New Jersey-New York-Pennsylvania-Rhode Island Connecticut-Delaware-District of Columbia-Maine Maryland-Massachusetts-New Hampshire-Vermont New Jersey-New York-Pennsylvania-Rhode Island Region 1

Former Members (i.e. transferred, retired, resigned) Curtis Bradley, Massachusetts Beth Klemann, New Hampshire Camille Crichton-Sumners, New Jersey Colin Franco, Rhode Island Bill Ahern, Vermont Curtis to NC Beth to MN Camille to TRB Bill retired Colin playing other roles

Welcome New Members Connecticut District of Columbia New Jersey Flavia E. Pereira, Career Trainee/Planner District of Columbia Stefanie Brodie, Program Specialist New Jersey Amanda Gendek, Project Manager Kimbrali Davis, Project Manager Vermont Emily Parkany, Research Manager Rhode Island Jo Lima Flavia: -Here at RAC Emily: -Here at RAC Kimbrali: -Here at RAC, serving in the interim as RAC rep until a new manager is hired Amanda: -Serving as research manager in interim Stefanie: -Started a month ago

Our Top Takeaways Mentimeter is awesome! Maine: Work with Media office to produce webinars/videos for successful research projects DC: Innovate ITD as an approach to make our STIC more productive. Maryland: Exploring the use of a technical writer Possible Infravation participation Vermont: Dream hire = implementation engineer New Jersey: Business requirements for research model (PM&Q) Connecticut: Implementation should be part of the project from the very beginning but it is also important to formalize the implementation process.

Cool Things in Our Region District of Columbia DistrictMobility.org New England (ME, VT, NH, RI, CT, MA) The NETC transition Maine is the new Lead State Maryland Communications not spam! Announcements of published research from TRB, FHWA, and the states are posted on the Intranet and then routed to an email group of employees who sign up to receive information on topic areas.

Cool Things In Our Region Vermont Inaugural Research Symposium, co-hosted with STIC New Jersey 18th Annual Research Showcase – check out the presentations, all posted to the web Connecticut Started introducing research at the new employee orientation – raise awareness from the start!

Region 1 response to AASHTO Re-Org We see value in crossing over between innovation and research groups. Better coordination is a generally of value Relationship between research and innovation varies by state Several of our research programs are getting involved more directly or running our STICs, changing the relationship between innovation and research in some cases. Region had questions about AII oversight generally and going forward

Thank you, Kentucky!