Electronic National Dialogue on Transportation Operations
The Electronic National Dialogue on Transportation Operations (E-Dialogue) has been established to allow you to share ideas, thoughts and/or comments with others on how we can meet this vision. Through this open forum, your colleagues will be able to review and respond to your ideas, thereby continuing the dialog that will lead to increased productivity and safety of the total transportation network in the U.S. Through the use of the Web and innovative software, we encourage you to take part in vigorous discussions like those that many of you participated in during the Transportation Operations Conference conducted by the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) in Irvine, California. In essence, you will be part of a brain trust that will be helping to define actions to carry out our common management and operations mission. The E-Dialogue on Transportation Operations is funded by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration and is administered by ITE.
To make the E-Dialogue as effective and enjoyable to its users as possible, we ask that you follow a few simple rules. Make sure that your message postings are "on topic," that is, that they relate to some aspect of transportation operations and/or the national operations dialog. Limit your discussions to professional issues and conduct those discussions in a professional manner. Posting of messages related to positions available, positions wanted, advertisements for your firm, or other promotional material is strictly prohibited.
Posting new comments on the E-Dialogue's on-line bulletin board is very easy -- simply go to the home page (that contains a discussion index where all of the recent comments are listed) and click on the link at the top entitled "Post New Message." A posting form will then display on your browser. Simply fill in the boxes. You can "preview" the message and then post it, or post it directly. Replying to existing messages is likewise very easy: simply click on the "Post Response" link at the top of a message that you wish to respond to, fill in the form provided, and then preview or post your message. Your browser will return to the E-Dialogue home page (index page) after you have submitted your message or response.
Because the Electronic National Dialogue is a moderated discussion forum, all new message postings are put in a queue for the content moderator to review and approve or reject. That process may take as little as a few minutes or as much as a day or two, depending on the moderator's availability. Your message has a high likelihood of approval if you have followed the few simple rules described above.
We encourage you to visit the E-Dialogue home page often to view the new discussion topics and threads. As an added bonus, you can sign up to receive an email digest (single email message) containing all new messages at 7 AM (Eastern Time) each morning, Monday through Friday. Simply click on the "(Un)Subscribe" link at the top of the Electronic National Dialogue home page, provide your email address in the space provided, then press the "Send Address" button. Use the same process to unsubscribe, except make sure that the "Delete Address from List" button is checked.
The E-Dialogue bulletin board home page (index page) can be customized to change both the order of the message index (chronological, by-thread, etc.) as well as the number of messages that you see. Simply click on the "Set Preferences" link from the E-Dialogue home page and follow the instructions provided.
We encourage your feedback and welcome your questions and inquiries. Please forward any content questions to the content moderator (Richard Easley, reasley@e-squared.org) and any operational questions to the E-Dialogue webmaster (Jerry Werner, jerrycw@attglobal.net).
