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• Hal Kassoff, Senior Vice President, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Inc. • Burr Stewart, Strategic Planning Manager, Port of Seattle • John Inglish, General Manager, Utah Transit Authority, Vice Chair of the APTA Research and Technology Committee, and Member, ITS America Executive Committee • Matt Barrett, Librarian, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority • Amanda Wilson, Director of the National Transportation Library, U.S.DOT-RITA • Jerry Baldwin, Library Director, Minnesota DOT • Ken Winter, Library Director, Librarian, Virginia Transportation Research Council • Toby Pearlstein, Manager of Information Services, Bain & Co., former librarian for Massachusetts Highway Department and CTPS (Boston MPO staff)
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Efforts have also begun to consolidate U.S.DOT libraries, an important step toward building greater coordination of federallevel transportation information resources. Staff of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
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The network has, however, provided an effective complement to the NAL's programs, extending its reach and providing a coordinated set of specialized information resources. Coordination on standards has produced a single taxonomy of terms and an approach that enables metadata harvesting from Open Archive Initiative (OAI)
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Question 10, which explicitly asked what improvements to information would be of most value, and question 11, which asked for advice on the business plan, yielded a diverse set of opinions that was extremely helpful in crafting the business plan. Findings and Conclusions Key findings from both the interviews and the Web survey are organized around the following three questions: • Is there a problem related to transportation information access that merits attention and investment of resources?
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In addition, transportation organizations are looking for solutions to their own internal information-sharing challenges. Therefore, crafting a modular approach to information-sharing tools, providing components that can be plugged in to a national portal but also made available to individual organizations would be an appropriate strategy.
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