Joint Summer Meeting of the Planning, Economics, Environmental, Finance, Freight, and Management Committees

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1 Joint Summer Meeting of the Planning, Economics, Environmental, Finance, Freight, and Management Committees Grand Summit Hotel & Conference Center Park City, Utah July 25-27, 2004 Preliminary Agenda (Revised 6/29/04 and subject to change) Noon 8:00 pm Saturday, July 24, 2004 Meeting Freight Systems Group Executive Board (AT000) (members only) 7:00 am 6:00 pm Registration Sunday, July 25, :00 am 11:45 am Tour of Salt Lake City TRAX Light Rail Transit (LRT) System The Utah Transit Authority (UTA) will provide a tour of the Salt Lake City TRAX LRT System. UTA will provide bus transportation from the hotel to Salt Lake City and return. The tour will include a ride on the University line and on part of the North/South line and a brief tour of the shop. Light refreshments will be provided. For more information on the TRAX system, please go to The tour will be free of charge to anyone registered for the Joint Summer Meeting, but advanced registration is requested. 8:00 am Noon Concurrent Committee Meetings Public Involvement in Transportation (ADA60) Taxation and Finance (ABE10) and AASHTO Subcommittee on Financial Management 9:00 am Noon Committee Meeting Trucking Industry Research Task Force (AT060T)

2 10:00 am Noon 10:00 am Noon Workshop on Advancing Regional Transportation Systems Management and Operations Description: This workshop is intended for transportation planning professionals to raise awareness and understanding of the need for improved levels of regional transportation operations planning and collaboration activities. The workshop will address the important planning-related aspects needed to advance transportation system management and operations in a regional context, including (1) regional transportation operations collaboration and coordination activities, (2) enhanced levels of operations considerations in the regional transportation planning process, and (3), improved linkage opportunities between planning and operations. Concurrent Meetings Planning & Environment Group Executive Board (AD000) (members only) Policy and Organization Group Executive Board (AB000) (members only) Opening Plenary Session 1:00 pm 2:45 pm 2:45 pm 3:00 pm 3:00 pm 4:30 pm Revenue Challenges and Options Description: One of the greatest topics of concern within the transportation community is revenue adequacy how will we pay for necessary investments and services? This plenary session will explore the primary challenges to revenue adequacy and several options for ensuring ample funding in future years. The discussion will focus on placing greater reliance on user charges. Moderator: David J. Forkenbrock, University of Iowa Speakers: Funding the Future Federal Highway Program Tyler Duvall, U. S. Department of Transportation Finance at the State Level Into the Future Jack Basso, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) (retired) Potential of Toll Revenue in Coming Years Ed Regan, Wilbur Smith Associates Mileage-Based Road User Charges David J. Forkenbrock, University of Iowa Break Customers and Customer Surveys More Than A Report Card Description: Discussion of how agencies are becoming more proactive in using customer input in transportation decision-making. The session will focus on an overview and highlights of NCHRP Report 487, Using Customer Needs to Drive Transportation Decisions. Co-Moderators: Maggie Campbell Jackson, Howard/Stein-Hudson Associates, and Marcy Schwartz, CH2MHILL

3 Speakers: Maggie Campbell Jackson, Howard/Stein-Hudson Associates Neil J. Pedersen, Maryland State Highway Administration Abby McKenzie, Minnesota Department of Transportation 4:30 pm 5:00 pm Presentation of the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration 2004 Transportation Planning Excellence Awards Description: The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) will announce the recipients of the 2004 FHWA/FTA Transportation Planning Excellence Awards. This awards program is co-sponsored by the American Planning Association. These awards will recognize outstanding initiatives across the country that develop, plan, and implement innovative transportation planning practices. These are the first awards from what will be a biennial program. For more information, please see Presiding: Gloria Shepherd, Federal Highway Administration Presenters: Cynthia L. Burbank, Federal Highway Administration Lynn Sahaj, Federal Transit Administration Mary Kay Peck, American Planning Association 5:30 pm 6:30 pm Reception Monday, July 26, :00 am 5:00 pm Registration 7:00 am 8:00 am Continental Breakfast 8:00 am 9:45 am Concurrent Committee Meetings International Activities (A0010) International Trade and Transportation (AT020) Managed Lanes Joint Subcommittee [AHB35(1)] Metropolitan Policy, Planning and Processes (ADA20) Regional Operations Collaboration & Coordination Subcommittee [AHB10(1)] Transportation and Air Quality (ADC20) Transportation Economics (ABE20) and Freight Transportation Economics and Regulation (AT010) Transportation Planning Needs and Requirements of Small- and Medium-Sized Communities (ADA30) Visualization in Transportation Task Force (ABJ95T) 9:45 am 10:15 am Break

4 10:15 am Noon Concurrent Committee Meetings Linking Planning and Operations Subcommittee [AHB10(2)] Statewide Multimodal Transportation Planning (ADA10) Strategic Management (ABC10) Taxation and Finance (ABE10) Transportation and Economic Development (ADD10) Transportation and Land Development (ADD30) Trucking Industry Research Task Force (AT060T) Joint Meeting of the committees on: Freight Transportation Planning and Logistics (AT015) Innovations in Freight Transportation Modeling Task Force (AT016T) Intermodal Freight Transportation (AT045) Urban Freight Transportation (AT025) Noon 1:30 pm Luncheon Speaker: John Njord, Utah Department of Transportation Building Transportation Leadership 1:30 pm 3:15 pm Concurrent Sessions SAFETY ECONOMICS AND FINANCE Economics of Safety Description: This session covers the following topics: 1. Do we invest too much in safety, too little, or not use the most effective measures? Benefit-cost framework for evaluation; causes of accidents, moral hazard, design standards (command and control) versus internalizing costs (market incentives), statistics, goals of safety improvements and safety regulation. 2. How can freight regulation be made more effective and less onerous? Required safety devices, hours of service, inspections (operator viewpoint). 3. What would be a rational process for evaluating highway safety investments? Alternative types of highway safety improvements, biases, alternatives, results; geometric design versus hazardous trees versus DUI programs (state viewpoint). Moderator: Jack Wells, Bureau of Transportation Statistics Speakers: Donald A. Osterberg, Schneider National, Inc. John S. Merriss, Oregon Department of Transportation FREIGHT MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION Strategic Planning For Freight Transportation: Public- and Private- Sector Views Description: This session is intended to provide a contrast between the internal strategic planning process of private freight carriers and public-sector transportation planning such as that carried out at state DOTs. The speakers will provide a contrast between the internal organizational planning processes at their organizations, noting

5 differences between how private sector carriers and state DOTs plan to handle their customers future freight movement needs. The session will highlight what public sector planners can learn from private carriers. In addition, the session will provide an opportunity for discussion of how to best coordinate the freight planning approaches of the public sector with the needs of carriers, shippers, and others involved in streamlining and facilitating the freight movement needs of the growing global economy. Moderator: Isaac Shafran, Louis Berger Group Speakers: Dennis Beal, FedEx Freight Constance S. Sorrell, Virginia Department of Transportation CONGESTION PLANNING Vision Planning in a Fiscally-Constrained Environment Description: In the years since the passage of ISTEA, MPOs and states have been required to produce transportation plans that include projects and actions constrained to reasonable expectations of fiscal capacity. In other words, plans are not to be wish lists, but a more rationally-based identification of transportation needs and priorities. At the same time, many organizations and policy-makers have recognized the value of developing vision plans that are not constrained to known resource limits, but instead attempt to convey the aspirations of a region or state for its transportation system and associated development pattern. Although the concepts of fiscal constraint and vision planning are not necessarily mutually exclusive, marrying them can be a challenging exercise. Several entities across the country have undertaken initiatives of this type, and have learned valuable lessons that could be instructive to the transportation planning community. This session will present the vision planning experiences in two locations Utah and Portland, Maine and provide a forum for open discussion of the challenges, benefits, and costs associated with vision planning in a fiscally-constrained environment. The session will also provide a brief overview of vision planning efforts across the nation to provide a frame of reference for participants. Moderator: Peter E. Plumeau, Wilbur Smith Associates Speakers: Ted Knowlton, Coalition for Utah s Future Bruce Hyman, Wilbur Smith Associates 3:15 pm 3:30 pm Break 3:30 pm 5:15 pm Concurrent Sessions SAFETY PLANNING Addressing Safety in Transportation Planning Description: Transportation accidents cost the nation hundreds of billions of dollars each year in societal costs, plus the pain and suffering that result from deaths and disabling injuries. In light of these numbers, transportation agencies have stepped up efforts to highlight safety in transportation planning. This session will highlight recent research into methods to incorporate safety into long-range transportation

6 plans, and the experience of the state of Washington will be described in incorporating safety into the state's long-range transportation plan. Moderator: Ron McCready, TRB/NCHRP Speakers: Michael D. Meyer, Georgia Institute of Technology Charlie Howard, Washington State Department of Transportation FREIGHT ECONOMICS AND FINANCE Financing Highway and Rail Freight Improvements This session will explore the challenges to the public and private sectors of financing freight transportation improvements. Freight demand is growing, but congestion threatens to reduce the productivity of trucking. Much of the highway capacity that was built from the 1960s through the 1980s has been filled up, but most of today's federal and state highway budgets are committed to maintenance and preservation of roadways. Freight rail faces a similar challenge. The demand for freight-rail service, especially long-haul intermodal service, is growing, but so too is congestion on the rail system. Railroad productivity has increased since deregulation in 1980, but the railroads are not yet earning enough to meet their cost of capital. Most of today's railroad budgets also are committed to maintenance and preservation. The discussion will focus on the following questions: What is the outlook for financing highway and rail freight transportation improvements? What policies, programs, and funding strategies should be considered to ensure that freight transportation capacity and productivity grow apace with the economy? What should the balance be between public and private financing of freight transportation improvements? Moderator: Lance Grenzeback, Cambridge Systematics Speakers: Thomas R. Warne, Tom Warne & Associates Stephen Goodrich, United Parcel Service Great Basin District CONGESTION MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION Approaches to Value Pricing for Managing Lanes Description: This session will explore how two states are using different approaches to value pricing in managing congestion, including the use of public-private partnerships. The states of Maryland and Virginia will present the different approaches being used by the state practitioners to address congestion both in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area as well as the approaches being considered in other regions with capacity and congestion issues. Moderator: Constance S. Sorrell, Virginia Department of Transportation Speakers: Neil J. Pedersen, Maryland State Highway Administration Pierce Homer, Virginia Department of Transportation 6:00 pm 10:00 pm Committee Meeting Environmental Justice in Transportation Task Force (ADD50T) Transportation Planning Needs and Requirements of Small- and Medium-Sized Communities Conference Subcommittee [ADA30(1)] 6:30 pm 9:30 pm TRB Leadership Dinner (by invitation only)

7 Tuesday, July 27, :00 am 2:00 pm Registration 7:00 am 8:00 am Continental Breakfast 7:00 am 8:00 am 2005 Joint Summer Meeting Planning Group (by invitation only) 8:00 am 10:00 am Concurrent Committee Meetings Freight Transportation Data (ABJ90) Light Rail Transit (AP075) Local and Regional Rail Freight Transport (AR040) Motor Vehicle Size and Weight (AT055) Social and Economic Factors of Transportation (ADD20) Public Transportation Planning and Development (AP025) Road Pricing Joint Subcommittee [ABE10(1)] Transportation Programming, Planning, and Systems Evaluation (ADA50) 10:00 am 10:45 am Break 10:45 am 12:15 pm Concurrent Sessions SAFETY MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION Minnesota s Towards Zero Deaths Initiative Description: This session will focus on a strategic initiative by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety and the Minnesota Department of Transportation to work towards the goal of zero deaths in traffic fatalities. The session will cover stakeholder involvement, leadership commitment, community partnerships, traffic safety strategies, and public relations. After brief presentations, presenters and the audience will discuss the challenges and potential success of this and similar initiatives. Moderator: Robert C. Johns, University of Minnesota Speakers: Kathy Swanson, Minnesota Department of Public Safety Peggy Reichert, Minnesota Department of Transportation FREIGHT PLANNING Is the Ontario-U.S. Border on the Edge? Description: Recently border crossings at Buffalo and Detroit have been in the news. Both cities have competing plans for building new capacity. Both locations have experienced some problems with congestion, and are expected to experience more severe problems in the future (without capacity expansion) because of growing international trade. This panel will explore the following questions: How bad are the capacity problems? What are the systemic issues with providing adequate border

8 capacity? Moderator: Peter F. Swan, The Pennsylvania State University Speakers: Roger G. Petzold, Federal Highway Administration Paul Bingham, Global Insight, Inc. CONGESTION ECONOMICS AND FINANCE Are HOT Lanes a Congestion-Management or Transportation- Financing Tool? Description: For many years congestion pricing was just an interesting topic in economic texts and academic symposia. Suddenly, HOT lanes, managed lanes, FAST lanes, HOT networks, FAIR networks and other congestion pricing approaches, have captured the interest of political leaders, transportation policy makers, and the general public. Transportation professionals are boning up on economics and the new pricing tools and technologies. Should they be thinking of congestion or value pricing as a congestion-management tool or a new source of funding for transportation improvements? Can both be done? Can enough money be raised with high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes to pay for transportation improvements? Does it make sense to combine value pricing with transit strategies? How do you deal with concerns about equity? In the wake of SR 91, what are the specific issues relating to use of public-private partnerships on pricing projects, and how can they be addressed? What is the trade-off between mobility and financial viability on pricing project investments, and what are the implications for public policy? Moderator: Lee Munnich, University of Minnesota Speakers: Robert Poole, Reason Foundation Martin Wachs, University of California, Berkeley 12:30 p.m. 2:00 pm Lunch with Activity Updates from Committees 2:00 pm 5:30 pm Concurrent Committee Meetings Regional Transportation Systems Management & Operations (AHB10) Road Pricing Outreach Subcommittee [ABE10(2)] Strategic Management (ABC10) Transportation Asset Management (ABC40) Transportation of Hazardous Materials (AT040) 6:00 pm 8:00 pm Committee Meeting Travel Survey Methods (ABJ40) Post Meeting Workshops (additional registration fees required) Recommending Standards for Personal Travel Surveys Workshop Road Pricing Workshop