ADD40 - Final Communication

[Ralph Hall]

Dear ADD40 members and friends, 

Please see the important message below from Tim Sexton about ADD40. [Tim - thank you for your dedicated leadership of ADD40 and for working so hard to keep sustainability central to the work of TRB.]

I hope to see many of you at future TRB meetings and events. 

Best regards - Ralph 

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Dear Members and Friends of the Standing Committee on Transportation Sustainability (ADD40),

 

Hopefully, you are holding up given the trying year that 2020 has been.  Many of the difficult events people around the country are dealing with reinforce the importance of our work promoting sustainability and climate action and centering equity in all the work that we do.  A special call out to our friends and colleagues on the west coast and intermountain west who are battling record-braking wildfires.  We hope you and your families are staying safe.  

 

We do think “science” knows the world is not getting cooler…

 

I am writing today to provide some clarification about the future status of ADD40.  As you may remember from the 2020 Annual Meeting, the TRB reorganization was planned to take place after the 2020 AM.  The details have been getting sorted out this spring and summer, but I still need to apologize for not sending an update earlier.  Here’s the short of it:

 

• ADD40 will no longer exist as a committee.  TRB and the volunteers overseeing the reorganization felt that sustainability was being addressed by a large number of committees and the coordinating function of ADD40 could be addressed through a new Transportation and Sustainability Section (AMS00).  This was partly supported by the lower volume of papers we received in recent years and the randomness of the paper that were routed to our committee.  No disrespect intended to paper submitters or TRB staff; we received many high-quality submittals but it was challenging to know which to send to us when sustainability issues were a part of the research (e.g., traffic management to reduce criteria air pollutants and carbon pollution).
• Existing ADD40 members (see attached) will continue to receive the TRB Annual Meeting member registration benefits through the length of their term: 4/14/2021.  I appreciate TRB making this accommodation.
• Given all the reorganization that was happening, including committees being dissolved, added, and combined, no members were automatically placed in other committees and members and friends will have to seek out committees on their own to join.  I am disappointed about this but it doesn’t appear to be negotiable.
• The new Transportation and Sustainability Section (AMS00) will include a number of committees with close ties to work previously supported by ADD40.  I encourage you to reach out to them to engage.

The removal of ADD40 is disappointing but I am also excited that many sustainability issues first addressed by ADD40 really have been embraced and advanced by other committees.  While the organization has changed, I hope that you will all continue to stay engaged with TRB and help ensure that sustainability issues continue to be addressed and featured by other committees.  You are world leaders in this field and your leadership is more important than ever to ensure that future generations will inherit a livable planet with a transportation system that works for everyone.

 

I truly appreciated the opportunity to work with many of you and look forward to collaborating in different ways moving forward.  I want to give special thanks to the leadership team for putting in extra hours over the past couple years while I have been involved.  I apologize in advance if I left anyone off the list.

• Tara Ramani – Vice Chair
• Ralph Hall – Communications Coordinator
• John MacArthur and Eric Sundquist – Paper Review Coordinators
• Hanjiro Ambrose – Research Coordinator
• Yanzhi “Ann” Xu – Session Planning Chair
• Dan Hardy – Sustainability Measurement Chair
• Seth Stark – Utility Infielder

You have my deepest respect and admiration.

 

Sincerely,

 

Tim Sexton (he/him)

Assistant Commissioner and Chief Sustainability Officer, Minnesota Department of Transportation

651-366-3622 | timothy...@state.mn.us

 

 

Standing Committee Name	Code	Chair Name	Chair Email	Scope
Section ‐ Transportation and Sustainability	AMS00	Tim Sexton	timothy...@state.mn.us	The Transportation and Sustainability Section is part of Transportation Sustainability and Resilience Group. It consists of five committees that propose research, share research findings, sponsor special activities, and provide a forum for transportation professionals to discuss today’s and tomorrow’s transportation and sustainability-related transportation issues. The chairs of each of these committees are members of the Transportation and Sustainability Section Executive Board, who along with the section chair, provide general oversight of the activities within the Section.
Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation	AMS10	Doug Eisinger	do...@sonomatech.com	The committee is concerned with the full range of relationships among transportation, air quality, and greenhouse gas mitigation including regulatory and policy considerations, modeling practices, health effects, new technologies, and transportation management strategies.
Resource Conservation and Recovery	AMS20	David Wilson	david....@vdot.virginia.gov	The committee is concerned with innovative development and integration of proactive sustainability and resiliency concepts for improved transportation programs including: recycling and beneficial reuse of materials; contamination investigation and remediation technologies; pollution prevention and resource-efficiency; environmental management systems; energy harvesting; and alternative uses of transportation rights of way.
Transportation Energy	AMS30	Rebecca Dodder	dodder....@epa.gov	To consider factors that affect energy efficiency and energy use in passenger and freight transportation and the resulting impacts on energy consumption, energy security, greenhouse gas emissions, and related public concerns.
Alternative Fuels and Technologies	AMS40	Rachael Nealer	Rachael...@ee.doe.gov	The committee is concerned with the economic, environmental, technological, and behavioral implications associated with the introduction and use of alternative fuels and enabling transportation technologies. The committee also examines the policy, planning, and institutional approaches related to implementation strategies and impacts.
Economic Development and Land Use	AMS50	John Renne and Mike Lawrence	jre...@fau.edu; mfl...@gmail.com	The Committee focuses on the impacts of transportation on the economy, environment, and society. It is concerned with efficient, effective, and equitable transportation systems that promote competitive advantage, economic resiliency, and sustainability for our cities, regions, and societies. This committee provides a cross-cutting forum for practitioners and researchers to understand the interrelationship between transportation, economic development and the economy, and land use, and the policies and management approaches required to create sustainable growth at national, regional, and local scales.

 

 

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[Giovanni Circella]

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Tim, Tara, Ralph, the previous chairs Joe, Steve, and all other friends in the ADD40 committee for the enormous amount of work done together in these years.

Let me also remind everybody that an important "child" of the ADD40 will continue to live in the new Sustainability and Emerging Transportation Technology (SETT) Conference - this new thematic TRB conference has been postponed to June 2021 because of the pandemic, and we want to maintain it as a regular series of future conferences (every two years). So, even if ADD40 ends here, its SETT child will continue to live and will further grow! I really hope all ADD40 committee members and friends will remain engaged in the organization of this conference and will attend it and support it also in the future. With the dismantling of the ADD40 committee, the AEP35 committee I chair (and that focuses on ICT and travel choices) will commit to keep supporting the conference in the future. We will look forward to continuing to work with Tim, the new AMS section and all volunteers that helped so far with the SETT organization, and hopefully we will manage to further engage the other committees that are now part of the new AMS section...

While in principle I agree with the decisions that sustainability is a broader topic and therefore it deserves to be a "section" rather than just one committee, operationally this poses a big problem as sections do not have "membership". Some members can go in the air quality committee, some others in the alternative fuels, but there will be no such a thing as a "transportation sustainability" committee anymore. From that point of view, it is a loss for the TRB community. For the ADD40 committee members that are now "orphans" after the dismantling of the sustainability committee, please let me and Bill Anderson know if you are interested in ICT emerging transportation technologies. I believe we can still accommodate a few additional members in our AEP35 committee, if this matches your research interests. Priority will be given to members that are currently "committee-less" and are helping with the SETT conference, also as an easy way to ensure a smooth transition with these activities.

Thanks again, Tim and all, for the great work with ADD40! 

Best,

Giovanni

Giovanni Circella, Ph.D. 

Honda Distinguished Scholar for New Mobility Studies, and

Director, 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program

Institute of Transportation Studies

University of California, Davis 

Phone: 1-(530)-554-0838 

gcir...@ucdavis.edu

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[Ralph Hall]

Hi everyone, 

Please see the message below from Rebecca Dodder. 

Best regards - Ralph 

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Subject: RE: [ADD40] Re: ADD40 - Final Communication

 

Hello everyone,

 

As a friend of ADD40, I’d also like to thank the leadership of this committee for the amazing work over the years! 

 

I would add that under the new Transportation and Sustainability Section (AMS00), the Transportation Energy Committee (AMS30) will continue to address questions related to transportation energy, many of which intersect with sustainability. Much of our committee and subcommittee work (including a Climate Change Subcommittee co-sponsored with other AMS00 committees) will hopefully be of interest to this community and we welcome involvement as friends and are open to exploring potential membership as well.

 

Please add yourself as a friend to the committee through myTRB.org to be included in our communications and reach out if you have questions. 

 

Rebecca Dodder

Chair, Transportation Energy Committee (AMS30)

 

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Rebecca Dodder, PhD

Chief, Combustion Source Branch

Air Methods & Characterization Division | Center for Environmental Measurement & Modeling

Office of Research and Development | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

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