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Agenda

Focus Areas Leadership Overview

Paper solicitation techniques

Timeline

Volunteer!

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Leadership

Overview

Refine and document specific team focused topic. Clarify your focus area to a more narrowed down topic or theme within the general focus area. Develop problem statement.

Develop paper submission activities to solicit papers for TRB Annual meeting on the focus area topic. Begin planning

Annual meeting activities.

Identify TRB committees to partner with for webinar planning and annual meeting planning.

Review and approve papers, start building our annual meeting lectern or poster session. Plan AED40 meeting presentation. Submit NCHRP research statement

Where the committee has routine and long-term goals, the focus area is set up for short-term focused tasks that are crucial to the committee action plan.

Focused on the research, identifying methods, best practices, data and technologies important to the energy and sustainability topic. This is in the context of spatial data and systems, but might press on the boundaries of other committees.

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Paper Solicitation

Techniques

Clarify the focus area overall objectives to narrow down topics for papers.

Attending TRB webinars throughout the year to gain knowledge of GIS work being done. Attending webinars (or conferences) will give you a network of GIS Professionals doing work relating to the focus area.

Attend Webinars

Getting involved in professional networks like URISA, GISCI, Women in GIS, NSGIC and state geographic information councils will give you an arena for advertising paper ideas for TRB.

Professional Networks

The AASHTO GIS-T Conference in April of each year always has a TRB SIG. This is a good place to meet colleagues and get informed on work being done around the country. Engage with presenters to find commonalities in focus areas.

GIS-T Tracks

AED40 has connections with many other committees in TRB and a list of committee liaisons to use to collaborate with other committees and partner up to solicit paper submissions.

Committee Collaboration

AED 40, GIS Standing Committee

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1st Quarter

2nd Quarter

3rd Quarter

4th Quarter

Timeline

Timeline of responsibilities for designated focus areas.

Jan-Mar: Develop Focus and ID Partners

April-June: Create Paper soliciatation material.

July-Sep: Start lectern/poster/webinar session on focus. Develop NCHRP statement

Oct-Dec: Finalize session, submit research statement. Create committee presentation.

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VOLUNTEER!

WE NEED 2 PEOPLE TO LEAD THE FOCUS AREAS, AND A GROUP OF PEOPLE TO HELP. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN LEADING OR VOLUNTEERING IN THE GROUP, REACH OUT BELOW.

https://arcg.is/1bGCCS0

sdonaldson@azdot.gov