2006 TRB Meeting Agenda

TRB Task Force on Trucking Industry Research (AT060T)
Michael H. Belzer, Chairman
C.Randal Mullett, Vice-Chairman

Tuesday, January 24, 2006
8:00 - Noon
Calvert Room, Omni Shoreham Hotel

1. Introductions
2. Membership (27 Members, 136 Friends)
3. Today's participants will go on the Friends e-mail list unless you indicate otherwise
4. Minutes from 2005 January meeting and 2005 July meeting (Lantz)
5. Old Business
   1. Trucking 101
6. 2005 Summer Conference
   1. Joint meeting sessions and workshop with the Road Pricing Outreach Subcommittee
   2. Road Pricing Outreach Subcommittee Meeting (Part 1): Joint Meeting with Trucking Industry Task Force
7. Co-sponsored sessions at 2006 January TRB meeting
   1. Session 212: Freight System Capacity Issues, Part 1, Impact of Pricing on Congestion Management
   2. Session 437: Law Enforcement, Automated Enforcement, and Truck Safety (Poster Session)
   3. Session 497: Border Shipping Challenges: Security Versus Delay
   4. Session 630: Truck Lanes and Road Pricing, Part 1: Reality of Today
   5. Session 682: Truck Lanes and Road Pricing, Part 2: Roads of Tomorrow
   6. Session 698: Binational Study for New Border Crossing Infrastructure: Windsor and detroit
   7. Session 701: Who's left Holding the Bag: Cost Pass-Throughs in Trucking
   8. Congestion Pricing Workshop (Sunday)
8. Review Application for committee status
   1. Randy Mullett
9. New Business
   1. Cooperative Research Programs
      1. We need to recommend research needs
      2. We need to get trucking people on these panels, especially industry practitioners
      3. Research is performed by academics, consultants, research organizations
   2. National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)
      1. $33 million annually
   3. Commercial truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program
      1. $300,000-400,000 annually
   4. Airport Cooperative Research Program
   5. Freight Cooperative Research Program (FCRP)
      1. $3.75 million annually (subject to up to 25% reduction)
   6. Hazardous Material Cooperative Research Projects
      1. $1.25 million annually (subject to up to 25% reduction)
   7. Surface Transportation Environment and Planning Cooperative Research Program (~ $17 million annually (OST)
   8. Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP II)
      1. A large, multiyear funded highway research program
      2. We can submit problem statements, nominate representatives
      3. $51.25 million annually (subject to up to 25% reduction)
   9. Other Research Programs
      1. Unmet Transportation Information Needs
      2. Critical Issues
10. Other New Business
11. Adjourn