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Session 19
Traffic Operations II
Wednesday, October 17
Room: 225-226 MSC

Speaker: James Bonneson
Title: Research Engineer
Company: Texas Transportation Institute
Location: College Station, TX
Presentation Title: Identifying and Testing Effective Advisory Speed Setting Procedures
Presentation Summary: Describe a new procedure for identifying appropriate advisory speed for horizontal curves on rural highways.
Bio/Expertise Highlights: Researched adequacy of existing methods for establishing advisory speed. Researched driver speed behavior on horizontal curves and developed predictive models relating observed speeds to curve geometry.
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Speaker: Christopher Freeman
Title: Director of Transportation Operations
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Location: Amarillo, TX
Presentation Title: Amarillo PEGASIS Intelligent Transportation System
Presentation Summary: This presentation is a progress report on the Amarillo District rural/urban ITS infrastructure, named PEGASIS, which has been in place since 2001.
Bio/Expertise Highlights: I have been a transportation engineer for TxDOT since 1986, working in the areas of roadway and bridge design, hydraulic design, pavement design, traffic engineering, and Intelligent Transportation Systems.
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CD Drive and laser pointer.
Speaker: Beverly Kuhn
Title: Division Head / Senior Research Engineer
Company: Texas Transportation Institute
Location: College Station, TX
Presentation Title: Project Development with Managed Lanes Operations in Mind
Presentation Summary: Provides general guidance to agencies on addressing managed lanes operational issues at the earliest stage possible in the project development process to maximize their potential for success.
Bio/Expertise Highlights: Dr. Kuhn has diverse and extensive experience in the conduct and delivery of cutting edge research results with an emphasis in the areas of managed lanes, freeway operations, research implementation, and professional development. She has more than seven years of managed-lanes related research expertise, most recently serving as a research supervisor for a TxDOT project investigating the feasibility of applying managed lanes strategies to freeway ramps (0-5284). She also led a project providing technical support to the Federal Highway Administration Office of Operations, which developed cross-cutting studies on incorporating managed lanes in the planning and project development processes and developed a 10-year program plan for research in the managed lanes arena. Her previous research included a multi-year project investigating the operational issues surrounding managed lanes (0-4160), the primary product of which was a managed lanes handbook for use by TxDOT personnel. This project was selected as one of TxDOT's 2005 Top Research Innovations and Findings and is the basis of a workshop being taught to TxDOT districts as an implementation project.
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