Ms. Anderson is a Transportation Engineer for the Ohio Department of Transportation, which she joined in 2005. She is involved with the development of the Ohio Statewide Travel Forecasting Model. In addition to the statewide model, Ms. Anderson also works with the Columbus/Newark disaggregate tour-based model, and the Dayton/Cincinnati aggregate model, including the review of the Dayton re-estimation and combined model conversion. She also provides assistance to Ohio MPOs on the modeling of transit alternatives, air quality conformity analyses, certified design traffic requests, and has assisted on the Ohio Standard Small/Medium MPO Travel Forecasting Models. She has instructed courses in transit modeling and the use of the Ohio Standard Models to MPO staff. She has also conducted roadside Origin-Destination Surveys for the Department and maintained the state's employment data for use in the Department's travel models. She has provided modeling assistance to the Ohio Rail Development Commission on their High Speed Passenger Rail Study.
Prior to joining ODOT, Ms. Anderson was a Principal Engineer for the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), the Columbus, Ohio MPO. She was the Project Manager for the MORPC Travel Model Improvement Project, which included the development and implementation of the new disaggregate tour-based travel forecasting model. While at MORPC, she reviewed the patronage forecasting and model updates for the North Corridor Transit Project New Starts Submittal and DEIS. She also managed the Major/New Construction Program priorities and the selection of projects for STP, CM/AQ and TEP funding for the Transportation Improvement Program. Ms. Anderson holds Masters and Bachelors degrees from The Ohio State University in Civil and Transportation Engineering. She is licensed by the state of Ohio as a Professional Engineer.
Lei Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He earned his Ph.D. (major: Transportation Engineering; minor: Operations Research in 2006) and M.S. (Applied Economics in 2005; Civil Engineering in 2002) degrees from the University of Minnesota, and B.S. (Civil Engineering in 2000) from Tsinghua University in China. Dr. Zhang's research program focuses on transportation systems analysis; transportation and land use planning; transportation economics and policy; mathematical, statistical, and agent-based modeling; and integration of transportation operations and planning.
Keith Lawton is an independent consultant based in Newberg, Oregon. Mr. Lawton was previously Director of Technical Services with the Metro Planning Department in Portland, Oregon, and has been active in model development for over 40 years. He was involved with the application of TRANSIMS in Portland, led the development of the first tour-based activity model set at an MPO, which was used in a road pricing study at Metro, and he has been a leader in developing an integrated land-use and transportation model, which has seen project application in Portland. He has also led the move to include the effects of urban design on transport demand, and to embed these model elements in the Portland trip-based models. He has served on a number of modeling peer and expert review committees. Mr. Lawton has a BSc. in Civil Engineering from the University of Natal (South Africa), and an MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University. He is a member emeritus and past Chair of the TRB Committee on Travel Demand Forecasting.
Arash Mirzaei is the Senior Program Manager (Lead) of the Travel Model Development Program at the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG), the MPO serving the Dallas-Fort Worth region. Mr. Mirzaei has worked with NCTCOG for the past 13 years.
Mark Bryam, P.E., has been employed by the Ohio Department of Transportation full time for 28 years, since 1986. At present, he is serving as section manager of the Modeling & Forecasting Section within the Office of Statewide Transportation Planning, in the Division of Planning at central office. He has been a registered professional engineer since 1989. He holds a BS in Engineering from Ohio State University. Mark has performed travel demand forecasting modeling related work for 27 years and served as section manager for 15 of those years. Work related to travel demand modeling has include MPO model technical support, model maintenance, model updates, model validation, travel surveys, initiation of statewide model development, air quality conformity, computer programming, project level analyses, special studies, performance measures, etc. Participated with OKI & MVRPC and consultants to develop the combined area, OKI & MVRPC, travel demand model.
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