Gordon Garry, Director of Research & Analysis, Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG)
Gordon Garry has been with the Sacramento Area Council of Governments since 1990, developing and managing an increasing array of data and forecasting programs to support the agency's transportation, air quality, land use planning, and more recently, climate change efforts. He is responsible for modeling projections and analyses in these areas that meet local, state, and federal planning requirements. In addition to his work at SACOG, Mr. Garry currently serves as a Research Associate for the Urban Land Use and Transportation Center at the University of California, Davis. Prior to joining SACOG he worked for the city of Santa Rosa, California; SRF Consulting in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and the South Dakota Department of Transportation. Mr. Garry received his B.S. in Economics at South Dakota State University and his Masters in City and Regional Planning from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
David Kurth, P.E., Principal, Cambridge Systematics, Inc. (CS)
David Kurth is a Principal of Cambridge Systematics with more than 30 years of experience in travel demand model development, model application, and project management. Mr. Kurth's experience includes the development of full, four-step models for metropolitan areas; travel model validation; statewide travel modeling; development of specialized models in support of traffic and transit ridership forecasts; and application of travel demand models for the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) New Starts process, major investment studies (MIS), alternatives analyses (AA), and preliminary engineering/environmental impact statements (EIS). He also has developed and managed various types of travel surveys, including regional household, transit on-board, commercial vehicle, and vehicle intercept surveys. Mr. Kurth serves on the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Transportation Planning Applications (ADB50) and the TRB Special Committee for Travel Forecasting Resources (ADB45). He has served on peer review panels for the review of travel forecasting procedures and results for the Rocky Mountain Rail Authority (Colorado) High Speed Rail Feasibility Study, 2025 travel forecasts for the Southern California Region, and the demonstration of TRANSIMS in Portland, Oregon.
Maren Outwater, P.E., Director, Resource Systems Group, Inc. (RSG)
With 26 years of progressive experience in managing complex model development efforts, Maren Outwater has developed and enhanced models to provide practical solutions for today's transportation, growth, environmental and economic development challenges. She is skilled at translating complex technical methods into useful and practical information for decision-makers. Prior to RSG, she was the Director of Data Systems and Analysis at the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) in Seattle, Washington. She managed the development of land use, travel and air quality forecasting models in 25 states and applied these models for projects such as major investment studies (MISs), regional transportation plans (RTPs), benefit analyses, growth management plans, environmental impact studies (EISs), economic development studies and feasibility studies. Ms. Outwater participated on a Travel Model Improvement Program (TMIP) Panel to provide oversight on the peer review panel program. She participated in a series of peer review panels in recent years, for the Southern California Association of Governments, the Sacramento Council of Governments, the Columbia River Crossing (chair), the San Diego Association of Governments and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in San Francisco. In addition, she has presented work to peer review panels for the SR-520 Tolling Implementation Committee, the Southern California Association of Governments and the PSRC.
Dave Robinson, Senior Associate, Fehr & Peers
Dave Robinson has over 17 years of transportation planning experience with areas of expertise in travel demand modeling, transportation planning and operations analysis. Mr. Robinson is involved with ongoing evaluation of modeling practices and development through the firms travel forecasting Discipline Group. Mr. Robinson also teaches a course for the Institute of Transportation Studies Technology Transfer program at U.C. Berkeley entitled, "Successful Collaboration: Methods and Best Practices."
Erik Sabina, Regional Modeling Manager, Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG)
Erik Sabina is a graduate of the University of Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has more than 25 years engineering and modeling experience in both the public and private sectors. Major projects Mr. Sabina has led include: the design and successful development of DRCOG's FOCUS model, one of the early implementations of activity-based models in the United States; and the Front Range Travel Counts survey project, the first multi-jurisdiction travel survey in Colorado history, covering four MPO areas and a total of nine funding partners. Mr. Sabina has published extensively on activity-based travel model development and has been a frequent peer review panelist and invited speaker throughout the country. He is a current member of the TRB's Travel Demand Forecasting committee (ADB40.)
Elizabeth Sall, Principal Planner, San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFCTA)
Elizabeth Sall is on the team who develops and uses the SF-CHAMP regional travel demand model at San Francisco County Transportation Authority. Previously, Elizabeth was a consultant with Cambridge Systematics in both the DC Metro Area and in the Bay Area. She holds a BS and MS in civil engineering from North Carolina State University and University of Texas at Austin, respectively.
