TRB Committee AHB50TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES

COMMITTEE

Midyear Update

August 7, 20192:00 - 3:00 EDT

Announcements

Hard stop at 3:00 PM

Please keep yourself muted (unless/until you’re a speaker)

Use the chat/message window to ask questions (save until the end to keep schedule on track)

Meeting will be recorded (A/V) and posted (along with the slides and other attachments) to committee website

www.ahb50.com

Slides and attachments will also be emailed to committee listserve

ahb50@mail.egr.msu.edu

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Agenda AHB50 Committee Objectives (Gates)

Membership Update (Gates)

Preparing for annual meeting paper reviews and getting re-acquainted with the TRB paper review system (Gates)

Committee Paper for TRB Centennial (Gates)

Traffic Control Device Student Challenge (Carlson)

PhD Student Session at Annual Meeting (Knodler)

NCUTCD/MUTCD update (Hawkins)

Prep for January committee meeting Research needs statements

Webinars

Workshops

Research updates

Update from TRB liaison (Cunard) 3

AHB50 Committee Objectives

Communicate and disseminate traffic control device (TCD) information

Presentations, posters, webinars, reports, papers

Special issues or initiatives

Promote TCD research

Problem statements, research needs statements

Student competitions

Coordinate with other TRB committees

Coordinate with the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (NCUTCD)

Identify new technology and emerging ideas that can lead to new concepts in traffic control devices applications.

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Committee Membership Committee membership is currently FULL except for international

members 34 total members (appointments thru 2020)

25 “regular” members, including officers (25 max)

4 young member < 35 (4 max)

3 international members (5 max)

2 emeritus members (don’t count towards allotment…working on more!)

Best way to get involved is to become a committee friend Send email to gatestim@msu.edu

Attend committee meeting at TRB AM

Help with paper reviews

Help judge TCD challenge submissions (pre-AM and at AM)

Attend TCD committee sessions Podium session

Poster session

TCD challenge5

Committee Paper Reviews

Review minimum has been reduced to 2 for all papers

We will shoot for 3+ unless presentation only

We can start assigning reviewers immediately

We can reject a paper without review (assuming criteria for desk rejections is met)

Major changes to the duties of standing committees with respect to TRR publication:

TRB Committees will still review and accept meeting papers for presentation and will provide INITIAL recommendations for publication

Reviewer timeline remains unchanged (mid-Sept)

Committees will no longer be responsible for re-review and final publication decisions

Committee’s initial recommendations for publication are to be based on the quality of the research

No longer held to the 20% paper publication quota per committee

Required Committee participation ends with October 1 recommendations

Publication recommendations will go to the new TRR Editorial Board for review, who will make the final publication decisions

Cursory review for novelty and timeliness of topic, importance of findings, contribution, etc

Additional full review

TRR will also open for year-round publication submission after 8/1 (full review by the Editorial Board)

More to come… FAQ document about the changes: http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/TRREM/EdBoardFAQ_15July.pdf

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TRB Paper Review System

TRB switched to a different paper review system in 2018 (Editorial Manager, used by other journals)

http://www.editorialmanager.com/trr/default.aspx.

You may first be redirected to update your password and other profile information before you can proceed.

Once you’re into the “Update My Information” area, please perform the following task

Under Personal Classifications, please add specific areas of interest/expertise from the list provided for AHB50.

This will help when assigning reviewers to the papers

Note: the personal keywords have apparently been deleted

Papers will be assigned for review very soon.

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Update Info

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Goto: http://www.editorialmanager.com/trr/default.aspx

Under Personal Classifications, please add specific areas of interest/ expertise from the list provided for AHB50

(Personal keywords have apparently been deleted from the system)

TRB Centennial Celebration

Celebration begins at the 99th Annual Meeting (2020), focusing on TRB history and concludes at the 100th Annual Meeting (2021), focusing on the future.

In celebration of the TRB Centennial, in 2018, standing committees were invited to prepare a Centennial Paper

TCD committee’s submission was selected (!)

“A Historical Perspective on the Evolution of the MUTCD”

Authors: Gene Hawkins and Paul Carlson

History, current scope, and future direction

Will be presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting

Will be posted on the TRB Centennial website (date TBD)

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TCD Student Challenge (Carlson) Sponsored by AHB50 and ATSSA

Students prepare a pitch addressing a pre-specified topic

2020 - Connected & Autonomous Innovations for Improving Work Zone Safety

2019 - Traffic Control Device Innovations to Improve Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety at Signalized Intersections (n = 10)

2018 - Traffic Control Devices for Wrong Way Driving (n=23)

2017 - Traffic Control Devices for CAVs (n=15)

Finalists (~8) present their ideas at Annual Meeting (hybrid session)

Stand-alone hybrid session

Brief pitch followed by poster session

Please help us circulate the application (to be sent to listserve) https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.atssa.com/Events/TCDStudentChallenge2020_Application.pdf

Volunteer to judge initial submissions (and judge at AM, if attending)

Email gatestim@msu.edu or M-Finley@tti.tamu.edu 10

2019 TCDC Winners (Carlson)

1st Place ($1,500)

Title: Vision-Based Pedestrian Indicator Light for Signalized Intersections

Student team: Jacob Kaltenbronn and Zhu Qing

School: University of Missouri

2nd Place ($1,000)

Title: Flashing Yellow Arrows

Student team: Cadell Chand, Zach Barlow, Hisham Jashami, and Dylan Horne

School: Oregon State University

3rd Place ($500)

Title: Application of RFID at Signalized Intersections in School Zones

Student team: Michael Zhou, Nikitha Sridhar, Joy Zou, and Eric Mao

School: Auburn High School and Newport High School

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Doctoral Student Session -Call for Abstracts (Knodler/Hurwitz)

PhD student that have completed or nearly completed

2-pg summary and nomination letter due Friday, Sept 27

Session on Jan 12 from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Announcement will be sent to listserve after today’s meeting

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National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (Hawkins)

Private organization, ~300 members

Sole purpose: Develop recommendations for MUTCD content and related traffic

control device practices

NCUTCD submits recommendations to FHWA

FHWA is responsible for actually changing the MUTCD

NCUTCD meets twice a year (3 days each) January the week before TRB in Arlington, VA

Meeting will begin on Wednesday the week of TRB in 2021

Generally in June in conjunction with AASHTO CTE

Most recently in Columbus, OH, June 2019

June 2020 in Virginia Beach

June 2021 (likely) in Washington State13

NCUTCD Activity Update (Hawkins)

Chair’s messages circulated between each meeting

On NCUTCD website (ncutcd.org)

Recent actions

9 recommendations (mostly MUTCD related) sent to sponsors for review and comment

NCUTCD chair and FHWA MUTCD team leader communicate on a regular basis

MUTCD update: Notice of Proposed Amendment for the 2020 MUTCD has not been released, so there’s not much MUTCD related news to report

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Research Statement Development (Finley)

Wrong way driving (with Freeway Ops committee)

Currently under review by Freeway Ops subcommittee

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Update from Freeway Ops Committee Liaison (Obenberger)

The AASHTO Committee on Transportation Systems Management and Operations web page is: https://systemoperations.transportation.org

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Prep for January Committee Meeting (at Annual Meeting) 2.5 hour meeting

Committee business

Research needs statements

Liaisons with other committees (fwy ops, signing & marking materials, visibility)

Human factors workshops

Research updates Please contact me in the weeks prior to the meeting if you are

interested in speaking for 5-8 minutes.

FHWA updates Turner Fairbank

MUTCD Team (Note: if the Notice of Proposed Amendment for the 2020 MUTCD has been posted to the Federal Register, expect plenty of related discussion at the TCD committee meeting.)17

Summary and Final Thoughts Information will be circulated after meeting via the listserve

(ahb50@mail.egr.msu.edu) and posted to www.AHB50.com

Contact Tim Gates (gatestim@msu.edu) with any questions/comments/volunteering

Member/Friend to-do list: Login to the TRB paper review system and update

http://www.editorialmanager.com/trr/default.aspx

Personal information

Personal Classifications (verify AHB50 related items are present)

Notify Tim/Melisa to help judge TCD Student Challenge submissions

Notify Tim/Mike Knodler if you’d like to help review PhD student abstracts for presentation at Annual Meeting session

Be sure to have paper reviews completed by the deadline!

TRB future plans regarding committees18