About

AMS10 Leadership Committee. From Top Left: Ellen Greenberg, Kanok Boriboonsomsin, Doug Eisinger, Shams Tanvir, Natalie Liljenwall, Alex Bigazzi , Marianne Hatzopoulou, Cindy Copeland, Annalisa Schilla, John Davies, and Gregory Rowangould.

Committee

Committee Overview

To download a description of the committee and its organization click here.

Committee Structure

Committee work is supported by various teams, as illustrated in Figure 1, in addition to numerous volunteers who help with activities such as webinar planning, website management and committee communications.

Task Force and Subcommittee teams are each led by Chairs and Vice Chairs; the Committee Research Coordinator (CRC) is assisted by a Research Needs Statement (RNS) leader. Together with the Committee Chair, they constitute the Committee’s Leadership Team and oversee the Committee’s day-to-day work. The Leadership Team is selected to ensure a diverse team leads Committee work.

The guiding philosophy behind our structure is to advance the knowledge and understanding needed to address air quality and GHG mitigation planning. A key objective is to support research that connects traditional air quality management efforts with the urgent need to mitigate GHGs.

• The CRC pools and prioritizes research needs from across all Committee efforts. The CRC is assisted by an RNS lead who oversees RNS preparation and identifies and liaises with potential funding organizations.
• Administrative Task forces lead essential efforts to support presentations at the Annual Meeting via papers, podium sessions, workshops, and posters; organize summer (or mid-year) meetings to facilitate information sharing and strategic planning; and help identify research needs. Task forces are as follows:
  • Paper Review
  • Summer Meeting
  • Outreach and Communication
• Subcommittees address key technical subjects covered by the Committee’s scope. They meet at the Annual Meeting, facilitate information exchange, and help identify research needs. Subcommittee work focuses on key research topics, or clusters. Emphases include GHG mitigation, environmental justice, and fleet electrification and charging infrastructure. Work will consider GHG reduction and air quality improvement co-benefits. The subcommittee structure is as follows:

Subcommittee: Electrification and Future Mobility

Research Clusters:

• Fleet electrification and lifecycle emissions impacts for air quality and GHG control
• Behavior change, pricing, and future mobility: use and electrification of Transportation Network Companies (TNCs), Connected/Automated Vehicles (CAVs), transit

Subcommittee: Environmental Justice & Goods Movement

Research Clusters:

• Environmental justice: light, medium, and heavy-duty vehicle impacts and controls
• Goods movement and diesel-powered vehicle air quality and GHG impacts and controls

Volunteers

Role	Volunteer
Comm. Research Coordinator	Marianne Hatzopoulou, Univ. of Toronto
Research Needs Statements (RNS) Lead	Natalie Liljenwall, Oregon DOT
Paper Review Task Force	Greg Rowangould, U. of Vermont: Chair; Shams Tanvir, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: Vice Chair
Summer Meeting Task Force	Annalisa Schilla, CARB, Chair; Ellen Greenberg, Vice Chair
Committee Secretary	Andrew Eilbert, Volpe Center
Electrification & Future Mobility Subcommittee	John Davies, FHWA: Chair; Alexander Bigazzi, UBC: Vice Chair
Environmental Justice and Goods Movement Subcommittee	Cindy Copeland, Boulder County, CO: Chair; Kanok Boriboonsomsin, UC Riverside: Vice Chair
Liaisons	Environ. Issues in Aviation Comm. (AV030), Air Quality Sub-Comm., Roger Wayson, AECOM Transp. Energy Comm. (AMS30), David Kall, FHWA Alt. Transp. Fuels & Technologies Comm. (AMS40), Mike Roberts, FHWA Joint Subcommittee on Climate Change (AMS10, 30, and 40) Sandeep Sasidharan, Ford Transp. in Developing Countries Comm. (ABE90), Ivan Racic, ADOT Health and Transportation Subcomm. (ADD50), Chad Bailey, EPA Vehicle-Highway Automation Comm. (AHB30), Heng Wei, Univ. of Cincinnati
Listserv management	Jane Lin, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
Webinar Coordinators	Jenny Narvaez, NCTCOG, Lead; Sarah Roberts, EPA, Assist
Website & Communications	Shams Tanvir, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; Mike Claggett, FHWA
Website host	Reza Farzaneh, USEPA
Workshop coordinators (2021)	Greg Rowangould, U. of Vermont, Karin Landsberg, WSDOT

Paper Review and Workshop Planning Process

A core work effort each year is to review and make acceptance or rejection decisions on papers submitted for presentation at the TRB Annual Meeting. Given widespread interest in committee topics, we review a large number of papers submitted by authors around the world. Typically, about half of these papers will be accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting, with a much smaller subset, about 15%, forwarded for publication consideration in the peer-reviewed Transportation Research Record (TRR). The paper review process is led by an overall Paper Review Coordinator (PRC). In addition, the Committee typically plans two half-day workshops that take place at the Annual Meeting. Workshops allow the Committee to examine high-interest topics at greater depth, and provide opportunities for breakout discussions and information sharing. The calendar of major actions associated with paper reviews and workshop planning is described in the committee overview document.

Strategic Planning

• Committee members have engaged in several major strategic planning efforts; for key findings, see:
  • “Response to a Rapidly Transforming Field” 
  • “Summer Meeting Summary”
• 2022-2025 Triennial Strategic Plan (TSP)

Getting Involved

The Committee relies on numerous volunteers to complete its work. The easiest way to engage in our activities is to become a “Friend” of the Committee:

1. Login at the MyTRB website:  https://www.mytrb.org/
2. Click on “Committees”
3. Click on “Become a Friend of a Committee”
4. Scroll to AMS10 and check box on right of screen
5. Click on “Submit Changes” near top of screen

The TRB Air Quality and GHG Mitigation Committee welcomes new volunteers and looks forward to your participation in our work. Contact the Committee Chair for additional information; see: http://www.trb.org/AboutTRB/GetInvolvedCommitteesTF.aspx.

Legacy Materials

TRB reorganized in December 2019 and retired the “Transportation Air Quality Committee, ADC20; information for that committee is archived at the Air Quality Committee’s legacy website”