Message from the Chair (PDF)

Theme: How can we better serve our customers as transportation research and education professionals? -- It's not business as usual. The Summer Meeting theme will ask us to:

• Listen to the customers *

• Respond to customer needs and expectations

• Provide better value and service

• Plan how your organization and the TRB can address customer issues

* An esteemed panel of customers will provide us perspectives of how we are perceived. The panel is:

Other Topics of Interest:

• Reauthorization of TEA-21 (if a bill is signed)

• Lessons Learned for the Reauthorization Process

The Attendee registration fee is $200.00 per person for those registered by Sunday, July 25, 2004 and $235.00 for those registered afterward. This fee includes all sessions, continental breakfast each morning, Lunch and Wednesday Reception.

All attendees and their guests are invited to a complimentary reception and tour of research and training facilities at the headquarters of the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), located in the Social Science Tower on the UC Irvine campus. Faculty and research staff will lead hands-on demonstrations of current projects. Light refreshments will be served. Please indicate your interest in attending this reception and tour during registration.

Refunds will be issued, less a $25.00 cancellation fee, for all cancellations received in writing by Sunday, July 25, 2004. No refunds will be issued thereafter.

Hyatt Newporter Hotel
1107 Jamboree Road
Newport Beach, California 92660
Reservations: 800-233-1234 (Group code TRB Research & Education Section Meeting)
Phone: 949-729-1234
Fax: 949-759-3253
Online Hotel Reservations

Hotel parking:
Self-serve parking is available for $10 per night
Valet parking is available for $13 per night

Directions to the Beckman Conference Center

Directions to the Hyatt Newporter Hotel

Directions from the Hyatt Newporter Hotel to the Beckman Conference Center

The closest airport to the Hyatt Newporter is John Wayne Airport (SNA). The hotel offers free shuttle to and from this airport.

Other airports in the region are:

• Los Angeles International (LAX): Super Shuttle service to the hotel is approximately $22.00 ($9.00 per extra person), and to Beckman Center is approximately $44.00 ($10.00 per extra person).

• Long Beach International (LGB): Super Shuttle service to the hotel is approximately $36.00 ($10.00 per extra person), and to Beckman Center is approximately $38.00 (10).

• Burbank International: Super Shuttle service to the hotel is approximately $75.00 ($10.00 per extra person), and to Beckman Center is approximately $70.00 ($10.00 per extra person).

• Ontario International (ONT): Super Shuttle service to the hotel is approximately $53.00 ($10.00 per extra person), and to Beckman Center is approximately $48.00 ($10.00 per extra person).