A Meeting Not to Miss

The 2002 Mid Year Meeting of Transportation Research Board Committee A2A05 (Landscape and Environmental Design) is being hosted by the Kansas Department of Transportation this year in Topeka, Kansas. The meeting will be held at the Topeka Courtyard by Marriott, 21st & Wanamaker, from Sunday, July 28 to July 31st.

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) operates under the corporate authority of the American National Academy of Sciences. Its purpose is to "bring scientific and technical information to bear on transportation problems by encouraging and conducting research, and disseminating information."

The Landscape and Environmental Design Committee is a component of TRB, and has been in existence for seventy years, dealing with design parameters that relate to protection, conservation, restoration and enhancement of the natural environment and man-made elements of transportation systems and their surroundings.

A detailed agenda is currently being prepared and will be distributed with the full registration package in April. Among the presentations will be discussions of context sensitive design, the Kellogg Avenue project in Wichita, the I-64 project in St. Louis, projects with a prairie connection, and a featured technical field trip which will include the Konza Prairie, the Flint Hills Scenic Byway, and the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve.

For further conference information, please contact:

Richard D. Ross, Chief Landscape Architect
Kansas Department of Transportation
Bureau of Design
Docking State Office Building, Room. 814 N
Topeka, Kansas 66612-1568
Phone: (785) 296-0853
Fax: (785) 296-8399
Email: ross@ksdot.org