2012 Fall Meeting
Fort Worth
Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth
Natalie Bettger, Jennifer Butcher, LAC Chair
Social Event: Rahr & Sons Brewery
Download the meeting program.
Presentations
Session 1: Safety - Where Are We and Where Are We Going? |
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| Gail Lyssy, Federal Transit Administration | MAP-21 and Federal Transit Administration’s New Public Transportation Safety Authority |
| Brian Barth, Texas Department of Transportation | Highway Safety in Texas |
| Robert Wunderlich, Texas A&M Transportation Institute | The Other Side of Safety: Investigating, Understanding, Influencing and Determining the Consequences of Driver Actions |
| Christopher Poe, Texas A&M Transportation Institute | Future Vehicle Safety - Connected, Cooperative, or Autonomous? |
Session 2: Safety Data and Analysis |
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| Jory Dille, North Central Texas Council of Governments | Using Crash Data in the Pursuit of a Safer North Central Texas Region |
| Brian Moen, City of Frisco | Frisco’s Crash Analysis Software |
| Jeff Kaufman, Houston-Galveston Area Council | The Joys and Sorrows of Working with Crash Data |
| Jim Lee, Lee Engineering | Arizona Road Safety Assessment Experience |
Session 3A: Transportation Technology (Exhibitors) |
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| Mark Mathis, CTC, Inc. | Hardware Innovations in Interconnected Highway-Rail Grade Crossings |
| Tom McKeon, Rhythm Engineering | Documented Safety Improvements of Adaptive Traffic Control |
| Dave Gilbert, LeddarTech | LED-Based Vehicle Detection - New Technologies Solving Today?s Issues |
| Brett Sumpter, Sensys Networks, Inc | .MicroRadar™ - Next Generation Bicycle Detection |
| Jeff Campbell, Texas Highway Products and Dan Szgatti, Encom Wireless | Wireless Broadband Networks for ITS and Traffic Applications |
Session 3B: Wrong Way Driving in Texas |
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| Brian Fariello, Texas Department of Transportation | San Antonio Wrong Way Driving Activities |
| Yang Ouyang and Eric Hemphill, North Texas Tollway Authority | NTTA Activities |
| Sonya Jackson Landrum, NCTCOG | Wrong Way Driving in Dallas County: Seeking a Systemic Solution |
Session 4A: Intersection Safety |
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| Tim Taylor, Federal Highway Administration | FHWA Intersection Safety Implementation Plan |
| Srinivas Geedipally, Texas A&M Transportation Institute | Safety Benefits of Red Light Cameras |
| Marc Jacobson, City of San Antonio | San Antonio’s Flashing Yellow Arrow Experience |
| Justin Smith, University of Texas at Tyler | City of Tyler Flashing Yellow Arrow Before and After |
Session 4B: Pedestrian Safety |
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| Stephen Ratke, Federal Highway Administration | Pedestrian Safety in Texas |
| Kay Fitzpatrick, Texas A&M Transportation Institute | Rapid Flashing Beacons for Pedestrian Crossing Signs |
| Norman Hogue, City of Waco | Experiences from Waco’s First Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon and Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons |
| Janet Barlow, Accessible Design for the Blind and Melanie White, Bluebonnet Co-op for Students with Visual Impairments | Designing for the Visually Impaired |
Session 5A: Safety Outreach |
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| Brian Shamburger, Kimley-Horn and Associates | Distracted Driver Program Update |
| Trooper Lonnie Haschel, Department of Public Safety | Distracted Driving |
| Russell Henk, Texas A&M Transportation Institute | Teens in the Driver Seat, A Peer-to-Peer Traffic Safety Program for America’s Youth |
| Clint Schelbitzki, Union Pacific Railroad | Freight Rail Safety |
Session 5B: Keeping Transit Safe and Secure |
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| Kristina Brevard, Denton County Transportation Authority | Rail Safety and a New Passenger Line |
| Sean Edwards, TSA | TBA |
| Dustin Qualls, Traffic Engineers Inc. and Nader Mirjamali, Houston METRO | Improving Houston METRO HOV/HOT Lane Safety |
Session Student Poster Presentations |
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| Peggy Adolph, Texas Southern University | Public Involvement: Exploring Ways to Engage Communities for a Better Tomorrow |
| Mason Gemar, University of Texas at Austin | A Stochastic Dynamic Programming Approach for Equipment Replacement Optimization? |
| Sunil Madanu, University of Texas at Arlington | High-Speed Rail in Existing Highway Corridors: Development of Continuity and Alignment Indices for Sketch Planning |
| Brad Brimley, Texas A&M University | How Comparable are Retroreflectivity Readings Made with Different Retroreflectometers? |
| Hussein Hashemi, Southern Methodist University | Advanced Traffic Management System for Congested Urban Networks |
| Michael DeGaspari, University of Texas at Austin | The Effect of Active Traffic Management on Travel Time Reliability: A Case Study of I-5 in Seattle |
| Yubian Wang, University of Texas at El Paso | Minimum Auxiliary Lane Length at Freeway On-Ramps |
| Lorenzo Cornejo and Juan Salcido, University of Texas at El Paso | Reliability Analysis of Bus Routes in El Paso |
| Da Li, Texas Southern University | Operational Impacts of Directional Median Opening |
