Committee History

Activities completed in 2000

TRB Paper review

Eight papers were reviewed for the 2000 TRB annual meeting.  Of the eight papers, four were accepted for presentation and publication and 1 was accepted for presentation only.

Annual Meeting (Sessions and Workshops)

Session #46 (New Statistical Developments for Use in Transportation)

Session #144 (New Safety Prediction Tool for Two-Lane Highways)

Session #210 (Lies, Darn Lies, and Misused Statistics: What You Need to Know to Use Statistics Effectively)

Mid-Year Meeting

Held at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Indianapolis, Indiana

Activities completed in 2001

TRB Paper review

Seven papers were reviewed for the 2001 TRB annual meeting and six of them were accepted for presentation.  Publication #?

Annual Meeting (Sessions and Workshops)

Human Factors in Transportation Workshop Session (Sunday, January 7th): Statistical Applications for Transportation Professionals

Session #38 (Monday January 8th, 10:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.): Six Sigma: A Breakthrough Strategy – How Can We Use Industry’s Experience in Continuous Improvement?

Session #263 (Tuesday January 9th, 3:45 – 5:30 p.m.): Developments in Statistical Methods for High Risk Sites, Road Safety Improvements, ITS, and Crash Rates

Session #401 (Wednesday January 10th, 4:45 – 6:30 p.m.): Applied Sampling Techniques in Transportation  

Mid-Year Meeting

Held at the Traffic Records Forum in New Orleans.

Activities completed in 2002

TRB Paper review

 Fourteen papers were reviewed for the 2002 TRB annual meeting and eleven papers were accepted for presentation.  Publication #?

Annual Meeting 

Monday Jan. 14^th, 7:30 p.m. - 9:15 p.m. - Session 250: Statistical Developments for Transportation, Marriott

Tuesday January 15^th, 9:00 a.m. – noon - Session 333 (Poster session): Statistical Methods and Highway Safety, Marriott

Wednesday January 16^th, 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. - Session 501: Vision for Statistical Methods in Transportation, Marriott

Wednesday January 16^th, 10:15 a.m. - noon - Session 539: Safety in Numbers: Critically Assessing Results of Safety Studies, Marriott

Mid-Year Meeting

Held at the Joint Statistical Meetings in New York City.

Activities completed in 2003

TRB Paper review

Sixteen papers were reviewed for the 2003 TRB annual meeting and eleven were accepted for presentation.  Eight of these eleven papers were re-reviewed for publication. 

Annual Meeting

Session 337, Applied Sampling Techniques in Transportation
Monday, January 13, 2003, 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM, Hilton

Session 512, Statistical Methods and Techniques for the Transportation Industry (Poster Session) Tuesday, January 14, 2003, 2:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Shoreham

Session 562, Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Action
Tuesday, January 14, 2003, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Marriott

Mid-Year Meeting

Held at the Joint Statistical Meetings in San Francisco.

Activities completed in 2004

TRB Paper review

Sixteen papers were reviewed for the 2004 TRB annual meeting and 14 of them were accepted for presentation.  Seven papers are being considered for publication.

Annual Meeting

Session 122 (Workshop), After the Crashes are Counted, Sunday January 11^th, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Session 129 (Workshop), Applied Sampling Techniques in Transportation, Sunday January 11^th, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Session  236, Statistical Research in Transportation, Monday January 12^th, 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Session 479, New Developments in Transportation Statistical Methodologies, Tuesday January 13^th, 1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Session 559, How Useful is it to Test Hypotheses in Highway Safety, Tuesday January 13^th, 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.

Ida van Schalkwyk, Secretary
 idavan@asu.edu