2008 TRANSPORT CHICAGO CONFERENCE
JUNE 6, 2008 | ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
JUNE 6, 2008 | ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
- Accessibility and Sustainability in Transportation (Jonathan Levine - Professor and Chair of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning)
SESSIONS
• 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, Parsons Brinckerhoff)
• Transit Supportive Land Use
- Best Practices for Transit Oriented Development: What Works, What Doesn’t (David Gray, Strategy Planning Associates)
- Sustainable Development: Examining the Impacts of Built-Environment and Transportation on Public Health (Amir Samimi, Abolfazl Mohammadian - University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Transit Planning Strategies
- Planning Commuter Transit in the Center of a 150-mile Long Exurban Triangle: The South Central Wisconsin Commuter Transportation Study (Alexis Kuklenski - City of Janesville; Robert Soltau - City of Beloit; Gary Foyle - Earth Tech, Inc.)
- Ranking CTA Infill Stations by Fiscal Efficiency Using Alternative Local Financing Methods (Andrew Heidel, P.S. Sriraj, Darold Barnum - University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Ride DuPage: Innovation and Coordination of Paratransit Service (Karyn Robles - City of Naperville; Mary Keating - DuPage County)
• Modelling and Analysis
- Investigating Mode Choice Variability in Mixed Logit Model: Accounting for Residential Neighborhood Type Choice (Liang Long, Kimon Proussaloglou - Cambridge Systematics; 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)
- Accessibility and Sustainability in Transportation (Jonathan Levine - Professor and Chair of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning)
SESSIONS
• 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, Parsons Brinckerhoff)
• Transit Supportive Land Use
- Best Practices for Transit Oriented Development: What Works, What Doesn’t (David Gray, Strategy Planning Associates)
- Sustainable Development: Examining the Impacts of Built-Environment and Transportation on Public Health (Amir Samimi, Abolfazl Mohammadian - University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Transit Planning Strategies
- Planning Commuter Transit in the Center of a 150-mile Long Exurban Triangle: The South Central Wisconsin Commuter Transportation Study (Alexis Kuklenski - City of Janesville; Robert Soltau - City of Beloit; Gary Foyle - Earth Tech, Inc.)
- Ranking CTA Infill Stations by Fiscal Efficiency Using Alternative Local Financing Methods (Andrew Heidel, P.S. Sriraj, Darold Barnum - University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Ride DuPage: Innovation and Coordination of Paratransit Service (Karyn Robles - City of Naperville; Mary Keating - DuPage County)
• Modelling and Analysis
- Investigating Mode Choice Variability in Mixed Logit Model: Accounting for Residential Neighborhood Type Choice (Liang Long, Kimon Proussaloglou - Cambridge Systematics; 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)
Photo (adapted): John W. Iwanski | Flickr
