RSG recently received a Sustainable Design Award from the Boston Society of Architects, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The award recognizes the SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry Gateway Center in Syracuse, New York. RSG Director John Hinckley worked with Architerra to provide air quality modeling and permitting for this LEED certified building.

RSG Vice President, Maren Outwater, was recently nominated to chair a sub-committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). Sub-Committee ADB10(4) – Behavioral Processes is a part of the ADB10 Committee – Traveler Behavior and Values, and focuses on the behavioral processes governing activities and travel of individuals and households, but also firms and goods movement. The committee is open to a variety of methods of inquiry and is supportive of qualitative, quantitative and integrated approaches, particularly given emerging challenges associated with understanding and modeling decision processes over time, space and/or across individuals.

RSG Senior Consultant, Steve Gayle, will lead an ITE webinar titled “Traffic Engineering Fundamentals. Module 8: Social, Environmental, and Institutional Issues”. The webinar series is offered periodically by ITE to teach the basics of traffic engineering. This module, considered the “planning” element, covers a variety of topics that may affect the work of an engineer designing a project. These topics range from the Americans with Disabilities Act, to local land use law, to air quality conformity and climate change.

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.

The Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) recently published a report titled, “Characteristics of Premium Transit Services that Affect Choice of Mode.” RSG led the project, which seeks to improve the transit industry’s understanding of mode choice determinants, and to offer practical insights to the forecasting community so that mode choice models and transit path-builders can better represent and distinguish important mode characteristics.