Who's going to TRB?

Tom Cornillie · **Posted:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:18 am

Hello,

Will anybody here be at the Transportation Research Board annual meeting next week in Washington, DC?

My first time at the meeting - but plausible that some RYPN folks could be here with the meeting's sizeable railroad industry presence.

Tom Cornillie

softwerkslex · **Posted:** Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:35 am

I have gone before, but not this year.

Aarne H. Frobom · **Posted:** Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:53 pm

I have been a TRB junkie for quite a few years, using it to catch up on new events in highway research and finance that I wouldn't hear if I stayed in Lansing all the time. For a while I managed to combine it with a trip to the RRPCA conference the following weekend when that meeting was in the same general territory.

Over the last five years or so the TRB has acquired a minor historical bent. There is now a transportation history committee, which at various times has attracted some of the leading lights of the railroad-museum trade. Its meeting this year is at 1:30 PM Tuesday in the Hilton. Interestingly, some of the historical sessions attract some emeritus but still-very-big names in the transportation biz: check out Session 741 - The Civil Engineer as Policy Leader, featuring Prof. Seely of Michigan Tech.

Tom Cornillie · **Posted:** Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:06 pm

Aarne,

Thank you for the heads up on the Transportation History committee. I hadn't considered searching the program for such a group with the quantitative methods used in most studies. Historical topics in transportation technology and policy are increasingly studies by EU policy makers - perhaps this signals that this trend is catching on here too.

BTW- below is my contribution to the program:

A Consideration of Equitable Access to Transportation in Thirty Years of Literature Examining Local Rail Service (07-3240) - B9
Thomas Cornillie
Poster Session 344
Social and Economic Factors of Transportation
Monday, January 22, 2007, 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Hilton International Center

Tom Cornillie

Heavenrich · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:07 am **Posts:** 630

I'm not going, have only been once to present an automotive paper.

One tip, (it's been a few years since I've gone, but I don't think this has changed) if see some papers that you want, buy them on the spot, otherwise it could be a year or two before they come out.

Bob H