TRB Webinar: How Performance and Data Informs Transportation Decision Making

The use of performance measures and data informs transportation decision making. TRB hosted a webinar on Tuesday, July 21, 2020 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern that provided an overview of Transportation Research Circular E-C263: Conference on Performance and Data in Transportation Decision Making. The e-Circular summarizes a conference from September 2019 that brought together practitioners involved in all aspects of transportation planning, programming, and the decision making process. This webinar discussed multimodal planning; performance and data; programming and investment prioritization; and communications and stakeholder engagement. Presenters identifed implementation strategies and other initiatives throughout the transportation industry that help with decision making.

This webinar was organized by the TRB Standing Committee on Transportation Planning Analysis and Application.

The slides are available. Contact Reggie Gillum for a copy of the recorded webinar.

Webinar agenda and presenters

1. Introduction to the e-Circular: David Wasserman, North Carolina Department of Transportation
2. Multimodal planning: Jerri Bohard, Oregon Department of Transportation
3. Performance and data: Jordan Holt, Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority
4. Programming and investment prioritization: David Wasserman, North Carolina Department of Transportation
5. Communications and stakeholder engagement: Hannah Twaddell, ICF
6. Key takeaways and opportunities to advance the practice: Hannah Twaddell, ICFICF
7. Question and answer session: Moderated by Hannah Twaddell, ICF

The first 60 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Identify considerations for project selections based on travel mode
2. Discuss data considerations and solutions
3. List communications strategies to leverage public involvement in decision making

Professional Development Hour Information

Professional engineers (PEs) who register and attend the entire webinar as an individual will be awarded 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs). TRB’s webinar program awards PDH credits only to the registered individual, and not to other members of a group that view the webinar together. To be eligible for the credits, individuals must remain signed in for the entire webinar, including for any question and answer session following the presentations.
Please check with your licensing board to ensure that TRB webinar PDHs are approved by your board.

TRB will report credits earned to the Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP). Complaints about registered providers may be sent to RCEP, 1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, D.C., 20005.

American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits 

This webinar is approved by the  American Institute of Certified Planners for 1.5 Certification Maintenance Credits. Please make sure that you register for this session and log in using the link that TRB provides to your email account. We use this as your record that you attended this session. TRB only maintains the records of attendees who use their email address to log into the webinar, and cannot verify attendance of individuals who view the webinar without personally logging into the session. 
 
Please visit the Certification Maintenance section of APA’s website, Certification Maintenance webpage to claim your credits. You may use the following steps: 

1. Log in using your ID# and password.
2. Select View my CM log.
3. Select Add CM-Registered Credits.
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7. Click submit and the CM credits should appear in your CM log.

If you have problems reporting your CM credits or have general questions about the CM program, please contact AICPCM@planning.org.  

Pre-registration is required. Once the webinar starts, you will be unable to register. Individuals that are registered for a webinar but do not receive their confirmation emails due to their organization’s internal firewalls should contact the TRB Helpdesk for assistance in signing in.

Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum.