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From the Chair and Managing Director of the NOCoE

In conjunction with this year’s Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, the National Operations Center of Excellence is celebrating its first anniversary. This time last year the NOCoE was officially launched by its four partners: The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) and the US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Chaired by then Executive Director Don Hunt of the Colorado Department of Transportation, the partners gathered at TRB with the following simple idea in mind: To improve surface transportation system reliability by lending exceptional support services to TSM&O practitioners. Please click here to read more.

Recent Event: TIM Summit, December 9-10, 2015
By Tom Kern
The Arizona Department of Transportation, Arizona Department of Public Safety, and Maricopa County Department of Transportation hosted the Southwest Regional Incident Management (TIM) Summit in Phoenix, AZ, December 9th-10th. This event was sponsored by the National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE) as well as by the Federal Highway Authority. The word Summit was used deliberately by the organizers, rather than conference, symposium, or meeting. The reason for this was to set the overarching tone of the gathering as more collaborative and results based, having those in attendance walk away with clear action items and recommendations. The result was plenary sessions with highly productive question and answer periods as well as successful participation focused breakouts. Please click here to read more.

Upcoming Events: TRB 95th Annual Meeting Highlights
Compiled by Shane Trimmer
Next week the Transportation Research Board (TRB) will be hosting its 95th Annual Meeting at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, D.C. For this year’s meeting TRB is featuring Research Convergence for a Multimodal Future as their spotlight theme. Further, they have highlighted three hot topics: Transformation Technologies; Resilience; and Transportation and Public Health. In total there will be 189 sessions related to transportation systems management and operations (TSM&O), all of which you can find here on the Annual Meetings Interactive Program. Following are sessions highlighted by TRB as being a part of either this year’s spotlight theme or fitting within one of their three hot topics: Please click here to view.
  

RFI: TCRP 2016 Synthesis Study Topics Sought
TRB is seeking potential synthesis study topics as part of the upcoming activities of the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP). Topics may be submitted at any time; however, the deadline for the upcoming submission cycle is March 18, 2016. All proposed new topics must be submitted online through the TRB Synthesis Topic Submittal website. Please click here for more information.

Register with NOCoE and Join the Discussion Forum!
We hope you find the NOCoE (http://www.transportationops.org/) a place where you can share information as well as receive it – we encourage you to register and share in our discussion forum your latest work plan, specific challenge you are facing with an operations practice or new technology, or techniques you’ve used to empower your staff. This is your transportation operations resource and we are interested in your feedback to continually improve our porfolio of services. Please feel free to contact the Center with your suggestions, either through the website or at TKERN@transportationops.org.