Events
05.21.2014
The Future of Consumer Intelligence Conference
RSG Senior Director, Nelson Whipple, will be attending The Future of Consumer Intelligence conference in Universal City. The conference is titled āThe Convergence of Technology, Social & Marketing Sciences, and the Humanization of Dataā. 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.
ITE Northeastern District Meeting
RSG Senior Consultant, Steve Gayle, will present āImplementing Performance-based Planning and Programming as MAP-21 Rolls Outā 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. Steveās presentation will cover the performance measurement of seven national goals which will be used to measure these investment outcomes.
Tennessee Annual MPO Conference
RSG Senior Consultant, Vince Bernardin, will present āTennessee Statewide Travel Demand Model Updateā 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 TDOTās statewide travel model. The presentation is a piece of the Long Range Plan update including major project planning and TDOTās on-going planning efforts.
American Wind Energy Association Annual Conference
RSG Senior Director, Ken Kaliski, will present at Windpower 2014 ā The American Wind Energy Association annual conference on May 6th in Las Vegas. The presentation titled āThe Massachusetts Research Study on Wind Turbine Acoustics ā Methods and Goalsā 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.
APA National Conference
RSG Project Planner, Grace Wu, will present, āStreetscapesā¦ in the Snow,ā at the American Planning Association (APA) National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Graceās presentation will highlight the specific challenges of transportation planning in New England ā 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.
04.30.2014
TRBās Innovations in Travel Modeling Conference
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.
New Product Marketing at University of Washington
RSG Senior Director, Nelson Whipple, will speak at the University of Washingtonās Bothell campus on April 23rd. He will be presenting trade-off methodologies to business students in the New Product Marketing course.
Traffic Incident Management for Responders, Train-the-Trainer
RSG Senior Consultant, Steve Gayle, will be teaching āTraffic Incident Management for Responders, Train-the-Trainerā 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 ā 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 to Lead Guest Lecture at UVM
RSG Senior Director, Robert Chamberlin, will present, āPedestrian Design,ā 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 Cityās City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR) procedures.
RSG Consultants to Judge Vermont State Science & Math Fair
Four RSG staff members, Senior Director, Nelson Whipple; Senior Consultant, Jeff Dumont; and Consultants, Jeff Keller and Katlin Gnojek, will be part of the judging panel at the 2014 Vermont State Science & Math Fair (VSSMF) held at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. The VSSMF is open to all middle and high school students in the state of Vermont and project topics span all areas of science, technology, engineering, and math. For the second year RSG will award $200 to the student whose project best identifies an opportunity to apply mathematics, science, or statistics to understand human behavior. This is RSGās fifth year as a corporate sponsor of the VSSMF.
RSG to Lead Presentations at the 2014 Vermont Walk/Bike Summit
Two RSG presentations have been accepted for the upcoming Vermont Walk/Bike Summit in Burlington, Vermont. RSG Director David Saladino will present, āEnhancing Safety and Mobility for Bicyclists, Pedestrians, and Motorists: The Pearl/Prospect/Colchester Avenue Intersection Pilot Improvements,ā and RSG Consultants Ben Swanson and Corey Mack will lead, āMeasuring the Effectiveness of a Road Diet ā Before & After Implementation.ā Both presentations highlight RSGās holistic approach to engineering design and commitment to improving roadway safety.
RSG Consultants to Judge Vermont State Science & Math Fair
Four RSG staff members, Senior Director, Nelson Whipple; Senior Consultant, Jeff Dumont; and Consultants, Jeff Keller and Katlin Gnojek, will be part of the judging panel at the 2014 Vermont State Science & Math Fair (VSSMF) held at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. The VSSMF is open to all middle and high school students in the state of Vermont and project topics span all areas of science, technology, engineering, and math. For the second year RSG will award $200 to the student whose project best identifies an opportunity to apply mathematics, science, or statistics to understand human behavior. This is RSGās fifth year as a corporate sponsor of the VSSMF.
RSG Analyst Gives Guest Lecture at Concordia University
RSG Analyst, Tristan Cherry, returned to his alma mater, Concordia University in Montreal, to discuss RSGās transportation market research techniques with undergraduate and graduate students in Dr. Zack Pattersonās Analyzing Choice class. Students in Dr. Pattersonās class spend the semester designing, implementing, and reporting on the results of a stated preference survey related to an environmental or transportation issue. Tristanās presentation focused on RSGās transportation market research work and provided students with real world examples of toll and transit market research practices.
RSG Director to Present at MIT
RSG Director, Dan Weinstein, will present, āForecasting Adoption of Alternative Vehicle Powertrains Using Discrete Choice Methods,ā at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on March 19th as part of the Transportation at MIT seminar series. Danās presentation will focus on discrete choice modeling techniques and how they can be used to help automotive manufacturers and suppliers quantify the trade-offs that consumers make between vehicle attributes.
RSG Director Presents at Penn State University
RSG Director, Steve Lawson, gave a seminar to graduate students and faculty from Penn State Universityās Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management program on Friday, March 8. Steveās seminar included an overview of RSG and examples of our work with the National Park Service. The event was organized by RSG Senior Advisor, Peter Newman, who was recently named head of the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Management, and Penn State University graduate student Mike Ferguson.