Guy Rousseau (ARC)
Guy Rousseau is the Surveys & Transportation Model Development Manager for the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), the MPO for Atlanta, Georgia, which he joined in 1998. He is responsible for model development activities for the 4-step trip-based model, the activity-based model and the population synthesizer, for modeling the impact of Regional Transportation Plans and Transportation Improvement Programs, coordinating the travel model with the land use model, providing model results for air quality emissions for conformity and attainment of clean air goals, and obtaining data for the modeling process through household travel surveys, transit on-board surveys and other surveys. He is extensively involved with the Transportation Research Board and TMIP, and is a member of the NYMTC Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) for their recent household travel survey.
David Ory (San Francisco MTC)
David Ory is Principal Planner/Analyst with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in San Francisco. He leads the analytical group that performs travel modeling, travel behavior data collection, and geographic information systems. Prior to joining MTC in 2009, David was a
New Starts Team Leader with the Federal Transit Administration. In this role, he helped project sponsors navigate through FTA's New Starts programs, worked on New Starts guidance, and reviewed technical project deliverables, including ridership forecasts. From 2000 to 2008, Mr. Ory was a Planner with Parsons Brinkerhoff who worked in the travel forecasting service center, focusing exclusively on model development and application work.
Dr. Chandra Bhat (UT Austin)
Chandra Bhat is an international expert in the area of travel demand modeling and travel behavior analysis. His substantive research interests include land-use and travel demand modeling, activity-based travel modeling, policy evaluation of the effect of transportation control and congestion pricing measures on traffic congestion and mobile-source emissions, marketing research of competitive positioning strategies for transportation services, use of non-motorized modes of travel, and physical health and transportation. He serves or has served on the peer review panels for examining the models of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG) in the Washington D.C. area, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) in the Los Angeles area, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), the North Jersey Regional Transportation Model Enhancement Project (NJRTME), and the East-West Gateway Council of Governments in the St. Louis area.
Dr. Peter Vovsha (PB)
Peter Vovsha has 28 years of experience in the development and application of transportation models. He has developed numerous models and computerized procedures for advanced discrete-choice models of travel behavior and integrated multi-modal network simulations. As a principal modeler, he has developed transport models for several large-scale regional model development projects in major cities such as Moscow, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, New York, Columbus, Montreal, and Ottawa. Peter is one of the leading experts in the development and application of the advanced tour-based and activity-based model systems in practice. He is pioneering in design of the new generation of advanced activity-based models that has been widely adopted in U.S. and worldwide (8 out of 12 activity-based models developed or being developed in practice in the U.S. were designed by him).
Tom Rossi (Cambridge Systematics)
Mr. Rossi is the Principal Investigator for the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP) Project C10 - Partnership to Develop an Integrated, Advanced Travel Demand Model and a Fine-Grained, Time-Sensitive Network. He is leading the development of a new activity-based model for the Houston region and previously led the development of such a model for the Denver region. He also has participated in the development of activity- and tour-based model systems in Portland, San Francisco, New Hampshire, and Tel Aviv. Mr. Rossi has previously led the development of complete travel model systems in several urban areas, including Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Memphis. Throughout the country, Mr. Rossi has led model validation efforts as well as the development of time-of-day modeling, external trip modeling, and auto ownership modeling procedures as well as mode choice models and network development. He has been an expert advisor to Federal agencies and MPOs in the development of travel models and survey data collection efforts.
Bill Woodford (AECOM)
Bill Woodford has 30 years of consulting experience in the areas of travel demand forecasting, ridership forecasting, and transportation planning. He has specific experience in developing transit ridership forecasting models with a particular emphasis on applying these tools to project ridership for fixed guideway investments, commonly known as "New Starts."
Mr. Woodford is currently serving the FTA and Transit Cooperative Research Program to improve the state of transit ridership forecasting. He has directed the development of the transit ridership forecasting models currently used by NJ TRANSIT, the MTA in New York, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, the Charlotte Area Transit System, the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra, and the Regional Transportation District in Denver.
Nikhil Puri (AECOM)
Mr. Puri leads a team of transportation planners working on regional travel demand and traffic microsimulation models. He plays a significant role in analyzing, interpreting and communicating complex model results to audiences that range from technical experts and decision makers to the public. His experience includes transportation planning and travel demand forecasting - transit and highway, integration of travel demand and microsimulation models, integration of commuter models with air passenger models, and the application of traffic simulation models. He is currently engaged in two of the larger regional multimodal transportation planning projects using the NYBPM. The projects required calibration and validation of key aspects of the model, and his team has been credited with significant contributions to the improvement of the model over the years.
Ken Cervenka (FTA)
Ken Cervenka works at the Federal Transit Administration, Office of Planning and Environment. His responsibilities focus on before-and-after studies, technical assistance on transit rider surveys and development of transit ridership forecasts, and review of forecasts submitted for New Starts and Small Starts evaluation. Prior to joining FTA he worked as the travel forecasting manager for the North Central Texas Council of Governments for 14 years. He has also worked as a transportation engineering consultant and university researcher.
