2008 Conference

June 6, 2008
Illinois Institute of Technology

Banner photo by Zol87 @ Flickr.

Keynote Presentation

Accessibility and Sustainability in Transportation by Jonathan Levine, Professor and Chair of Urban + Regional Planning at University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Papers
Non-Motorized Transportation

Solving the Puzzle: Trail Development in a Rapidly Growing Community (Laura Haake & Travis Miller, City of Yorkville, IL)
Northeastern Illinois Pedestrian Safety Data Analysis (Tom Murtha, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning)

Better Bus Operations

Use of Automatic Vehicle Location and Passenger Counters in Planning and Scheduling at Pace Suburban Bus (Tunde Balvanyos & Ben Owen, Pace Suburban Bus)
Impacts of Idling Reduction Devices on Transit Buses (Emily Ziring, Urban Transportation Center, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Integrated Multimodal Urban Corridor Management: The Potential Role of Bus Rapid Transit (Kiulin Zhang & Hani Mahmassani, Northwestern University)

Congestion Mitigation Strategies

FREQ Simulation and Ramp Meter/HOV Bypass Optimization for the Northwest Study Area (Jose Rodriguez, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning; Kazuya Kawamura & Amir Samimi, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Finding Ways out of Congestion for the Chicago Loop: A Micro-simulation Approach (Shan Jiang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Downtown Birmingham One- to Two-Way Street Conversion Pilot Study (Virginia Sisiopiku & Jugnu Chemmannur, The University of Alabama at Birmingham)

Freight Transportation

Promoting Cargo Oriented Development in Chicago South Suburban Communities (Albert Benedict, David Chandler & Stephanie Dock, Center for Neighborhood Technology)
The Decentralization of Freight Transportation: Chicago in Context (Julie Cidell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Truck Parking: A Taxonomic Geospatial Analysis (Jac Selinsky, Illinois Institute of Technology)

Market Research: Methods

Prompted Recall Travel Surveying With GPS (Joshua Auld, Chad Williams & Kouros Mohammadian, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Sustainable Communities: Creating Mode Shift Through Sustainable Planning and Land-Use (Cynthia Hoyle, Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District; Mishauno Woggon, Champaign, IL Advance Planning Division)
Conducting CTA’s System-wide Origin-Destination Study—a Discussion of Innovative Techniques Used on This Study (Greg Spitz, Frannie Niles, Colin Smith & Jeff Dumont, Resource Systems Group; Jeff Busby, PB.)

Transit Supportive Land Use

Transit Planning Strategies

Modelling and Analysis

Investigating Mode Choice Variability in Mixed Logit Model: Accounting for Residential Neighborhood Type Choice (Liang Long & Kimon Proussaloglou, Cambridge Systematics Inc; Jie Lin, University of Illinois at Chicago)
The Dynamics of Fare and Frequency Choice In Urban Transit (Ian Savage, The Transportation Center, Northwestern University)
Modeling of Oversaturated Conditions On Arterial Networks (Virginia Sisiopiku & Abhishek Acharya, The University of Alabama at Birmingham)

Intelligent Bus Systems

Chicago Transit Signal Priority Project (James La Mantia & Abraham Emmanuel, City of Chicago Office of Emergency Management & Communication)
Urban Travel Time Prediction Using Real Time Bus Tracker Data (Wenjing Pu & Jie Lin, University of Illinois at Chicago)
An Investigation of Bus Headway Regularity and Service Performance in Chicago Bus Transit System (Minyan Ruan & Jie Lin, University of Illinois at Chicago)

Poster Session

Temporal Capacity Traits at Long Term Urban Work Zone Bottlenecks (Amjad Dehman & Alex Drakopoulos, Marquette University; Ertan Ornek, University of Wisconsin)
Development and Application of an Intercity Bus Benefit-Cost Analysis Model (Jie Zheng, Kevin White, Qi Dong & Jessica Guo, University of Wisconsin)
A Study of Walking Reported by the 2007 Preliminary CMAP Travel Tracker Survey (Matthew Stratton, Urban Transportation Center-University of Illinois at Chicago)
Exploring the Merits of a Time-Based Fare Structure for Transit (Matt Smith, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Measuring Changes in Trends, Behavior and Perceptions about Transit, Post U-Pass Program Implementation; Case Study: University of Chicago at Illinois (Tanushri Swarup & P. S. Sriraj, Urban Transportation Center-University of Illinois at Chicago, Eric Welch, Department of Public Administration-University of Illinois at Chicago, George Yanos, Urban Transportation Center -University of Illinois at Chicago)