Justin Hatch, P.E., Assistant State Traffic Engineer Georgia Department of Transportation
Ron Knezevich, EIT, State Safety Engineering Supervisor Georgia Department of Transportation
Rick Ayers, Public Sector Advocate, Center for Advanced Transportation Technology (CATT) Laboratory University of Maryland
Matt Glasser, National Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) Account Lead Arcadis
Data is critical to making informed decisions, evaluating the success of safety, operations, asset, and infrastructure investments, and developing effective and efficient strategies to ultimately improve the quality of life of Georgia citizens. Recognizing this need, GDOT has made extensive investments in data acquisition and access to a wide range of data and data products. These investments include state-wide mobility data for safety; vehicle speeds, flows, and volumes; traffic signal phasing and timing; traffic incident and congestion; and other data streams including connected vehicles probe data. GDOT has also invested in innovative platforms for the distribution, representation and analytics of these mobility data sources. Most importantly, GDOT has made these data available to the wider transportation community, including other state and local agencies, consultants, and the research community. This panel will present many of these new data sources and platforms, discuss use cases and access, and highlight future directions in mobility data investments.
The Georgia Department of Transportation and the Georgia Transportation Institute will host the third annual Transportation Research Expo on Tuesday, September 22, 2015.
The event will be held at GDOT headquarters, One Georgia Center, at 600 West Peachtree Street NW in Atlanta. All transportation researchers at GTI’s member universities, including the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Kennesaw State University, Mercer University, and Albany State University are invited to display their active and recently-completed research projects sponsored by GDOT.
Please RSVP no later than Tuesday, September 10 if you plan to display your work. RSVPs can be sent to GTI@ce.gatech.edu.
Please be sure to include your project title, RP #, and an abstract. Posters should be limited to 3.5′ x 4′, and easels will be provided. Researchers may bring one or two students per poster.
To view a poster gallery of all posters from the 2013 and 2014 poster session, click here.
Date and time:
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 – 11:00
Location of Event:
One Georgia Center, 600 West Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30308, Rooms 402-404
You are cordially invited to the NCTSPM Reception at the 94th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C., on January 13th.
The Georgia Department of Transportation and the Georgia Transportation Institute will host a transportation research poster session on Tuesday, September 23, 2014.
All researchers in the Georgia Transportation Institute (Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Southern University, Southern Polytechnic State University, Mercer University, and Albany State University) are invited to display active and recently completed GDOT-sponsored research projects.
Please RSVP no later than Tuesday, September 10 if you plan to display your work. RSVPs can be sent to audrey.leous@coa.gatech.edu.
Please be sure to include your project title, RP #, and an abstract. Posters should b elimited to 3.5′ x 4′, and easels will be provided. Researchers may bring one or two students per poster.
Pictures from the 2013 Poster Session
Date and time:
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 – 11:00 to 13:00
Location of Event:
One Georgia Center (600 West Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30308), Rooms 402-404
The Georgia Department of Transportation and the Georgia Transportation Institute jointly hosted a transportation research poster session. All researchers in the Georgia Transportation Institute (at the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Southern University, Southern Polytechnic State University, Mercer University, and Albany State University) were to are invited to displaying active and recently completed GDOT-sponsored research projects. This poster session provided an opportunity for GDOT employees and administration to see the multitude of excellent projects that are underway and the scope of resources available at our universities.
Click here for a downloadable list of all the posters and their authors.
Date and time:
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 – 11:00 to 13:00
Location of Event:
Rooms 402-404, One Georgia Center (600 West Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30308)
University Transportation Centers (UTC) Conference for the Southeastern Region was the first event of its kind, aiming to bring together faculty, students, practitioners, and public agencies in the Southeast, disseminate information about ongoing activities at all partner universities, and further enhance collaboration among the academic community as well as the private and public sector agencies in the region. Faculty, staff and graduate students, as well as federal and state agency representatives, MPOs, transit managers, and consultants in the region and around the country were invited to attend and participate in this conference which we hope will evolve into an annual event.
Presentations:
Dr. Yang Wang –Next-Generation Wireless Bridge Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) System Incorporated with Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Capability for Transportation Infrastructure Safety
Dr. Amr Oloufa – Automated Capture of Freight Origin/Destination Data using License Plate Readers
Dr. Nasim Uddin – Impact of Doubling Heavy Vehicles on Bridges
Xia Jin, Albert Gan, and Md Sakoat Hossan – Traffic Management Centers: Challenges, Best Practices, and Future Plan
Vivek Ghosal and Frank Southworth – Location of Automobile Manufacturing Plants, Development of Supply-Chains, and the Effects on Economic Development and Demand for Transportation
Catherine L. Ross, David Jung-Hwi Lee, Subhrajit Guhathakurta, and Sarah M. Smith – Georgia SPLOST Database and Clearinghouse for Transportation Finance
Virginia Sisiopiku, Albert Gan, Andrew Sullivan, and Despina Stavrinos – Impacts of Digital Advertising Billboards on Traffic Safety
Berrin Tansel, Xia Jin, and Adjo Amekudzi – Reducing Service Interruption in Linear Infrastructure Systems by Synchronizing Schedules for Selected Maintenance Activities
Arindam Gan Chowdhury – Full-Scale Wall of Wind Testing of Variable Message Signs (VMS) Structures to Develop Drag Coefficient for AASHTO Supports Specifications
Kia Mostaan – Opportunities and Challenges for Expediting Delivery of Transportation Design Build Projects
Mohammad Ilbeigi – Development of Risk Management Strategies for State DOTs to Effectively Deal with Volatile Prices of Transportation Construction Materials
Candace Brakewood – An Experiment Evaluating the Impacts of Real-Time Transit Information on Bus Riders in Tampa, Florida
Hyung Woong Cho – Comparative Analysis of Dynamic Pricing Strategies for Managed Lanes
Kathryn Colberg – Real-Time Work Zone Travel Time
Aaron Greenwood – Effect of Roadside Environment on Diverge Identification in Work Zones
Daniel Hester and Aref Motamedi Lamouki – Digital Advertising Billboards and Driver Distraction
Amy Ingles and Stephanie Brodie – Sustainability Evaluation of Transportation Systems and Neighborhood-Level Developments
Landon Reed – Transit Data Standards: Informing Federal Policy and ITS Requirements
Laura Schmitt – Calibration of the HCM 2010 Single-lane Roundabout Capacity Equations for Georgia Conditions
James Wong – Are TMC’s Ready to Buy Traffic Data? A Survey of TMC Managers on Third-Party GPS Data
The conference was organized jointly by the four UTCs located in Federal Region 4 (southeast): The Southeastern Transportation, Research Innovation, Development and Education Center (STRIDE), the National Center for Intermodal Transportation for Economic Competitiveness (NCITEC), the National Center for Transportation Systems Productivity and Management (NCTSPM), and the National Center for Transit Research (NCTR). The following universities are consortium members in one or more of those four centers: Auburn University, Florida International University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Transportation Institute, Hampton University, Louisiana State University, Mississippi State University, North Carolina State University, North Dakota State University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Central Florida, University of Denver, University of Florida, University of Illinois, University of Mississippi, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and University of South Florida.
The Georgia Department of Transportation and the Georgia Transportation Institute will host the third annual Transportation Research Expo on Tuesday, September 22, 2015.
