Greg Giaimo is a professional engineer with the Ohio Department of Transportation. He graduated from Ohio State University with a BSCE (1989) and MS (1991). He has worked for ODOT as a traffic modeler since. Besides day to day project and corridor analysis, he is in charge of new model development and technical processes related to the planning process such as the statewide congestion management system, integration of TDM's with MOVES and HPMS volume forecasts.
Konstadinos G. Goulias is a professor of transportation at the University of California Santa Barbara Department of Geography and director of the GeoTrans laboratory. He served as professor of transportation in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of the Pennsylvania State University from 1991 to 2004 where he also directed transportation research centers and programs. He chaired the Travel Behavior and Values Committee and the Task Force on Moving Activity-based Approaches to Practice for the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and served in many other organizations and task forces, including the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Goulias edited two books (Transportation Systems Planning: Methods and Applications, published by CRC Press and Transport Science and Technology, published by Elsevier) and published more than 270 research reports and papers. He is the co-founder and co-editor in-chief of the journal Transportation Letters; he is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Transportation Research Part B and the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Goulias worked in Australia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United States developing new household survey methods and other data collection techniques as well as statistical and spatial modeling techniques, simulation frameworks, and expert reviews of technologies and engineering practice and policies. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of California-Davis (1991), an MS in Engineering from University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1987), and a Laurea (5 years and a thesis) degree in Engineering from the University of Calabria in Italy (1986).
Elaine Martino is President of Martino Planning & Associates. She has been involved with various transportation planning experiences in Florida including all aspects of short and long range transportation studies, travel demand and land use modeling and demographic/socio-economic development. In addition, she has primarily worked with FDOT General Planning Consultant contracts that involve on-site assistance for Intermodal Planning activities that include the development and enhancement of various regional models, data structure development, socioeconomic forecasts, sub-area and corridor analyses, project traffic forecasts, regional transportation plans, MPO Long Range Transportation Plan development, and various travel surveys. Prior to starting Martino Planning & Associates, she worked with local Engineering & Planning Consultants and was a Transportation Planner with a local MPO.
Birat Pandey, P.E., is a Senior Transportation Engineer/Modeler for Baltimore Metropolitan Council. He possesses a unique blend of working knowledge in the fields of regional transportation modeling and policy analysis, air quality modeling, traffic operational analysis and traffic engineering design. His professional experience includes metropolitan planning organizations (MPO), private consulting businesses, university research and INGO; and has incurred in-depth understanding of transportation land-use relationships that are crucial to transportation planning. Mr. Pandey holds a M.S. degree in Transportation Engineering from University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.
Eric Pihl is a travel forecasting specialist with the FHWA Resource Center Planning team. He provides training and technical support to state and local agencies related to the development, refinement, and application of travel forecasting and technical planning methods. Eric has developed and instructs workshops on innovative traffic analysis tools, land-use forecasting, and metro and statewide passenger and freight models.
Prior to joining FHWA, Eric worked in FTA's Office of Planning, where he assisted transit agencies on forecasting methods for major transit planning studies under the New Starts investment program. He has previous experience developing and applying regional travel models for long range systems and project planning also and application support for large-scale regional models while with the Atlanta Regional Commission.
As a member of the TRB committee on Traveler Behavior and Values, he has contributed to several national research projects that support the integration of planning, land-use, and operational analysis tools. He holds a MS in Transportation Engineering and a Master of City Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Ken Cervenka is a Community Planner at the FTA, where has worked since 2007. His major responsibilities include technical assistance to MPOs, transit providers, and other agencies interested in preparing transit rider "on-board" surveys and transit ridership forecasts. For forecasts submitted by project sponsors in support of New Starts and Small Starts projects, his responsibilities include a formal assessment of the plausibility of those forecasts for use in FTA's project evaluation process. Prior to joining FTA, Ken worked as the Travel Forecasting Manager at the North Central Texas Council of Governments, the MPO for the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
