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2008 TRANSPORT CHICAGO CONFERENCE
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)

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