Paul Basha is currently the Transportation Director for the City of Scottsdale. He has more than 40 years of experience in traffic engineering and transportation planning. Approximately half of his career has been as a public servant and half as a traffic engineering consultant. Approximately 30 years has been in Arizona, 6 years in Washington State, and the remainder in Michigan and Chicago. He served on the Institute of Transportation Engineers Review Committee for the Trip Generation Handbook, 3rd Edition published in 2014; and serves on the similar committee for the Trip Generation Manual, 10th Edition, anticipated for publication in 2017. Mr. Basha has prepared more than 200 Traffic Impact Analyses and reviewed more than 50 Traffic Impact Analyses prepared by other traffic engineers.
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, Ms. Ingram 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.
Ms. Ingram 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.
Alan J. Horowitz is a transportation engineer and an urban planner. His research spans the areas of travel forecasting and traffic impacts. Since coming to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in January 1979, Professor Horowitz has been continuing his research into values of time, and conducting new research about urban trip tours, land-use impact assessment, single-route ridership forecasting, trip assignment, subarea focusing, ride quality of highways, intermodal passenger transfer facilities, transportation benefits, freight planning, applications of GIS to transportation networks, hazardous materials routing, intelligent transportation systems, and travel forecasting. Dr. Horowitz is the author of the Quick Response System II travel forecasting software platform.
Sean McAtee is a Senior Associate of Cambridge Systematics with more than 10 years of experience in travel model development and application, including survey analysis, parameter estimation and calibration, systemwide model validation, and model implementation. Mr. McAtee has experience developing and applying travel models for states, MPOs, and cities of various sizes, including jurisdictions in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippip, Michigan, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Texas. He has extensive experience in developing user interfaces and automating model processes via programming and scripting in languages such as Python, Visual Basic, GISDK, and various travel demand model software packages. He often provides assistance to agencies in their ongoing model maintenance, update, and application efforts.
