RSG Upcoming Events

May. 21 - 22, 2012 : Choice-based Revenue Management in the Air Travel Industry

Mon, 07 May 2012 17:03:55 -0400

“The University Transportation Center (UTC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in collaboration with AGIFORS will be hosting a workshop focused on integrating discrete choice and other models ground in behavioral theory with revenue management applications. The goal of the workshop, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, is to bring together experts from discrete choice modeling and revenue management, present current research efforts in this area, and determine future research opportunities. The workshop will focus on identifying future research opportunities, exploring collaborations with industry experts and software vendors to obtain data needed to successfully implement choice-based revenue management models, and gaining perspectives from editorial board members of top discrete choice modeling and operations research journals on ways to best position papers for journals from this highly inter-disciplinary topic.”

May. 22 - 23, 2012 : AASHTO Standing Committee on Planning (SCOP) Meeting

Tue, 15 May 2012 15:42:35 -0400

"The Standing Committee on Planning is having their 2012 meeting on May 22 and 23, 2012 in Denver, CO in conjunction with the TRB on Making Progress: Transportation Planning and Programmers Turn Ideas into Reality.

AASHTO's Standing Committee on Planning (SCOP) investigates, studies, and reports on transportation planning activities. Comprehensive transportation planning is conducted by the State Departments of Transportation for a variety of policy, programming, and project level activities, including:

Legislative requests for transportation system performance
Urban and statewide transportation systems
Corridor and site planning for individual facilities."

May. 23 - 25, 2012 : Making Progress: Transportation Planners and Programmers Turn Ideas into Reality

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:11:41 -0400

"The conference will dive into the steps transportation planners and programmers take to turn ideas into reality--from setting long-range visions and plan development to investment decisions and project delivery--and showcase key tools and strategies along the way. Focus areas will include stakeholder outreach, partnerships and collaboration, scenario planning, effective communication, performance measurement, and investment prioritization.

The outcome of this conference will be strengthened connections between transportation planners and programmers, the public and transportation professionals, and researchers and practitioners. These connections will be explored for their importance in achieving strategic goals in the areas of mobility, preservation, livability, environment, economic competitiveness, and safety."

May. 23, 2012 : Household Travel Behavior Impacts of an HOV-to-HOT Conversion: Evidence from a before-and-after diary survey in Atlanta’s Interstate 85 Corridor

Mon, 07 May 2012 15:59:18 -0400

For more information about the 14^th International Managed Lanes Conference and a full list of sessions offered please review the preliminary program.

May. 25, 2012 : Beyond the Basics of Transportation Planning: Development of Best Practices for Conducting a Mobile Air Quality Analysis Using MOVES

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:34:15 -0400

Presentation on the most accurate analytical approaches for analyzing mobile emissions using EPA’s latest emissions model, MOVES.

May. 31, 2012 : Economic Impacts of Walking and Bicycling in Vermont

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:06:43 -0400

The study being presented is meant to be a one year “snapshot” of the total economic and environmental benefit - including direct, secondary and spin-off benefits – of bicycle and pedestrian facilities and activities, including tourism, environmental, improved air quality and reduced green house gas emissions, real estate values, health, reduction in demand on the transportation systems, and other economic benefits.

Jun. 1, 2012 : Tour-based and Supply Chain Modeling for Freight

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:55:31 -0400

Jun. 4, 2012 : FHWA Multimodal Inter-regional Passenger Travel Origin Destination Data Project: Developing 2040 Air and Rail County to County Origin Destination Trip Tables

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:41:22 -0400

The FHWA Multimodal Inter-regional Passenger Travel Origin Destination Data Project is developing 2008 and 2040 County to County OD trip tables for auto, bus, air and rail. This presentations focuses on the development of 2040 trip tables for air and rail. A general approach for developing the 2040 air and trip tables has been identified: the concept is to grow the 2008 trips tables developed earlier in this project using a set of assumptions around future air travel, and population and employment growth in the catchment areas around airports. This presentation describes these assumptions, with reference to forecasts of aviation activity at a national level and by airport, and also discusses preliminary results. The presentation forms part of a meeting covering two FHWA projects that are part of the Travel Analysis Framework.

Jun. 20, 2012 : TRB Committee on Transportation Needs of National Parks and Public Lands

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:41:45 -0400

"The Committee on Transportation Needs for National Parks and Public Lands was established by the Transportation Research Board to serve as a national forum for transportation issues and public use as they relate to the management and conservation of the natural, cultural and scenic values of the national parks and other federal public lands."

"The Committee is concerned with the role of transportation in providing access to and mobility within national parks and other public lands. The committee is focusing on federal lands initially but could address other public lands if the committee identifies critical transportation issues on other public lands that should be addressed. The Committee provides a forum for representatives from transportation and land management agencies, tourism groups, universities, consulting groups, and public officials to share experiences regarding access, circulation, and way finding issues of travelers and uses in national parks and on public lands. The Committee provides a forum for identification of research needs and requirements regarding recreation travel and tourism."

Jun. 25, 2012 : Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Estimations, and Reduction Strategies: Development of Best Practices for Conducting a Mobile Air Quality Analysis Using MOVES

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:41:40 -0400

There is currently a significant amount of research into Greenhouse Gas analysis at the state and regional level. The GHG analysis tools range in sophistication and, as yet, no uniform standards for conducting a GHG mitigation analysis exist. To assist state agencies in analyzing greenhouse gas reduction strategies, FHWA has developed the Energy and Emissions Reduction Policy Analysis Tool (the Tool). The Tool is based on GreenSTEP, developed by the Oregon DOT, and can be used to develop state climate action plans and measure the GHG reduction potential of a host of transportation/land use strategies. The Tool allows agencies to quickly assess policy interactions in hundreds of scenarios.