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 UWM in January 1979, Professor Horowitz has been continuing his research into values of travel 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.
Keith Killough, a native of Detroit, Michigan, is an Urban Planning graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds certification from the American Institute of Certified Planners. Mr. Killough is a member of several Transportation Research Board committees including the second Strategic Highway Research Program's Technical Coordinating Committee on Capacity, the Intercity Passenger Travel Policy Study Committee, and various standing and research committees. He has been the transit industry representative to the Federal Highway Administration's Travel Model Improvement Program that provided oversight to the Los Alamos National Laboratory's TRANSIMS model development project. Mr. Killough has held positions with public agencies in Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, and Phoenix; and with consulting firms in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. Mr. Killough has been Deputy Executive Officer for Countywide Planning with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, where he was instrumental in the planning and implementation of the Metro Red Line Subway and the Metro Rapid Bus projects; and Technical Services Director for the Southern California Association of Governments. He is currently Director for Transportation Systems Analysis in the Multimodal Planning Division of the Arizona Department of Transportation where he is responsible for statewide traffic monitoring, travel demand modeling, geographic information systems, and air quality planning.
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 Oregon Statewide Integrated Model (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.
Currently chief of Macro, Meso, Micro Freight Modeling and Data, Doug MacIvor has 34 years year of experience working at Caltrans. Mr. MacIvor has 29 years of long range planning studies, traffic and travel studies, and capital outlay support. He is a member of the TRB Freight Data Committee, and has participated in five NCFRP Panels regarding freight movement issues. Mr. MacIvor is presently in charge of the California Statewide travel demand model, California Statewide Freight Forecasting Model (commodity based), and multiple data projects that relate to these models. He is also currently leading a three-agency effort involving Caltrans, the California Energy Commission, and the Air Resources Board to develop a California Based VIUS.
Mr. Subrat Mahapatra is a Transportation Engineering Manager in the Office of Planning and Preliminary Engineering at the Maryland State Highway Administration. 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.
Mr. Ken Cervenka is a Community Planner at the FTA. Ken Cervenka has worked at the FTA since 2007. His mayor 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.
Mr. Vidya Mysore is a Freight Analysis and Modeling Specialist for the FHWA. Mr. Mysore has over 25 years of experience in travel modeling and joined FHWA in 2013. Mr. Mysore has experience in freight transportation modeling and planning, operations, engineering, economics, and land use, trade, and transportation logistics to create fact-based, forward-looking Freight Technical Solutions at all levels of government. He is nationally recognized as a modeling, freight forecasting, and analytical expert. Mr. Mysore has a strong understanding of federal, state, and local level policy procedures and works with transportation professionals to build strong Freight Planning, Management and Operations programs. Mr. Mysore is currently a panel member for NCFRP Project-44, Factors Influencing Freight Modal Shift, and an advisory board member for the Tier 1 University Transportation Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Mysore is also leading SHRP2 C20 (Freight Data and Model Innovation) Implementation Plan support and guiding the development of FAF 4.0 and beyond.
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