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Workshop on Key Transportation Indicators

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Description

The Committee on National Statistics, in collaboration with the Transportation Research Board, held a workshop to assist the Bureau of Transportation Statistics in the selection and development of key transportation indicators, which are measures of change over time of the transportation system or of its social, economic, environmental, or other effects. This activity follows from a recommendation made by the 1997 CNSTAT report, The Bureau of Transportation Statstistics: Priorities for the Future, which recommended, as a matter of high priority, that the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) develop a consistent, easily understood, and useful set of key indicators of the transportation system. The workshop focused on three areas for case studies: (1) safety, (2) mobility, and (3) economic growth and trade. A report of the workshop is currently in preparation, and will include suggestions raised for specific indicators and a summary of the discussion of conceptual, methodological, and data issues. The workshop was held June 12-13, 2000.

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Agenda

Workshop on Key Transportation Indicators
13 June 2000
National Academy of Sciences
Georgetown Facility, 2001 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.
Green Building, Room 104

Draft Agenda

9:00 a.m. Introduction Janet Norwood, Workshop Chair
Ashish Sen, BTS
Barbara Torrey, CBASSE
Robert Skinner, TRB
Miron Straf, CBASSE

9:20 What do we mean by indicators and what purposes do they serve? Janet Norwood

9:30 DOT strategic goals and objectives Ashish Sen Miron Straf

9:45 Transportation safety indicators: Ken Campbell, University of Michigan

Report of subgroup Transportation Research Institute

10:15 Coffee Break

10:30 General discussion of safety indicators

11:15 Transportation indicators of mobility: Michael Meyer, Georgia Institute
Report of subgroup of Technology

11:45 General discussion of mobility indicators

12:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 The Bureau of Labor Statistics survey of time use Diane Herz, Bureau of Labor Statistics

1:45 Discussion of possible uses of time use measures for transportation indicators

2:00 Transportation indicators of economic growth: Damian Kulash, Eno Transportation
Report of subgroup Foundation

2:30 General discussion of economic indicators

3:15 Break

3:30 Discussion of general questions, specific issues, and needed indicators that we are not measuring

5:00 Rapporteur’s summary and closing remarks

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Staff

Miron L. Straf, Deputy Director, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Terri Scanlan, Program Associate
Jamie Casey, Project Assistant