Record of Attendance – PDH Form
Thursday 8:30am – 10:00am
PLENARY SESSION 1 – Greater Houston Area Transportation Initiatives and Challenges
Moderator: Reddy Edulakanti, HDR
- TxDOT Houston District – Ethan Beeson Presentation
- Houston-Galveston Area Council – Ron Papsdorf Presentation
Thursday 10:15am – 11:45am
CONCURRENT SESSION 2A – Transportation Safety Related Tools
Moderator: Alex Magdaleno, Lochner | Egis
- Spot, Prioritize, Solve: Modern Tools for Rapid Safety Diagnosis – Josh Peterman | Fehr & Peers, Steve Hollenkamp | Quality Counts, Jake Kononov | DiExSys
- Advancing Roundabout Design with a Fully Automated, Standards-Compliant Workflow – Jason Wu | Texas A&M Transportation Institute
- TxDOT’s Combined CMF Calculator Tool – Parth Patel & Imalka Matarage | Jacobs, Travis Hajek | TxDOT
- Utilizing Crash Video from Detection Cameras for Crash Reduction – Paul Luedtke | City of Garland
CONCURRENT SESSION 2B – Safe Systems Approach
Moderator: Joseph Marchione, City of Dallas
- Payton Arens | Kimley-Horn
- Kendall Nunez | Kimley-Horn
- Susan Jaworski | Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC)
- Nicole Waldheim | Fehr & Peers
- Tariq Shihadah | Toole Design
CONCURRENT SESSION 2C – General and Strategic Transportation Planning Topics
Moderator: Cody Stone, City of Austin
- Traffic Planning is Now Taking Flight! The Unique Challenges in Traffic Planning for Airports – Darren Ujano & Robert Wheeler | Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)
- Evaluating Revenue Collections, Asset Contributions, and Development Incentives in Austin’s Street Impact Fee Program – Matiur Rahman | City of Austin
- Austin’s Construction Mobility Plan (CMP) – Lance Ballard | Kimley-Horn, Amica Bose | City of Austin
- Harris County Toll Road Authority – Harris County Freight Study – Tracy Zhou | HDR, Josie Ortiz | Harris County Toll Road Authority (HCTRA)
Thursday 1:30pm – 3:00pm
CONCURRENT SESSION 3A – 2025 TMUTCD Revisions Workshop for Practitioners
Moderator: Jignesh Thakkar, WSB
- Barbara Russell | TxDOT
- Kellie Mannering | TxDOT
- Hunter Bagby | TxDOT
- Dustin Wiggins | TxDOT
Presentations: Overview-Parts 1,5 Parts 2,3,6,8 Parts 4,7,9
CONCURRENT SESSION 3B – Planning for Transportation Safety
Moderator: Anamaria Torres, Stantec
- A Novel Approach to Safety Planning and Identifying Safety Countermeasures – Samuel Higgins | BGE
- Achieving Zero: Transforming Municipal Agencies with Vision Zero Innovation – Isaac Pinckney | Consor Engineers
- City of Dallas Vision Zero and High Injury Network Corridor Studies – Pragna Tata | HDR, Auro Majumdar | City of Dallas
- From Plan to Action: Building a Competitive SS4A Implementation Grant Package for Williamson County – Renee Hurtado | DKS Associates, Houssam Ghandour | DKS Associates
CONCURRENT SESSION 3C – Using AI for Traffic Safety Improvements
Moderator: Scott Booth, LJA
- Applying AI and Smart Controls to Improve Safety at Non Signalized Crossings – Roger Brook | ConnVAS
- AI-Powered Lidar: Automating Data Collection to Empower Road Safety and Connected Transportation – Kyle Othmer | Ouster
- Automating Speed-Limit Sign Inventory Using Multimodal AI – Jason Wu | Texas A&M Transportation Institute
- AI-Powered Video Analytics (AIVA) for Advancing TSMO – Do Nam | WSB
Thursday 3:00pm – 3:30pm
STUDENT & YOUNGER MEMBER POSTER SESSION
Moderator: Claire McKinney, Garver
- Cheng Cao | Texas Southern University
- Hang Yi | Texas Southern University
- Hans Francis Die Kakou | Bartlett & West
- Jeniya Sultana | University of Texas at El Paso
- Kiana Haghjoo | University of Texas at El Paso
- Marqkieta Augustine | Texas Southern University
- Mustafa Haque | Southern Methodist University
- Natchaphon Leungbootnak | Texas A&M University
- Negin Soltani | Texas Southern University
- Orkhan Khalilov | Texas Southern University
- Rahul Siddappa Balekundri | Texas A&M University
- Swastik Khadka | University of Texas at Arlington
- Sijan Shrestha | University of Texas at Arlington
- Sabin Tiwari | University of Texas at Arlington
- Sai Sree Nithya Gattineni | University of Texas at El Paso
- Ting Lei | Texas Southern University
- Xiaohe Xu | Texas Southern University
Thursday 3:30pm – 5:00pm
CONCURRENT SESSION 4A – Big Things from TxDOT
Moderator: Suzanna Set, TxDOT
- TxDOT Statewide Data Contract Overview – Bethany Wyatt | TxDOT
- Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Before/After Crash Analysis – Travis Hajek | TxDOT
- From Asphalt to Algorithms Bridging Physical and Digital Infrastructure for Tomorrow’s Transportation – Petikorn Vichitbandha | TxDOT, Nichole Coronado | TxDOT
- TxDOT Cluster Analysis Guide Preview – Jack Shick | DCCM, Adam Stacy | DCCM
CONCURRENT SESSION 4B – Useful Tools for Traffic Data Analytics
Moderator: Willie Roman, Lee Engineering
- INRIX Data Use Cases From Around Texas – James Kuhr | INRIX
- Choosing Your Favorite Child – Data Driven Corridor Selection – Tom Hartmann | Kimley-Horn
- From Performance Evaluation to Signal Timing Optimization: Leveraging Connected Vehicle Data – Zong Tian | University of Nevada, Reno
- Data-Powered Accessibility: Austin’s Innovative Method for Targeting ADA Improvements Where They’re Needed Most – Marcela Aguirre | DKS Associates, Jetal Bhakta | City of Austin
CONCURRENT SESSION 4C – Traffic Bowl
Traffic Bowl Committee: Hardik Gupta, Stevens Technical & Deepak Sampath Kumar, Jacobs
Emcee: Robert Wunderlich, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Friday 8:00am – 9:30am
CONCURRENT SESSION 5A – WOMEN OF TEXITE: Healthy Competition in an Unpredictable Industry
Moderator: Stephanie Taylor, LJA
- Randee Shields | TxDOT
- Ravali Kosaraju | City of Kyle
- Anamaria Torres | Stantec
CONCURRENT SESSION 5B – Road Safety Assessments
Moderator: Robert Benz, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
- Robert Wunderlich | Texas A&M Transportation Institute
- Brian Jahn | Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Panelists:
- Jim Cline | TTI
- Alonzo Linan | City of Keller
- Brian Moen | City of Frisco
- Brian Shewski | City of Plano Slide
- Paul Luedtke | City of Garland
CONCURRENT SESSION 5C – Implementable Research You Can Use Now
Moderator: Chris Poe, Kittelson & Associates
- Hermanus Steyn | Kittelson & Associates Presentation
- Jeremy Chrzan | Toole Design Presentation
- Cameron Bennett | Kittelson & Associates Presentation
- Yvonne Kaczor | Toole Design Presentation
Friday 10:00am – 11:30am
CONCURRENT SESSION 6A – IGNITE: Best of the Rest in Transportation
Moderator: Brian Shewski, City of Plano
- City of Plano – Diamond Safety Improvements – Jacob Shelton | Pape-Dawson
- Developing a Traffic Gap-Based Warrant for Pedestrian Hybrid Beacons – Mohamed Bukhamsin | Huitt-Zollars
- Direct Left Turn Diamond – Curtis Jarecki | City of Frisco
- Transforming Roads, Unleashing Smart Technologies (TRUST) – A V2X Deployment in the Houston Area – Srinivasa Sunkari | Texas A&M Transportation Institute
- Enhancing Horizonal Curve Safety with Speed Reduction Markings: Development and Standardization of TxDOT SRM-25 – Xin (Juno) Zhang | Jacobs
- Telling Your Story – Brian Moen | City of Frisco
- How Vision Zero Can Put at Risk Zero Vision Pedestrians – Suzette May | Suzette May, LLC
CONCURRENT SESSION 6B – What’s New in Houston?
Moderator: Zina Schwartz, Consor Engineers
- Transforming Transportation in Houston: Comprehensive Strategies and Goals in the ITS Master Plan – Lauren Schindler |Kimley-Horn
- Cooler Streets: Reimagining Houston’s Downtown Main Street as a Resilient Promenade for People – Lee Anne Dixon | Walter P Moore
- Safety Implementation Success in Houston’s Special Districts – Jake Gutekunst | The Goodman Corporation, Don Huml | Hawes Hill
- Planning for Peak: Data-Driven Mobility Strategies for 2026 FIFA World Cup – Fengjiao Zou | Arcadis, Heng Wang | H-GAC
CONCURRENT SESSION 6C – Traffic Simulation State of the Practice
Moderator: Jordan Phillips, Jacobs
- The Marriage of Simulation & Animation: A Win for Stakeholders – Michael Trueblood | WSP
- Data-Driven Statistical Approaches for Modern Traffic Analysis – Chung Tran | WSB, Scott Washburn | WSB
- Modeling Impacts of Major Roadway Incidents: A Case Study of Interstate 10 in Houston, TX – Weimin Jin | Arcadis, Brenda Bustillos | TxDOT
