18th COTA Annual Winter Symposium Agenda

18th COTA Annual Winter Symposium Agenda
Sunday, Jan 11, 2015, Chinatown (M3), Marriott Marquis, Washington DC
08:00-08:20
08:20-08:30
08:30-10:10
COTA Membership Registration
Opening Remark: Yafeng Yin, University of Florida
Session I. New Applications of Old Data in Transportation
Chair: Yao-jan Wu, University of Arizona
Open Data Systems in Smart Cities: the OpenITS Project
Yuanchang Deng, Sun Yat-sen University
China-US Joint ITS/Adaptive Traffic Control Feasibility Study and Pilot Project
in Guangzhou: Practical Experience and Positive Results with Centracs ATMS
and ASC/3 Controllers
Jia Hao Wu, W & S Solutions/Wu & Song Associates (Shanghai)/Shanghai
Maritime University
Application of Macro- and Meso- demand Model in Taiwan National Freeway
and Expressway System
Tsungyi Lee, Lihung Luk Cheng, and Wenya Yeh, Citilabs
Management and Integration of Data and Travel Demand Modeling at the Santa
Clara County Congestion Management Agency
Peter Chen, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Transportation Planning in Architectural Design
Cherry Xiong, T. Y. Lin International
10:10-10:30
10:30-12:00
Break
Session II. Panel Discussion on “Connected Vehicles Research and Applications”
Chair: Henry Liu, University of Michigan
Panelists:
Larry Head, University of Arizona
Brian Park, University of Virginia
Henry Liu, University of Michigan
12:00-13:00
13:00-14:40
Lunch Break
Session III. Panel Discussion on “Applications of Cellular Data in Transportation”
Chair: Tianjia Tang, FHWA
Panelists:
Tianjia Tang, FHWA
Mena Lockwood, VDOT
Lei Zhang, University of Maryland
Zhanbo Sun, Western Michigan University
Weifeng Li, Tongji University
14:40-15:00
15:00-17:00
Break
Session IV. Panel Discussion on “Career Development for Young Professionals”
Chair: Haizhong Wang, Oregon State University
Panelists (tentative):
Xiaobo Liu, Southwest Jiaotong University
Xuesong Wang, Tongji University
Xuedong Yan, Beijing Jiaotong University
Guohui Zhang, University of New Mexico
17:00-17:10
Jianming Ma, Texas Department of Transportation
Chunyu Lv, Gannett Fleming
Closing Remark: Shanjiang Zhu, George Mason University