Research & Implementation - San Antonio

Texas A&M Transportation Institute
3500 NW Loop 410
Suite 315
San Antonio, TX 78229
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Dr. Anderson joined TTI in 2018 and is currently an Associate Research Engineer in the San Antonio Research & Implementation program. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, an MSc in Civil Engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), and a B.C.E. in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Anderson is a member of the TRB Committees on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (AED50) and Public Transportation Planning and Development (AP025) and is also active in ITE and ASCE. His research interests include public transportation, traffic operations, and probe data.

Dr. Anderson’s Ph.D. dissertation was related to transit signal priority and how it can be used to maintain bus schedule or headway reliability. He was the lead author of TCRP Synthesis 149: Transit Signal Priority: Current State of the Practice and TCRP Synthesis 155: Intelligent Transportation Systems in Headway-Based Bus Service. He has worked on research projects for the California Department of Transportation about coordinating transfers between transit routes, for Capital Metro (Austin, TX) analyzing the operation of a headway-based bus route, and for the Orange County Transportation Authority developing transit signal priority and queue jump strategies for two bus corridors. Dr. Anderson was also a co-author of TCRP Synthesis 171: Third-Party Contracts for Fixed-Route Bus Operations and Maintenance: Performance Metrics and previously developed accessibility-based performance measures for scheduled transit services in a project for the Minnesota Department of Transportation.

In the area of traffic operations, Dr. Anderson has used microsimulation models to evaluate various traffic control strategies and roadway designs. Selected projects include one that developed a coordinated ramp metering and variable speed limit strategy for a freeway corridor in Switzerland, a second that analyzed queueing, weaving, and capacity at an international port of entry and major trucking routes in Laredo, TX, and a third that simulated various combinations of design parameters to develop guidelines for the use of auxiliary lanes on frontage roads in Texas.

Dr. Anderson has worked on several applications of probe data. He authored two papers on graph theory methods for data association, including on example of vehicle trajectory reconstruction. He has also been involved in several studies that validated probe-based traffic volume estimates, including a pooled fund study managed by FHWA, and projects for the Maryland and Texas Departments of Transportation. Dr. Anderson was also involved in a recently completed NCHRP study that developed factors calculated from probe data as a method for annualizing short-term counts, as well as a project with the TxDOT Laredo District that examined Wejo driving events as a surrogate measure for safety planning.