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

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

2014 PTV Vision Traffic User Group Meeting Preliminary Schedule Monday, October 6 10:00am- 10:00pm Epcot day including UGM Welcome Dinner & Fireworks show Shuttle departs venue hotel for Epcot at 10am, Noon, 2pm and 4pm Dinner at 6pm in Future World & Fireworks at 9pm Return shuttle back to hotel leaving Epcot at 9:30pm 7:30-8:30am Tuesday, October 7 Registration and fast Block 1: Presentations by PTV Group 8:30-8:45am Welcome Remarks 8:45-10:00am 10:00-10:15am 10:15-11:30am 11:30-12:15pm 12:15-1:15pm 1:15-3:00pm 3:00-3:15pm 3:15-4:30pm 4:30-5:00pm 5:30-10:00pm New Developments in PTV Vissim & PTV Viswalk New Developments in PTV Visum New Developments in PTV Vistro Lunch Technical Sessions Instructed by PTV Group PTV Vissim PTV Visum PTV Vistro PTV Viswalk Presentations by PTV Group Real Time PTV Products 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

2014 PTV Vision Traffic User Group Meeting Preliminary Schedule Wednesday, October 8 7:30-8:30am 8:30-9:00am 9:00-9:30am fast Block 4 Integration of VISSIM and VISUM I-4 Beyond Ultimate Experience Hari Salkapuram, P.E. and Jessica Kessinger, P.E., HDR, Inc. An Integrated Approach for Express Toll Lane Modeling in Florida Andrew Velasquez, P.E., PTOE, URS Corporation 9:30-10:00am 10:00-10:30am 10:30-10:45am 10:45-11:15am Block 5A A Microscopic Traffic Simulation for Congested Freeway Operation: I-290 Traffic Study Minchul Park, P.E., PTOE, Parsons Brinckerhoff I-270 North Corridor Study in St. Louis, MO Joe Blasi, P.E., PTOE and Jared Miller, HNTB Corporation Block 6A Traffic Simulator-based Surrogate Safety Measure for Red-light Running Jason So, Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University 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 Block 6B Keeping City Traffic Engineers Happy While Designing a Streetcar Adam Lynch, P.E., HDR, Inc. 11:15-11:45am 11:45-12:45pm Modeling FHWA's Connected Vehicle Speed Harmonization Prototype in Vissim Anxi Jia, Ph.D., Kittelson & Associates Lunch Determining Optimal Traffic Signal Location Using Vissim Dhruva Lahon, P.E., PTOE, Kimley-Horn

Wednesday, October 8 Block 7A Block 7B 12:45-1:15am Multi-Resolution Modeling: Case Study - Development of an Interchange Modification Report for Fairfax County, Virginia David Kline, Fairfax County DOT Evaluation of the Impacts of Light Rail Transit Predictive Priority on Multimodal Operations in Salt Lake City Downtown Marija Ostojic, Florida Atlantic University 1:15-1:45pm To Meter, or Not to Meter, That is the Question (for Philly): A Two Tiered Approach in Assessing the Applicability of Ramp Metering for Southeast Pennsylvania's Major Interstates Kavita Boddu, P.E., CH2M Hill Impact of Random Number Seed on Intersection Performance: Investigation and Alternative Methods Zeeshan Abdy, Ph.D., P.Eng., City of Calgary, Canada Block 8A Block 8B 1:45-2:15pm 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 Cross-County Multi-Modal Vissim Analysis Vivek Hariharan, P.E., PTOE, STV, Inc. 2:15-2:45pm Meta-Heuristic Optimization of Diverging Diamond Interchange Signal Timing in Vissim Environment George Lu, Ph.D., Institute for Transportation Research and Education, North Carolina State University Southwest Light Rail Transit Vissim Modeling Jiaxin Tong, P.E., Kimley-Horn and Associates 2:45-3:00pm

Wednesday, October 8 Block 9A Block 9B 3:00-3:30pm Pembina- Emerson Border Crossing Microsimulation Kshitij Sharma, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, North Dakota State University The Use of Microsimulation Models in the Planning of Open Cast Mining "Buenavista del Cobre" Sandra Paolo Montes Soriano, Cal y Major y Asociados 3:30-4:00pm 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 Modeling a Cable Transit System and Passenger Station with PTV Vissim Alejandro Saniger, PTV América Latina Block 10: Best Abstracts 4:00-4:30pm Mesoscopic Modeling Approach for Performance Based Planning Kofi Wakhisi, Esq., AICP, Atlanta Regional Commission 4:30-5:00pm A Multi-Resolution Modeling Approach for Supporting Bus Rapid Transit Design Randy Johnson, P.E. PTOE and Sai Sirandas, P.E., DKS Associates 5:00pm Closing Remarks

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