96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C.

As always it was a wonderful and busy week at the Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting held January 8-12 in Washington, D.C. I was a co-author on 6 presented papers, gave 1 presentation, chaired 1 session, led the Operations Section Executive Board Meeting and participated in a meeting of the Transportation Research Record Review Advisory Board. I also attended all 13 committee meetings and 1 task force meeting within the Operations Section, attended the meeting of all Section Chairs, and the Committee Chair “speed dating” session. It was wonderful to have a large group of USF students and faculty in attendance. CUTR also had a very large presence, with our reception, booth, many papers, presentations and meeting. Here are some of the highlights:

Workshop 180: IGNITE: Traffic Signal Systems with Innovative Technologies

What does Practice Ready Mean at TRB? (Presentation P17-21947) 

Robert L. Bertini, USF Center for Urban Transportation Research

Session 249: Innovative Data Applications: GTFS Real Time, Smartphone, Farebox, AVL, APC, Wi-Fi, and more

Exploiting New High-Resolution Transit Data Sources: Developing Improved Data-Driven Models of Transit Travel Time and Delay (Paper 17-05490) 

Bobjot Sidhu, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Robert L. Bertini, USF Center for Urban Transportation Research

Anurag Pande, California Polytechnic State University

Session 328: Transportation Safety Management: Creating Safer Systems

Empirical Before and After Evaluation of a Variable Speed Limit System from a Safety Management Perspective (Paper 17-05118)

Alexander Chambers, California Polytechnic State University

Anurag Pande, California Polytechnic State University

Robert L. Bertini, USF Center for Urban Transportation Research

Session 358: New Research on Travel Time, Speed, and Reliability Data

Exploring Reliability Metrics as Arterial Performance Thresholds Using High Resolution Bluetooth Travel Time Data (Paper 17-03287) 

Krista Purser, Kittelson & Associates, Inc. (KAI)

Robert L. Bertini, USF Center for Urban Transportation Research

Anurag Pande, California Polytechnic State University

Martin Margreiter, Technical University of Munich

Session 387: User Perspectives and Impact Assessments of Vehicle-Highway Automation Systems

Preparing Oregon for Connected-Vehicle Deployment: Connected-Vehicle Application Prioritization Process (Paper 17-04938)

Robert L. Bertini, USF Center for Urban Transportation Research

Haizhong Wang, Oregon State University

Kevin Carstens, California Polytechnic State University

Session 527: Advances in Connected Vehicle Systems

Spatial Analysis of Roadside Devices for Potential Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Adaptation: Oregon Case Study​ (Paper 17-01219)

Chen Chen, Oregon State University

Robert L. Bertini, USF Center for Urban Transportation Research

Haizhong Wang, Oregon State University

Lance Knox, Hexagon Transportation

Session 578: Intelligent Transportation Systems for Smart Travelers

Empirical Evaluation of Real-Time Traffic Information for In-Vehicle Navigation and Variable Speed Limit System Paper 17-02849)

Williams Ackaah, Universität der Bundeswehr München

Klaus Bogenberger, Universität der Bundeswehr München

Robert L. Bertini, USF Center for Urban Transportation Research

Session 321: Car-following Models and Longitudinal Vehicle Control

Robert L. Bertini, USF Center for Urban Transportation Research, Presiding

Operations Section Executive Board (AHB00)

Robert L. Bertini, USF Center for Urban Transportation Research, presiding

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

TRR Review Advisory Board, Robert L. Bertini, Member