The following are the papers submitted and presentations given at the 2026 Western District Annual meeting in Bellevue, Washington. 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 Website Manager.
| Session | Presenter | Title | Paper | Presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2A | Kevin Carstens | Davis Bicycle and Pedestrian Wayfinding Project | ||
| Peter Koonce | Traffic Signal Design for Better Bicycling | |||
| Rock Miller
Randy McCourt |
Bicycling and the MUTCD: Future Thoughts | |||
| Sarah Gutschow
Celeste Gilman |
Futurama for Bicycles: Planning a Cycle Highways Network in Washington | |||
| 2B | Benjamin Wright | Targeting Safe Speeds – Implementing Bellevue’s Speed Management Plan | ||
| Briana Weisgerber | Supporting adoption of Safe System Speeds for local roads in Washington state | |||
| Grace Young
John Milton |
Developing a context classification approach for Safe Systems Speed setting on state highways | |||
| Nikki Davis
Jennifer Palmer |
Kirkland Transportation Safety Plan | Posted Speed Setting Policy & Procedure | |||
| 2C | Bincy Koshy | Advancing Zero-Emission Transit: How the Redding Area Bus Authority Used Data & Technology to Shape Its Zero-Emission Bus Implementation Plan | ||
| David Tokarski | Charging Ahead: Closing the Rural EV Charging Gap | |||
| Jeffrey Raker | Charge Ahead: A Practical Playbook for Accessible, Scalable Public EV Charging Deployment in the Pacific Northwest | |||
| 2D | Austin Larman | Enhancing Intersection Reliability and Safety Through Vision-Based Multimodal Detection in Clackamas County | ||
| Do Nam | AI-Powered Video Analytics (AIVA) for Advancing TSMO | |||
| Jason Spencer
Billy Baker Daniel Lai/Kirk Neibert |
AI-Based Passive Pedestrian Detection for Real-Time Safety Interventions: Bellevue’s RTSSI Deployment Using Edge Video Analytics and LiDAR | |||
| Mathew Medina | AI Video Analytics for Emerging Micromobility and Active Transportation: Real-Time Detection, Classification, Tracking and Traffic Signal Safety Interventions | |||
| 3A | Brian Kellogg
Jonathan Dong |
Route 8 or Route Late? Success and Challenges in Prioritizing Transit on one of Seattle’s Most Congested Corridors | ||
| Sean Daly | Bus Rapid Transportation Feasibilty Studies | |||
| Yoshi Takeno | Utilizing Transit Performance Data to Improve Project Development | |||
| 3B | Jasmine Stitt | Designing Freeway On/off ramps to Work for Bicycles | ||
| Josh Anderson | Improving rail crossing safety and operations through context sensitive grade separation | |||
| Paul Krawczyk | Collison reduction using access control and conflict reduction in Commercial Districts | |||
| Viggen Davidian | From Freeway stub to a Sustainable Mobility System for a Reconnected Community: Reimagining Pasadena’s Relinquished 710 Stub | |||
| 3C | Taylor Whitaker
Franz Loewenherz Tobin Bennett-Gold Jarrett Hornsbostel |
Building a Successful Speed Safety Camera Program | ||
| 3D | Luyang Gong | Improving Roadway and Intersection Safety in Tribal and Rural Communities Using Edge AI | ||
| Michael Villafuerte | Digital Twin for Optimizing Real-Time Traffic Signal Timing Operations | |||
| Patrick Marnell | It’s a Good Thing I’m On Your Side: What Insider Threat Scenarios Reveal About Transportation Cybersecurity | |||
| Tom Stiles | Leveraging the digital twin for scenario-based operations analysis and controller software testing | |||
| 4A | Asher Cipinko | Closing the Freight Parking Gap: A New Method for Predicting and Planning Corridor-Level Truck Parking Needs | ||
| Jake Paulsene | The state of freight integration in Complete Streets: A text-mining analysis of existing policy | |||
| Tino Jonga
Jason Beloso Geraldine Poor |
Truck Parking: A Key to Safe and Efficient Urban Logistics | |||
| Xiao Dong Liu | Rolling through a Freight Network | |||
| 4B | Sandeep Paparaju
Praveena Samaletti |
Traffic Management in Urban Environments Using Artificial Intelligence | ||
| Sean Houck | Problem Multilane Roundabout? How Advanced Diagnostic Tools and New Multilane Roundabout Design Techniques are Improving Safety and Operations at Problem Roundabouts | |||
| Sowmya Chandrasekhar | Harnessing AI for Traffic Safety: Near-Miss Analysis for Newhall Avenue Improvements | |||
| Tyler Krell | Partnership in Practice: Validating Bellingham’s Active Transportation Pilot with Continuous Safety Monitoring | |||
| 4C | Nazir Lalani
Rock Miller John Milton Michael Fleming |
TRAFFIC OPERATIONS SAFETY: LESSONS LEARNED FROM TORT LIABILITY CASES | ||
| 4D | Kai Antrim | WSDOT PILOTS NEW WRONG-WAY DRIVING ALERT SYSTEM ON SR-18 | ||
| Kai Antrim | City of Federal Way adaptive signal control | |||
| Lee Hansen | Data-Driven Signal Operations for High-Growth Regions: Lessons for Washington Agencies | |||
| Mike Olsen
Ken Buchanan |
Cabinet-Integrated Resiliency Strategies for Weather-Driven Outages in Seattle | |||
| 5A | Carlos Ortiz | Building a Digital Infrastructure to Manage and Operate a Region | ||
| Fred Minagar | Parking Rate Determination for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Before the 2028 Olympics | |||
| Mark Bandy | Hosting the largest global sports event in Seattle | |||
| Rajeev Seetharam | Keeping Cargo Moving: Port of Long Beach’s Role in Traffic Planning for Major Regional Projects | |||
| 5B | Dylan Jennings | Using a Paving Project to Deliver Low-Cost Complete Streets Improvements Near Three Schools | ||
| Hermanus Steyn | The Ongoing Journey of the Burke-Gilman Trail | |||
| Jessie Holzer Carpenter | Iterative Traffic Calming on Clifton Way: A Multi-Year Community-Driven Approach to Residential Street Safety | |||
| Shane Sullivan | Piloting Change: Using Adaptive Engineering to Unlock Multimodal Transportation Solutions | |||
| 5C | Elsa Moreno Rangel | Evaluating Vehicle Speed Detection at Signalized Intersections Using High-Resolution Data from Traffic Signal-Mounted Radar Sensors, Pneumatic Road Tubes, and Handheld LiDAR | ||
| Zong Tian | From Performance Evaluation to Signal Timing Optimization: Leveraging Connected Vehicle Data | |||
| 5D | Asad Lesani | The Lidar-Powered Safe System: Leveraging Physical AI and 3D Data for Proactive Vision Zero Interventions | ||
| Matt Zinn | Dynamic All-Red Extensions: Proven Safety and Crash Reductions in U.S. and Europe | |||
| Michael Villafuerte | Situational Awareness Driving New Strategies for Intersection Safety | |||
| Seth Anderson | From Speed Analysis to Safety Action: A Practical Framework for Detecting Harmful Speeds | |||
| 6A | Jeff Pierson | Applying Advanced Network Analysis with Microsimulation DTA Modeling | ||
| Josh Pilachowski | Fixing the First and Last Mile: A New Logic for Safe Routes to Transit | |||
| Sudesh Paul | Inside Corona’s COA Scenario 2 Integration | |||
| Udit Khandelwal | Helping reshape the Park and Ride system in Portland | |||
| 6B | Bianca Popescu | Safety Analysis for Vulnerable Road Users | ||
| Gary Simonson | Regional Safety Action Plan – Setting the Stage to Meet the Safety Needs for a Region | |||
| Mengqing Wang
Jolie Tran Ling Chen |
Innovative Safety Assessment Process | |||
| Sydney Weisman
Taylor Whitaker |
High Injury Network vs. High Risk Network: What is the difference and why do they matter? | |||
| 6C | Grace Chen | This Could Save Someone’s Life – Mitigating Emergency Evacuation Impacts with Proven and Effective Strategies | ||
| Marissa Milam
Aidan Dixon |
Designing Resilient Detour Networks: Integrating Safety, Equity, and Emergency Preparedness | |||
| Randy Johnson | Community Evacuation Planning: Lahars, Tsunamis, and Fires, Oh My! | |||
| Robin Shishido
Colby Stanton |
TSMO Strategies for Tsunami Evacuation | |||
| 6D | Derek Bleyle | From Reactive to Predictive: How Vision AI Data Delivers Vision Zero Outcomes in Work Zones | ||
| Gabriel Murillo | Maximizing the Benefits of Modern Transit Priority: Data-Driven Strategies and Operational Impacts | |||
| Mandy Stollsteimer | Forward-thinking Urban Mobility | |||
| Sabeek Pradhan | Why Traffic Signal Systems Need Richer Detection Inputs | |||
| 7A | Anais Schenk | From Planner to Programmer: Building an LTS Analysis Tool with AI-Assisted Coding | ||
| Briana Calhoun | Portland Metro Regional Emergency Transportation Routes | |||
| Neelam Dorman | Targeted Corridor Investment Planning – Making the Most of Limited Resources | |||
| Philip Nitollama | Riverside’s Fifty (50) Safe Routes To School Project | |||
| 7B | Em Katz | East Oakland Community Streets: Community-Based Design in Deep East Oakland | ||
| Michael Packard | A Roundabout Solution to Aging Infrastructure in Hawaii | |||
| Minchul Park
Jay Backman |
Pioneering the First Roundabout in Seattle: A Collaborative Approach to Safe System Design | |||
| Ramin Nikoui | Not Giving Up at the Intersection: The City of Costa Mesa’s Adams Avenue and Pinecreek Drive Intersection Multimodal Improvements Project | |||
| 7C | Raymond Poss
Charlie Alexander Gavin Derleth |
Seeing Is Believing: Leveraging Video Analytics to Quantify Multimodal Safety Across the Western United States | ||
| 8A | Chris Gregerson | Impact Fee Programs as Active Transportation Project Funding | ||
| Christine Stavish | Reconnecting Fairview: A Multimodal Level of Service Approach | |||
| Mehul Champaneri | Trip-Based Vs VMT-Based Impact Fees | |||
| Sean Carney | Five Years Later: How Have Traffic Studies Evolved in Response to SB 743 | |||
| 8B | Alan Uy | Folsom Streetscape: A Street Transformation Celebrating Cultural Identity in San Francisco’s SoMa Neighborhood | ||
| Angaelos Hanna
Adolfo Ozaeta |
The Mendez Freedom Trail | |||
| Cesar Rodriguez | McFadden Avenue Multimodal Improvements: Safety, Connectivity, and Transit Innovation | |||
| Robi Islam | From Arterial to Multimodal: Community-driven Solution for Santa Ana’s First Street Corridor | |||
| 8C | Nicole Matteson | The “One Infrastructure” Approach – Active Transportation for Flood Mitigation | ||
| Sagar Keshari | Understanding Active Transportation Needs in Rural Residential Clusters: A Geospatial Framework and Community Survey Approach | |||
| Sydney Borek
Jim Peters |
Promoting Safety in Maintenance Work Zones | |||
| 9A | Briana Byrne
Terence Zhao |
Curb Management Planning that Integrates Holistic Transportation Priorities | ||
| Cristian Belmudez | Beyond the Lot Line: Designing Equitable Parking Strategies for Transit Oriented Communities | |||
| Giacomo Dalla Chiara | A Stated Preference Experiment on Carrier Choices for Urban Freight Parking Pricing in Seattle | |||
| Jiacheng Sun | Edge AI for Real-Time Curb Activity Monitoring: Deployment and Evaluation in Bellevue and New York City | |||
| 9B | Dennis Mitchell | ODOT SMART Grant Evaluation | ||
| Erin Ehlinger | Implementing a modern, open systems-based traffic signal system including firmware, controllers and central software. | |||
| Daniel Lai | Safer Signals SMART Grant Project – Use of real-time traffic signal safety interventions in Bellevue | |||
| 9C | Jingyi He | Network-Scale Safety Screening Using Connected Vehicle Trajectories: Extraction of Surrogate Safety Measures and Crash Modeling for Signalized Intersections | ||
| Sha Yang | Advancing Vision Zero through Integrated Crash and Near-Miss Diagnostics: A Case Study of US-97 Intersections in Yakima County, Washington | |||
| Sri Chakravarthy
Seth Searle Nadia Fahoum |
Safety Adaptive Signal System: Enhancing Traffic Safety on PCH | |||
