Fall/Winter 2002 A1F04 Newsletter

From the Chairman:

Welcome to the final A1F04 newsletter for 2002. As a first order of business, I want to encourage all members and friends of A1F04 to attend the upcoming 82nd Annual TRB Meeting in Washington D.C. A reminder that the Meeting Program is posted on the TRB website; go to the Interactive Program listing and search on the keyword "noise". You should find 10 listings of sessions and the Committee and Subcommittee meetings. The bulk of noise-related activities occur on Tuesday and Wednesday; the Full A1F04 Committee meeting will be the only activity Thursday morning (8 AM start). Wednesday will be a bit of a marathon day; I encourage feedback from anyone during the week as to whether this approach is reasonable, or should be somewhat more spread out.

Special attention is directed to Session 481 on High Speed Ground Transportation: Environmental Noise And Vibration Issues. This is a joint session sponsored by A1F04 and A2M05 and was pulled together by Steve Wolf and Jim Nelson from the Guided Rail Transit Noise Subcommittee of A1F04.

The Annual Committee Awards Dinner for Best Paper will be held Tuesday evening at the same Thai restaurant as last year. Announcement of this year's recipient of the Harter Rupert Award will be forthcoming shortly. Cyndy Lee of the Volpe Center will be handling arrangements. Thanks as always to Cyndy all her work on this event.

Agenda for the various subcommittee meetings and the full A1F04 Committee will be posted on the A1F04 website over the next several weeks. I encourage feedback on possible topics of concern or interest from members and friends.

The 2003 Summer Meeting of A1F04 will be hosted by Arizona DOT in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area. Angie Newton from AzDOT will be providing more details at the upcoming Annual Meeting.

Finally, thanks to all the members and friends that worked hard on the paper reviews to get everything in to TRB on time. As I've already said before, with such a wealth of knowledge, professionalism, and enthusiasm in our membership roster, we can't help but succeed. Thanks to everyone.

See you all in January.!