2017 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Program Summary
(Preliminary - Subject to Change)
Sunday, May 14, 2017
12:30 PM -
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
National Datasets Workshop
Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating national data is approximately 3,720 to 1
Hanover Ballroom 2
Getting Info to Decision-Makers
If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it
Hanover Ballroom 3
- The Pros and Cons of Using the Change in Destination Choice Logsums as a Practical Measure of User Benefits
- Project Prioritization using a Delay Allocation
- Which Performance Measures do Rural Public Transportation Systems Select for Themselves?
- Enhancing Agency Performance-based Planning and Programming
3:00 PM -
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Beyond Scenario Planning – The Role of Models with Deep Uncertainty
You can't model what you don't know, but just because you don't know doesn't mean models aren't useful
Hanover Ballroom 1
Visualization Tools Show And Tell
Never send a human to do a machine's job
Hanover Ballroom 2
- swimr: Visualizing Complex Longitudinal Indicators for a Statewide Integrated Land Use and Transport Model in Oregon
- TRENDD: An Open-Source Analysis and Visualization Platform for Transportation Data Analysis
- Visualization Dashboard for the Piedmont Triad’s Tour Based Freight Model
- Leveraging Tools to Better Grok Model Calibration
Dynamic Transit Assignment from Scratch: A Tutorial
The Dark Side of the Force is the pathway to many abilities some consider to be… Unnatural.
Hanover Ballroom 3
6:00 PM -
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Conference Opening Remarks / Speed Data-ing For Reals
Hanover Ballroom
7:00 PM -
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
Dinner
Oak Forest Ballroom
Monday, May 15, 2017
7:30 AM -
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
Breakfast
Governor's Ballroom / Mezzanine
8:30 AM -
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Not Activity-Based Models
I Wish I Knew How to Quit You…
Hanover Ballroom 2 & 3
Automated/Connected Vehicles
They're Here
Oak Forest Ballroom
- Accounting for AV/CV in Current Trip-Based Travel Models
- Autonomous Vehicle Ownership And Sharing: A Demand Forecasting Approach For The Puget Sound Region And Beyond
- Modeling Automated Vehicles with a Passive Data Model
- Modeling Impacts Of Autonomous Vehicles On Travel Demand With An Activity-Based Model
Highway Capacity Manual
I Love the Smell of HCM in the Morning
Hanover Ballroom 1
10:00 AM -
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Break
Governor's Ballroom / Mezzanine
10:30 AM -
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Activity-Based Models
The First Rule of ABMs is You Don’t Talk About ABMs
Hanover Ballroom 2 & 3
Automated Vehicle Discussion Panel
It's Alive, It's Alive
Oak Forest Ballroom
Planning for Freeway Operations
Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, Don't Fail Me Now
Hanover Ballroom 1
12:00 PM -
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
Lunch
Esplanade and Oak Forest Ballroom
1:30 PM -
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Dynamic Traffic Assignment
In This Traffic, Nothing Moves
Hanover Ballroom 2 & 3
- Assessing Freeway Expansion Projects with Regional Dynamic Traffic Assignment
- Edmonton Valley Line LRT Traffic Modeling
- Development and Application of a Regional DTA model for the Twin Cities
- Bi-Level Optimal Sequence and Schedule for Multiple Workzone Projects using WISE and Traffic Simulation
- Gap Value in Simulation-Based Dynamic Traffic Assignment Models: Why Does It Exist and How to Reduce It?
Cell-Phone/GPS Based Data
You Had Me at Hello
Oak Forest Ballroom
Statewide Planning
You Make Me Want to Have a Better Plan
Hanover Ballroom 1
- Development Of External And Truck Components For A Regional Travel Model
- Rough Roads Ahead 2: Economic Implications of Deteriorating Highway Conditions
- Interagency Coordination in Long Range Transportation Planning
- Use of logit averaging for integration of urban and intercity passenger rail demand forecasts
3:00 PM -
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Break
Governor's Ballroom / Mezzanine
3:30 PM -
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Integrated Dynamic/AB Models: Getting Real Discussion
You Complete Me
Hanover Ballroom 2 & 3
- Integrated Dynamic Travel Models: Recent SHRP2 Projects
- Integrated ABM-DTA Model: First Application Experience and Lessons Learned
- An Integrated, Validated, and Applied Activity Based-DTA Model for the Baltimore-Washington Region
- Integrated ABM & DTA Models Discussion: The Atlanta Regional Commission Experience
Working with Big Data
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
Oak Forest Ballroom
- Using Big Data to Understand Differences between Weekday and Weekend Travel
- Incorporating Big Data in an Activity-based Model for Chattanooga
- Development of New Supply Models Using Big Data in Maryland
- Forecasting with Data-Driven Models
- An Exploration Of ‘Big Data’ Sources To Inform Best Practice Travel Time Studies - Lessons Learned From Metro Vancouver
Global Perspectives and Public Health
Toto, I've a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore
Hanover Ballroom 1
5:30 PM -
7:30 PM
7:30 PM
Vendor's Wine & Cheese Reception
Governor's Ballroom / Mezzanine
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
7:30 AM -
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
Breakfast
Governor's Ballroom / Mezzanine
8:30 AM -
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Model Sensitivity
There's No Crying in Modeling
Hanover Ballroom 2 & 3
- Accounting For Demand Simulation Random Variations In Project-Level Performance Assessment
- Quantifying Uncertainty in Travel Forecasts and Performance Measures
- Activity-Based Model Sensitivity Testing – Showing the Model’s Sensitive Side
- Understanding Simulation Variation in the Bellevue-Kirkland-Redmond Activity-Based Model
Tolls and Managed Lanes
Make Me an Offer I Can't Refuse
Oak Forest Ballroom
- Evaluation of a New Approach to Address Metropolitan Congestion
- Incorporating User Heterogeneity in Value of Time (VOT) and Value of Reliability (VOR) for Manages Lanes
- WIFI data collection for I-95 Managed Lanes Master Plan Project in Southeast Florida, and the effectiveness of various survey expansion techniques.
- Toll Road Forecast Risk Analysis using Time Series Models and Portfolio Optimization
Active Transportation Planning Tools
Roads? Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads
Hanover Ballroom 1
- A Bikeshare Station Area Typology to Forecast the Station-level Ridership Activity of System Expansion
- Pre-Destination-Choice Walk Mode Choice Modeling
- Assessing the transferability of the Pedestrian Index of the Environment (PIE) walkability measure for pedestrian modeling
- An Analytical Modeling Tool to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Active Transportation Strategies
10:00 AM -
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Break
Governor's Ballroom / Mezzanine
10:30 AM -
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Sensitivity/Forecasting Panel Discussion
Since When Can Modelers Predict the Traffic, Let Alone the Future
Hanover Ballroom 2 & 3
Statewide Model Analysis
All You Need is a Little Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust
Oak Forest Ballroom
- Statewide Seaport Origin/Destination and Route Monitoring Initiative
- California Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey - Findings and Uses in Modeling
- Integration of the National Long Distance Passenger Model with the Tennessee Statewide Model and Calibration to Big Data
- Development of a Multi-Resolution Network to Support Statewide Modeling and Project Analysis
Transit Planning and Forecasting: Quick Talks
60 Percent of the Time it Works Everytime
Hanover Ballroom 1
- Garbage In…Garbage Out? How Much Do Inaccurate Inputs Impact Transit Demand Forecasts?
- Southeast Florida Regional STOPS Model – A Common Modeling Platform for Transit Corridor Studies in South Florida
- Dynamic Validation at a New Level: Establishing the New Twin Cities Regional Model for Transit Forecasting
- Sample and Response Bias Corrections of Transit Passengers’ Socioeconomic and Travel Characteristics Collected via Onboard Surveys: Sensitivity to the Boarding-to-Alighting Estimates used in Determining the Corrections
- Assessing the Impacts of Commuter Shuttles in San Francisco
- Identifying High Capacity Transit Corridors with the Emergent Network Modeling Framework
12:00 PM -
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
Lunch
Esplanade and Oak Forest Ballroom
1:30 PM -
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Path to Enlightenment
It's Important to Always Look Where You're Headed Rather Than Where You Were!
Hanover Ballroom 2 & 3
- A Path to DTA for a Resource-Limited MPO: Dynamic User Equilibrium (DUE) Module Implementation within a Four-Step Model
- Stepping closer to ABM: Hybrid 4-Step Models
- A Bridge to Activity-Based Modeling: Development of an Advanced Tour-Based Model by the Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments
- Strategic Plan for the New Connecticut Statewide Model
On-Board Transit Data
Keep Your Friends Close & Your On-board Data Closer
Oak Forest Ballroom
- Using Big Data for Public Transit Planning
- Use Transit on-board survey to improve the transit assignment model in Dallas Fort-Worth regional area
- A deeper insight into ridership and travel behaviour from smart card technology
- Incorporating Uncertainty in Model Predictions: Empirical Evaluation using Roadway Travel Demand and Transit Boarding-to-Alighting Passenger Flow Applications
3:00 PM -
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Break
Governor's Ballroom / Mezzanine
3:30 PM -
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Economics
Show Me the Money
Hanover Ballroom 2 & 3
Origin-Destination and Survey Data - Lightning Talk
20 Minutes? We Don't Need No Stinking 20 Minutes
Oak Forest Ballroom
- TxDOT Travel Survey Program Data: Exploring Avenues of Added Value
- Detroit Region Travel Behavior Changes: 2005 - 2015
- Integrating Online Geocoding Sources into Web-Based Household Travel Surveys
- MAG Establishment Survey: a year in review
- Fraser River Crossings Pre and Post Study
- Results and Lessons-Learned from the 2016 Dallas-Ft. Worth New Technology O-D Study
- Using Work Location and Industry Classification in the Weighting of Household Surveys
- How much information can be obtained from a survey? Challenges faced and lessons learned from using on-board and household travel surveys for validating a dynamic transit assignment model
- Alternate Methodologies For Origin-Destination Data Collection
- Using Google's Aggregated and Anonymized Trip Data to Estimate Dynamic Origin-Destination Matrices for San Francisco
- My Travel Log – A Continuous Study on Travel in the Calgary Region
Moving People and Goods
I'm Kind of a Big Deal
Hanover Ballroom 1
- Development and use of Air Passenger Trip Tables in SCAG's 2016 Regional Transportation Plan
- Using Big Data to Develop Commercial Vehicle Metrics at Ports in the US
- Assessing Strengths and Limitations of a Statewide Tour Based Freight Model Using Scenario Analysis in Maryland
- Combining Performance, Demand, Incident, and Roadway Characteristics Data for Freight Bottleneck Identification
6:00 PM -
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
7:30 AM -
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
Breakfast
Governor's Ballroom / Mezzanine
8:30 AM -
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Statewide Models
I Think You're Gonna Need a Bigger Model
Hanover Ballroom 2 & 3
GIS
Good Morning GIS
Oak Forest Ballroom
Equity and Public Engagement
Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Fairest of Them All?
Hanover Ballroom 1
- Stakeholder Engagement in Long Range Plan Visioning
- Increasing Transparency and Understanding in Decision Making Through Big Data, Individual Project Evaluation, and Performance Measure Visualization
- Modernizing Title VI Analysis during the Planning Process
- Evaluating the transportation impacts of multifamily housing
10:00 AM -
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Break
Governor's Ballroom / Mezzanine
10:30 AM -
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
Statewide: Modeling Disasters and Resiliency
Houston....We Have a Problem
Hanover Ballroom 2 & 3
Data Visualization
I'm not Bad, I'm Just Drawn That Way
Oak Forest Ballroom
Public Engagement
What We've Got Here is a Failure to Communicate
Hanover Ballroom 1
12:00 PM -
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
Lunch
Esplanade and Oak Forest Ballroom
1:30 PM -
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Beyond the Average Weekday – Modeling All Kinds of Travel
Go Do that Voodoo That You Do So Well
Hanover Ballroom 2 & 3
- Modeling Ride Sharing Within State Of The Art Travel Demand Models
- Application of Statewide Modeling: California High-Speed Rail Business Planning
- Airport and Ground Access Choice Modeling
- Improved Treatment of Special Attractors
- Capacity Constrained Park And Ride In Trip-Based And Activity Based Models
- Forecasting Weekend Travel Demand Using an Activity-Based Model System
- Modeling Autonomous Transit Service in Statewide Transportation Networks
Microsimulation Applications
Say Hello to My Little Friend
Oak Forest Ballroom
- Origin-Destination Trip Table Estimation for Dynamic Traffic Assignment: A Synthesis of the State-of-the-Art
- Modeling the Traffic Impacts from Automated and Connected Vehicles in a Complex, Congested Urban Setting
- A Regional Wide Microsimulation Model: Validation and Applications
- Macro / Meso / Micro Framework on I-395 HOT Lane Conversion
Freight Modeling
Be A-Freight, Be Very A-Freight
Hanover Ballroom 1
- Survey and Model Development of Commercial Vehicles in Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
- Tour-Based Truck Travel Models using Truck GPS Data
- A Behavioral Agent-based Supply Chain and Freight Transportation Model: Application for Arizona Sun Corridor Megaregion
- Piedmont Triad’s Tour Based Freight Model: Development, Integration, and Scenario Tests
3:00 PM -
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
Break
Governor's Ballroom / Mezzanine
3:30 PM -
5:00 PM
5:00 PM
Modeling Tools - Lightning Talk & Breakout Demonstration
I Feel the Need... I Feel the Need for Speed!
Hanover Ballroom 2 & 3
- Implementation of Activity-Based Model Training: All Hell Didn't Break Loose
- Development Of A Flexible Zoning System Applied To National Or State-Wide Models
- Managing Models for Continuous Improvement: The Texas Travel Demand Model Dashboard
- Developing And Updating A Subregional Model Tool For The Southern California Association Of Governments
- Disaggregate Modeling and the National Address Database Initiative
- Benefits of Automating Calibration/Validation of Oregon MPOs Travel Demand Models
- The Future Is Not What It Used To Be In Regional Scenario Planning
- Development of a Common Open Platform for Activity-Based Travel Demand Modeling: ActivitySim
ITS and Traffic Operations
Elementary My Dear Watson
Oak Forest Ballroom
- Getting the Most out of Your Data: Applying Passively Collected Travel Demand Management Data to Transportation Planning in El Paso
- Real-Time Metering Control and Behavior Responses: An Agent-Based Travel and Traffic Microsimulation Approach
- A Multi-Resolution Approach in Investigating The Impacts of Pre-Planned Roadcapacity Reduction Based on Smartphone Trajectory Data - A Case Study of Lane Closure Event on Mopac Expressway, Austin TX
- Application of High-Resolution Data to Determine the Impact of LOS on Driving Behavior on Arterials
Freight Data and Planning
Mama Says Freight is What Freight Does
Hanover Ballroom 1
- Connecting Freight and Land Use Planning through a Regional Freight Priority Network
- Willingness to Pay For Travel Time Reliability in Freight Transportation: Evidence from the Florida Freight Survey
- Analysis of GPS Fleet Tracking Data to Infer Commercial Vehicle Travel Patterns in Ontario
- Using Public and Private Data Sources to Assess Supply Chain Implications of Transportation Systems
5:45 PM -
9:00 PM
9:00 PM
Thursday, May 18, 2017
7:30 AM -
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
Breakfast
Governor's Ballroom / Mezzanine
8:30 AM -
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Lightning Round
If You Had As Much Time As I Have On That Clock, What Would You Do With It?
Hanover Ballroom
- UrbanSim for All
- School travel patterns in Utah
- Quantifying the Potential Mobility Impacts of AV/CV Technology on Older Drivers
- A Method to Identify Market Segmentation and Margin of Error for Trip Production Rates from Household Travel Survey
- Continuous Regional Travel Behaviour Survey
- Development and Validation of Firm Demography Model - Case Study Analysis in Phoenix and Tucson Megaregion
- Model Workers Trip Appropriately Based On Travel Behavior Differences
- Zephyr Foundation to Advance Travel Analysis Methods
- Integrated Transportation, Land Use And Demographic Modeling – Implications And Applications For School And Community Planning
- A Utility-Theory Consistent Model of Activity Frequency, Purpose, and Duration Choices
- Understanding Urban Truck Movements in Baltimore
- A Blueprint for Applying Big Data to Small Projects
- Assessing Data Mining Protocol Priority in Multi-Modal Data in New York City
- Portland Metro Freight Data Collection and Integrated Supply Chain and Truck Touring Models
Tutorial: Analysis Tools
I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the R pill?
Governor's Ballroom
10:00 AM -
10:15 AM
10:15 AM
Break
Governor's Ballroom / Mezzanine
10:15 AM -
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
12:00 PM -
12:15 PM
12:15 PM
Closing Remarks
Hanover Ballroom