Fwd: BTSCRP FY2025 Program Announcement and Solicitation for Panel Nominations - Due July 26, 2024
Jim Baross
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Date: Fri, Jun 14, 2024, 1:41 PM
Subject: BTSCRP FY2025 Program Announcement and Solicitation for Panel Nominations - Due July 26, 2024
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IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUESTED BY JULY 26, 2024
BEHAVIORAL TRAFFIC SAFETY COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAM (BTSCRP)
The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) Executive Board recently approved the BTSCRP 2025 research program. Six (6) new research projects were selected:
|
Problem Statement |
Title |
Allocation |
|
Equitable Driving Training for All Youth |
$300,000 |
|
|
Slow Down Move Over Best Practices |
$550,000 |
|
|
The Last Impaired Mile: Challenges of Impaired Mobility in a Multimodal World |
$250,000 |
|
|
Workplace-Based Approaches to Improve Driver Behavior and Reduce Crashes |
$300,000 |
|
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The Future Use of Law Enforcement Personnel and Traffic Safety Enforcement |
$350,000 |
|
|
The Future of Automated Traffic Enforcement and Public Acceptance |
$350,000 |
Descriptions can be found at http://www.trb.org/BTSCRP/BTSCRPProjects.aspx and see the attached announcement.
We are asking for your help in identifying individuals with relevant expertise and experience to serve on each project technical oversight panel.
Nominations should be submitted online from the TRB website at MyTRB at this link: https://volunteer.mytrb.org/Panel/AvailableProjects
We encourage the nomination of members of historically underrepresented groups, including women, young professionals (age 35 and younger), and members of minority groups. Contacts to determine an individual’s interest in serving will be made by 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 in person beginning in October 2024.
Panel members are prohibited from submitting or participating in the 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 panel members. In most cases, three meetings are held in the life of a project, and these normally occur in Washington, DC. At the first meeting the panel will develop a project statement that is used to solicit proposals; the second meeting is to select a research agency from among those submitting proposals. Typically, a third meeting will be held with the research team to review progress while the research is active. There are usually 6-7 panel members on each project, including a GHSA Monitor, and panels operate under the guidance of a permanent chair (see “The Roles of BTSCRP Panel Members and Liaisons”- http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/btscrp/BTSCRP-PanelFunctions.pdf ). BTSCRP staff serves as the secretariat.
Please realize that if your nominee is not selected, 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.
Address inquiries to:
Richard Retting
Senior Program Officer
Transportation Research Board of the
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Thank you,
Grady Carrick, Chair, Standing Committee on Traffic Law Enforcement (ACS30)
The opinions and ideas expressed or implied in this email are those of the signatory and not necessarily those of the Transportation Research Board or the National Academies of Sciences.
