Research Priorities
Per our Strategic Plan, our Committee's Research Coordinator (CRC) is focused on the following objective:
Maintain a robust research portfolio, demonstrating understanding of research needs among the travel demand forecasting community.
This objective will be worked towards with the following outputs
Research needs statements submitted to the the TRB's Research Needs Statement portal
Calls for Papers
Workshops + webinars
Based on surveys and discussions at a workshop at the 2023 TRB Annual Meeting, the Committee is pursuing priorities in the following six areas:
Connected and autonomous vehicles
Equity and representation
New mobility
Electrification, electric vehicles, and energy transformation
Advantages and disadvantages of “Big Data”
Travel behavior and traveler decision making
AEP50 is continuing efforts to prioritize and draft research needs statements, based on these areas.
Are you interested in helping to refine the technical, policy, application, data-related, and/or other dimensions of our 6 priority research areas? Let us know.
Calls for Papers
We submitted two calls for papers for the 2023 TRB Annual Meeting:
Thank you to the following people for contributing:
Aditi Misra
Sevgi Erdogan
Andisheh Ranjibari
Pan Melrose
Michelle Bina
Erik Sabina
Tierra Bills
Research Review
Per our Strategic Plan, our Committee's Paper Review Coordinator (PRC) orients towards achieving the following objectives:
Improve the quality of submitted, presented, and published research.
A just and equitable paper review and publication process.
The paper review process begins each summer with an update to the paper reviewer pool, peaks in early-to-mid August with the assignment of papers to reviewers, and concludes October 1st with selection of papers to be included in the TRB Annual Meeting and forwarded to the Transportation Research Record Editorial Board. If you are interested in helping out with the paper review organization process, please let us know.
During the "off season", the PRC leads a team in assessing how well we did as a community with paper reviews by reviewing data and feedback – and strategizing about how to update and refine the process for the next year.
Chandra Bot All-Stars
One of the ways that we promote high-quality reviews is by annually honoring our most outstanding review contributors by algorithmically assessing review quality using Chandra Bot (named in honor of our Committee's former chair, Dr. Chandra Bhat) and adding to our growing class of Chandra Bot All-Stars.
Dr. Sigal Kaplan
Class of 2022
Pater Davidson
Class of 2022
Rosella Picado
Class of 2022
Dr. Pat Mokhtarian
Class of 2022
Dr. Patrick Singleton
Class of 2023
Dr. Rolf Moeckel
Class of 2023
Billy Charlton
Class of 2023
Milad Ghasri
Class of 2023
Technology Transfer
In addition to the Travel Forecasting Resource, the Technology Transfer Subcommittee is beginning to undertake the identification and dissemination of recent relevant research advances to the Committee Community. Help always appreciated.
Want to help?
If you are interested in helping in one or more of these efforts, please contact the committee research coordinator.