Research Highlights

Transportation Safety

• Factors Affecting Collisions at Gated Rail-Highway Crossings: A Northeastern Illinois Case Study. Presentation made in the Metropolitan Conference for Public Transportation Research in Chicago on June 7, 2002.

ITS Planning and Evaluation

• Computer-Aided Scheduling and Dispatching System: Impacts on Operations and Coordination. Presentation made in the 9th World Congress in Intelligent Transportation Systems in Chicago, October 14-17, 2002.
• Deployment Strategies for Paratransit Computer-Assisted Scheduling and Dispatching Systems: Results from a Focus Group in Illinois. Presentation made in the 47th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Forum, March 23-25, 2006, New York, NY.
• Computer-assisted Scheduling and Dispatching Systems for Paratransit Transportation: An Assessment of Agency Readiness in Planning for Statewide Deployment. Presentation made in the 9th International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technology in Transportation, Chicago, Illinois, August 2006.

Transportation and Land Use

• Changes in the Spatial Distribution of Mobile Source Emissions due to the Interactions between Land-use and Regional Transportation Systems: A Framework for Analysis. Presentation made in the 2003 Conference on the Environment, April 9-10, 2003, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Transit Planning

• Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Paratransit Brokerage. Presentation made in the 46th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Forum, March 6-8, 2005, Washington, D.C.

Transportation Modeling

• Estimation and Accuracy of Origin-Destination Highway Freight Weight and Value Flows. Presentation made at the CNSTAT Meeting on BTS 5115 Study, September 18, 2003.
• Definitional and Computational Issues with Entry-level Job Openings in Chicago. Presentation made in the Conference on Chicago Research and Public Policy: The Changing Face of Metropolitan Chicago, University of Chicago, May 12-13, 2004.

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