudia M. (bilo...@pbworld.com)" <bilo...@pbworld.com>, "Elise D. Miller-Hooks (eli...@umd.edu)" <eli...@umd.edu>, "Jerri L. Bohard (Jerri.L...@odot.state.or.us)" <Jerri.L...@odot.state.or.us>, "Jerry D. Everett (jeve...@utk.edu)" <jeve...@utk.edu>, Joan Walker <joanw...@berkeley.edu>, "John L. Renne (jre...@uno.edu)" <jre...@uno.edu>, "Julie Dunbar (ju...@dunbartransportation.com)" <ju...@dunbartransportation.com>, "mil...@civ.utoronto.ca" <mil...@civ.utoronto.ca>, "rno...@rci.rutgers.edu" <rno...@rci.rutgers.edu>, "Siva Srinivasan (si...@ce.ufl.edu)" <si...@ce.ufl.edu>, "Steven Suder (Steve...@fws.gov)" <Steve...@fws.gov>, "Shana Johnson (sjoh...@foursquareitp.com)" <sjoh...@foursquareitp.com>

The proposed NCHRP projects for 2015 have been announced and a call for panel nominations has been distributed.  The email with the solicitation is below and the critical files are attached.  I wanted to point out 5 projects that might be of interest to our community.  The 5 projects are listed below (with the project number/problem number – title, and page number of additional details in the file titled “NCHRP PanelSolicit2015”).
 
·        19-09/B-04 - Changing the Game: Innovative Solutions to Allocate Risk and Deliver Projects Successfully under Constrained Budget Conditions, page 42
·        08-101/B-10 - Measuring Regional Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicle Activity and Goods Movement, page 13
·        03-116/B-28 & G-17 - Multimodal Corridor Access Management Planning Methods, Guidelines, Best Practices, and Operational Impacts, page 5
·        08-102/B-29 - Understanding Urban Bicyclist Facility Type Preferences and Facility Type Impacts on Transportation System Performance, page 14
·        15-60/G-31 - Update of the AASHTO Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities, page 35
·        20-102/G-30 - Impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles on State and Local Transportation Agencies, page 48
Please distribute to your committee members and friends.
 
Thanks and have a great weekend.
 
Kim Fisher
Transportation Research Board
Keck Building, Room 493
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
 
 
 
From: "Adrienne Blackwell" <ABlac...@nas.edu>
To: "NCHRP ANNOUNCE" <NCHRP_A...@LSW.NAS.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:21:58 AM
Subject: [NCHRP_ANNOUNCE] Nominations requested for the Panels for FY 2015 Projects in the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) - please respond by June 23, 2014
 
 
 
To:                   DISTRIBUTION - see below
 
 From:              Christopher J. Hedges
Manager, NCHRP
 

Subject:           Panels for FY 2015 Projects in the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)

 
Immediate Action Requested
 
On March 25 and 26, the AASHTO Standing Committee on Research (SCOR) formulated the NCHRP's FY 2015 program. Now, looking ahead to the task of establishing project panels for new projects, we are forwarding the scope statements (see attached) and asking for your help in identifying individuals with expertise directly relevant to the research proposed for each project. 
 
Although the FY 2015 projects are tentative (they have not yet been approved by States' ballot), we are soliciting now for nominees to meet future deadlines and will appreciate anything you can do to provide information as soon as possible but not later than June 23, 2014. To aid you in distributing appropriate project statements to qualified individuals, individual descriptions of each new project are attached.    
 
To ensure proper consideration when making nominations, we need as many details as possible on your nominee's affiliation, title, address, and, most importantly, technical areas of competence related to the particular problem (a brief resume would be helpful). We also encourage submittals via e-mail which can be addressed to ablac...@nas.edu.  Please make sure that only business-related addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail contacts are provided. To help us to identify nominees who are members of historically underrepresented groups, we encourage the nomination of women and members of minority groups. Please use the attached form if a resume is not available; the form is attached in 2 formats, a PDF format and a Word form for ease of completion on-line. Contacts to determine an individual's interest in serving will be made from this office after we have matched available expertise with that required by the nature of the project.
 
Panels for the new projects are scheduled to meet beginning in August through September. Panel members are prohibited from submitting or participating in preparation of proposals on projects under their jurisdiction. They serve without compensation but are paid travel and subsistence expenses. Travel insurance is provided at no cost to the members. In many cases, only two meetings are held in the life of a project, and these normally occur in Washington, D.C.  The first meeting is to develop a project statement that is used to solicit proposals; the second meeting is to select a research agency from among those submitting proposals. Other meetings may be dictated by project circumstances; however, they are few and usually at least a year apart.
 
Membership on each panel will number approximately eight, and panels operate under the guidance of a permanent chairman--see attached "Functions of NCHRP Panels". The NCHRP staff serves as the secretariat.
 
We are grateful for your support of the NCHRP by providing nominees each year. With the nominees continuing to outnumber the available positions by about four to one, we have been able to establish panels outstanding in their ability to play a fundamental role in the accomplishment of successful research.   Please realize that if your nominee(s) is not selected, that there are several factors to be considered when forming well balanced and objective panels.  Although expertise is the primary factor, we also attempt a proper balance in terms of geographic areas, organization or agency types (e.g., public and private agencies, universities, associations, local and state government), and gender and ethnic diversity.
 
 
Attachments:

Summary of FY 2015 Research Program
Panel Nomination Form (2)
Functions of NCHRP Panels 
 

 
 
____________________________________________
 
Christopher J. Hedges
Manager, National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Transportation Research Board of the National Academies
500 Fifth Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
 

DISTRIBUTION: Chairman and Members, AASHTO Standing Committee on Research; Chairman and Members, AASHTO Research Advisory Committee; Officers, AASHTO Committees; Associate Administrator for R&D, Federal Highway Administration; Chairmen, ASCE Highway Committees; Executive Secretary, Women's Transportation Seminar; Representatives, Historically Black Colleges; Executive Director, Conference of Minority Transportation Officials; Executive Director, National Society of Black Engineers; Executive Director, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers; Executive Director, National Forum for Black Public Administrators; Executive Director, National Association of Minority Contractors; Executive Director, National Association of County Engineers; CEO & President, National Urban League; President, National Council of Negro Women; President, Blacks in Government; Directors, University Transportation Centers; Chairman and Members, TRB Executive Committee; Chairmen, NCHRP Panels and Committees; Chairmen, TRB Group Councils and Sections; TRB Liaison Representatives, State Highway & Transportation Departments; TRB University Representatives; TRB Sustaining Associates; Chairman, Subcommittee on NRC Oversight; TRB Staff.

 
Adrienne C. Blackwell
Administrative Coordinator - CRP
Transportation Research Board
The National Academies
500 5th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202-334-3237
 

NCHRP_PanelSolicit2015.doc
PanelFunctionsNCHRP.pdf
CRPPanelNominationFormEmail.doc
CRPPanelNominationForm.pdf

John L Renne

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May 27, 2014, 12:06:59 PM5/27/14
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_____________________
John L. Renne, Ph.D., AICP
Associate Professor, Department of Planning and Urban Studies
http://planning.uno.edu/

Director, Merritt C. Becker Jr. University of New Orleans Transportation Institute

Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Science in Urban Studies and Planning

Senior Visiting Research Associate, University of Oxford








NCHRP_PanelSolicit2015.doc
PanelFunctionsNCHRP.pdf
CRPPanelNominationFormEmail.doc
CRPPanelNominationForm.pdf

Kastenhofer, Ilona O. (VDOT)

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Jun 12, 2014, 4:47:22 PM6/12/14
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During the research subcommittee conference call on Monday we will also discuss the attached which you received from John Renne earlier.

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