Billy Charlton is the Director of Data at Puget Sound Regional Council in Seattle, Washington. He has more than two decades of experience building and using advanced travel forecasting models, and emphasizes use of technology, software, and industry best practices to improve the quality of the tools available to decision makers. He is currently a member of the Transportation Research Board's ADB45 Committee on Travel Forecasting Resources.
Bud Reiff is a Principal Researcher and Modeler at Portland Metro, where he has managed household survey data collection and analysis, freight model development, trip-based model update, and various model application projects. Prior to joining Metro in 2008, he held a similar position for 15 years at the Lane Council of Governments in Eugene, Oregon, and had been a travel forecaster for the cities of Seattle and Portland. He has conducted research in Urban Design Variables and their use in Travel Demand Models, and in Transportation Planning Performance Measures.
Joe Castiglione is a Deputy Director for Technology, Data and Analysis at the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFCTA) with 18 years experience in the development, application and refinement of advanced travel demand forecasting models. Prior to joining the SFCTA, he served in a variety of technical roles on travel forecasting and transportation planning projects in both the public and private sectors, focusing on activity-based travel demand forecasting models and their integration of with advanced dynamic roadway and transit network models. He has extensively applied these model systems to transportation and land use planning and investment analyses.
Ken Lindmark has been with the City of Calgary’s Transportation Planning group since 2004. His current assignment is Manager of the Forecasting Division.
Ken’s prior professional experience includes 20 years as a modeling specialist with the City of Portland, Oregon. In Portland, he was responsible for implementing the City’s transportation model and applying it to a variety of studies and strategic plans. Ken began his career with a transportation consulting firm in Newport Beach, California in 1980.
Ken received his Bachelors Degree in Geography/Urban Planning at California State University Fullerton. He also has a Masters Certificate in Municipal Leadership from the Schulich School of Business, York University and a Certificate in Transportation Systems Management from the University of California Irvine.
Kyung-Hwa Kim is a Sr. Principal Planner at Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC). She worked at Metro in Portland, Oregon for 20 years as a modeler before she joined ARC as a Performance Analysis and Monitoring section manager.
Her 20 years of experience at Metro spanned simple data analysis to complicated activity based model development. Now she manages air quality, climate changes, scenario modeling, congestion management planning, safety, performance measures, environmental equity, and project prioritization at ARC. 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 Ethnomusicology at Seoul National University before she immigrated to the United States from Korea.
