TRB Presentations 2020

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MTI Research Associates and affiliated researchers will be presenting at the 99th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board. This event attracts more than 13,000 transportation professionals from around the world. The meeting program will cover all transportation modes, with more than 5,000 presentations in nearly 800 sessions and workshops, addressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. A number of sessions and workshops will focus on the spotlight theme for the 2020 meeting: A Century of Progress: Foundation for the Future.

Listed below is a summary of many of the presentations, workshops, and poster sessions where MTI researchers will be showcasing their research. If you are planning to attend the annual meeting, check out these sessions!

Sunday, January 12

Title / Session ID / Presenters (MTI affiliates in bold) Time
Reimagining the Future of Transportation with Personal Flight: Preparing and Planning for Urban Air Mobility, Part 1
Workshop 1045
Justin Guan and Adam Cohen
9:00AM - 12:00PM
Mobility Innovation: A Vision for Our Transportation Future, Part 1
Workshop 1040: Mobility Innovation: A Vision for Our Transportation Future, Part 1
Susan Shaheen and Jeffrey Chernick
9:00AM - 12:00PM
Reimagining the Future of Transportation with Personal Flight: Preparing and Planning for Urban Air Mobility, Part 2
Workshop 1087
Justin Guan, Matthew Beamer, Ryan Dittoe, and Adam Cohen
1:30PM - 4:30PM
Mobility Innovation: A Vision for Our Transportation Future, Part 2
Workshop 1081
Susan Shaheen and Jeffrey Chernick
1:30PM - 4:30PM
Applying Lessons Learned from Existing Congestion Pricing Programs to Proposed and Planned Projects
Workshop 1047: Cross-Cutting Issues in Urban Congestion Pricing
Martin Wachs (facilitator/discussant)
1:30PM - 4:30PM

Monday, January 13

One-Way Streets and Bicycle Contraflow: Impact on Connectivity and Accessibility for Low-Stress Bicycling
1144: Bicycle Research Poster Session
Theja Putta and Peter Furth
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Comparing Methods and Data Sources for Classifying Bicycle “Level of Traffic Stress:” How Well Do Their Outcomes Agree?
1144: Bicycle Research Poster Session
Chester Harvey, Daniel Rodriguez, and Kevin Fang
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Evaluating the Effects of a Classroom-Based Bicycle Education Intervention on Bicycle Activity, Self-Efficacy, Personal Safety, Knowledge, and Mode Choice
1144: Bicycle Research Poster Session
Daniel Rodriguez and Elizabeth Nachman
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Application of GIS Analysis to Obtain Anisotropic Bicycle Catchment Areas with Level of Traffic Stress (LTS) and Energy Consumption
1144: Bicycle Research Poster Session
Rachel Tillinghast, Devin McNally, Hiroyuki Iseki
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Who Owns the Big Data?
1096: Modeling Intercity Travel: Can Big Data Bring Air and Surface Modes Together
Martin Wachs
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Safer for Cycling: Evaluating Operational and Safety Effects of a Protected Intersection Design
1144: Bicycle Research Poster Session
A. Preston and S. S. Pulugurtha
8:00AM - 9:45AM
A Methodology to Identify Cross-Functional Synergies of CIM Knowledge within a Transportation Agency
1140: Research Topics in Construction Management
Alireza Shams, Sean Donohoe, and Bahram Ravani
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Before-After Analysis of Freeway Corridor Efficiency following Adaptive Ramp Metering Deployment: An Empirical Bayes Approach
1142: Freeway Operations 2020
Cristina Tortora, Nivedha Murugesan, Anurag Pande, and Jacky Loh
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Street Car Development in China
Jeffrey Brown (presiding)
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Are Drivers Cool with Pool? Driver Attitudes Towards the Shared TNC Services UberPool and Lyft Shared
1226: Ridesourcing, Ridesharing, and Carsharing
Eric Morris, Ying Zhou, Anne Brown, Sakib Khan, John Derochers, Harry Campbell, Angela Pratt, and Mashrur Chowdhury
10:15AM - 12:00PM
Parking Violations: The Frequency of Improper Scooter, Bike, and Car Parking
1206: Hot Topics in Urban Transportation: Micromobility and Beyond
Anne Brown and Nicholas Klein
10:15AM - 12:00PM
The Impact of ZEV Adoption on California Transportation Revenue
1161: Greener in More Ways Than One: Environmentally Sustainable Funding and Financing Opportunities
Hannah King, Martin Wachs, and Asha Weinstein Agrawal
10:15AM - 12:00PM
Reducing Delays on High-density Railway Lines: Crossrail Case Study
1194: Recent Developments in Commuter Rail System Analysis
Giorgio Medeossi and Andrew Nash
10:15AM - 12:00PM
Identifying High-Risk Intersections for Walking and Bicycling Using Multiple Data Sources in the City of San Diego
1211: Advances in Artificial Intelligence Applications in Transportation and Road Infrastructure, Part 1
Mahdie Hasani, Arash Jahangiri, Ipek Sener, Sirajum Munira, Justin Owens, Bruce Appleyard, Sherry Ryan, Shawn Turner, and Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani
10:15AM - 12:00PM
Do Ridesharing Services Crowd Out Taxi Cabs? Ridesharing Trips, Taxi Trips and Traffic Speed in New York City
1206: Hot Topics in Urban Transportation: Micromobility and Beyond
Quanquan Chen, Fei Li, Jialei Cheng, and Zhan Guo
10:15AM - 12:00PM
Regression Models of Road User Cost Prediction for Highway Maintenance and Rehabilitation for Life Cycle Planning in California
1224: Optimizing Highway Maintenance
Sampat Kedarisetty, Changmo Kim, and John Harvey
10:15AM - 12:00PM
Operations Section Executive Board
Robert Bertini (presiding)
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Transit and Homelessness: Addressing the Homelessness Crisis
1263: Engagement, Equity, and Experiments in Transit Planning: Lightning Talks
Jeremy Steele and Hilary Nixon
1:30PM - 3:15PM
Evaluation of Parametric Cost Estimating Models as Part of a Three-Stage Plan for Conceptual and Feasibility Cost Estimating in Public Highway Project Portfolios
1281: Advancements in Alternative Project Delivery
Nigel Blampied
1:30PM - 3:15PM
California’s I-80 Smart Corridor: Before-After Analysis of Travel-Time Reliability Indicators vs. User-Survey Response Data
1277: Advances in Travel Survey Methods
Cornelius Nuworsoo, Fardiur Rahman, Anurag Pande, Travis Low, and Robert Bertini
1:30PM - 3:15PM
Buying Traffic Decongestion by Paying Drivers to Become Passengers: Methodology and Data Sources
1231: New Research in Transportation Demand Management
Paul Minett, John Niles, Richard Lee, and Brittany Bogue
1:30PM - 3:15PM
International Rail Transit Subcommittee Meeting
Gregory Newmark (presiding)
1:30PM - 3:15PM
Un-separating” Church and Travel? Religious Culture and Rural Car Ownership
1240: Social and Economic Factors of Car Ownership
Gregory Newmark and Emma Rearick
1:30PM - 3:15PM
Evaluating Police-Caused Crashes
1260: Using Data to Model Crashes, Design Enforcement, and Improve Safety
Isabelle Frankel, Jia Liang, Eric Fitzsimmons, and Gregory Newmark
1:30PM - 3:15PM
Transit and Homelessness: Addressing the Homelessness Crisis
1344: Engagement, Equity, and Experiments in Transit Planning: Lightning Talks
Jeremy Steele and Hilary Nixon
3:45PM - 5:30PM
Characteristics and Circumstances of Injuries Related to the Use of Scooters and Other “Personal Transportation Devices” as Indicated by US National Emergency Room Data
1358: Focus on Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety
Kevin Fang
6:00PM - 7:30PM
Physical Accessibility and Employment Among Older Adults in California (Receiving the Pyke Johnson Award)
Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture and Presentation of Awards
Evelyn Blumenberg, Andrew Shouten, Miriam Pinski, and Martin Wachs
6:00PM - 7:30PM
Pedestrian Fatal Crash Location Analysis in Ohio Using ESDA Techniques
1358: Focus on Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety
Rebekka Apardian and Bhuiyan Alam
6:00PM - 7:30PM

Tuesday, January 14

A Revealed Preference Methodology to Evaluate Regret Minimization with Challenging Choice Sets: A Wildfire Evacuation Case Study
1366: Evacuations in Short-Notice and No-Notice Scenarios
Stephen Wong, Caspar Chorus, Susan Shaheen, and Joan Walker
8:00AM - 9:15AM
Visibility Prediction Models Based on Elevation
1427: Approaches to Modeling Visibility and Safety Effects
A. S. Mane, S. S. Pulugurtha, V. R. Duddu and C. Godfrey
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Insights, Inclusions, and Impact: Highlights from the 2019 Conference on Women's Issues in Transportation
Hilary Nixon (moderator)
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Big Loads, Big Challenges, Big Data: Exploring Oversize / Overweight Flows and Crashes
1409: Innovative Research and Applications for Freight Data Collection and Analysis
Blake Moris, Jia Liang, Eric Fitzsimmons, and Gregory Newmark
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Investigating Critical Factors for Locations of Future Intercity Passenger Rail Maintenance
1480: Transportation Management and Governance in the Age of Disruption
Alejandro Uribe, Mehran Rahmani, and Shailesh Chandra
10:15AM - 12:00PM
Quantification of Rail Transit Investments with Appropriate Measures and Metrics
1500: Current Research in Rail Transit Infrastructure
Ravi Mazin and Shailesh Chandra
10:15AM - 12:00PM
Chasing the American Dream: How Everyday Travel Plays a Role in Immigrants’ Integration into Society
1432: Fitting It All in: Urban Transportation Challenges
Manish Shirgaokar and Erin Nobler
10:15AM - 12:00PM
Assessing the Effect of Rainfall and Visibility Conditions on Road Traffic Travel Time Reliability
1493: Effect of Weather on Driver Behavior
S. Mathew and S. S. Pulugurtha
10:15AM - 12:00PM
Exploring Best Practice for Municipal E-Scooter Policy in the United States
1480: Transportation Management and Governance in the Age of Disruption
Matt Kawashima and William Riggs
10:15AM - 12:00PM
Emerging Mobility Services and Disruptive Technologies: An International Perspective
1441: Adoption of Emerging Mobility Services and Other Disruptive Technologies: An International Perspective
Susan Shaheen
10:15AM - 12:00PM
Leveraging Big Data and Charging Coordination for Effective Taxi Fleet Electrification: A Case Study of Shenzhen, China
1488: Current Issues in Alternative Transportation Fuels and Technologies
Gordon Bauer, Cheng Zheng, Susan Shaheen, and Daniel Kammen
10:15AM - 12:00PM
Who Drives an Electric Vehicle? Influential Factors Related to the Adoption of PHEVs and BEVs in California
1488: Current Issues in Alternative Transportation Fuels and Technologies
Hiroyuki Iseki​
10:15AM - 12:00PM
Building a National Transportation Data Preservation Network
1486: Moving Forward and Advancing Society with Transportation Libraries, Information, and Data
Leighton Christiansen, Charles Ducker, Hilary Nixon, Steven Polunsky, Lisa Kay Schweyer, Michael Witt, and Kendra Levine
10:15AM - 12:00PM
A Statistical Analysis of Public Opinions from a Low-Speed Automated Shuttle Demonstration
1568: Bus Transit Research and Practices, Part 2
Nikhil Menon
1:30PM - 3:15PM
Assessment of Hazardous Pipeline Crossings for Freight Truck Routes in the Los Angeles County
1574: Advancing Frontiers in Trucking Industry Analysis and Operations
Alejandro Uribe, Ravi Mazin, Shailesh Chandra, and Hung Nguyen
1:30PM - 3:15PM
A Framework for Capturing the Business Benefits of Railway Digitalization
1571: Advances in Freight Rail Transportation
Andrew Nash and Felix Laube
1:30PM - 3:15PM
A Statistical Analysis of Public Opinions from a Low-Speed Automated Shuttle Demonstration
1568: Bus Transit Research and Practices, Part 2
Nikhil Menon, Pei-Sung Lin, Rakesh Rangaswamy, Achilleas Kourtellis, Cong Chen, Robert Bertini
1:30PM - 3:15PM
Access Protocols for Railroads: Reframing the Infrastructure Separation Debate
1571: Advances in Freight Rail Transportation
John Allen and Gregory Newmark
1:30PM - 3:15PM
Separating Poor Playmates: Untangling Commuter Rail from Freight
1571: Advances in Freight Rail Transportation
John Allen and Gregory Newmark
1:30PM - 3:15PM
History Committee Meeting
Asha Weinstein Agrawal (presiding)
1:30PM - 5:30PM
As-Encountered Prediction of Tunnel Boring Machine Performance Parameters Using Recurrent Neural Networks
1592: Advances in Tunneling and Underground Design and Construction
K. Nagrecha, L. Fisher, M. Mooney, E. Alavi, T. Rodriguez-Nikl, M. Mazari, and M. Pourhomayoun
3:45PM - 5:30PM
Sensitivity Analysis On Semi-Circular Bending Test Using The Plackett-Burman Matrix
1636: Modeling of Asphalt Mixtures Behavior and Performance
Shadi Saadeh, Yazan Al-Zubi, Enad Mahmoud, David Renteria, and Louay Mohammad
3:45PM - 5:30PM
Congestion Index: A New Performance Measure to Characterize Congestion and Level-of-Service on Freeways
1496: Highway Capacity Manual Uninterrupted Flow
Ninad Gore, Srinivas Pulugurtha, Shriniwas Arkatkar and Gaurang Joshi
3:45PM - 5:30PM
Mobility as a Service and Mobility on Demand Contributions to Sustainability and Decarbonization
1575: MaaS and MOD Contributions to Sustainability and Decarbonization
Susan Shaheen and Ronald Boenau
3:45PM - 5:30PM
Adoption and Use of One-Way Carsharing in Oakland, California: A Spatial, Demographic, and Equity Analysis
1629: Transportation Equity: Cross-Cutting Poster Session
Alexandra Pan, Elliot Martin, and Susan Shaheen
3:45PM - 5:30PM
What Do Americans Think about Federal Tax Options to Support Transportation? Results from Year Ten of a National Survey
1577: Current Issues in Revenue and Finance: From Taxes to Public–Private Partnerships
Asha Weinstein Agrawal and Hilary Nixon
3:45PM - 5:30PM
Renewing Rural Infrastructure: Lessons from the Belvue Bridge Benefit Assessment
1583: Big Tools for Small Areas
Gregory Newmark
3:45PM - 5:30PM
Graphic Guidance for Long-Range Transportation Plans
1624: Progress in Statewide and Long-Range Multimodal Planning
Rachel Foss and Gregory Newmark
3:45PM - 5:30PM
Equity in Pedestrian Plans
1643: Analyzing and Planning the Pedestrian Environment
Amber Berg and Gregory Newmark
3:45PM - 5:30PM
Does Accessibility via Green Transportation Modes Matter for Transportation Equity? An Investigation for Two Medium-size U.S. Cities
1587: Equity and Environmental Justice Issues in Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning
Na Chen and Chih-Hao Wang
3:45PM - 5:30PM
Modeling the Influential Factors to Promote Active Transportation on College Campus
1653: Transportation and Land Development
Taslima Akter and Bhuiyan Alam
6:00PM - 7:30PM

Wednesday, January 15

Joint Meeting of the Shared-Use Vehicle Public Transport Systems Subcommittee and Emerging Ridesharing Solutions Joint Subcommittee
Susan Shaheen (presiding)
8:00AM - 12:00PM
Giving Up Job Search Because I Don't Have a Car: Labor Market Participation and Employment Status Among Single Mothers With and Without Cars
1659: From Motherhood to Sexual Harassment: Exploring Gender Factors That Impact Mobility
Miwa Matsuo, Hiroyuki Iseki
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Opportunities for Incorporating Health Considerations in Transportation Decision-Making
1690: Health, Transportation, and Emerging Research
Laura Sandt, Meg Bryson, Lauren Blackburn, Alyson West, Daniel Rodriguez, and Sagar Shah
8:00AM - 9:45AM
How are Uber/Lyft Shaping Municipal On-Street Parking Revenue?
1686: Parking Space: Recent Research in Parking Topics
Benjamin Clark and Anne Brown
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Factors Influencing the Likelihood of Occurrence of a Wrong-Way Driving Crash and Injury Severity
1691: Highway Safety Performance Research
S. Duvvuri and S. S. Pulugurtha
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Integrated Intersection Control for Connected, Automated Vehicles and Pedestrians - Simulation-Based Evaluation
1673: Advances in Connected and Automated Vehicles Applications
Tanja Niels, Nikola Mitrovic, Nemanja Dobrota, Klaus Bogenberger, Aleksandar Stevanovic, and Robert Bertini
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Responding to Disciplinary Challenges Facing the Transportation Workforce: A Guide to Developing Targeted Career Pathway Solutions
1661: The Future of Workforce Development Through Practice Ready Examples
Scott Jakovich and Tom O'Brien
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Marginal Impacts of Park-and-Ride Facilities in the Twin Cities
1724: Design Impacts on the Human Experience in Transportation Environments
Michael Duncan
10:15AM - 12:00PM
Pedestrian Injuries in North Carolina, 2007-2012: A Comparative Analysis Using Police, Emergency Department, and Death Certificate Data Sources
1751: Pedestrian Safety Data and Tools
Laura Sandt, Scott Proescholdbell, Kelly Evenson, Susan Ennett, Whitney Robinson, Daniel Rodriguez, Katherine Harmon, and Stephen Marshall
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Centuries of Ballot-Box Transportation Planning in Los Angeles
1740: Research in Urban Transportation History: From Sydney Trams to Los Angeles Ballot Box Planning to Canadian Street Cars
Hannah King and Martin Wachs
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Travel Time and Reliability Thresholds for Freeway Links from Planning Perspective
1758: Road Scholars: New Research in Travel Time, Speed, and Reliability Data
S. R. Kodupuganti and S. S. Pulugurtha
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Estimating the Effect of Uber & Lyft on Parking Violation in NYC
1757: Emerging Issues in Urban Big Data
Zhan Guo, Junjie Cai, Junru Lu, Pranay Anchan, Shijia Gu, and Yuxuan Wang
2:30PM - 4:00PM
What If Many Smart Cars Conduct Ego-Efficient Lane Changes in Traffic Flow: An Answer Provided by Reinforcement Learning
1761: Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics, Part 5
Yibing Wang, Jingqiu Guo, Mingming Zhao, Yonghui Hu, Ioannis Papamichail, Markos Papageorgiou, and Robert Bertini
2:30PM - 4:00PM

 

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