15TH ANNUAL NORTH AMERICA PTV VISION TRAFFIC USER GROUP MEETING OCTOBER 7-8, 2014 IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA

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1 15TH ANNUAL NORTH AMERICA PTV VISION TRAFFIC USER GROUP MEETING OCTOBER 7-8, 2014 IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA

2 2014 PTV Vision Traffic User Group Meeting Preliminary Schedule Monday, October 6 Program subject to change. 12:00pm- 10:00pm Epcot day including UGM Welcome Dinner & Disney IllumiNations Fireworks Show Shuttle departs venue hotel for Epcot at Noon, 2pm, 4pm & 6pm Dinner at 7pm in Future World & Fireworks at 9pm Return shuttle back to hotel departing Epcot at 9:30pm after fireworks 7:30-8:30am Block 1: 8:30-8:45am 8:45-10:00am 10:00-10:15am 10:15-11:30am 11:30-12:15pm 12:15-1:15pm Block 2: 1:15-1:45pm 1:45-2:15pm 2:15-2:45pm 2:45-3:15pm Tuesday, October 7 Registration and Breakfast New Developments in Traffic Software by PTV Group Welcome Remarks PTV Vissim & PTV Viswalk by Dr. Axel Leonhardt Break PTV Visum by Dr. Klaus Nökel PTV Vistro by Karen Giese Lunch Agency Guidance and Planning Perspectives Updates to the Traffic Analysis Toolbox, Volume III Kris Miller, FHWA Traffic Microsimulation Guidelines in the FDOT Traffic Analysis Handbook Jennifer Fortunas, P.E., FDOT and Victor Muchuruza, PhD, P.E., PTOE, CDM Smith Traffic Signal Timing for Agencies John Albeck Break

3 Tuesday, October 7 Continued Block 3: 3:15-4:30pm 4:30-5:00pm 5:30-10:00pm Presentations by PTV Group Real Time PTV Products by Luca Paone PTV Group PTV Product Management Panel with Q&A Discussion Social Event at Downtown Disney, including dinner at Fulton s Crab House on Pleasure Island and Cirque du Soleil s La Nouba show Wednesday, October 8 Program subject to change. 7:30-8:30am Breakfast Block 4 8:30-9:00am Integration of VISSIM and VISUM I-4 Beyond Ultimate Experience Hari Salkapuram, P.E. and Jessica Kessinger, P.E., HDR, Inc. Impact of Random Number Seed on Intersection Performance: Investigation and Alternative Methods Zeeshan Abdy, Ph.D., P.Eng, City of Calgary, CAN 9:00-9:30am An Integrated Approach for Express Toll Lane Modeling in Florida Andrew Velasquez, P.E., PTOE, URS Corp. Modeling FHWA's Connected Vehicle Speed Harmonization Prototype in Vissim Kevin Chen, P.E., Kittelson & Associates 9:30-10:00am 10:00-10:30AM 10:30-11:00am Block 5A Cross-County Multi-Modal Vissim Analysis Vivek Hariharan, P.E., PTOE, STV, Inc. Evaluation of the Impacts of Light Rail Transit Predictive Priority on Multimodal Operations in Salt Lake City Downtown Marija Ostojic, Florida Atlantic University Break Block 5B Microsimulation Model Calibration Using High Resolution Detector Data Nithin Agarwal, Ph.D., Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky VISSIM Trajectory Data - And Why You Should Use It! Bastian Schroeder, Ph.D., P.E., Institute for Transportation Research & Education, North Carolina State University

4 Wednesday, October 8 Program subject to change. 11:00-11:30am Block 6A Multi-Resolution Modeling: Case Study - Development of an Interchange Modification Report for Fairfax County, Virginia David Kline, Fairfax County DOT and Luc Senh, Parsons Brinckerhoff Block 6B Optimization and Modeling of Corridor Operations in the Vicinity of a Diverging Diamond Interchange Using Vistro & Vissim Shannon Warchol, E.I., Institute for Transportation Research and Education, North Carolina State University 11:30-12:00am Using the Flexibility of Dynamic Assignment in Vissim to Model the Changing Assumptions of Traffic Generated by a Proposed Theme Park Anne Warnick, P.E., Parsons Brinckerhoff Determining Optimal Traffic Signal Location Using Vissim Dhruva Lahon, P.E., PTOE, Kimley-Horn 12:00-1:00pm 1:00-1:30pm Lunch Block 7A Pembina- Emerson Border Crossing Microsimulation Kshitij Sharma, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, North Dakota State University Block 7B Keeping City Traffic Engineers Happy While Designing a Streetcar Adam Lynch, P.E., HDR, Inc. 1:30-2:00pm A Microscopic Traffic Simulation for Congested Freeway Operation: I-290 Traffic Study Minchul Park, P.E., PTOE, Parsons Brinckerhoff Southwest Light Rail Transit Vissim Modeling Jiaxin Tong, P.E., Kimley-Horn and Associates 2:00-2:30pm 2:30-3:00 Break I-270 North Corridor Study in St. Louis, MO Joe Blasi, P.E., PTOE and Jared Miller, HNTB Corporation Modeling a Cable Transit System and Passenger Station with PTV Vissim Alejandro Saniger, PTV América Latina

5 Wednesday, October 8 Continued Block 8: Best Abstracts 3:00-3:30pm Case Studies in Concept Development using VISSIM Smith Siromaskul, P.E., P. Eng, HDR, Inc 3:30-4:00pm Mesoscopic Modeling Approach for Performance Based Planning Kofi Wakhisi, Esq., AICP, Atlanta Regional Commission and Reza Taromi, Ph.D., P.E., PTOE, ARCADIS 4:00-4:30pm A Multi-Resolution Modeling Approach for Supporting Bus Rapid Transit Design Randy Johnson, P.E. PTOE and Sai Sirandas, E.I.T, DKS Associates 4:30pm Closing Remarks

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