2018 Keystone Technical Compendium
The following are the papers submitted and presentations given at the 2018 Western District Annual meeting in Keystone, Colorado. Please see the Technical Session Program for descriptions of the papers/presentations. 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 |
| 1B | Erik Guderian | Road Diet for Multimodal Use: The City of Mesa Experience | ||
| Paul Van Dyk | Right of Way(t) Watchers – The Popular Way to Diet Your Roads: How Long Beach is Earning Support for Road Diets in the Car Culture of Southern California | |||
| Nancy Lambertson | Linking Lookout: US 6 & 19th Street Interchange | |||
| Gary Schatz | Transforming South Congress in Austin, Texas | |||
| 1C | Jeanne Bowie | Adapting Roadside Safety Analysis Program for Localized Conditions in Alaska | ||
| Lingling Yang | A New Concept Design of Directional Rumble Strips for Deterring Wrong-Way Freeway Entries | |||
| Rachael Larson | Modeling Crash Probabilities in Snow Fences: Affected Mountainous Freeway Segments Using Real-Time Weather Data | |||
| Sherif M Gaweesh | Investigating Factor Influencing Crash Severity for Heavy Trucks on Rural Mountainous Interstate Roads: A Case Study on I-80 in Wyoming | |||
| 1D | Teresa Tapia | Using Big Data to Solve Special Challenges with VMT Generation Estimates for California’s SB 743 | ||
| Sagar Onta | How Big Data Unleashed Latent Multimodal Trip Demand | |||
| Cynthia Albright | Multimodal Planning at the Cellular Level | |||
| Sumeet Kishnani | Innovative Applications of Big Data to Make More Informed Transportation Policy Decisions | |||
| 2B | Bill Hange | Loveland Modern Roundabouts: 20 Year History | ||
| Nazir Lalani | Fixing Broken Roundabouts | |||
| Evgeniya Tyson | Practical Approach to Roundabout Design vs. Traditional Intersection Design | |||
| Kamesh Vedula and Mark Johnson | Park Ave. (SH9) Complete Streets Corridor in the Town of Breckenridge, Colorado | |||
| 2C | Jake Kononov & Colleen Guillotte | How Effective are Safety Improvement Projects in Colorado? | ||
| Robert E Maki | Safety and Operational Impact of Median Left Turns | |||
| Upal Barua | Effectiveness of Transportation Safety Improvement Projects in Austin, Texas | |||
| Melisa Finley | Mitigating Wrong-Way Driving | |||
| 2D | Curt Thye | Using Big Data to Understand Special Generators: The Broncos vs. The Cowboys | ||
| Scott Pitera | CDOT RoadX SMART 25 Managed Motorways Demonstration Project | |||
| Lacey Atkins | Successfully Implementing Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) | |||
| Zach Bosch | Installation of Rancho Cordova’s Citywide Intelligent Transportation System: Lessons Learned | |||
| 3B | Joseph Perrin | Multi-Lane US Roundabouts vs. European Turbo Roundabouts | ||
| Randy Johnson | Are Multi-Lane Roundabouts a Safe and Effective Innovative Intersection Treatment | |||
| Randy Dittberner | The “Instant” Roundabout | |||
| Mark Johnson | How to Integrate People and Place with Roundabouts: A Success Story | |||
| 3C | Lee Austin | Beyond the RRFB: Pedestrian Refuge Islands for Uncontrolled Crosswalks | ||
| David Hurwitz | Safer Protected / Permitted Right-Turn Phasing for Drivers, Bicyclists, and Pedestrians | |||
| Michael George Alston | Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety at Alternative Intersections and Interchanges | |||
| Kay Fitzpatrick | Vehicle Speed in Presence of Bicycles | |||
| 3D | Lawrence Liao | Assessing Impacts of CV/AV Technologies on Systemwide Performance Measures | ||
| Erik Ruehr | Roadway Capacity Implications of Connected and Automated Vehicles | |||
| Andrew Vidor | Parking Planning and Designing for AVs | |||
| Rachel Ackermann | Planning for Autonomous Vehicles in the Smart City: Addressing Problems and Promise | |||
| Tyler Svitak | How CDOT is Scaling CAV’s to Solve Real Problems | |||
| 4B | Brendan Russo | Pedestrian Behavior at Signalized Intersection Crosswalks: An Observational Study of Factors Associated with Distracted Walking, Pedestrian Violations, and Walking Speed | ||
| Kevin Chang | Student Pedestrian Walking Speeds at Crosswalks Near Schools | |||
| Norman Hogue | Let’s Walk! Using GIS & Traffic Engineering to Help Fort Worth’s Safe Routes to Schools Program | |||
| Wesley Dismore | Safety in Numbers: Developing Simple and Straightforward Guidelines for When and Where to Install Uncontrolled Pedestrian Crossings in the Suburbs | |||
| 4C | Jena Prescott | Exploring the Role of Marijuana Legalization on Fatal Crashes in the United States: FARS Analysis | ||
| Robert Wunderlich | The In’s and Out’s and Up’s and Down’s of Traffic Fatalities | |||
| Allie Axley | Colorado’s First TIM Track | |||
| Gordon Lum | How Effective Are Safety Projects (i.e., Signalization, Installing Left Turn Phasing or Adding a Lane)? | |||
| 4D | Teresa Tapia | The Data Smart Cities Need: Using “Big” Mobile Device Data to Understand O-D Patterns in Oakland | ||
| Tom Hartmann | Enhancing Analysis with Probe-Based Data | |||
| Kirk Houser | City of Dallas Cloud-Based Central Management System Opens Doors for Information Sharing | |||
| Farinoush Sharif | Examining Travelers Who Pay to Drive Slower in the Katy Managed Lanes | |||
| 5A | Joanna Liu | Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures (ATSPM) in the City of Dublin, CA: What Agencies Can Accomplish | ||
| Nitin Deshpande | Implementing Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures (ATSPMs): CDOT’s Experience | |||
| Christopher Sobie | Applications of ATSPM Deployment in Albuquerque, New Mexico | |||
| James Robertson | Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures (ATSPMs), Making Decisions and Demonstrating Value | |||
| 5B | Alicia Zimmerman | If Bikeways Could Talk: Measuring the Success of Denver’s Protected Bikeways | ||
| Joseph Totten | Bikeshare and Transit: A State of the Practice in this Promising Union | |||
| Sagar Onta | AASHTO’s “Green Book for Bikes”: What to Expect from North America’s Most Detailed and Comprehensive Facility Design Guide | |||
| Matt Zinn | Bike Detection Utilizing Inductive Loops | |||
| 5C | Jonathan Hofert and Jay Dinkins | Street Running Light Rail and Traffic Operations (Metro Expo Line) | ||
| Mohan Atluri | Implementing Houston’s First BRT System | |||
| Srinivasa Sunkari | Revisions to TxDOT’s Guide for Determining Time Requirements for Traffic Signal Preemption at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings | |||
| Tony Henderson | Transportation Engineering Support of Transit Operations | |||
| 5D | Scott Thomas | Smart 70 V2X Connected Vehicle Ecosystem | ||
| Jianqing Wu | An Automatic Procedure for Vehicle Tracking with a Roadside LiDAR Sensor | |||
| Scott Pitera | Keeping Up with the Rapid Evolution of CAV | |||
| Camilla Dartnell | Getting There: The Transition to Autonomous, Electric, and Ride-sourcing Vehicle Technologies and What We Can Do to Ensure Positive Effects on Our Communities | |||
| 6A | Matthew Tennent | CDOT Signal Phase & Timing Deployment | ||
| Ali Mozdbar | Managing Signals, Managing Expectation | |||
| Matt Duncan | Are Your Flashing Yellow Arrow Turn Signals Lipstick on a Pig? | |||
| Gerry deCamp | Advanced Signal Sequencing Techniques to Accommodate Long Pedestrian Timings | |||
| Jim Fox | Implementing Technology to Increase the Operational Capabilities of the Denver Traffic Management Center | |||
| 6B | Randy McCourt | Impacts of TNCs on Mode Share at Airports | ||
| Reddy Edulakanti | Houston Ports: Freight Mobility Planning | |||
| Erik Ruehr | From LOS to VMT: An Update on California’s SB 743 Legislation | |||
| Erin Eurek | ADA Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan | |||
| 6C | Christa Greene | How Do You Solve the Unsolvable Problem?: Innovative Designs in Urban Areas | ||
| Joan Lim | Congestion Busting with Big Data Analytics: A New Approach | |||
| Kenneth Ryan | Message from the Genie in a Bottle[neck]: A Before/After Review of 3 Bottleneck Reduction Projects | |||
| Jason Crawford | Texas SH 161 Hard Shoulder Running Experience | |||
| 6D | Matt Sneed | Performance Measures at TxDOT | ||
| Lisa Young | LA Metro’s Arterial Performance Measures Framework | |||
| Allie Axley | Holistic Approach to Project Development through the TSMO Evaluation | |||
| Ryan Saville | Expanding the Capabilities of Your Traffic Signal Management System by Centralizing Emergency Vehicle Preemption Management | |||
| 7A | Tracy Scriba | Institutionalizing the Next Generation of Transportation Operations Strategies | ||
| Richard Gamble | Performance Measures for Evaluating Corridor Progression | |||
| Maria Vyas | Application of Innovative Performance Metrics for Corridor Planning | |||
| Sal Akhter | Cutting Back Cut-through Trips in Fremont, California: Measuring the Impact of Signal Time Changes | |||
| 7B | Grant Schultz | Analysis of Access Category Guidelines in Utah | ||
| Jonathan Upchurch | August 21 Total Solar Eclipse: A Special Event with Traffic Congestion Coast to Coast | |||
| Dale Grove | More than a Bridge: The Challenges in Developing an International Border Crossing Project | |||
| James Parkhill | Balancing the Diverse Needs of Communities to Improve Regional Connectivity in Denver, Colorado | |||
| 7C | Shane Binder | State of the Practice in Accommodating Pedestrians and Cyclists through Work Zones | ||
| John Habermann | Use of a Comparative Travel Time (CTT) System as a New Work Zone Intelligent Transportation System Solution | |||
| Jason Crawford | #KnowBeforeYouGo: Keeping the Public and Local Stakeholders Informed of Work Zone Traffic Impacts through Active Communications | |||
| Gerald Ullman | Improving Large Truck Safety in Work Zones | |||
| 7D | Thomas Gaul | Measuring the Miles: Developing New Metrics for Vehicle Travel in Los Angeles |
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| Karl Rothermel | Data Collection: How Much is Enough? | |||
| Ken Brubaker | Using GIS for Asset Management and Performance Measurement of Facilities for Non-Motorized Users | |||
| Anusha Musunuru | Estimation of Freeway Traffic Congestion Using Probe Vehicle Data: A Case Study in Santa Clara County | |||
| 8A | Cody Stone | Active Traffic Management System Microsimulation Modeling for I-69 Concept of Operations | ||
| Victoria Edington | Signal Control Versatility in Microsimulation Modelling | |||
| David Stanek | Simulating Autonomous Vehicles in a Congested Freeway and Arterial Network | |||
| Henry Hammel | Behavioral Modeling and Understanding New Modes | |||
| 8B | Gary Schatz | Establishing the Downtown Bryan Railroad Quiet Zone | ||
| Frank Penry and Shawn O’Keefe | Redwood & Grant Transit Hub in Novato, California | |||
| Krista Marie Purser | Data-Driven Transit Planning in Rural Oregon: Bringing Access to All | |||
| Jonathan Dong | Seattle’s First Hill Streetcar – Challenges of Operating a Streetcar Through a Fast Growing City | |||
| 8C | Devin Moore | Elevating Rural Road Safety: the Local Road Safety Plan | ||
| Daniel Hennessey | Small Data: Local Trip Generation Data and Developing a Better Model | |||
| Shea Suski | The Cost of Oil: Transportation Impacts of Oil & Gas Development | |||
| Sheida Khademi | Connecting Engineers and the Community: Collaborating with Social Workers to Identify Community-Based Transportation Needs | |||
| 8D | Lisa Truong Nguyen | Virtual Reality: A Lens of Opportunity | ||
| Olivia Brey | Breaking Barriers to Deploy Emerging Technology | |||
| Beverly Kuhn | ITE and Smart Communities: Plans for 2018 and Beyond | |||
| Rhonda Young | Wyoming Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Project |