Year: 2014

RSG Senior Director, Peter Plumeau, will present “Complete Streets and Goods Movement: Options and Considerations” at an FHWA “Talking Freight” webinar on May 21st. Peter's talk will examine how complete streets approaches and projects have addressed goods movement needs and whether there are opportunities for more fully integrating these needs into complete streets.

The concept of “complete streets” is becoming an important part of planning and design in urban and community planning across the country. Projects to design and re-engineer our streets to accommodate all users in a more safe and equitable manner have been pursued in large and small cities, with tangible benefits for pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, and community quality of life in many locations. However, it is uncommon to find goods movement mobility highlighted as a consideration in complete streets planning and implementation.

RSG Senior Director, Peter Plumeau, will present “Complete Streets and Goods Movement: Options and Considerations” at an FHWA “Talking Freight” webinar on May 21st. Peter's talk will examine how complete streets approaches and projects have addressed goods movement needs and whether there are opportunities for more fully integrating these needs into complete streets.

The concept of “complete streets” is becoming an important part of planning and design in urban and community planning across the country. Projects to design and re-engineer our streets to accommodate all users in a more safe and equitable manner have been pursued in large and small cities, with tangible benefits for pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, and community quality of life in many locations. However, it is uncommon to find goods movement mobility highlighted as a consideration in complete streets planning and implementation.

RSG Senior Director, Nelson Whipple, will be attending The Future of Consumer Intelligence conference in Universal City. The conference is titled “The Convergence of Technology, Social & Marketing Sciences, and the Humanization of Data”. Focused on the future consumer and the future researcher, the conference has three tracks: The Convergence of Insights and Intelligence, Big Data & Analytics, and Strategy & Action Planning.

RSG Senior Consultant, Steve Gayle, will present “Implementing Performance-based Planning and Programming as MAP-21 Rolls Out” at the ITE Northeastern District Meeting. MAP-21, the federal surface transportation law passed in 2012, requires states and MPOs to measure outcomes of federal transportation investments. Steve’s presentation will cover the performance measurement of seven national goals which will be used to measure these investment outcomes.

RSG Senior Consultant, Vince Bernardin, will present “Tennessee Statewide Travel Demand Model Update” at the Tennessee Annual MPO Conference on May 15th. The presentation will provide a summary of the on-going work that RSG and RPM Transportation Consultants are doing to update TDOT’s statewide travel model. The presentation is a piece of the Long Range Plan update including major project planning and TDOT’s on-going planning efforts.

RSG Senior Director, Ken Kaliski, will present at Windpower 2014 – The American Wind Energy Association annual conference on May 6th in Las Vegas. The presentation titled “The Massachusetts Research Study on Wind Turbine Acoustics – Methods and Goals” will outline the methodologies and preliminary results of a study that RSG is working on with the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to provide a quantitative basis for testing and evaluating pre-construction and post-construction wind turbine noise.

RSG Project Planner, Grace Wu, will present, “Streetscapes… in the Snow,” at the American Planning Association (APA) National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Grace’s presentation will highlight the specific challenges of transportation planning in New England – the snow, the plows, and all that salt. She will cover lessons learned after two years of working, walking, biking, and driving throughout New Hampshire and Vermont in all types of weather.

RSG consultants will lead eight sessions at the 5th TRB Innovations in Travel Modeling Conference taking place in Baltimore, MD from April 27 to April 30th. The conference will allow researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and experiences on the latest developments in travel modeling and identify research and implementation challenges and issues associated with deploying cutting-edge computational methods. The conference will also review advances made possible by the integration of social, land-use, transportation supply, and technology into the modeling process. RSG is a patron sponsor of the conference.

RSG Senior Director, Nelson Whipple, will speak at the University of Washington’s Bothell campus on April 23rd. He will be presenting trade-off methodologies to business students in the New Product Marketing course.

RSG Senior Consultant, Steve Gayle, will be teaching “Traffic Incident Management for Responders, Train-the-Trainer” course on April 9th in Binghamton, NY. This national curriculum was developed under SHRP2 (Strategic Highway Research Program) and is designed to provide unified training for all traffic incident responders – law enforcement, fire, EMS, DOT, and towing/recovery. The goal is to improve on-scene operations to achieve quick clearance and responder safety.

Steve was on the SHRP2 oversight committee for the course development, and is now certified by New York State DOT and New York State Police as a trainer.

RSG Senior Director, Robert Chamberlin, will present, “Pedestrian Design,” as a guest lecturer to engineering students at the University of Vermont (UVM). The presentation will draw on local and national pedestrian design projects completed by RSG and give students greater insight into holistic design approaches. A particular focus will be the application of pedestrian capacity models implemented through New York City’s City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR) procedures.

Two RSG presentations have been accepted for the upcoming Vermont Walk/Bike Summit in Burlington, Vermont. RSG Director David Saladino will present, “Enhancing Safety and Mobility for Bicyclists, Pedestrians, and Motorists: The Pearl/Prospect/Colchester Avenue Intersection Pilot Improvements,” and RSG Consultants Ben Swanson and Corey Mack will lead, “Measuring the Effectiveness of a Road Diet – Before & After Implementation.” Both presentations highlight RSG’s holistic approach to engineering design and commitment to improving roadway safety.