RSG consultants will lead 21 presentations at the 15th TRB National Transportation Planning Applications Conference from May 17-21 in Atlantic City NJ. RSG is also a sponsor of the event.
The conference brings together over 400 transportation planners, specialists, and decision makers from public and private sectors to discuss practical applications related to transportation planning.
RSG Consultant, Kordel Braley, to present at the ITE Intermountain Section Meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming from May 15-16. His presentation will be on the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) Traffic Studies Program. As Vice President of the ITE Utah Chapter, he will also present the annual ITE Utah Chapter Report on Friday.
RSG’s Puget Sound Regional Travel Study was featured yesterday on the front page of The Seattle Times. The study surveyed more than 6,000 households in the Seattle metro area to help planners understand more about how and why people travel around the region. The article focuses on how lifestyle trumps affordability for most living in central Seattle.
RSG’s Steve Gayle and David Grover will be presenting at the ITE Northeastern District Annual Meeting in Albany, NY. David’s presentation is titled “Technical and Outreach Innovations in the VT State Highway On-Road Bicycle Facilities Plan.” Steve will be participating in four sessions: “Resiliency Planning” (as presenter), “The Transportation Revolution: How It’s Changing Everything” (as roundtable panelist), “Collegiate Traffic Bowl” (as moderator), and Traffic Incident Management Workshop (as co-teacher). RSG is a proud sponsor of the conference. RSG is a proud sponsor of the conference.
RSG is working with the Vermont Agency of Transportation to develop an On-Road Bicycle Plan in support of enhancing on-road bicycle improvements on the State highways. The deadline for public input is May 15th and both Vermont Public Radio and Burlington’s WCAX News shared the story. RSG and VTrans are collecting public input on where people ride now and routes people would like to ride if they were safer. This input will help to inform where to focus limited resources towards bicycle improvements and allow better integration into Agency projects.
RSG consultants will lead six presentations at the 2015 International Choice Modelling Conference in Austin, TX from May 10-13. RSG is organizing and sponsoring the conference jointly with the Center for Transportation Research (CTR) at The University of Texas at Austin.
The event will bring together leading researchers and practitioners from across different areas of study, with presentations looking both at state-of-the-art methodology as well as innovative real world applications of choice models.
RSG is working with the South Carolina Department of Transportation to determine drivers’ willingness to pay for travel time savings for a new stretch of Interstate 73 in South Carolina. The survey is currently in field and the project was recently featured by NBC’s WMBF news program. Check it out.
RSG Senior Consultant, Steve Gayle, appointed to the NCHRP Project Panel: Project 20-102(01), Identification of State and Local Policy and Planning Actions that Could Facilitate Implementation of Connected Vehicle and Autonomous Vehicle Systems.
Steve will join a diverse group of experts who will develop the scope of work and review the ongoing research over the next year, ultimately approving the final product of this project. As the title suggests, this is one of a series of projects that will assist state and local governments in understanding more about the coming reality of autonomous (self-driving) vehicles.