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.
Becky Knudson is a senior transportation economist for the Oregon Department of Transportation. Her responsibilities range from program management to technical analysis. Becky develops and applies economic, land use and transportation forecast models for use in long range planning and policy analysis. She is the program manager for the Oregon Modeling Improvement Program, and facilitates the Oregon Modeling Steering Committee and is the program manager for the Transportation Land Use Modeling Improvement Project which conducts work on the Oregon Statewide Integrated Model (SWIM). Her primary technical duties involve analysis using the SWIM. Most recent studies using the Oregon SWIM include:
"Economic Impact Analysis related to a Major Seismic Event for the Cascadia Subduction Zone" 2013, which was presented at the 2014 TRB annual meeting. http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TP/docs/Statewide/TRB_Paper_14_3017_revised.pdf.
"Oregon State Highway Performance Data and Metrics Related to Freight" 2013 http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TP/docs/Reports/FreightCorridorMetrics_RC_3.13.13.pdf.
"Oregon Freight Plan Modeling Analysis" 2010 http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TP/docs/ofp/ofpmodelingmemo.pdf.
Becky was the project manager of the statewide Oregon Household Activity/Travel Survey 2009-2011, which collected data to be used for statewide and urban model development activity. She has a Master's degree in Economics from Oregon State University and has been with ODOT for 17 years.
Subrat Mahapatra is a Transportation Engineering Manager in the Office of Planning and Preliminary Engineering at the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA). He is the project manager for the Maryland Statewide Transportation Model program. He provides analytical and program support for various travel modeling and traffic analysis initiatives at his agency and the Maryland Department of Transportation. Mr. Mahapatra leads several mobility and reliability performance measurement efforts at SHA including the Maryland State Highway Mobility Report and Reliability Roadmap. He also oversees the SHRP2 Capacity and Reliability Products Implementation at the agency. He works closely with the MPOs, other federal and state agencies, local governments and the university research community to develop analytical engines to support coordinated transportation programs and solutions for performance based planning and data driven decision-making. He serves on multiple NCHRP and SHRP2 research panels at the TRB. He has a Master's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park and has over 12 years of professional work experience.
Jeremy Raw, P.E., works in the Federal Highway Administration Office of Planning where he conducts research, development and deployment of modeling and data analysis tools, and provides related technical assistance to Metropolitan Planning Organizations and state transportation agencies. Jeremy has worked for local, regional and state transportation agencies in North Carolina and Virginia, including the Virginia Department of Transportation from 2006 to 2010. He has built and evaluated travel models for many agencies, and has worked extensively with statewide travel models, as well as freight and toll models. Jeremy's current research includes developing suitable analytic tools to support the increasing national emphasis on performance-based planning. Jeremy has also delivered training in best practices for statewide travel models on behalf of FHWA.
Janie Temple is the Transportation Analysis Branch Manager for the Traffic Analysis Section of the Transportation Planning and Programming Division of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in Austin. Janie is responsible for coordinating the development of travel demand models, providing transportation analysis for pavement and geometric design to TxDOT Districts, overseeing the development and maintenance of a statewide analysis model for freight and passenger flows, conducting travel surveys, and participating in air quality conformity reviews.
Scott Thomson is the Model Team Leader for all meso and macro level Travel Demand Models for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC). He joined KYTC in 2004, and has over 20 years of professional experience. Scott primary responsibilities include overseeing and training modelers responsible for MPO, county, regional, and statewide models, investigating innovative data sources, and reviewing the calibration and validation of travel demand models.
Ken Cervenka is a Community Planner at the FTA. Ken Cervenka has worked at the FTA 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.
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