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About the Seminar Series
Every year, CTS offers a Seminar Series. The seminars are open to anyone interested in learning more about transportation research at the University of Minnesota. Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and practitioners are encouraged to attend. There is no cost to attend, and registration is not required. Each seminar qualifies for one Professional Development Hour (PDH).
The CTS Seminar Series combines the following seminars:
- CTS Research Seminars, held as part of CTS research council meetings
- Advanced Transportation Technologies Seminars, sponsored by the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Institute each fall semester
Fall 2008 Seminars
September 9
Evaluation of Platoon-Priority and Advanced Warning Flasher System at High-Speed Signalized Intersections
Henry Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
September 23
Summary of Research Activities at the Center for Sustainable Mobility
Hesham Rakha, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, and Director, Center for Sustainable Mobility, Virginia Tech
September 30
Intelligent Compaction Implementation
Joe Labuz, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering; Bojan Guzina, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering; John Siekmeier, Senior Research Engineer, Minnesota Department of Transportation
October 7
Solar and Wind Hybrid Electric Generators for Rural ITS Applications
Taek Kwon, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth
October 14
Transportation Policy and Technology Options to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Minnesota
David Kittelson, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
October 21
Intelligent Transportation Systems and Safety: Innovative Uses of Information Systems to Improve Timeliness and Quality of Emergency Response
Tom Horan, Research Director, Center for Excellence in Rural Safety
October 28
Economic Impacts of Transitways: The Hiawatha Light Rail Line
Ed Goetz, Professor, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
November 4
Improving Transit System Performance with the Benefit of Automatic Data Collection Systems
Nigel Wilson, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
November 11
Arterial Data Acquisition and Network-Wide Travel Time Estimation—Phase II
John Hourdos, Director, Minnesota Traffic Observatory
November 18
A Predictive Study of Use Impacts on the Denali Park Road
Ted Morris, Laboratory Manager, Minnesota Traffic Observatory
November 25
Rolling Out Measures of Non-Motorized Accessibility: What Can We Now Say?
Kevin Krizek, Associate Professor, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado Denver
December 2
A Perspective on ITS Research at the USDOT
Shelley Row, Director, ITS Joint Program Office, U.S. Department of Transportation