Mr. MARK YEDLIN  - KLD Associates, Inc.


Bio

Mr. Yedlin is President of KLD Associates.  He has over 30 years of experience as a transportation professional specializing in the development and application of traffic simulation models to evaluate proposed improvements to traffic operations.  He has played an important role in the development of many of the simulation models sponsored by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration and Federal Emergency Management Agency including models of urban traffic, freeway interchanges, suburban arterials and mountainous rural roads.   He was one of the original developers of the widely used TRAF-NETSIM traffic simulation model created under contract to the Federal Highway Administration. 


Mr. Yedlin has led numerous transportation studies in areas including traffic and transit improvements, ITS, electronic toll collection, real-time traffic control, traffic safety and air quality. He has taught courses sponsored by the National Highway Institute and State Departments of Transportation throughout the US.  Mr. Yedlin is one of the founding members of the Intelligent Transportation Society of New York and is currently serving on the Nassau County Traffic Safety Board.


Many of his projects have involved the use of custom traffic simulations and 2-D, 3-D and 4-D Visualizations to present proposed improvements to decision makers and a skeptical public.  He has been a regular speaker on Visualization in Transportation at TRB Conferences since 1993.


Areas of Visualization Interest:

  1. • Simulation/Visualization to Assess Effectiveness of Proposed Roadway Signage

  2. • Visualization of Low Cost Intersection Improvements for Public Hearings

  3. • Visualization of Traffic Operations for Complex Roadway Designs




Mr. LANCE PARVE - Wisconsin DOT


Bio

Mr. Parve is a Sr. Project Engineer and Professional Geologist working for WisDOT in SE Freeways Technical Services Section in Freeways Planning, Environmental, Geotech, Design and Construction involving large corridors including Marquette Interchange ($810 m - 8 miles), I-94 N-S ($1.9 b - 35 miles) and Zoo Interchange ($2.3 b - 12 miles).


Areas of Visualization Interest:

Transportation Planning, Design and Construction with emphasis on BIM - Building Information Modeling, Simulation and Virtual Design & Construction Visualization.




Ms. SOWMYA KARTHIKEYAN - ALK Technologies, Inc.


Bio

Ms. Sowmya Karthikeyan is a Sr. Transportation Systems Consultant with ALK Technologies Inc.  Since joining the firm in March 2000, Ms. Karthikeyan has focused primarily on logistic and strategic studies for major surface transportation providers.

 

At ALK, Ms. Karthikeyan manages the PC*MILER|Rail routing and mileage product, and the preparation of the Surface Transportation Board Carload Waybill Sample. Her other work includes traffic analyses and market studies for major carriers such as Norfolk Southern’s capital investment on Meridian Speedway, Canadian National Railway’s acquisitions of the Wisconsin Central and the EJ&E railroads, and truck tolls related litigation cases for the American Trucking Associations. Ms. Karthikeyan has also assisted in design and development of a freight transportation logistics model for the World Bank’s South East Asia Initiative.

 

Ms. Karthikeyan graduated from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA with a Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering with a concentration in Transportation Modeling and Operations Research. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. She is also a member of TRB ABJ90 Freight Data Committee.

 

Areas of Visualization Interest:

  1. • Rail/Truck/Intermodal Freight Data (routing, mapping, traffic flows)




Mr. ROB HRANAC - Berkeley Transportation Systems


Bio

At BTS, Mr. Hranac (Vice President) has worked to deploy several Performance Measurement Systems (PeMS) with a variety of clients. He participates in all phases of PeMS deployment, acting as a senior subject matter expert with emphasis on the planning, analysis, documentation, and presentation phases to BTS clients. PeMS is a system that applies higher level mathematical and statistical principles to complex technical engineering problems related to traffic sensors to deliver automated data mining solutions.


Areas of Visualization Interest:

  1. • Transportation Data and Performance Measures





Dr. LAXMI RAMASUBRAMANIAN - Hunter College


Bio

Dr. Ramasubramanian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College of the City University of New York.   Dr. Ramasubramanian received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Architecture from her home country, India. Laxmi moved to the United States in 1989, receiving a Master in City Planning degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and eventually a PhD in Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.


Dr. Ramasubramanian seeks to inform and transform planning practice in order to create a just and equitable society. Specifically her research examines how the use of digital technologies such as GIS can alter social and political processes, particularly the power of individuals and institutions to create and sustain social change. Her research agenda cuts across conventional disciplinary boundaries. She works collaboratively with architects, environmental psychologists, geographers, engineers, computer scientists, and public health professionals. Dr. Ramasubramanian is an expert in the design, implementation and evaluation of participatory planning projects that use affordable and accessible digital technologies. She has recently completed a book Geographic Information Science and Public Participation, published by Springer-Verlag.


Dr. Ramasubramanian has received research funding from a range of public and nonprofit sources. Her current research is funded by the US Federal Transit Administration (FTA). Professor Ramasubramanian has been active in research and project management, serving as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator of 18 research projects totaling over 2 million dollars over the past eight years. She currently serves on the board of directors of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), and is active in the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) and the American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP).


Areas of Visualization Interest:

1. visualizing urban environments using low-tech tools and techniques

2. participatory planning and community development

3. quantitative and qualitative research design and evaluation




Dr. MASHRUR (RONNIE) CHOWDHURY - Clemson University


Bio

Dr. Chowdhury currently serves as an IDEAS professor and an associate professor in the department of civil engineering at Clemson University. He previously served as a senior engineer for Iteris, Inc. and Bellomo-McGee, Inc in Virginia where he led numerous tasks related to the planning, design and evaluation of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) projects for state and federal agencies. Dr. Chowdhury’s research encompasses a broad spectrum of transportation issues, including intelligent transportation systems, highway safety, transportation security, and transportation energy. In recognition of his work, Dr. Chowdhury received the Murray Stokeley Award for Excellence in Teaching from Clemson University College of Engineering and Science in 2009, the Frank A. Burtner Award for Excellence in Advising from Clemson University in 2010 and Clemson University Board of Trustees Award for Faculty Excellence in 2010.


He is a registered professional engineer in Ohio, serves as the associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on ITS, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of ITS and Journal of Transportation Security. Dr. Chowdhury is also the former chair of the ASCE Committee on Computing in Transportation, has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and has co-authored two books on ITS. He is also a member of the TRB Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).  


Areas of Visualization Interest:

• Application of visualization to transportation infrastructure security

• Application of visualization to the validation of traffic simulation models

• Integration of Artificial Intelligence with visualization tools

• Application of visualization to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), such as in real-time traffic operations and control.