Edward (Ed) J. Bromage is the Manager of Travel Model Development for the Boston MPO and has over 37 years of transportation planning experience. He is regarded as an expert in the TransCAD software system where he has estimated/programmed numerous gravity distribution models, destination choice models, and tour based models. Ed is also proficient with the TransModeler micro-simulator software and was the modeling technical lead on the I-15 Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) project in San Diego, California.
Ed has been the project manager on countless small urban area model development/update projects, he was the technical lead to develop the 13 State Appalachian Regional Model which evaluated the economic impacts of Congressional transportation spending throughout the region, and he has been the technical lead on the transportation planning components of numerous Environmental Impact Statements. In 1989 he authored the Massachusetts State environmental guidelines for transportation site impact analysis.
Ed holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Michael (Mike) D. Conger, P.E. is currently a Senior Transportation Engineer with the Knoxville Regional TPO, which is housed within the Knoxville/Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission. He has been employed with TPO/MPC for 16 years since completing graduate school courses at the University of Tennessee. During his career Mike has spent time reviewing site plans and traffic impact studies for proposed developments in Knox County and has since transitioned into more of an emphasis on developing regional long-range transportation plans. Mike is also responsible for operating and maintaining the regional travel demand forecasting model and performing air quality modeling to ensure the Knoxville Region maintains eligibility for federal transportation funding as an air quality nonattainment area.
Mike received his BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering from U.T. Knoxville. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Tennessee and has been an active member of professional organizations including serving as President of the Tennessee Model Users Group (TNMUG) and the 2015 President of the Tennessee Section Institute of Transportation Engineers (TSITE).
Mei Z. Ingram is a senior research associate at the Triangle Regional Model Service Bureau, Institute for Transportation Research and Education, located at the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Her key role is to develop and maintain the Triangle Regional Model and provide technical support to the stakeholders and other users.
Prior to her current position, Mei worked for two years at NCDOT and eight years with the Parsons Transportation Group/Barton-Aschman. She has 20 years of experience in multimodal regional traffic demand model development and application for various urban sizes, travel behavior related survey design/analysis, air quality conformity study, regional economic development and socio-economic data forecast, and highway safety.
Mei holds an MS in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as an MA in Urban Studies from the University of Maryland at College Park and a BS in Physics from Beijing Normal University.
Kyung-Hwa Kim is the Performance Analysis and Monitoring Manager at Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), Atlanta Georgia. Prior to joining ARC 6 years ago, she worked at Metro in Portland, Oregon as a modeler for 20 years. Her 20 years at Metro covered everything from simple survey analysis to complicated activity model development and transit studies.
At ARC, Kyung-Hwa manages Air Quality, Equitable Target Area, Health Impact, Clean Air, Congestion Management Planning, Safety, Performance measures, and Project Prioritization.
Kyung-Hwa holds a Master's degree in Urban Planning from Portland State University and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Portland State University. She also studied in Korean Ethnomusicology from Seoul National University before she immigrated to United States from Korea.
Vidya Mysore is a Freight Analysis and Modeling specialist with the FHWA Resource Center Planning and Freight team. With over 24 years of experience, both in public and private sectors, he provides direct technical support and training for federal, state and local agencies on the development and applications for freight transportation short and long range plans, and project level planning, operations and management.
After joining FHWA in July 2013, Vidya led and implemented SHRP2 C20 product - Advancing local freight data and behavior-based modeling improvement. In addition, Vidya provides technical support to state DOTs and MPOs around the country on various FHWA's Freight programs such as Freight Analysis Framework (FAF), Freight Performance Measures (FPM) and Freight Modeling Improvement Program (FMIP).
Vidya also played a principal role at FDOT in the advancement of statewide project development and prioritization planning program, Strategic Intermodal Systems (SIS) performance-based policy and planning applications, travel forecasting to support development and oversight for managed/toll corridor feasibility projects, inter-regional future corridors and freight planning projects, for the state of Florida.
Vidya holds an MS in transportation engineering from the Ohio State University, Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from Mysore University and Bachelors in Civil Engineering from Bangalore University, India.
