[sustran] TRB NMT Research Circular

P. Christopher Zegras czegras at MIT.EDU
Sat Dec 5 02:44:58 JST 1998


Dear Friends, 

As many of you know, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) has a Committee 
on Non-motorized Transportation and Related Issues.  The Committee is 
relatively new and his chaired by Dr. V. Setty Pendakur.

To guide future research efforts of this committee, we have drafted the 
following Research Guide.  We encourage and welcome any comments, criticisms 
and recommendations.

(For more information on TRB, visit their web site: www.nas.edu/trb/)

I look forward to hearing from you and/or seeing you at TRB in January.

Best holiday wishes, 

Chris Zegras

Draft Proposal for a Research Circular
TRB Committee on NMT and Related Issues (A5013)
 
Mission: 

To assure continuity in and logical development of the research undertaken
by Committee members and friends, presented at Committee-sponsored
sessions, and published in Committee-sponsored publications, with the goal
of "institutionalizing" and implementing research advances. 

Initial themes of priority for the Research Circular:

1. Socioeconomic Development Impacts of Non-motorized Transportation:
- - Poverty alleviation
- - Access to affordable modes
- - NMT and Gender issues
- - Travel Time, Barrier Effect (physical barriers to NMT)
- - The social costs of motorization

2. Safety, Energy, and Environmental Effects of Non-motorized Transportation
- - NMT as part of a local and global air pollution mitigation plans
- - Road traffic accidents as a public health problem 

3. Transportation Planning and Evaluation Tools and Non-motorized modes
- - Incorporating NMT into currently used travel forecasting models 
- - NMT and traffic flow models
- - Data collection needs and performance measures
- - Integrating NMT into transport policy and project evaluations

4. The Built Environment and Non-motorized transportation 
- - Urban form factors affecting NMT use
- - Building and re-building urban areas to promote safe and efficient NMT use
- - The importance of NMT to Public Transportation
- - "Best Practices"

The Research Circular will use these four principal areas of Research to
facilitate calls for papers for A5013-sponsored TRB sessions.  The Research
Circular Sub-Committee will publish a brief summary of papers presented at
each TRB Annual Meeting to highlight conclusions and results of papers in
each area of Research and thus help guide the Call for Papers for the
following year.  
By the end of the Second Year of this Process (2000), the Sub-Committee
will publish a formal Research Circular, identifying priority areas of
research in NMT.  It is anticipated that this Research Circular will help
guide investigators in developing research themes and in fund-raising for
such work. 

The Research Circular sub-committee with input from other interested
parties will re-visit the four themes identified above after receipt of
papers submitted to A5013 and after each Annual Meeting.  







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