2008 Winter Meeting

Irving

Wyndham DFW Airport North
Dan Vedral, LAC Chair
Social Event: Texas Stadium

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Presentations

Session 1A: HPG Technical Presentations

Dale Thomson, Consolidated Traffic ControlsMaximizing the Benefit of Your Existing Ethernet Network
Thomas Hoelscher (Graybar)Pre-Terminated Solutions Transform Network Deployments for Intelligent Transport Systems
W.N. "Jake" Smith, Cactus Computer, Inc.Ethernet Over Traffic Cable

Session 1B: Railroad Quiet Zones

Jim Sparks (City of Grand Prairie )Grand Prairie's Safe Quiet Zone
Jim O'Connor (City of Irving)Irving's Railroad Crossing Quiet Zones
Russ Wiles (City of Fort Worth)Railroad Quiet Zone Experiences in Fort Worth
Gary Schatz (Walter P. Moore)Establishing the West Loop Railroad Quiet Zone in Houston

Session 2A: ITE Mega Issue of Management and Operations

Beverly Kuhn, TTIPlanning and Designing Freeways for Congestion Management
Randy Schulze, Walter P. Moore Uptown Houston Video Surveillance
Chuck Fuhs, PB WorldManaged Lanes
Brad Miller, TxDOTThe ITS Work Zone System on IH-35

Session 2B: Partnerships in Safety

Katie Womack, TTI and Jessica Trudeau, Dallas Injury Prevention CenterAddressing Traffic Safety Through the Safe Communities Model,
Kimberly Dalton, Lee EngineeringFrisco ISD Growth
Brian Moen, City of FriscoFrisco Fire Safety Town
Christie Madsen, TTITeens in the Driver's Seat

Session 3: Student Poster Presentations

Xiugang Li, TAMUFeeding with Demand-Responsive or Fixed-Route Transit: A Simulation Analysis
Srinivas Geedipally, TAMUEffect of Varying Dispersion Parameter Poisson-Gamma Models on Estimation of Confidence Intervals of Crash Prediction Models
Byung Jung Park, TAMUBayesian Mixture Modeling Approach for Speed Data
Tara Ramani, TAMURole of the Private Sector in Financing Improvements to India's Highways
Chenyan Guo, TSUThe Impacts of Signal Phasing Sequence on Left-Turn Operation
Armin Kheirmand, TSUAn Assessment of Travel Time on Selected Houston Freeways: Effects of Safe Clear Program
Jamaal Schoby, TSUAn Assessment of Transit Ridership: Increased Suburban to Urban Transportation Mobility Options
Carlos Duran, UTEPTraffic Analysis and Evaluation of Design Alternatives for Alameda and Paisano Intersection
Jeff LaMondia, UT-AustinPredicting Demand Response Transit (DRT) Ridership

Session 4A: Traffic Signals

Kathleen Mullins Jost, City of Irving and Paul Luedtke, City of GarlandPPLT Flashing Yellow Arrows
Dharmesh Shah, Lee Engineering and Brian Moen/John Black, City of FriscoCity of Frisco ATMS
Andrew Wrigley, City of HoustonProgressive Traffic Signal Coordination Returns to Downtown Houston

Session 4B: Modeling in the Transportation World

Yong Zhao, TranSystems Corp.Modeling Uncertainty in Toll Road Studies
Giovanni Puccini, KBRPearl GTL Transportation Study
Purvi Dave, Parsons TransportationRoundabout Analysis in VISSIM