2021 Annual Meeting Agenda Minutes
This is the agenda for the 2021 Annual Meeting. You will need to join the meeting via Zoom, using the link provided in the TRB online program.
This agenda has been updated to include minutes from the meeting.
We will be using some of Zoom's breakout room and collaboration features; you will get the most out of this meeting if you can join the meeting using a current version of zoom installed on a desktop/laptop computer. That said, if you can only join via telephone, mobile app, or web application, your attendance is still valued.
- Committee overview (20 min)
- Introductions Sign Up
- History of the Committee / Goals
- Accomplishments in 2020 (10 min)
- Transferred from old site
- Introduced an Outline
- Developed a Style Guide
- Discussions about NCHRP project support
- Unique Visitors / Site Metrics discussion
- see below
- Goals for 2021 (10 min)
- A complete top-level TOC
- Revamp SIC on mode choice modeling
- Sister site with embedded code
- Kyle suggests putting python and R implementation on the same page using Reticulate
- Reach out to other committees about content
- Urban Data
- Survey Methods manual
- Machine Learning applications
- Host a content charette (virtually or in-person). Potential topics:
- Network Assignment / Modeling
- Model application and scenario management
- Machine learning
- Travel models for transportation equity
- Instruction: How to create and use Issues (20 min)
- Breakout Activity (30 min)
- Identify an issue with TF Resource
- incomplete page
- duplicated information
- a good page that isn't easy to find
- Create a GitHub Issue New issues created: 18
- Assign someone from your group to fix it, or tag @gregmacfarlane for follow-up
- These issues will be used to create agendas between monthly meetings.
From an email with @billyc: We've had Google Analytics running since the beginning! If you have a Google Account email address, I can add you (or anyone else) to be able to view the dashboard.
Some important details: (1) This is not European GPDR compliant. It's not a huge risk but if someone wants to they could write a letter and demand things. (2) So many people use adblockers now that this is probably missing 30-50% of page hits.
To explore addressing those problems, I set up a no-cookies, no-tracking analytics page yesterday (using a open source project called Ackee) on the free tier of Heroku. Ackee doesn't give nearly as much information as Google, but we completely control it and it's GDPR-safe. If all you need are page views and session durations, Ackee is enough. If you prefer the fine-grained Google stuff, then I need to add a cookie warning. Which I could do but everyone hates cookie banners. You can take a look at the Ackee page here: https://tfresource.herokuapp.com
In the meanwhile here's a screenshot of the most popular pages according to Google!
