Title: Using Street Topology and Network Analysis to Estimate Traffic Volumes Speaker: Mike Lowry, Assistant Professor, University of Idaho This presentation introduces tools developed at the University of Idaho to estimate traffic volumes. One tool estimates peak-hour bicycle and pedestrian volumes, another tool estimates automobile annual average daily traffic (AADT), and the third tool estimates automobile turn […]
Title: Modeling of the Heteroscedastic Traffic Speed Variance Using Virtual Loop Detector Data Speaker: Haizhong Wang, assistant professor, Oregon State University Traffic speed variance is defined as a measure of the dispersion of space mean speeds among drivers. Empirical speed-density observations exhibit a structured traffic speed variance which has been found to be associated to the […]
Title: Confessions of a Traffic Engineer: The Misuse of Level of Service and its Impact on Active Transportation Speaker: Peter Koonce, City of Portland Bureau of Transportation The transportation engineering community is advancing methodologies to encourage active transportation. Adoption of new methodologies and standards has not been widely accepted because there remain gaps in the standards by […]
Title: Integrated Transportation Conformity Analysis Speaker: Heng Wei, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor, The University of Cincinnati Alleviating highway congestion and traffic-source environmental impacts has been viewed as one of strategies to address issues related to transportation greenhouse gases (GHGs) and sustainability. One essential challenge lies in the capability to quantitatively assess the effect of […]
Title of Seminar: Sound Transit Projects and Plans for a Potential ST3 Public Vote Speaker: Michael Williams, Deputy Executive Director of Capital Project Development Planning, Environment & Project Development at SoundTransit Michael Williams has over 30 years of experience in the field of transportation planning and engineering. He has been with Sound Transit since January […]
Title of Talk: Washington State Transportation Improvement Board Speaker: Stevan Gorcester, Director of Washington State Transportation Improvement Board Steve Gorcester, Executive Director, Washington State Transportation Improvement Board, will talk about the board's transportation grant programs and the role LEAN business process improvement has played in program development. Using the online TIB Dashboard, Steve will show […]
PacTrans-Sponsored Transportation Seminar: Signal Control and Operational Analysis for Diverging Diamond Interchanges Friday, Nov. 1, 2013, 1:30 - 3 p.m., More 116 Speaker: Zong Tian, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Reno Abstract: Diverging diamond interchange (DDI) is an emerging interchange type. More than 20 DDIs are in operation in the United States, the […]
