TRB AHB25 (Formerly A3A18) Meeting

Marriot Wardman Park Hotel

Washington, DC

Summer Meeting Minutes

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January 10, 2005

1. Welcome and Call to Order

• Tom Urbanik called the meeting to order at 1:30 pm.
• Attendants introduced them selves (Attached)
• Reminded participants that past meeting minutes and presentations are located at: http://signalsystems.tamu.edu/ (Only the minutes are password protected).

2. NCHRP Report, Ray Derr

· Workshop was on Saturday for NCRP 3-66

· Interim Report is available at (Attached)

· Copy of Workshop slides are available at (Attached)

3. FHWA Update, Raj Ghaman (Attach)

· ACS-Lite: Software is ready for lab testing, field testing is scheduled for Ghana, OH in Spring 05. Three additional field tests are planned after the Ghana, OH field test.

· Workzone Analysis Software: Version 2.0 is now available at McTrans.

· Claire(From France): Deploying in Houston, TX

· Dynasmart (MIT): Deploying in Houston

· Rhodes (Siemens/U of A): Deploying in Houston

· FHWA Tier 1 Projects

· Weather responsive algorithms

· Cooperative Intersection: Travel time from automated vehicles

· Integrated Corridor Management (Dale Thompson/John Harding):Co managed by FHWA and FTA (Attached)

4. FHWA Update, Pam Crenshaw

· Peer review held at USDOT in January 2004 immediately following TRB.

· Scoping work is underway for a traffic signal timing manual.

5. TRB Update, Rich Cunard

· Welcome to 87^th Annual Meeting

· ~9500 Attendants

· 2600 papers submitted (Up 5%)

· 10,000 Electronic reviews submitted

· 1600 Papers being presented

· 600 Poster sessions (40%)

· Operations Committees have 50% of papers in poster sessions

· Considering a 4^th Hotel for future years (2007-2008)

· Electronic paper review was brought in house in 2005

· CD ROM has 1580 papers (87% of papers were revised)

· Trying electronic narration of PPT presentations during selected presentations and will post those on their web site.

· Committee rotation, AHB25 is scheduled for rotation this year (1/3 must rotate off to make room for new members)

6. Paper Reviews, Larry Head

· 48 Papers submitted

· 33 accepted for presentation or poster (28 in poster, 5 in sessions)

· 100% of papers were revised

· 11 papers will be accepted for publication

· Few minor problems with SPAM filters on email to reviewers

· Considering moving the paper review process to a small subcommittee to handle review by a few topical areas.

7. Best Paper Award, Paul Olson

· Rhodes, A., D. Bullock, J. Sturdevant, Z. Clark, and D. Candey, “Evaluation of Stop Bar Video Detection Accuracy at Signalized Intersections," Transportation Research Record, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, DC (Preprint #05-0384).

8. Problem Statement, James Powell

· Active 3-66 Project: Traffic Signal State Transition Logic Using Enhanced Sensor Information (University of Tennessee)

· Active 3-79 Project: Measuring and Predicting the Performance of Automobile Traffic on Urban Streets (Texas Transportation Institute)

· Report on the Research Problem Statement Status (Attach)

· Reviewed historical RPS activities (Attach)

· Reviewed RPS opportunities that have been submitted via the committee website (Attach)

· Reviewed RPS web page (Attach)

· Discussion on how committee can most effectively advance problem statements.

· Steve Shelby agreed to work with Jim Powell on problem statement advancement

· Committee charged Jim Powell with ensuring the following research problem statements are developed and submitted in 2005:

· Safer Signal Operations Through Variable Phase Sequencing (title needs to be revisited)

· Primary authors: Jim Powell, Steve Shelby and Larry Corcoran

· Engineering Countermeasures to Reduce Red-Light Violations and Related Crashes (title needs to be revisited) (23 votes)

· Primary authors: Jim Bonneson, Jim Williams and Larry Corcoran will develop

· Coordination of research with FHWA is very important… discussion ensued on how research efforts might be coordinated.

9. TRB Section Chair, Dan Turner

· Encouraged committee to participate in AASHTO committee to advance research need statements.

10. Peter Koonce

· Recap of Sunday Workshop (Attach)

· Traffic Signal Timing Manual (Attach)

· Raj Ghaman has asked for a one page problem statement to help him solicit funding for a signal timing manual.

11. Strategic Vision for the Committee, Larry Head

· Challenged the members to think what impact we should shoot for beyond our summer workshop activities.

12. Summer Meeting (with Highway Capacity Committee)

· July 10-16, Las Vegas, Nevada

· Monday topic will be performance measures

· Business meeting will be at the end on Wednesday afternoon.

· Subcommittee meetings on Sunday

· Larry Head is looking for performance measure related research activities so he can identify speakers for the summer program

· Committee members strongly supported holding the meeting at a down town hotel (non casino if possible)

· Mike Kyte is organizing a Tues afternoon/Wed afternoon session to develop an understanding of how a modern traffic signal controller operates

.1. Tues is disconnect between modeling and reality

.2. Wed is looking forward on how HCM can be improved

13. Subcommittee Structure

A re-organization plan was proposed with five sub-committees. Those are shown below along with committee chairs and members.

Traffic Signal Manual	Simulation	Architecture	Research	Strategic Vision
Peter Koonce, Chair	Brian Park, Chair	Larry Head, Chair	Jim Powell, Chair	Tom Urbanik, Chair
Willie Rotich	Alex Skarbadonis	Willie Rotich	Troy Peoples	Peter Koonce
Gary Piotrowicz	Yunlong Zhang	Ahmed Abdel-Rahim	Brian Park	Larry Head
Craig Roberts	Hongchao(Frank)Liu	Nadeem Chaudary	Larry Head	Jim Powell
Rick Denney	Nadeem Chaudary	Monty Abbas	Amiy Varma	Brian Park
Nadeem Chaudary	Honglong Li	Peter Koonce	Ping Yi
Khaled Shaaban	Yinhai Wang	Paul Olson	Larry Corcoran
Amiy Varma	Jin-Tae Kim	Ed Fok
Ali Eghtedari	Md. S. Chowdhury	Craig Gardner
Susan Langdon	Jim Dale	Honglong Li
Pradeep Sarvareddy	Denny Eyler	Gary Duncan
Jim Williams	Ken Courage	Anuj Sharma
John Hibbard	Mohammed Hadi	Mark W. Dunzo
Jim Poston	Shawn Birst
Bruce Zvaniga
Steve Shelby
Kevin Lee
Kevin Balke
Bo Gao
Andrew P. Nichols
Ping Yi
Larry Corcoran
Bret Gillis
Mark W. Dunzo

14. 2006 Workshop on Pedestrians

· Tentatively planned, looking for people interested in participating…contact Tom Urbanik if you are interested in participating.

15. NTCIP Testing, Srinivas Sunkari

· Summary of Activities (Attach)

· www.itstestlab.org

16. Signal Operations During Hurricanes, Lap T. Hoang

· Lessons learned during four hurricanes in on month

· Really big chains to anchor generators

· 3500 out of 16000 span wires went down

· Only 20 mast arms went down

· Possibly remove signal heads prior to storm

17. Talk Shop, Peter Martin (Attach)

· 10am (CST), First Wed of Month (feb 2, 2005)

· www.trafficlab.utah.edu

· Phone 801 581 6878

18. Traffic Signal National Report Card, Phil Tarnoff (Attach)

· 378 responses (50% return)

· www.ite.org/selfassessment/ntoc.asp

19. Three-D Visualization of Traffic Data,Frank Dolan (Attach)

· www.ccr.buffalo.edu

· info@ccr.buffalo.edu

20. Lessons Learned

· Several members reported lessons learned over the past year.

21. Other Business

· Rick Denny announced a new NHI course on traffic signal timing is now available (#133028). It can be scheduled by visiting the web site www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov

22. Adjourn

· Meeting adjourned at 1720.