Rebekah Anderson (ODOT)
Rebekah Anderson is a Transportation Engineer for the Ohio Department of Transportation. She works with the Columbus, Newark, Cincinnati and Dayton MPOs on the development and implementation of their travel forecasting models. Her areas of expertise are disaggregate/tour-based modeling, transit modeling, freight modeling, and transportation project funding.
Kyung-Hwa Kim (ARC)
Kyung-Hwa Kim is a Sr. Principal Planner at Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), Atlanta Georgia.Before she joined at ARC, She worked at Metro in Portland, Oregon for 20 years as a modeler. She joined ARC as an Application manager in 2008. Her 20 years of experience at Metro covers from simple data analysis to complicated activity model development. Now she manages Air Quality, Congestion Management Planning, Safety, Performance measure, and Project Prioritization at ARC. She has been served for numerous peer modeling review committee, member of the Modeling Steering Committee, Transportation Research Board (TRB) Transportation Survey Methods Committee, and Transportation Research Board (TRB) Task Force on Moving Activity-Based Approaches to Practice Committee.
Mary Ann Waldinger (COMPASS)
MaryAnn Waldinger is a Principal Planner with COMPASS, the MPO for Ada and Canyon Counties, Idaho. She has been with the MPO for 15 years and is responsible for the regional travel demand model, air quality conformity and congestion management system. She has been primarily responsible for the development, maintenance and application of the regional model since 1999 with most work being done in-house.
Richard Walker (METRO)
Richard Walker is the manager for the Modeling and Forecasting Division at Metro Portland, the MPO for Portland, Oregon. He manages all programs related to travel forecasting: including data collection, model development, and model applications. His areas of expertise include multimodal, freight, transit, and air quality conformity modeling. He has participated in the peer review of metropolitan travel forecasting models in Santa Cruz, Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Anchorage, Phoenix, and Philadelphia. In Oregon, Mr. Walker has chaired the Modeling Steering Committee and currently is the chair of the Modeling Program Coordination Committee. He is currently the co-chair of the TRB Special Committee on the Travel Forecasting Resource. He holds a BS degree in civil engineering from Montana State University.
