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| Author: | Tom Cornillie [ Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Who's going to TRB? |
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 |
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| Author: | softwerkslex [ Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who's going to TRB? |
I have gone before, but not this year. |
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| Author: | Aarne H. Frobom [ Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who's going to TRB? |
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. |
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| Author: | Tom Cornillie [ Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who's going to TRB? |
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 |
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| Author: | Heavenrich [ Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who's going to TRB? |
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 |
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