Building on the momentum established with the signing of a MOU with AASHTO in February, Adventure Cycling is pleased to be speaking to the Multimodal Surface Transportation Planning Task Force on May 5 about the task force’s role in maintaining the U.S. Bicycle Route System National Corridor Plan.

Adventure Cycling has begun to document a process to transparently facilitate changes to the Plan. “We are excited to be working closely with AASHTO to ensure modifications are made smoothly and with the highest goals of the plan in mind moving forward,” said Jennifer Hamelman, Adventure Cycling’s USBRS Coordinator.

The Multimodal Surface Transportation Planning Task Force provides a forum for communications, guidance, and resources focused on planning, policy, and performance management for multimodal issues related to passenger transportation in order to support balanced representation of all surface transportation modes in transportation planning and policy. The group meets monthly each First Wednesday at 3:00 PM Eastern. For meeting access links, please contact the AASHTO staff liaison Will Lusk at wlusk@aashto.org.

The new AASHTO Transportation Asset Management (TAM) Guide is now available! It is designed to help transportation agencies advance TAM practices and support them as they conduct TAM activities. The Guide will be especially helpful now as agencies prepare 2022 transportation asset management plans (TAMP). This interactive webinar miniseries will help participants familiarize themselves with what is in the Guide and how to use it to meet their TAM needs.

TAMP implementation and integration showed the lowest performance in FHWA's recent of the 2019 TAMPs. This is an area where agencies need resources to help improve practice. The webinar on April 28 at 2:00 PM Eastern will cover where the Guide can help in the "How To" for implementation and with integration with other agency activities. Click here to register.

Additional TAM webinar information is available on the TAM portal by clicking here.

Registration is open for AASHTO’s 2021 Virtual Spring Meeting at www.aashtospringmeeting.org.

This will be an AASHTO Spring Meeting like no other, with a focus on AASHTO President Victoria Sheehan’s emphasis areas: the value of transportation and transportation workforce challenges. There will be engaging keynote speakers, panels featuring key leaders in the transportation community, knowledge sessions and peer exchanges to learn from and engage with one another. You will also have the opportunity to listen in on the important business of AASHTO through various business meetings, including the Board of Directors, the Council on Highways and Streets, and the Transportation Policy Forum, among others.

While nothing replaces being together in person, the virtual experience allows us to provide more content and reach a wider audience that wouldn’t typically have the chance to attend in person. I hope you will be able to attend!