Thursday 8:30am – 10:00am

PLENARY SESSION 1 – Greater Houston Area Transportation Initiatives and Challenges

   Moderator: Reddy Edulakanti, HDR

  • City of Houston – Randy Macchi
  • TxDOT Houston District – Melody Galland
  • Houston-Galveston Area Council – Ron Papsdorf

 

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 Hollencamp | 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
  • 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
  • Keehren Baah | 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

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

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 – Ian Boyd |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

  • Mustafa Haque | Southern Methodist University
  • Hans Francis Die Kakou | Bartlett & West
  • Rahul Siddappa Balekundri | Texas A&M 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 & Nichole Coronado |TxDOT
  •  TxDOT Cluster Analysis Guide Preview – Jack Shick & 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 Bhatka | City of Austin

CONCURRENT SESSION 4C – Traffic Bowl

   Traffic Bowl Committee Chair & Co-Chair: Hardik Gupta, Stevens Technical & Deepak Sampath Kumar, Jacobs

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

CONCURRENT SESSION 5C – Implementable Research You Can Use Now

   Moderator: Chris Poe, Kittelson & Associates

  •  Hermanus Steyn | Kittelson & Associates
  • Jeremy Chrzan | Toole Design
  • Mike Alston| Kittelson & Associates
  • Yvonne Kaczor | Toole Design

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 & Bob Brydia | Texas A&M Transportation Institute
  • Enhancing Horizonal Curve Safety with Speed Reduction Markings: Development and Standardization of TxDOT SRM-25 – Xin (Juno) Zhang & Eric (Yucheng) Shi | 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 – Jignesh Thakkar | WSB
  • Modeling Impacts of Major Roadway Incidents: A Case Study of Interstate 10 in Houston, TX – Weimin Jin | Arcadis, Brenda Bustillos | TxDOT