Thursday, September 7th

Plenary Session 1 (9:30 – 11:15 am)

Transportation in San Antonio: Perspectives and Updates
Moderator: Larry Picasso, WSP

  • TxDOT San Antonio District Project Updates, Clayton Ripps, Texas Department of Transportation
  • Keep San Antonio Moving, Arturo Herrera, VIA Metropolitan Transit
  • City of San Antonio Infrastructure Programs Update, Razi Hosseini, City of San Antonio

Kickoff Luncheon (11:30 – 1:15 pm)
Keynote Speaker:

  • Rosana Correa, Jacobs, 2023 ITE International President

Plenary Session 2 (1:30 – 3:00 pm)

Planning for Growth in Rapidly Developing Cities

Moderator: Scott Nelson, Texas Department of Transportation

  • Prepare and Executing the Boerne Mobility Master Plan, Jeff Carroll, City of Boerne
  • Addressing Transportation Challenges in NBTX, Garry Ford, City of New Braunfels
  • Seguin Growth and Transportation, Melissa Reynolds, City of Seguin

Student Poster Session (3:00 – 3:30 pm)

Concurrent Sessions 3A and 3B (3:30 – 5:00 pm)

3A: Freight Mobility: The Key Economic Driver of Texas

Moderator: Reddy Edulakanti, HDR

  • Regional Goods Movement Plan, Sydni Ligons, Houston-Galveston Area Council
  • Houston's Regional Express Access Lanes (REAL), Catherine McCreight, Texas Department of Transportation
  • Texas Freight Plan Update, Sondra Johnson, Texas Department of Transportation

3B: Transportation Equity

Moderator: Kishore Juluru, Consor Engineers LLC

  • Why HGAC Conducts Livable Center Studies, Jose Cantu, Houston-Galveston Area Council
  • Bilingual Public Engagement Process for the Cloverleaf Livable Center Study, William Long, Poznecki-Camarillo
  • A Review of the Cloverleaf Livable Center Study, Joe Guerra Jr., Consor Engineers LLC

Friday, September 8th

Concurrent Sessions 4A and 4B (8:30 – 10:00 am)

4A: Safety/Vision Zero

Moderator: Muhammad Musa, DCS Engineering

  • Improving Safety in School Zones Through Infrastructure Inventories, Stephanie Taylor, LJA Engineering
  • History of Highway-Rail Crashes in the United States, Joseph Blaschke, Kittelson LLC
  • How to Strengthen Your Case for Funding for Your Transportation Safety Action Plan and Achieve Results, Seth Anderson, Image Sensing Systems, Inc.
  • Using Crash Data Analytics to Develop Successful Safety Grant Applications, Gary Schatz & Ruta Jariwala, TJKM

4B: Innovative Intersection Design

Moderator: Abram VanElswyk, Texas Department of Transportation

  • Designing Active Transportation at Innovative Intersections, Blair Tomten, Avenue Consultants
  • Performance-based Roundabout Planning and Design: An Overview of NCHRP Research Report 1043, Lee Rodegerdts, Kittelson & Associates, Inc.
  • Roundabouts in Fort Bend County - Bearing Fruit by Asking "Why not?", Chris Debaillon, Fort Bend County

 

Student Poster Session (10:00 – 10:30 am)

Concurrent Sessions 5A and 5B (10:30 – 12:00 pm)

5A: Designing for All Users

Moderator: Claire McKinney, Garver USA

    • Multimodal Project Development for Austin's Transit Enhancement Program, Ben Wallach, DKS Associates & Max Schwartz, City of Austin
    • Roadway Design with First Responders in Mind, Randell Smith, City of College Station
    • Planning BRT Alignments to Meet User's Needs, Michael Trueblood, WSP USA
    • Identifying Priority Bike Routes for Fort Bliss, Renee Hurtado, DKS Associates

5B: Signal Operations

Moderator: Dale Picha, Texas Department of Transportation

    • Differences and Benefits of Edge-based vs. AI-based Vehicle Detection, Staci Ingram, ITS Plus, Inc.
    • Solving Starvation of Green, David Florence, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
    • Enhanced Rest in Red for Traffic Calming, Paul Barricklow, Lee Engineering
    • Utilizing AI Object-Based Tracking Data for Signal Timing Optimization, Tyler Houston, NoTraffic