Events

02.01.2016 - 02.05.2016

2016 Energy, Utility, & Environment Conference (EUEC2016)

RSG Co-Founder Colin High and RSG Director Eddie Duncan to present this week at the Energy, Utility, & Environment Conference (EUEC2016) in San Diego, CA. Colin’s presentation is on protocol revisions concerning electric power generation and GHG measurement. Eddie’s, on the other hand, will discuss how to understand noise complaints from low-noise utility projects. The EUEC is touted as the largest conference of its kind on these subjects, facilitating information exchange and fostering cooperation between industry, government, and regulatory stakeholders for the protection of our environment and energy security.

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01.25.2016 - 01.29.2016

2016 ITE Utah Conference

RSG’s Stephen Lawe presented this afternoon at the 2016 Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Utah Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. His presentation “Risk: Traffic Forecasting” discussed how to understand and manage uncertainty in the future forecasting process when using models to support policy decisions.

ITE is comprised of local transportation engineers, planners, and other professionals responsible for the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of Utah’s transportation system.

01.11.2016 - 01.13.2016

Transportation Research Board (95th) Annual Meeting

RSG is honored to sponsor and contribute to the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting in DC this week. We look forward to leading 19 presentations in addition to moderating several committee meetings.

The TRB Annual Meeting program covers all transportation modes, with sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to all attendees—policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. The information-packed program is expected to attract 12,000 transportation professionals from around the world to Washington, DC.

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11.02.2015 - 11.04.2015

TMRE: The Market Research Event

RSG is a sponsor and exhibitor at TMRE: The Market Research Event taking place in Orlando, FL. The conference aims to connect the best insights from around the world and to demonstrate the business value of research. RSG's Dan Weinstein will present on Wednesday. His talk is titled, “Choice Modeling for Business Action: Driving Incremental Revenue through Advanced Analytics”.

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11.02.2015 - 11.04.2015

TMRE: The Market Research Event

RSG is a sponsor and exhibitor at TMRE: The Market Research Event taking place in Orlando, FL. The conference aims to connect the best insights from around the world and to demonstrate the business value of research. RSG's Dan Weinstein will present on Wednesday. His talk is titled, “Choice Modeling for Business Action: Driving Incremental Revenue through Advanced Analytics”.test

10.23.2015

2015 International Urban Freight (I-NUF) Conference

RSG Senior Director Peter Plumeau will be presenting at the 2015 International Urban Freight Conference in Long Beach, CA this week. His presentation is titled, “Urban Design: Making Freight and Logistics Work within the Urban Setting” and he will also be moderating the panel, “The Imperative for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability–Impacts on the Freight System.”

RSG Senior Consultant Erica Wygonik is co-author on a presentation at the event as well, presented by Nathan Mayes and titled, “Modeling Vehicle Miles Traveled and Emissions Considerations for Goods Delivery Scenario Decisions.”

I-NUF is recognized as the premier venue for urban freight research. It draws participants from around the world including the research community, private sector, and the government.

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10.15.2015

2015 Indiana MPO Conference

RSG’s Vince Bernardin, Steve Tuttle, and Steven Trevino are attending the 2015 Indiana MPO Conference in Muncie, Indiana from October 13-15. The conference is titled “Creating Healthy Communities: Redefining Transportation for the 21st Century.” This year’s topics will focus on how Indiana metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) can help redefine transportation to create and support healthier, active communities. RSG is a bronze sponsor of the event.

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10.09.2015 - 10.09.2015

Renewable Energy 2015 (RE2015) Conference

RSG Senior Director, Ken Kaliski, to present this afternoon at the Renewable Energy (RE2015) conference in Burlington, Vermont. His presentation, titled “A Sound Experience of Wind Energy in Vermont,” discusses the history of wind turbine sound in Vermont, including project conditions, sound monitoring results, noise complaints, and future expectations.

RE2015 is the leading event for the renewable energy sectors in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Northern New York. The conference brings together key players in the clean energy sector and highlights current energy challenges, Vermont’s leadership role in the energy industry, and the steps needed to implement an integrated energy infrastructure. RSG was a contributing sponsor of the event.

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10.07.2015

National Academy of Engineering Workshop – Engineering a Quieter America: Progress on Consumer and Industrial Product Noise Reduction

RSG Senior Consultant Karl Washburn was invited to present a paper titled, “Engineering Quieter Off-Road Machines” as part of the two-day workshop, “Engineering a Quieter America: Progress on Consumer and Industrial Product Noise Reduction.” The workshop was held in Washington, DC on October 6th and 7th and was sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

This was the third workshop in a series following NAE’s publication of “Technology for a Quieter America” in 2010. The NAE, which advises Congress and the Administration on policy regarding engineering, will publish the workshop transcript in 2016.

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09.30.2015

Air Quality Modeling and Public Health Workshop

RSG Director John Hinckley to present today at the Air Quality Modeling and Public Health Workshop in Albany, NY.

His presentation will discuss the air quality permitting work performed for a new Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant at SUNY ESF in Syracuse, NY. It will focus on how air dispersion modeling of CHP emissions was used to help design the project by identifying the stack height and emission controls needed to meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).

08.12.2015

44th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (Inter-Noise 2015)

RSG Sr. Director Ken Kaliski and Sr. Consultant Karl Washburn have been in San Francisco this week attending Inter-Noise 2015, the 44th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering. The conference, known as the largest noise conference in the world, is sponsored by the International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE).

On Tuesday, Ken co-chaired the “Renewable Energy Noise Control Technologies” session. Today, he gave a presentation titled “Field Evaluation of Reflected Noise from a Single Noise Barrier.”

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07.23.2015

14th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research

RSG Directors Greg Spitz, Mark Bradley, and Stephane Hess along with RSG Vice President Maren Outwater are presenting this week at the 14th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research in Windsor, UK.

The conference, chaired by Stephane, is focusing this year on “transitions in a digital world”—how technology is changing both the ways we travel and measure travel. RSG is a key sponsor of the event.

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06.24.2015

New York State Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (NYSAMPO) 2015 Annual Conference

Three RSGers to present this week at the New York State Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (NYSAMPO) 2015 Annual Conference in Syracuse, NY.

Eric Talbot will present “The Ohio DOT Infrastructure Resiliency Plan” on work RSG is conducting for the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) to provide adaptation responses to climate change effects. Colin Smith will present “’Big Data’ in Transportation Planning: User Perspectives, Challenges, and Successes,” which will review the state of the practice in transportation planning and travel modeling with respect to using “big data” sources of travel data to inform planning decisions. Steven Gayle will moderate several sessions and will present “Resiliency Planning” on how states and MPOs are planning for more resilient transportation networks in the face of more frequent extreme weather events.

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06.17.2015

2015 USDOT Transportation Datapalooza

RSG Director, Colin Smith, to present at the 2015 Transportation Datapalooza in Washington, DC from June 16-17. The event—sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)—is to focus on sharing a broad spectrum of data collection, applications, and analytical techniques spanning all transportation modes and highlighting innovations in harnessing the power of big data to develop safe and efficient multimodal transportation systems. test

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2015 USDOT Transportation Datapalooza

RSG Director, Colin Smith, to present at the 2015 Transportation Datapalooza in Washington, DC from June 16-17. The event—sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)—is to focus on sharing a broad spectrum of data collection, applications, and analytical techniques spanning all transportation modes and highlighting innovations in harnessing the power of big data to develop safe and efficient multimodal transportation systems.