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Jane Lin [mailto:<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 03, 2016 10:30 AM<br>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">2016
Transportation Planning and Air
Quality Conference
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<b><i>"The Changing Landscape of
Transportation and Air Quality:
Confronting the Challenges at the
Global, Regional, and Local Scales"</i></b></p>
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(Conference webpage: <a
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href="http://register.extension.iastate.edu/2016tpaq"
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://register.extension.iastate.edu/2016tpaq">http://register.extension.iastate.edu/2016tpaq</a>)</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Transportation
Research Board Transportation and Air
Quality Committee (ADC20) invite you to
submit an extended abstract for the 2016
Transportation Planning and Air Quality
(TPAQ) Conference. The spotlight theme in
2016 will be "<b>The Changing Landscape of
Transportation and Air Quality:
Confronting the Challenges at the
Global, Regional, and Local Scales</b>."
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are specifically
interested in abstracts related to the
following topics:
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Multi-modal passenger transportation and
air quality issues</li>
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Freight and non-road transportation and
air quality issues</li>
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Greenhouse gas emissions reduction
strategies</li>
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Cost-effectiveness analysis for emission
control measures</li>
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Emissions and air quality impacts of
alternative fuels</li>
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Co-benefits of transportation emissions
control, air quality mitigation, and
climate change strategies</li>
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Innovative vehicle and information
technology solutions to transportation
air quality problems</li>
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Near-road air quality</li>
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Dispersion modeling methods and tools</li>
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Exposure and health effects of air
pollution</li>
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Data for air quality analysis:
unconventional sources, collection
methods, quality, scarcity, uncertainty,
and novel statistical tools for data
analytics</li>
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State-of-the-practice transportation and
air quality program implementation and
evaluation</li>
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<span
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emerging topics in transportation and
air quality</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a
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Abstract Requirements:</b> All extended
abstracts must be submitted in Microsoft
Word or PDF format. Each extended abstract
must provide sufficient detail for
reviewers to judge its merit, but cannot
exceed 5 pages (including figures, tables,
and references) in length, single-spaced,
with no less than 11 font size. An
extended abstract template is available at
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href="http://register.extension.iastate.edu/2016tpaq/call-for-proposals"
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http://register.extension.iastate.edu/2016tpaq/call-for-abstract</a>. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Submission Method: </b>Extended
abstracts must be submitted electronically
to
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href="mailto::upload.2016_Tr.vrhqkopmhx@u.box.com"
target="_blank">upload.2016_Tr.vrhqkopmhx@u.box.com</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Submission Deadline</b>:
Extended abstracts must be submitted by <b><span
style="color:red">Monday, February
15th, 2016</span></b>. Each extended
abstract will be reviewed and comments
will be provided to the author(s) by <b>Thursday,
March 31st, 2016</b>. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Conference
Co-sponsors</b>:
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Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) </li>
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Minnesota Department of Transportation</li>
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Air and Waste Management Association
(AWMA)</li>
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American Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE) - Transportation &
Development Institute (T&DI)’s
Planning, Economics and Finance
Committee,
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TRB Committee on Alternative
Transportation Fuels and Technologies
(ADC80) </li>
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Cambridge Systematics, Inc.</li>
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Eastern Research Group, Inc.</li>
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ICF International</li>
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Resource Systems Group, Inc.</li>
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Texas Transportation Institute (TTI)</li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Conference History</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The TPAQ Conference,
formerly Transportation/Land Use Planning
and Air Quality (TLUPAQ), has been held in
the past at different locations:</p>
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1993 - Danvers, Massachusetts</p>
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1997 - Lake Tahoe, California</p>
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1998 - Portland, Oregon</p>
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1999 - Lake Lanier, Georgia</p>
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2001 - Irvine, California</p>
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2007 - Orlando, Florida</p>
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2009 - Denver, Colorado</p>
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2011 - San Antonio, Texas</p>
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2014 - Charlotte, North Carolina</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you have any
questions regarding the 2016 TPAQ
Conference, please contact Dr. Jane Lin at
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:janelin@uic.edu"
target="_blank">janelin@uic.edu</a> .</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please fee free to
distribute to interested individuals and
groups. Thank you.</p>
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