22nd International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory, Evanston, Illinois

It was great to participate in the 22nd ISTTT held at Northwestern University! I was pleased to moderate a workshop and see many great colleagues and friends. Special thanks to Prof. Hani Mahmassani and Prof. Karen Smilowitz for their hospitality!

First Annual Cal Poly Alumni Brunch

It was great to see many Cal Poly alums at our "First Annual" brunch with Bertini in San Francisco! Alumni included Jerry Tran, Edward Tang, Bobby Sidhu, Hadar Albo, Jose Palma, Andre Huff,
and Kevin Carstens. See you next year!

China Maglev in Shanghai

Fulfilled a longtime dream to ride the Maglev train in Shanghai. Maximum speed was 41 km/h! The technology exists!

COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals, Shanghai, Ch

A special thank you to the Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA) for the invitation to participate in their 17th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP2017) from July 7-9, 2017, in Shanghai, China, hosted by Tongji University. I had the opportunity to speak in the opening session about the Future of Transportation and in another session about the developments in Connected and Automated Vehicle deployment. I also enjoyed participating in a great student session containing presentations in Traffic Flow Theory. I'm grateful to COTA and Tongji for their hospitality! I also had the chance to ride high speed rail from Beijing to Shanghai and take the Maglev (max speed 270 mph) to the Shanghai airport. Very inspiring!

South China University of Technology Workshop, Guangzhou

I was very pleased to visit the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou China on July 4 to participate in a workshop on the Future Transportation System: Safe, Green and Intelligent. I presented a lecture entitled, "Bringing Order to Chaos: The Growing Role of Proactive Traffic Management Solutions." I appreciated the chance to participate!

Guest Lecture at Didi in Beijing, China

I had the opportunity to visit Didi in Beijing to introduce USF/CUTR and present a lecture entitled, "Leveraging Multimodal Transportation System Data: Understanding How the System Works and Creating Future Transportation Choices." Special thanks to Li Huan for organizing everything and to Didi for their hospitality!