Preserving the Historic Road 2010

REGISTER NOW for Preserving the Historic Road 2010!

Sept 9-12, 2010 at the Washington Marriott at Metro Center



Join us in the Nation's Capital for the Seventh Biennial of the Preserving the Historic Road conference. The program for this year's event promises exciting learning opportunities for those of you fighting the battle to preserve historic roads. Learn the latest tools and techniques from leading practioners from the National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Highway Administration, the National Park Service, USDA Forest Service; leading professional practitioners, state and local transportation and planning departments, state historic preservation officers, university professors, and foreign scholars. Make your plans now to join us in DC!



Register Today -- Final Registration Deadline closes September 3! To register and view conference sessions, tour, and details, please visit:

http://www.historicroads.org/



Conference highlights:

- Opening reception in the historic National Building Museum, one of the great interior spaces in Washington, DC

- Opening remarks from Jon Jarvis, Director of the National Park Service, Gabe Klein, the energetic head of the District of Columbia DOT and representatives from AASHTO and US/ICOMOS

- Keynote by Dan Marriott, founder of Preserving the Historic Road

- 22 educational sessions addressing real solutions for historic road engineering, preservation, and the latest in state of the art documentation practices

- A record number of international participation from the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Israel, and Australia

- Friday Movie Night, featuring vintage highway film footage

- Closing Keynote by Dr. Ted Sky, who will tell us how the battle to fund the National Road in the early 1800s set the stage for federal investment for centuries to come

- Saturday Dinner along the George Washington Memorial Parkway with sweeping views of the Potomac River

- Exciting tours featuring rural roads in Maryland and Virginia, the 200-year old National Pike, historic Georgetown, National Park Service parkways, and historic US Route 1



Whether a historic preservationist, engineer, transportation planner, landscape architect, archaeologist, cultural resource specialist, compliance specialist or historic road advocate, you won't want to miss this important meeting.

US Army - Eisenhower Convoy Transportation History Video Tapes

For those interested, through the George Mason University Libraries, a collection that contains Eisenhower convoy video tapes is publicly available. This collection contains tapes, documents, and books on transportation planning. Included is a VHS videotape of footage from 1919 on a US Army convoy traveling across the country on Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway in America.




http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/gifford.html

TRB History Committee Mid-Year Meeting Agenda

Below is the link to the mid-year meeting agenda:

https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9OXyiyGWnNRZGU2YjIxYzAtMWNjZi00NGExLWI3ZDMtNmUzZDY0ZGYxODMx&hl=en

Friends List - Please Join Our Friends List For History Committee Activities

2010 Annual Report and Annual Meeting Notes

New documents are available on the Google site, which include the 2010 Annual Report and Notes from the 2010 Annual Meeting.

https://sites.google.com/site/trbcommitteeabg50/home/files



Alternatively, the file are directly available through google documents:
Annual Report:
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9OXyiyGWnNRMzY2MjllN2YtNzNhYy00NGI0LTk5NGYtY2NmZjhiNjk3Zjc2&hl=en

Annual Meeting Notes:
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9OXyiyGWnNRMTc1OGQ3ZmEtYTE1Yy00OWE5LWJlOTMtZTBiOWRkYTY0MzZk&hl=en

TRB History Committee Mid-Year Meeting

The TRB History Committee Mid-Year Meeting will be August 18, from 9 AM to 3 PM (Eastern Time) at TRB.  More details and call-in information will follow.

TRB Mid-Year Meeting - History Hike Information

Visit the History Hike Blog for information on this summer's history hike in Minneapolis:

http://transportationhistoryhike.blogspot.com/2010/07/minneapolis-history-hike-2010.html

Jameson Doig Paper on International Trade Centers

Click the link below to see Jameson Doig's paper:

America’s Leading International Trade Centers and their Entrepreneurial Agencies: Challenges and Strategies in the New York and Los Angeles Regions

ABSTRACT:

This is a comparative and historical analysis of the trade-development challenges that face the New York and Los Angeles areas, where more than one-third of all international U.S. airborne and waterborne trade (measured by value) enters and leaves this country. These two regions historically developed different governance systems for their airports, seaports and freight-rail systems, dating back to the early 1900s. New York has a centralized system for its air and sea terminals, featuring the bi-state Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Los Angeles has a highly decentralized system with semi-autonomous city departments in Los Angeles and Long Beach governing the seaports and international airports. The Los Angeles region’s freight-rail is governed by public/private joint-powers agreements, while New York’s is largely private.

What impact have these different governance systems had on trade, infrastructure, and regional development? How have the regions grappled with challenges such as the hard times of the 1930s, the early 1990s, and the current economic downturn? Can these metropolitan areas manage the expected trade growth while dealing with increasingly strict environmental regulations, the greater costs imposed by post-9/11 security concerns, and newly empowered local communities?

The entrepreneurial agencies discussed in this paper will occupy a major role in meeting these challenges, which will require greater levels of cooperation among these and other public and private entities. Does the multi-functional approach of the Port Authority place it in a stronger position to manage the challenges of the early 21st century? If so, how can such a large, complex agency balance burdens and benefits, and maintain accountability to its different constituencies? Does Los Angeles need more bureaucracy and less democracy? With wholesale governance changes more or less off the table, how can public officials in that region overcome their endemic fractionalization to serve the greater good?

In their varying structures and range of responsibilities, these major entrepreneurial agencies illustrate distinctive ways in which large regions can design and operate transportation networks, as cities and states grapple with economic-development needs in a global environment. Their successes (and failures), and the opportunities and obstacles they face, should offer useful lessons to other cities and regions around the world.

This paper is divided into three sections. The first part examines the early 20th century creation of these public agencies and their major projects and development through 1990. The second section explores the mounting challenges to these agencies and their trade facilities, 1990-2009. The final section considers strategies needed to grapple with long-term challenges, including competitive threats from rival trading regions, the need to handle expanding air and sea traffic, security issues, and environmental concerns. We address these questions using original source materials, interviews with part and current officials and stakeholders, and statistical analyses of regional trade, traffic and economic data.

Transportation History Committee Triennial Strategic Plan (TSP)

Transportation History Committee Triennial Strategic Plan

TRB Annual Meeting

Greetings and Happy New Year to the members and friends of TRB's Transportation History Committee.


This message contains information about the committee's activities at the annual meeting next week in Washington, and also a request for a volunteer committee representative for the "new attendees" reception on Sunday 2:30-4:00 pm at that meeting.

1. The committee meeting is on WEDNESDAY, January 13, from 10:15-noon, in the Hilton room 1919 East. A draft agenda is below, and if you have additional agenda items, please let me know. WE WILL TRY TO BREAK BY 11:45 IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE ATTENDING THE CHAIRMAN'S LUNCH.

2. The committee is sponsoring a session Wednesday, January 13, 4:30-6:00 pm, in the Hilton Jefferson East room, on the Influence of "The Urban Transportation Problem" by Meyer, Kain and Wohl, organized and chaired by Alan Pisarski with presentations by Martin Wachs (Rand Corp), Don Pickrell (USDOT Volpe Center), and Eric Beshers (ICF Consulting). More details below.

3. The committee is co-sponsoring as session on Tuesday, January 12, from 8-9:45 a.m., in the Hilton Jefferson West room, on "Knowledge Management: Successful Practices for Succession Planning." More details below.






Event Title: Transportation History Committee

Event Date: Jan 13 2010 10:15AM- 12:00PM

Event Location: Hilton

Presiding Officers: Gifford, Jonathan L. - George Mason University

Sponsored By: Transportation History (ABG50)






DRAFT Agenda



Call to order

Self introductions

Review of Committee Activities at 2010 Meeting

History Committee and TRB Emeritus/a members (Pisarski)

Activities for 2010

Summer 2010 meeting (participation in July TRB meeting in Minneapolis?)

Other business

Adjourn



Event Number: 702

Event Title: Influence of Meyer, Kain, and Wohl's "The Urban Transportation Problem"

Event Date: Jan 13 2010 4:30PM- 6:00PM

Event Location: Hilton

Presiding Officers: Pisarski, Alan E. - Consultant

Sponsored By: Transportation History (ABG50)








Presentations:

The RAND Role (P10-0774)

Wachs, Martin - RAND Corporation

The University Influence (P10-0776)

Pickrell, Don H. - Volpe National Transportation Systems Center

The Economic Influence (P10-0785)

Beshers, Eric - ICF Consulting



Event Number: 421

Event Title: Knowledge Management: Successful Practices for Succession Planning

Event Date: Jan 12 2010 8:00AM- 9:45AM

Event Location: Hilton, Jefferson West

Presiding Officers: Stickel, Jack R. - Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities

Sponsored By: Strategic Management (ABC10)

Transportation Asset Management (ABC40)

Transportation Education and Training (ABG20)

Technology Transfer (ABG30)

Library and Information Science for Transportation (ABG40)

Transportation History (ABG50)

Statewide Transportation Data and Information Systems (ABJ20)

Visualization in Transportation (ABJ95)

Maintenance and Operations Personnel (AHD15)

Public Transportation (AP000)








Presentations:

What Is Knowledge Management and How Does It Help You? (P10-0592)

Hammer, Maureen L. - Virginia Department of Transportation

Learning How to Train Employees for the Workplace (P10-0796)

Brown, Shane - Washington State University

Planning for the Future: Succession Planning and Knowledge Management (P10-0798)

Pedersen, Neil J. - Maryland State Highway Administration



Subject Areas:

Data and Information Systems

Research and Education

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