Schedule updated as of 3/8/2023

Sunday, April 16

TBD

Bicycle Tour of Pittsburgh

Bike Tour

Meeting Location TBD

3:30PM

to 6:30PM

Outdoor Welcome Reception

Welcome Reception

Frankie Pace Park (“CAP Park”)

More about Sunday’s Welcome Reception

Monday, April 17

TBD

Breakfast & Opening Plenary (Session #1)

Local Leadership Panel

Featuring Representatives from:

  • PennDOT District 11-0
  • Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission
  • City of Pittsburgh DOMI
  • Pittsburgh Regional Transit

Location TBD

TBD

Concurrent Technical Sessions (Session #2)

Session 2A: Bike/Ped 1

Room TBD

Jersey City’s “Quick-Deploy”
Approach to Pedestrian and
Bicycle Improvements

Kati DiRaimondo: Stantec

Adam Catherine: Stantec

From Planning through Final
Design, VRU Safety at
Intersections

Shannon Warchol: Kittelson & Associates, Inc.

Docked Bike-Sharing Systems: a
Pittsburgh Case Study Focusing
on Bike-Share Equity

Sydney French: West Virginia University

Dimitra Pyrialakou: West Virginia University

Session 2B: Traffic Simulation

Room TBD

US 30 Reconstruction Program:
Multiple Project Applications of
VISSIM Microsimulation

Nicole Kline-Elsier: McMahon a Bowman Company

AI based Dynamic Arterial
Traffic Management, a Case
Study in VISSIM

Zelan Jia: Jacobs

Jayce Zhou: Jacobs

Shankar Nataranja: Jacobs

Session 2C: AV-NCUTCD Panel

Room TBD

Panelists for this session include:

  • Roxane Mukai, MDOT
  • Lisa Miller, TETC
  • Mark Lusczc, DelDOT
  • Gunnar Rhone, PennDOT
  • Adam Greenstein, WSP

TBD

Lunch and Keynote

Conference Lunch

Room TBD

TBD

Concurrent Technical Sessions (Session #3)

Session 3A: Traffic Signals in PA

Room TBD

Pittsburgh Traffic Signals

Mike Maloch: City of Pittsburgh

TSAMS

Maurice Lee: PennDOT

Philadelphia Signals

Patrick Callahan: City of Philadelphia

Session 3B: Traffic Safety

Room TBD

Traffic Safety in Pittsburgh

Sean Stevens:

Harrisburg Vision Zero

Percy Bullock: City of Harrisburg

Danielle Derolf: Dawood Engineering

The Evolving Role of Data for
Safety and Operations at the
Intersection

Anita Vandervalk: Iteris

Session 3C: Design

Room TBD

What’s new in the Highway
Capacity Manual, 7 th Edition?

Fabio Sasahara: McTrans Center – University of Florida

Advancing Transportation
Equity: One-Way to Two-Way
Street Conversion of a
Residential Corridor

Wayne Martin: Wallace Montgomery

Andrew Duerr: Kittelson & Associates

William Weismantel: Kittelson & Associates

TBD

Break

Afternoon Break

Room TBD

TBD

Concurrent Technical Sessions (Session #4)

Session 4A: PA Traffic Operations

Room TBD

ATSPM for Everyone

Steve Gault: PennDOT

Session 4B: Automated Vehicles

Room TBD

ARTS

Katherine Kortum: Transportation Research Board

Assessing Roadway Readiness
for the Deployment of
Automated Vehicles

Paul Avery: AECOM

What Makes a Smart City
Intelligent

Mike Maloch: City of Pittsburgh

Session 4C: Data Collection

Room TBD

Post-Pandemic Best Practices in
Traffic Data Collection

Preston W. Hitchens:

Lindsey B Klein:

DOMI Pavement Assessment
Pilot

TBD: City of Pittsburgh

What Millions of Connected
Vehicles and 25,000+ Signals
Reveal About Changing Demand
Patterns and System
Performance Across the Mid-
Colonial District

Rick Schuman: INRIX

6:00PM

Social & Traffic Bowl at Il Tetto

MCDITE Traffic Bowl

More about MCDITE’s Traffic Bowl

Tuesday, April 18

TBD

Breakfast

Women's Breakfast

Location TBD

Conference Breakfast

Location TBD

TBD

Concurrent Technical Sessions (Session #5)

Session 5A: Traffic Safety

Room TBD

Traffic Incident Management for the
Transportation Professional

Todd Liess: Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission

Multimodal Safety in Urban Areas

Dan Fritz: WRA

Greg Frisby: WRA

Clankers

Mark Lusczc: DelDOT

Session 5B: Traffic Operations

Room TBD

What You Have is Good Enough – Getting Started in
Traffic Signal Performance Measures

James Robertson: Lee Engineering

Tackling Traffic Deficiencies with Traditional &
TSMO Solutions

Lindsay Ulizio: WRA

Samuel Boso: WRA

Introduction of the Novel Concept of a Flexible
Event-Based Signal Controller

Tara Ardalan: University of Pittsburgh

Aleksandar Stevanovic: University of Pittsburgh

TBD

Break

Morning Break

Location TBD

TBD

Concurrent Technical Sessions (Session #6)

Session 6A: Bike/Ped

Room TBD

Transforming Non-Motorized Roadway Traffic
Analytics through AI-based Applications

Aloke Chaudhuri: Rekor Systems

Complete Corridors: Rethinking Bike &
Pedestrian Safety at the New Fern Hollow
Bridge

Paige Anderson: City of Pittsburgh

PennDOT District 6-0 Bike Friendly Resurfacing
Program

Fran Hanney: PennDOT

Nidhi Mehra: PennDOT

Session 6B: Project Highlights

Room TBD

Saw Mill Run Green Boulevard Master Plan

David DiGioia: McMahon, a Bowman Company

Innovative Solution to Intersection Sight Distance
Problem

Joe Fiocco: SAFE Engineering

Data Collection and Processing to Support AI
Enhanced Traffic Operation and Management

Xiaoliang (George) Zhao: BlueHalo

Mohammad Hoque: BlueHalo