ITS World Congress, Vienna, Austria

Excellent experience at the 19th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, held in Vienna, Austria. First responsibility was to serve on the International Programme Committee as well as the Americas Rapporteur for the Sustainable, Clean and Energy Efficient Mobility track. I also was a co-author for a technical paper, "Traffic Flow Effects of a Variable Speed Limit System on a German Autobahn: An Empirical Analysis," with Klaus Bogenberger and Simone Weikl, University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany, presented in session TS017 - Sensor & Detection Systems - Safety & Enforcement. I also was a speaker in session SIS88 - Innovation in ITS, and I moderated session TS094 - Electromobility - Infrastructure (1). Finally, I was the organizer and moderator for session SIS59 - 21st Century Workforce Development: Changing the Way We Think About ITS Education and Training. I also participated in the 5th NEARCTIS Workshop, and spoke on a panel on Structuring Future Research Effort in Road Cooperative Traffic Management from the U.S. perspective. NEARCTIS is a Network of Excellence for Advanced Road
Cooperative traffic management in the Information Society.

Visit to Riga, Latvia

I was honored to have the opportunity to provide a plenary lecture, "US Research in Public Transportation Using ITS Data: Bus Operations and Optimal Stop Spacing" for the 12th Annual Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication (RelStat’12) Conference held at the Transport and Telecommunication Institute, 17–20 October 2012 in Riga, Latvia. This was held in conjunction with the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action TU0903 Methods and Tools for Supporting the Use, Calibration and Validation of Traffic Simulation Models Workshop, which I also participated in, and the COST Action TU1004 Workshop on Modelling Public Transport Passenger Flows in the Era of Intelligent Transport Systems. Great colleagues and many thanks to our gracious hosts!

ITE Simulation Roundtable

On October 4, 2012, I had the opportunity to present a quick tutorial on Traffic Flow Theory to the Oregon/Washington ITE Simulation Roundtable. Some very good discussion about simulation, with a lively group of about 60 transportation agency and consulting firm staff who focus on simulation across all types of platforms.

WTS Grant Writing Workshop

On October 9, 2012, I had the opportunity to join KC Cooper, Jon Fink and Art Pearce to present the WTS Grant Writing Workshop, held at the Governor Hotel. It was a great experience, and our class of about 30 students were highly interactive and creative! Thanks to Kristie Gladhill for inviting me to participate!