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The AASHTO Standing Committee on Planning (SCOP) met on October 23, 2009 in Palm Desert California. Meeting minutes and subcommittee reports given at the meeting are available HERE . Reporting subcommittees include Performance Based Planning and Programming Task Force, Data and CTPP, Asset Management, Capacity Building, Research, and Policy.

A Webinar on "Data Issues in Transportation Planning" was held on September 17, 2009.  If you missed it, you can view it HERE . Due to technical problems the audio portion begins at 10 minutes, 6 seconds into the media file.

Presentation slides are available for:

• Janet Oakley, AASHTO, "Data Issues for Transportation Planners: STAA"
• Anita Vandervalk, Cambridge Systematics, "NCHRP ...

Today’s “Washington Briefing” Webinar discussed the latest information on the next federal transportation authorization, climate change legislation and finance issues. Janet Oakley, Bill Malley and Joung Lee provided presentations followed by audience Q&A. You can see and hear the entire Webinar HERE or get a pdf file of the presentation slides HERE . Please note, the audio begins immediately and ...

Join us for a Webinar on June 22
Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM EDT
This first AASHTO SCOP Webinar will brief you on Washington issues. Janet Oakley, Bill Malley and Jack Basso will discuss the implications of authorization and performance measures, climate change legislation and finance. With stimulating presentations and a Q and A session ...

EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality has released a draft version of the Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES), Draft MOVES2009. This release begins a review period to allow model stakeholders to review and provide comment on any aspect of the draft model or documentation. The model and supporting documentation is available for download from the MOVES website at: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/models/moves/index.htm

The AASHTO Standing Committee on Planning’s Strategic Plan contains the vision, mission, goals, objectives and action items that are being used to guide the Committee's efforts. The action items are listed for the two years of the planning term, and may be revised and supplemented as events warrant.

Five White Papers have been added as resources. The papers were prepared for the Conference on Best Practices in Meeting SAFETEA-LU Requirements in the Statewide Transportation Planning Process, held September 3-5, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia. The topics of the papers are:

• The Explicit Consideration of Safety in the Transportation Planning Process: Where Do We Go From Here?
• The Congestion Management ...

The AASHTO Standing Committee on Planning (SCOP) met on October 18, 2008 in Hartford, Connecticut. Presentations and reports given at the meeting are available  HERE . Included are presentations on the SCOP Strategic Plan and reports from FHWA and the SCOP Subcommittees on Asset Management, Data, Capacity Building, and Research.

Other information on SCOP is available HERE .

The AASHTO Standing Committee on Planning (SCOP) met on June 8-11, 2008 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Presentations given at the meeting are available at: http://www.statewideplanning.org/resources.php?category=25 .  Also included are presentations and materials used at the Peer Workshop on Integrating Innovative Finance and Transportation Planning held on June 8.

Other information on the SCOP Meeting is available at:  http://www.transportation.org/meetings/175.aspx . 

The AASHTO Standing Committee on Planning will meet jointly with the Standing Committee on Finance beginning June 8 through June 11. A draft agenda, hotel information and other details are now available HERE .