2010 Conference

June 4, 2010
American Dental Association
211 E. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL

2010 Sponsors:
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BNSF Railway

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2010 Conference

Morning Plenary:

James Corless, Director of Transportation For America. Transportation for America is a coalition of more than 400 organizations working to promote a smarter, safer and cleaner transportation policy.

Poster Session:

Maximizing Mobility (Greg S. Adelberg - Chicago Transit Authority)
Second Day Response Rates: Implications for CMAP's Travel Tracker Survey - Paper - Poster (Eric Petersen, Cermal Ayvalik and Stacey Bricka - Cambridge Systematics and NuStats)
West Cook Green Corridors (David Chandler, Center for Neighborhood Technology)
Illinois Planning and Environmental Studies for FRA Applications for High-Speed and Intercity Passenger Rail (HSIPR) (Tim Selover, PE, AICP - Parsons Brinckerhoff)
Results of the UTRACS Internet-Based Prompted Recall GPS Activity-Travel Survey for the Chicago Region [Joshua Auld (Corresponding author)(Department of Civil and Material Engineering), Martina Z. Frignani (Department of Civil and Materials Engineering), Chad Williams (Department of Computer Science), Abolfazi (Kouros) Mohammadian, Ph.D. (Department of Civil and Materials Engineering) - University of Illinois at Chicago]
Next Stop: New Jobs (Taylor McKinley - Center for Neighborhood Technology)

First Breakout Session

Survey Says
- Customer Satisfaction and the CTA Bus: Results from the 2008 CTA Customer Satisfaction Survey (Scott Figler, University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Analysis of Detailed Boarding and Alighting Data to Improve Transit Onboard Survey Expansion: A Case Study from Madison (Anurag Komanduri, Kimon Proussaloglou, Cambridge Systematics)
- Engaging the Community: Using Survey Research to Gain Insights of Community Input for Strategic Transit Planning (Tara P. O’Malley, Chicago Transit Authority)
Hands Across the Region
- Transportation Governance at the Crossroads: Lessons from Toronto (John-Paul Addie, York University)
- Ridership and Financial Impacts of the Seniors Free Ride Program (John G. Allen, Grace Gallucci, Regional Transportation Authority)
- MAX TOD: Wood Dale's "Corporate Main Street" (John LaMotte, AICP, The Lakota Group)

Dude, Where’s My Cargo?
- Freight Microsimulation in the U.S. (Amir Samimi, Kouros Mohammadian, Kazuya Kawamura, University of Illinois at Chicago)
- A GIS Data-Driven Process for Identifying Rail Infrastructure Improvements (Kevin Ebright-McKeehan, Cambridge Systematics, Tom Murtha, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning)
- Development and Application of a Commodity Carrying Truck Flow Tool: CMAP Freight Infrastructure Recommendations Analysis (Monique Urban, Dan Tempesta, Cambridge Systematics, Tom Murtha, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning)

Lunch Plenary

Senior Policy Director Jane R. Bilger at the Illinois Housing Development Authority.
Acting Bureau Chief Keith Sherman of Urban Program Planning with the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT).
Senior Policy Advisor Elmo Dowd in the Associate Director’s office at the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

Second Breakout Session

The Customer is Always Right
- Impact of Slow Zones on CTA Passengers (Margarita Bernal, University of Illinois at Chiacgo)
- Findings from the RTA Market Analysis Study (Aimee Lee, Regional Transportation Authority, Yash Popuri, Cemal Ayvalik, Kimon Proussaloglou, Cambridge Systematics)
- Ridership Building Strategies: the Case of Immigrants and Limited English Proficiency Riders (Jason Saavedra, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Location, Location, Location
- Achieving Transit Friendly Development in Chicago: Station Area Typology (Joe Iacobucci, Stina Fish, Steve Hands, Chicago Transit Authority, Benet Haller, Chicago Department of Zoning and Land Use, Fred Schwartz, Kimley Horn Associates)
- Examining the Relationship Between Freight Consumption and Land Use (Daniel Miodonski, University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Comparing Apples to Oranges: A Review of Three Distinct Corridor Choices with Cleveland RTA's Blue Line Corridor Extension Study (Maribeth Feke, Greater Cleveland Regional Transportation Authority, Timothy Rosenburger, AICP, Matthew Orenchuk, PE, Caroline Nardi, Parsons Brinckerhoff)
Help Wanted
- Disaggregate Work Location Choice Model for Chicago Considering Agglomeration and Competition Effects (Joshua Auld, Kouros Mohammadian, University of Illinois at Chicago)
- TRANPRO and its Role in Facilitating Specialized Transportation Services in Illinois (Lise Dirks, P.S. Sriraj, University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Matching Workers and Employment Opportunities: Linking Worker Incomes and Wages in Regional Travel Models (Ronald Eash, Dean Englund, Mary Lupa, Parsons Brinckerhoff)

Third Breakout Session

Smart Bus
- Bus Speed Tool Using AVL Data (Alex Cui, Chicago Transit Authority)
- Design Considerations for Real-Time Arterial Performance Measurement Systems Using Transit Bus Probes (Abraham Emmanuel, David Zavattero, Chicago Department of Transportation)
- WPB/CTA Partnership: Bus Tracker for Business (Joe Iacobucci, Chicago Transit Authority, Jamie Simone, Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce)
Finally, There’s a “There” There
- Intermodal Green Zone, Demonstration of a Sustainable Regional Economic Development Strategy (David Chandler, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Reggie Greenwood, South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association)
- Rethinking Urban Freeways (Mark de la Vergne, Sam Schwartz Engineering)
- The High Cost of Park-n-Ride (Adam H. Kerman, Transit Riders Authority)
Show Me the Money
- Northeastern Illinois Job Access Reverse Commute (JARC) and New Freedom Programs: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned (Janelle Brown, Joseph Voccia, Regional Transportation Authority)
- Using Performance Measures for Project Prioritization (Eric Cempel, Cambridge Systematics, Tom Murtha, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning)
- Project Selection for the Congestion Mitigation Air Quality Improvement Program in the Chicago Region (Stephanie Dock, University of California – Berkeley)