Transportation Research Board - Tools of the Trade Schedule

Last updated: March 20, 2025

Monday, June 23, 2025
7:15 AM – 8:00 AM	Tour Registrants Only – Pick badges and breakfast (grab and go)
8:00 AM – 12:30 PM	Petroglyph National Monument Tour (require registration separately) · 8:00AM: Bus Departs to the Petroglyph National Monument Park · For more information, click the Tour
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Registration Opens
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM	Lunch on own
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Concurrent Workshops Workshop 1: Agency Coordination Federal Land Management Agency Coordination Dan Malsom, Kimley Horn Jason Rosenblum, DJ&A Consultation amongst State DOTs, MPOs, and Federal Land Management Agencies Katherine McQuillan, Western Federal Lands, FHWA, US DOT
	Workshop 2: Planning Activities Supporting Planning Activities with NHTS Data Stacey Bricka, MacroSys, LLC Daniel Jenkins, Federal Highway Administration David Lee, Tennessee Department of Transportation Yifang yuan, Virginia Department of Transportation C. Ross Wang, ORNL
5:15 PM – 6:45 PM	Committee Meetings
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM	Registration
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM	Breakfast
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM	Welcome and Keynote Secretary Ricky Serna, New Mexico Department of Transportation
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM	Morning Break
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Concurrent Breakout Sessions Session A1: New Mexico Focus Presentations Moderator: TBD TBD TBD TBD
	Session B1: Travel Demand Modeling Tools Moderator: TBD Systematic Assessment of Big Data Products Using your Travel Demand Model Gaurav Vyas, Bentley Systems Mike Wallace, The Time Travelers Group Aleeta Zeller, Chattanooga-Hamilton County/North Georgia Transportation Planning Organization ABM-Lite: A Modeling Framework to Generate Activity-Based Travel Demand from Trip-Based Model and Open-Source Datasets Brian Yueshuai He, University of Louisville Eronmonsele Esekhaigbe, Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency (KIPDA) Enhanced HTML-based Client-side Visualization and Comparison Tools in TexPACK V3.0 Hao Pang, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Tammye Fontenot, Texas DOT Yuhan Gao, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
	Session C1: Systemic Safety Tools and Resources Moderator: TBD Roadway Departure Safety Implementation Plans: Systemically Addressing Safety on Rural Roadways Paul LaFleur, Office of Safety, Federal Highway Administration Scott Himes, VHB Navigating the Systemic Safety User Guide Tori Brinkly, Federal Highway Administration, USDOT Development of a Spreadsheet-Based Tool for the Application of the Safe System Approach Framework to Roadway Departure Md Shakir Mahmud, VHB R.J. Porter, VHB
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM	Concurrent Breakout Sessions Session A2: Regional Coordination for Transportation Planning Moderator: TBD Planning Across Boundaries: Two Cases in Multi-Jurisdictional Regional Planning Cole Grisham, Western Federal Lands, Federal Highway Administration Andrew Mortensen, David Evans and Associates A Balancing Act: Unlocking Freight Data for Small Communities Through State-Led Innovation Megan Motamed, Cambridge Systematics David Gray, South Carolina Department of Transportation Christopher Lindsey, Cambridge Systematics U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Coordination Tools and Recommendations Established through the Power Projection Platform (PPP) Route Assessment Process and Military at the Table Guidebook Development Jamie Todt, Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, Transportation Engineering Agency Lewis Grimm, Federal Highway Administration Carroll Collins, Kimley Horn
	Session B2: Agency Perspectives on Project Prioritization Moderator: TBD Practical Resiliency Planning in Clearwater, FL Steve Bourne, AtkinsRealis TBD, City of Clearwater, FL Pedestrian & Bicycle Infrastructure in Indian Country: What Does It Really Take? Sheri Bozic, Pueblo of Jemez TBD
	Session C2: Safety: Workforce Development Perspectives Moderator: TBD Road Safety Champion Program: A Tool for Workforce Development Jaime Sullivan, National Center for Rural Road Safety Tori Brinkly, Federal Highway Administration Cameron Ishaq, National Center for Rural Road Safety Emerging Technologies and Advanced Tools: Tackling Safety Challenges in the Desert Southwest Amid Limited Funding and Workforce Shortages Sanjay Paul, HDR Tools to Support Safety in Planning for all in Southern California Ian Hamilton, VHB Michael Gainor, Southern California Association of Governments
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM	Afternoon Break
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM	Concurrent Breakout Sessions Session A3: Technology Applications for Small- and Medium-Sized Communities Moderator: TBD Connecting intersections and vehicles - Where we are, where we want to be and how to get there Shalini Ghosh, WSP Electrifying Microtransit Charvi Gupta, WSP TBD
	Session B3: Travel Modeling and Emission Impacts Moderator: TBD Predicting Household VMT Reductions Resulting from Residential Densification in Gateway Communities Scott Ramming, Colorado Department of Transportation TBD TBD
	Session C3: Public Engagement in Transportation Planning Moderator: TBD Leveraging AI to Create, Update, and Analyze Qualitative Public Involvement Datasets Amy Johnson, North Central Texas Council of Governments Building Trust Through Data: Achieving Representative Public Engagement Graham Stone, PublicInput Bridging the Gap between Pedestrian Mobility and Traffic Improvements: The Broad Causeway Bridge Replacement in Metro Miami-Dade Felipe Jung, AtkinsRealis
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM	Posters & Reception Proactive Pedestrian Safety: Leveraging LiDAR and Near-Miss Analysis for Vulnerable Road Users James Weston, HDR NPS Automated Driving System Pilots, Research, and Strategic Planning Kevin McCoy, USDOT David Daddio, Volpe Center, USDOT Michael Madej, National Park Service Joshua Cregger, Volpe Center, USDOT Collaborative Transportation Planning in Alaska: Coordinated Decision-Making between Federal Land Management Agencies and Alaska DOT&PF Jamie Lemon, Western Federal Lands Highway Division, Federal Highway Administration Dusty Escamilla, United States Forest Service Judy Chapman, Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities Connecting Healthcare to Transportation - Tying the Knot with API's Raymond Chan, Arcadis Kenzie Maidl, Arcadis Phil White, Arcadis Clearinghouse to Promote Collaborative Management of the Travel Demand Model Development Processes in Texas Hao Pang, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Tammye Fontenot, Texas Department of Transportation Kevin Hall, Texas A&M Transportation Institute E-Bikes on Public Lands: MTB/eMTB Trail Rider Research Jonah Chiarenza, Volpe National Transportation System Center, U.S. DOT
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM	Registration
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM	Breakfast
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM	Concurrent Breakout Sessions Session A4: Big Things in Small and Medium-Sized Communities Moderator: TBD Balloon Fiesta Event Management and Mass Transit Claude Morelli, Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning Bringing Big City Big Data to Smaller Communities and Federal Lands – A Signals Story Ram Jagannathan, AtkinsRealis Presenter TBD, New Jersey Department of Transportation Data-Driven Solutions for Understanding Travel Behavior in the Lake Tahoe Region Hannah Carson, RSG Kevin Johnson, RSG
	Session B4: Rural Transportation Planning Topics Moderator: TBD Rural Microtransit: Where to start? Adrianna Fragozo-Alvernia, The University of New Mexico Lisa Losada-Rojas, The University of New Mexico Access to Essential Services: Enhancing Rural Transportation Planning Saumya Jain, Center for Transportation Studies at University of Minnesota Shirley Shiqin Liu, Center for Transportation Studies at University of Minnesota Matthew Hockert, Center for Transportation Studies at University of Minnesota New Rural Highway Facility Operations Analysis Methods and Tools Scott Washburn, University of Florida Ahmed Al-Kaisy, Montana State University Jorge Barrios, Barrios Group
	Session C4: Project Decision Support Factors Moderator: TBD Establishing a Pipeline of Competitive Projects for Federal Grant Opportunities Sarah Windmiller, Cambridge Systematics Robin Ayers, Texas Department of Transportation Hannah Santiago, Cambridge Systematics Transport Truths—Navigating Forecasts, Public Engagement, and Environmental Processes with your Ethics Intact Greg Griffin, The University of Texas at San Antonio
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM	Morning Break
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM	Concurrent Breakout Sessions Session A5: Evaluating Transportation Investments Moderator: TBD Measuring Access to Destinations for Planning and Performance Management Eric Lind, University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies Andrew Owen, University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies Saumya Jain, University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies Incorporating User Data in Distributional Analyses of Transportation Investments Chris Behr, HDR When Can VisionEval Substitute for Travel Models Stephen Lawe, RSG Jonathan Salson, RSG
	Session B5: Transit Planning Moderator: TBD GoBoro - Planning for Transit Innovation Johanna Cockburn, City of Greensboro Reginald Mason, Greensboro Transit Agency Scudder Wagg, Jarret Walker + Associates Measuring Multimodal Connections to High-Capacity Transit Jessica Klion, Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning David Miller, Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning ABQ Forward Bus Project Aaron Sussman, Toole Design Group
	Session C5: Session Focus TBD Moderator: TBD TSMO and ITS in MPO Planning; an Effective Approach at MRMPO Nathan Masek, MRCOG/MRMPO Enhancing Traveler Information for National Park Visitors Sophie Abo, USDOT Erica Cole, National Park Service Eric Englin, USDO Improving Transit Service by Leveraging Existing Data for Every Transit Agency Mingyang Li, WSP
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM	Concurrent Breakout Sessions Session A6: Transit Ridership Moderator: TBD Sustaining Zero-Fare Transit in a Post COVID-19 World: A Guide for State DOTs (NCHRP Report 1126) James Cline, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Ipek Sener, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Kelly Blume, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Bureau of Transportation Statistics Intercity Bus Atlas: Overview and updates Kyle Titlow, Bureau of Transportation Statistics Best Practices in Microtransit Planning and Implementation Jessica Klion, Foursquare ITP
	Session B6: Planning for Recreation Moderator: TBD Summit County - White River National Forest Recreation Activity Management Initiative Benjamin Rasmussen, Volpe Center, US DOT Sam Massman, US Forest Service Sophie Abo, Volpe Center, US DOT The Maroon Bells Scenic Area Comprehensive Recreation Management Plan Benjamin Rasmussen, Volpe Center, US DOT Sam Massman, US Forest Service Sophie Abo, Volpe Center, US DOT TBD
	Session C6: Vulnerable Road User Safety Moderator: TBD The Right Street in the Right Place – Using Context to Achieve Pedestrian Safety Mary Raulerson, Kittelson & Associates, Inc. Jacqueline Morris, Florida Department of Transportation Promoting Safety for Vulnerable Roadway Users in Amarillo's Safe Streets and Roads for All Plan Yige Tang, The Goodman Corporation Emily Koller, City of Amarillo Shari Kendall, City of Amarillo ABQ Rail Trail Project Jennifer Turner, City of Albuquerque
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM	Afternoon Break
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM	Concurrent Breakout Sessions Session A7: Travel Forecasting Moderator: TBD A Web-Based Tool for Special Generator Trip Estimation Using Dynamic Data Integration John Murray, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Tammye Fontenot, Texas Department of Transportation Stella Nepal, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Innovative Approaches to Developing Forecasting Tools Using Big Data - Use Cases for Better Decision-making Nikhil Puri, Cambridge Systematics Mobashwir Khan, LOCUS Inc TBD
	Session B7: AI in Transportation Planning Moderator: TBD Revolutionizing Project Delivery: Harnessing AI and Data for Transparent and Effective Decision-Making in Transportation Infrastructure Project Delivery Arthur Antoine, AXIOM A Decision Support Tool for Hydrologic and Hydro-geomorphological Assessment of Culvert Vulnerability to Extreme Flooding using an Ensemble Modeling approach Saurav Mukherjee, USDA Forest Service Devendra Amatya, USDA Forest Service Sudhanshu Panda, University of North Georgia
	Session C7: Safety Planning Approaches Moderator: TBD Using Integrated Data at the Local Level to Inform Safe Transportation Strategies Kristi Metzger, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Lauren O'Malley, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Melissa Pfeiffer, Pfeiffer Enhanced Rest-in-Red Traffic Signal Operation to Improve Safety and Speed Compliance on Lead and Coal Avenues Stephen Montaño, Lee Engineering Paul Barricklow, Lee Engineering Planning and Design for Micromobility Safety with ScooterLab Greg Griffin, Oregon Department of Transportation Raveen Wijewickrama, The University of Texas at San Antonio Murtuza Jadliwala, The University of Texas at San Antonio
5:00 PM	Adjourn
5:15 PM – 6:45 PM	Committee Meetings