2014 Spring Meeting

Austin

Sheraton Capitol
Anna Martin, Alex Reyna, LAC Chair
Social Event: Stubb's BBQ

Download the meeting program.

   
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Presentations

Session 1: Interacting with Policy Makers

  • Will Conley, Hays County
  • Bob Daigh, Williamson County
  • Robert Spillar, City of Austin
  • Richard Suttle, Armbrust & Brown, PLLC
  • Jody Short, City of Colleyville/Lee Engineering
  • Beverly Silas, CapMetro/Beverly Silas and Associates

Session 3A: What the Tech!

Mike Hutchison, ITS Plus PLM Technology: The Elimination of Pulling Power/Coax Cables for VIVDS Intersections
Arnold McLaughlin, Texas Highway Products High Density Cabinet -337 HDC/ATC w/HD Components
Bill Marshall, Eltec Hybrid Crosswalk (HAWK) and Emergency Vehicle Hybrid Systems
Gary Nesbitt, Emerson Network Power Emerson (aka EDC) Continues to "Surge" Ahead

Session 3B: Round and Round We Go

John Denholm, Lee Engineering A Review of Speeds at Roundabouts in North Texas
Alozno Linan, City of Fort Worth and Chris Bosco, Freese and Nichols Fort Worth Roundabout Program
Mark Lenters, GHD Inc. Roundabout Design Heuristics
Steve Miller, HNTB Roundabout Planning Along I-35 in Austin

Session 4A: Our State, Our Region -A Look at Regional Planning Across the State

Cameron Walker, MOTOR Boom, Bust or Somewhere in Between?
Jeff Taebel, H-GAC Our Great Region 2040 Plan
Jennifer Duthie, Center for Transportation Research and Cynthia Long, Williamson Count Use of Dynamic Traffic Assignment for Planning in Williamson County
Natalie Bettger, NCTCOG Regional Planning for Operations in Dallas-Fort Worth

Session 4B: The Future in Transportation

Jason Wagner, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Automated Vehicles: The Future Is Near
Kay Fitzpatrick, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Gazing at Rapid Flashing Beacons: Preliminary Findings from FHWA Studies
Darren McDaniel, Derryk Blasig/Dustin Wiggins, TxDOT Variable Speed Limit Pilot Project
Mike Brown, Southwest Research Institute SwRI Connected Vehicle Affiliated Test Bed

Session 5A: DMS, ATMS, ITS, Oh My!

Koushik Arunachalam, Arcadis US An Innovative Approach to Proactively Evaluate Safety Performance of Future Transportation Projects
Jamie Mackey, Utah DOT Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures
Jory Dille, NCTCOG 2014 Survey Results of DFW Area Incident Management
Matthew Hotelling, Town of Flower Mound Flower Mound ATMS

Session 5B: Letgo my NACTO!

Jeffrey Riegner, Whitman, Requardt and Associates Introduction to Complete Streets
Nathan Wilkes, City of Austin Applying NACTO’s Urban Bikeway Design Guide
Jim Robertson, City of Austin Applying NACTO’s Urban Street Design Guide

Session Student Poster Presentations

Santosh Danda, Texas A&M University Empirical Measurements of Travelers’ Value of Travel time Reliability
Yanfen Zhou, Texas A&M University Safety Assessment of Interstate 35 Austin, Texas (Travis County)
Peija Tang, Texas Southern University Effect of Driving Behaviors on Emissions in Eco-driving at Intersections
Walter Council, Texas Southern University Application of the City of Houston’s Transit Corridor Development Ordinance along METRO’s Light Rail Corridors
Qing Li, Texas Southern University Impacts of V2I Communication System on Brake Response and the Change of Vehicle’s Kinetic Energy
Tyler Beduhn, University of Texas at Austin A Transit Route Choice Model for Application in Dynamic Transit Assignment
Jake Gutekunst, University of Texas at Austin An Empirical Delay Model for Dynamic Traffic Assignment Applications