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Committee Membership
With notes on which roles and teams each member participates on.
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Katherine Asmussen: Paper Review Coordinator; Younger Member Liason
Pedro Camargo: Integrated Modeling Subcommittee Chair
Tierra Bills: Research Coordinator, Paper Review Team
Michelle Bina: Statewide Modeling Subcommittee Chair
Charisma Choudhury
Sevgi Erdogan
David Hensle: Chandra Bot Coordinator
Cinzia Cirillo
Aditi Misra: Equity Initative Lead
Marty Milkovits: Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty Initative Lead
Bo Wen: Community Coordinator
Baloka Belezamo: Paper Review Coordination Team
Latifa Oukhellou: Research Roadmap Maintainer
Ramin Shabanpour: Vice Chair Statewide Modeling
Franchesca Taylor: Research Roadmap Maintainer
Laura Luo
Andisheh Ranjbari: Deputy CRC
Taha Hossein Rashidi
Yoram Shiftan
Enhua Liu
Like Liu: Committee Communications Coordinator
Gregory Macfarlane: Technology Transfer Subcommittee Chair
Rolf Moeckel: Technology Transfer Subcommittee
Elizabeth Sall: Chair
Bhargava Sana: Travel Forecasting Resource Committee
Matt Stratton: Technology Coordinator; Technology Transfer Subcommittee
Flavia Tsang: Emerging Methods Subcommittee co-chair; Decision-making under Uncertainty co-lead.
Prateek Bansal
Alex Bettinardi: Newsletter Coordinator
Amy Hofstra: Research Initiative Lead
Abigail Donkor: LinkedIn Coordinator
Joseph Kaylor: Cooperative Research Program Coordinator; Workshop Developer
Michael Hyland
Atiyya Shaw: Research Initiative Lead
Krishna Murthy Gurumurthy
Ruijie Bian: Research Initiative Lead
Volunteer Roles + Teams
Each committee member is expected to actively participate in a volunteer role and/or team – but you do not need to be a member in order to volunteer!
Blue is where volunteers are needed!
Chair: Manage overall operations of the committee – Elizabeth Sall
Vice-Chair: Serves as back-up and partner to the chair - TBD
Emerging Methods Subcommittee Chair: Manage the subcommittee on emerging methods – Flavia Tsang / Naveen Eluru
Integrated Modeling Subcommittee Chair: Manage the subcommittee on Integrated Modeling – Pedro Camargo
Integrated Modeling Subcommittee Vice-Chair: Serve as back and partner to subcommittee chair.
Technology Transfer Subcommittee Chair: Manage the subcommittee on technology transfer, including the Travel Forecasting Resource – Greg MacFarlane (needed: incoming chair)
Technology Transfer Subcommittee Vice-Chair: Serve as back and partner to subcommittee chair (needed).
Statewide Modeling Subcommittee Chair: Manage the subcommittee on Statewide Modeling – Michelle Bina
Statewide Modeling Subcommittee Vice-Chair: Serve as back and partner to subcommittee chair – Ramin Shabanpour
Newsletter Coordinator: Responsible for the newsletter publication process and editor schedule - Alex Bettinardi
Newsletter Editors: Tasked with curating content for a specific newsletter issue and overseeing its publication - William Wong
Research Roadmap Maintainer: works with initiative leads, emerging methods committee, and industry stakeholder to regularly vet and update the research roadmap with the most important and pressing questions that need to be answered/knowledge that needs to be gained - Latifah Oukhellou and Franchesca Taylor
Research Initiative Lead: Shepherds a specific research initiatives to useful outcomes; making sure it is: asking useful and well-scoped questions; involves the appropriate initiatives/subcommittees/other committees/disciplines; has an action plan that is relevant for that research question ; executes on that action plan – Ruijie Bian, Amy Hofstra, Attiya Shaw
Meeting Coordinator: Develop meeting schedules + agendas; Maintain + publish committee meeting notices, agendas + minutes (needed)
Community Coordinator: Maintain current contact information, affiliations, demographics and interest areas for all members, friends, and volunteers via regular (annual) surveys – Bo Wen
Communications Coordinator (CCC): Disseminates information on committee activities and topics of interest via regular email and committee website including the calendar of upcoming and related conferences – Like Liu
Research Coordinator (CRC): Manage the committee's research agenda and delegation of activities to support it – Tierra Bills
Deputy CRC: Backup to CRC; thought-partner to CRC; leads various research special projects.
Cooperative Research Program Coordinator: Manage the committee's interaction with NCHRP and TCRP programs – Joseph Kaylor
Website Coordinator: Makes sure website and calendars are working, up to date with content, removes older content. Helps specific initiatives post content. – Matt Stratton
Paper Review Coordinator: Manage paper review process – Katherine Asmussen
Chandra-Bot Coordinator: Manage Chandra-Bot Initiative – David Hensle
Equity Initiative Coordinator: Manage Equity Initiative - Aditi Misra
Uncertainty Initiative Coordinator: Manages the Uncertainty Initiative – Marty Milkovits w/ Flavia Tsang
LinkedIn Coordinator: Responsible for maintaining our LinkedIn group page, posting announcements, and ensuring frequent updates and engagement - Abigail Donkor
Decision-Making under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) Initiative
Equity Initiative Team
Chandra-Bot Initiative
Rigorously evaluate how well we evaluate each others' work!
Always looking for committed volunteers.
Visit PageIntegrated Modeling Subcommittee
Actively participate in and support the activities of the Subcommittee.
Always looking for committed volunteers.
Join mailing listEmerging Methods Subcommittee
Actively participate in and support the activities of the Subcommittee.
Always looking for committed volunteers.
Join mailing listStatewide Modeling Subcommittee
Actively participate in and support the activities of the Subcommittee.
Always looking for committed volunteers.
Join mailing listTechnology Transfer Subcommittee
Actively participate in and support the activities of the Subcommittee. Meets monthly with work on the resource completed between meetings.
Always looking for committed volunteers.
Join mailing listPaper Review Coordination Team
Support the Paper Review Coordinator in assigning reviewers to papers and managing the paper review process. Work typically peaks mid-August.
Always looking for committed volunteers.
Research Coordination
Support the Research Coordinator in maintaining a research roadmap and prioritizing calls for papers, research needs statements, etc.
Always looking for committed volunteers.
Join mailing list - Visit PageCommittee Membership Process
We just completed our triennual membership rotation in Spring 2024 and expect to commence revieweing applications for our next rotation cycle in Fall 2026.
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Other Travel Forecasting Communities
Zephyr Foundation's mission is to advance rigorous transportation and land use decision-making for the public good by advocating for and supporting improved travel analysis, and facilitating its implementation.
Zephyr maintains a twitter feed, slack channel for conversations, and a LinkedIn page. Past recorded events are available on its YouTube channel.
International Association of Travel Behavior Research
The Travel Modeling Improvement Program (TMIP) maintains a form/listserv which has served as the hearth of the travel forecasting community for decades.