The following are the papers submitted and presentations given at the 2016 Western District Annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. If your paper or presentation is missing, and you would like to have it posted here, please contact the Web Manager.
Session | Presenter | Title | Paper | Presentation |
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2A | Tom Shook | ABQ RIDE Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) Concept of Operations | ||
Randy McCourt | The Seattle Experience – Travel Time Benefits of BRT | |||
Rudolf Kolaja | Design of Effective Transit Systems | |||
2B | Adam Lyons | Connected Vehicles and V2I | ||
Robert Bertini | Are We Ready? State and Local Agency Preparations for Connected and Automated Vehicles | |||
Charlie Coles | Automated Vehicles: A Guide for Planners and Policymakers | |||
2C | John Nitzel | Integration of Safety into Transportation Planning | ||
Mohammadreza Hashemi | Investigation of Potential Factors Affecting Road Departure Crashes in Oahu, Hawaii | |||
Devin Moore | Elevating Safety on Rural Roads—The Local Road Safety Plan | |||
2D | Jeannette Walther | US 550 Super Street Concept | ||
Lee Cabell | Cruisin’ the Boulevard with Raised Medians | |||
Randy Kinney | Using Bluetooth Detection to Estimate the Traffic Impacts of Bridge Construction Alternatives for a Construction Manager/General Contractor Project in Fairbanks Alaska | |||
3A | Julie Luna | Central New Mexico’s Application of ITE Recommended Practices: Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares and Planning Urban Roadway Systems | ||
Cody Salo | ADA Compliance and Inventory in Montana | |||
Matthew Feeley | How to Establish an ADA Compliance Program with Limited Resources | |||
3B | Michael Mauch | Freeway Ramp Weave Performance Analysis | ||
Krista Purser | Examining Bluetooth Travel Time Data: Multimodal Implications in San Luis Obispo | |||
Yung Koprowski | Analysis of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Technology to Measure Wait Times of Personal Vehicles at Arizona-Mexico Ports of Entry | |||
3C | Erik Ruehr | Farewell to Level of Service—An Update on California’s SB 743 Legislation | ||
Kevin Maddoux | PELs: 10 Years Later—A Colorado Perspective | |||
San Lee | Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSM&O) Evaluation Process | |||
3D | Katharine Duitsman | Diverging Diamond Interchange Design and Evaluation | ||
Ron Mortimer | Continuous Flow Intersections (CFIs) 20 Years Later—What We Know | |||
Peter Hinckley | An Offset Single Point design for the I-25 Rio Bravo Blvd Interchange in Albuquerque, NM | |||
4A | Michael Janssen | Developing the Las Vegas Mobility Master Plan (2016-2036 | ||
Daniel Turner | Bike Ironbound, Bike Plan for the City of Newark, NJ | |||
Valerie Hermanson | Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships and Funding to Create Local and Regional Innovation | |||
4B | Jeanne Bowie | Accommodating Emergency Vehicles in Complete Streets Project for Fairbanks, Alaska | ||
Adam Lyons | College Station, TX—A Case Study on Improving Citywide Traffic | |||
Paul Brown | Dynamic Exit Gates—Troublemaker or Silver Bullet? | |||
4C | Keith Borsheim | Colorado’s Bottleneck Reduction Program – COBRA | ||
Scott Thomas | I-70 Peak Period Shoulder Lane | |||
John La Sala | Full Closure during Construction: A Tool for Reducing Overall Traffic Impact and Satisfying the Public | |||
4D | Yuri Mereszczak | Making a Main Street Roundabout in Kuna, Idaho | ||
Scott Ritchie | Multi-Modal Roundabout Design Innovations | |||
Kyle Anderson | Elevated Roundabout Design Competition | |||
5A | Clay Koontz | Development of the City’s Neighborhood Traffic Management Program (aka) Traffic Calming Program | ||
Scott Ritchie | Roundabouts Jumpstart Downtown Revitalization | |||
Perry Gross | Getting Real About the Reimagination for 21st Century Communities | |||
5B | Faisal Hamood | Quality and Maintenance of In-Road Warning Lights | ||
Jonathan Hofert | Preliminary Results of an In-Roadway W arning Light Demonstration Project | |||
Zaki Mustafa | Maintenance, Life Expectancy, and Community Expectations of IRWL Crosswalks | |||
5C | Lucy Forma | Bandelier National Monument Frijoles Canyon Visitor Transportation and Access Plan |
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Sunny Mikkilineni | Sustainability at University Campus | |||
Sarah Hurteau | A Green Vision of Rural and Suburban Open Space | |||
John Lower | ITS for Environmental Sustainability—California’s Proposed Low Carbon Road Program | |||
6A | Jeanne Bowie | Alternatives Analysis for Relocation of Transit Hub in Muldoon Area of Anchorage, Alaska | ||
Philip Louie | Challenges in Constructing Safe Routes to School in a Unique Urban Environment—The San Francisco Chinatown Safe Routes To School Project | |||
Alex Ariniello | DDI’s Can Move More Than Cars | |||
6B | Barbara Hauser | The Importance of Arterial Incident Management | ||
Travis Low | Surveying Driver Satisfaction with an Active Traffic Management System with Variable Advisory Speeds | |||
Navin Nageli | Traveler Information on Arterials | |||
6C | Mat Dolata | Small Community Transportation System Planning with Decreasing Traffic Volumes | ||
Alejandro Henao | Impacts of Lyft and Uber on VMT, Parking Demand, and Travel Behavior | |||
Monirehalsadat Mahmoudi | Toward a City with Fully Coordinated Vehicle Sharing System | |||
7A | Ali Gholami | A Guideline for Pedestrian Timing Accommodation into Signal Coordination | ||
Victoria Edington | Roads, Rails, and Running Shoes: Developing Multi-Modal Signal Timing for a New Light Rail Corridor in Aurora, Colorado | |||
Paul Barricklow | Opportunities for Phasing Left Turns across a Multi-Use Path using Flashing Yellow Arrow | |||
7B | Gordon Lum | Warrants for Adaptive Signals | ||
Joseph Couples | Maximizing Adaptive Signal Control Technology Deployments | |||
Christopher Sobie | Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Vehicle Detection Technologies and their Impact on Adaptive Traffic Control Systems | |||
8A | Rock Miller | Challenges of Increasing Transportation Options | ||
Mike Hendrix | Traffic Signals at Bike Boulevards: A Review of 8 Locations in Seattle | |||
Joshua Saak | Buffered Bike Lanes in Downtown Boise—Lessons Learned from a Short Term Deployment | |||
8B | Richard Ganble | How Clark County Got Our Signals Connected to a Layer 3 Fiber Network | ||
Patrick Marnell | Optimal Implementation of Red Light Extensions Using Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation | |||
Jason Hsia | Signal Retiming: A Student Friendly Method | |||
8C | Navin Nageli | True Asset Management—Understanding the Magnitude and Seriousness of Our Assets | ||
Zhuo Chen | Sampling Scheme for Multiple Asset Management Using Locality‑Sensitive Hashing (LSH) Algorithm | |||
Tamara Haas | Using MAP-21/FAST to Strengthen NMDOT’s TAM Program | |||
8D | Erik Ruehr | Major Update of the 2010 Highway Capacity Manual | ||
Jonathan Upchurch | Future Direction of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices | |||
Randy McCourt | Does Your Local Shopping Center Need Traffic Control Devices? | |||
9A | Kevin Carstens | Using Archived Transit Data to Conduct a Time-Space Analysis of San Luis Obispo Transit Route 6B | ||
Bobby Sidhu | When Will My Bus Arrive? Exploring Stop-Level & Higher Resolution Data Models of Transit Trip Time & Delay | |||
Kiavash Shahandashti | Development of Open Source Tool using General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) for Transit Spatiotemporal Connectivity Analysis | |||
9B | Carlos Ortiz | The Paradigm Shift of our Transportation Industry | ||
Jesse Manning | The Intersection of the Future | |||
Navin Nageli | Advanced Technologies & Challenges to Public Transportation Agencies | |||
9C | Nasima Bhuiyan | Accident Analysis at Signalized Intersections Using Statistical Theory | ||
Victor Salemann | Using Video Data to Enhance Pedestrian Safety | |||
Alex Chambers | Benefits of Advanced Traffic Management Solutions: Before and After Crash Analysis for Deployment of a Variable Advisory Speed Limit System | |||
9D | Loretta Hall | The Chile Line | ||
Jerry Hall | The Interstate Highway System: 60 Years of Perspective | |||
Tandy Freel | Catwalk Trail Reconstruction |