Keynote speaker

Yingling Fan, Assistant Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Panelists

• Patrick Born, Regional Administrator, Metropolitan Council
• Matt Kramer, President, Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce
• Lee Sheehy, Program Director, McKnight Foundation
• Mariia Zimmerman, Deputy Director for Sustainable Communities, Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Earl Swift, author and journalist

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What's Behind the Increase in Motorcycle Fatalities?

• Enoch You, Minnesota Department of Health

Behavioral Substrates of Traffic Safety Stop and Work Zone Crashes: A Human Factors Analysis

• Thomas Smith, School of Kinesiology, University of Minnesota

Using Event-Based Data to Assess Vehicle Pedestrian Crash Risk in the Absence of Clearance Interval at Signalized Intersections

• Indrajit Chatterjee, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota

Investigating Lower-Cost, Shorter-Term Ways to Reduce the Frequency and Duration of Flood-Related Closures: MnDOT's Minnesota River Flood Mitigation Study

• Mark Benson and Rachel Pichelmann, SEH, Inc.

Assessment of Culverts Designed to Meet Stream Simulation Requirements

• Bradley Hansen, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota

Cleaning Stormwater with the SAFL Baffle

• Kurtis McIntire, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota

Economic Impact of Wisconsin's Commercial Ports, Helping to Keep the State's Economy Afloat

• Liat Lichtman-Bonneville, Wisconsin Department of Transportation

Minnesota's Trade Center Hierarchy

• Bruce Schwartau, University of Minnesota Extension

Reduction of Accessory Overdrive and Parasitic Loading on a Parallel Electric Hybrid Bus

• Will Northrop, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

On the Road to Complete Streets in Minnesota

• Scott Bradley and Bruce Holdhusen, Minnesota Department of Transportation

A Major Utility Project with a Complete Street Finish - East 75th and East 76th Street Reconstruction, Richfield, Minnesota

• Jack Broz, HR Green, Inc.

Routes to Rails: Pedestrian Realm Planning in the Central Corridor

• Carol Swenson, District Councils Collaborative of Saint Paul and Minneapolis; Jeff Corn, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota

Visual Tools for Communication and Decision-Making: “Real Minnesota Examples”

• Leif Garnass and Sean Jergens, SRF Consulting Group, Inc.

The Role of Transportation in Quality of Life

• Ingrid Schneider, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota

Hear Every Voice (HEV) Case Studies

• Cindy Zerger, Center for Changing Landscapes, University of Minnesota; Vanessa Levingston, Minnesota Department of Transportation

Estimating Non-Motorized Urban Trail Traffic Using Negative Binomial Regression Models

• Xize Wang, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

ITS Data Needs: How Much Do We Really Need to Know?

• Frank Douma, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Length-Based Vehicle Classification

• Scott Petersen, SRF Consulting Group, Inc.

Best Practices: Corridor Management/ Maintenance of Paved Trails

• Michael Marti and Stewart Crosby, SRF Consulting Group, Inc.

Transportation Agency Tool to Analyze Benefits of Living Snow Fences

• David Smith, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota

Salt Brine Blending to Optimize Deicing and Anti-Icing Performance and Cost Effectiveness

• Stephen Druschel, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Estimating Value of Travel Time and Value of Reliability Using I-394 Dynamic Toll Data

• Sean (Xiaozheng) He, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota

I-394 MnPASS Express Lane Performance Evaluation

• Brian Kary, Minnesota Department of Transportation

Best Practices and Lessons Learned from Atlanta’s I-85 Express Lanes Public Outreach and Education Program

• Steve Peterson, SRF Consulting Group, Inc.; Malika Reed Wilkins, Georgia State Road and Tollway Authority

2010 Twin Cities Travel Behavior Inventory

• Jonathan Ehrlich, Metropolitan Council

The Future of Forecasting at Metropolitan Council

• Dennis Farmer and Todd Graham, Metropolitan Council

Travel Demand and Reliable Forecasts for Transit

• Mark Filipi, Metropolitan Council

Suggested Design and Management Practices for Enhancing Public Engagement in Transportation Policy-Making

• Kathryn Quick, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Panel Discussion

• Randy Newton, City of Eden Prairie; Wayne Sandberg, Washington County; John Griffith, Minnesota Department of Transportation

Carver County Non-Motorized Facilities Assessment

• Carla Stueve, SRF Consulting Group, Inc.; Jesse Reinhardt, Carver County

Congestion Management and Safety Program: Overview and Technical Perspective

• Mike Sobolewski, Minnesota Department of Transportation; Paul Morris, SRF Consulting Group, Inc.

Update on Minnesota’s County Roadway Safety Plans

• Howard Preston, CH2M HILL, Inc.

Department of Transportation Performance of Drainage Ditches in Infiltrating Stormwater Runoff

• Farzana Ahmed, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota

The Minnesota Filter: A Tool for Capturing Stormwater Dissolved Phosphorus

• Andrew Erickson, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota

Characterization of Concrete Sediments from Construction Operations for the Protection of Storm and Surface Waters

• Stephen Druschel, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Minnesota State University, Mankato

A Wise Investment–Accommodating Future Uses on Today’s Streets

• Luke Olson, HDR Engineering, Inc.

Mixing Fast Trains on Freight Rail Corridors

• Dan Krom, Minnesota Department of Transportation

Transit Project Development in Uncertain Times

• Reed Lee, HDR Engineering, Inc.

20-Years of the Twin Cities “A” Minor Arterial System: Looking Back and Positioning to Look Ahead

• Mary Karlsson, Metropolitan Council; Steve Peterson, SRF Consulting Group, Inc.

US 10 and CSAH 83: A Right-Sized Solution

• Jack Corkle and Brandi Popenhagen WSB and Associates, Inc.

MnDOT’s Corridor Investment Management Strategy: A New Transportation Planning Approach

• Brad Utecht, Minnesota Department of Transportation

Minneapolis Transportation Infrastructure Study

• Heidi Hamilton, City of Minneapolis

Online Learning: What’s Current and Where Are we Heading?

• Kim Ballard, Degree and Credit Programs, College of Continuing Education, University of Minnesota

STREET (Simulating Transportation for Realistic Engineering Education and Training) Program for Undergraduate Education: Motivations and Objectives

• Arthur Huang, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota

Gravel Roads: Developing Online Learning for Non-Traditional Adult Learners

• Mindy Carlson, Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota

Distraction Dodger: Teaching High School Students Through New Tools and Methods

• Shawn Haag, Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota

Is it Time for Minnesota Bicycle Helmet-Use Law? What Data Suggests

• Jon Roesler, Minnesota Department of Health

CrashHelp: An Innovation to Improve Traffic Crash Emergency Medical Response

• Thomas Horan, Center for Excellence in Rural Safety, University of Minnesota

Identifying Issues Related to Deployment of Automated Speed Enforcement

• Frank Douma, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota; David Thorpe, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota; Joe Loveland, Loveland Communications

Occupant Restraint Usage in Minnesota

• Hal Campbell, Office of Traffic Safety, Department of Public Safety

Development of a Portable Weigh-in Motion System for Rural Highways

• Taek Kwon, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth

Concrete Paving and Texturing for Sustainability

• Bernard Izevbekhai, Minnesota Department of Transportation

Thermally Insulated Concrete

• Lev Khazanovich, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota

Low-Temperature Cracking-Development of Fracture Tests

• Mihai Marasteanu, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota

Overview of the Minnesota Department of Transportation Connected Vehicle Safety, Mobility, and User Fee Project

• Cory Johnson, Minnesota Department of Transportation

Minnesota Road Fee Test: Mileage-Based User Fee Rate Structure Concept

• Daryl Taavola, URS Corporation

Evaluation of the Minnesota Road Fee Test: Preliminary Data

• Christopher Armstrong, Science Applications International Corporation

Guidelines on Bus Rapid Transit Development in the Twin Cities: Overview and Best Practices

• Cole Hiniker, Metropolitan Council

Arterial Transitway Corridors Study: Results and Conclusions about Arterial Bus Rapid Transit

• Charles Carlson, Metro Transit; Katie Roth, SRF Consulting Group, Inc.

Red Line/Cedar Avenue Bus Rapid Transit Development

• Sam O’Connell, Dakota County Transportation

Impacts of Transitways: A Case Study of the Hiawatha Line

• Jessica Schoner, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Doing Business Around Transitways: Survey Research on Business Perceptions of Twin Cities Transit Projects

• Andrew Guthrie, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

American Public Works Association 2050 Vision

• Dan Gage, Minnesota Public Works Association; Kathleen O’Donnell and Lucy Swift, Twin Cities Public Television, Inc.

Minnesota GO

• Lynne Bly, Minnesota Department of Transportation

2040 Minnesota’s Roadmap to the Future

• Margaret Donahoe, Minnesota Transportation Alliance

Development of Guidelines for the Design of Turn Lanes

• Howard Preston, CH2M HILL, Inc.

Smartphone-Based Decision Support for the Visually Impaired at Signalized Intersections

• Chen-Fu Liao, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota

Safe Intersections

• Thomas Sohrweide, SEH Inc.

46th Street Pilot Lighting Project

• Dave Hirsch, Stonebrooke Engineering, Inc.

Bridge Approach Panel Expansion Joints

• Farhad Reza, Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Inverted Tee Bridge Superstructure System

• Max Halverson, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota

Structural Monitoring of the Cedar Avenue Bridge

• Arturo Schultz, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota

Mileage-Based User Fee Task Force Findings

• Lee Munnich, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Impacts of Mileage-Based User Fee Scenarios on the Trucking Industry

• Daniel Murray, American Transportation Research Institute

Mileage-Based User Fee Panel Discussion

• Chaired by: Former Representative Bernie Lieder, Minnesota State Legislature
• Panelists: John Hausladen, Minnesota Trucking Association; Representative Michael Beard, Minnesota State Legislature (invited); Senator Scott Dibble, Minnesota State Legislature (invited); Jim Hovland, MBUF Task Force Co-chair; Representative, Minnesota Department of Transportation

Smartphone-Based Travel Experience Sampling and Behavior Intervention

• Yingling Fan, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Pre-Treatment Evaluation and Assessment of Experimental Bicycle Facilities in Minneapolis, Minnesota

• Christianne Roach, School of Architecture, University of Minnesota; Rebecca Hughes, City of Minneapolis

Estimating Use of Non-Motorized Infrastructure: Models of Bicycle and Pedestrian Traffic in Minneapolis, Minnesota

• Steve Hankey, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Sharing to Grow: A Case Study of Local Economic Activity Around NiceRide Minnesota Bike Share Stations

• Jessica Schoner, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota