12:30 – 1:00 Registration and Posters

1:00 – 2:30 [1.5 PDH's] Student Research Presentations (I)

2:30 – 3:00 Beverage Break and Posters

3:00 – 4:30 [1.5 PDH's] Student Research Presentations (II) and Tours

4:30 – 6:00 Traffic Bowl and Social Hour

6:00 – 7:00 [1 PDH] Awards Dinner and Keynote Speaker - RITA Administrator Peter Appel

Seventh Annual Transportation Student Research Symposium

The Massachusetts Chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (MAITE) in conjunction with the New England Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (NEITE) will be hosting its Annual Transportation Research Symposium on Thursday, March 24th on the 10th floor of the Campus Center on the UMass Amherst campus. The event will showcase the research over 30 of the finest young engineering talents in New England (see page 2 for complete listing). There will be two 1.5 hour presentation sessions as well as time to meet and talk to the presenters at poster session. During the social hour, the Northeastern District Traffic Bowl will pit teams from six universities against each other with a ticket to the ITE Annual Meeting in St. Louis as prize to the winning team.

An awards dinner will follow the social hour with Keynote speaker:

Mr. Peter Appel, Administrator of RITA. PDH's are available from both student presentations sessions and for the keynote address.

Registration (includes dinner and parking in the Campus Center Garage): Students ~ $15 ITE Members ~ $50 Corporate Sponsors ~ $250 (includes 2 dinner tickets) No shows will be billed.

Please RSVP to umassite@gmail.com by Noon on Monday, March 21st.

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MAITE, New England ITE, and UMass ITE are pleased to announce the

Student Podium and Poster Presentations

Name School Abstract Title

Kwasi Adu-Gyamfi UConn Field Performance and Laboratory Comparison of PG 64-22 versus PG 64-28 Test

Sections in Connecticut

Sha Al Mamun UConn Measuring Service Gaps: An Accessibility-Based Transit Need Index

Aria Berliner UMass Amherst Evaluating Alternative Toll-Based Financing A Case Study of the Boston Metropolitan

Area Approaches

Alexander Bernier UConn Forensic Investigation of 6 Long-Term Pavement Performance Test Sections in

Colchester, CT

Andrew Berthaume UMass Amherst Modeling the UMass Amherst Emergency Evacuation Plans using VISSIM

Kelly Bertolaccini UConn National and International Case Studies on Livability

Jason Billings UConn The Impacts of Road Capacity Removal

Garrett Bolella UConn Public Perception of Transit Service and its Built Environment in the New Haven -

Springfield Corridor

Shannon Brown Northeastern More Than Sharrows: Lane-Within-A-Lane Bicycle Priority Treatments in Three U.S.

Cities

Burak Cesme Northeastern Self Organizing Traffic Signal Logic for Oversaturated Arterials

Ashley Costa UMass Amherst Comparative Evaluation of VMT Based Fee Approach: Lessons Learned and Future

Opportunities

Tyler de Ruiter UMass Amherst Real Time Traveler Information Benefits in the Pioneer Valley

Jing Ding UMass Amherst Trajectory-Adaptive Route Choice Models: Specification, Choice Set Generation, and

Estimation

Gilbert Telin Kim UMass Amherst Automated Seatbelt and Speed Enforcement using DSRC

Gabriel Leiner UMass Amherst Running Routes With Common Endpoints

Jingcheng Li UConn Evaluation of Dynamic Modulus of Typical Asphalt Mixtures in Northeast U.S Region

Xuan Lu UMass Amherst Information Impacts on Route Choice and Learning Behavior in a Congested Network:

An Experimental Approach

Chris McCahill UConn Automobile Use and Activity Level in Small Cities

Melissa Paciulli UMass Amherst Developing an Evaluation Approach to Assess Large Scale ITS Infrastructure

improvements: I-91 Project in Massachusetts

Deanna Peabody UMass Amherst An Application of Spatially Based Crash Analyses and Road Safety Investigations to

Increase Older Driver Safety

Michael Plotnikov UMass Amherst An Evaluation of Alternative Transportation Financing Approaches

Ashrafur Rahman UConn Rainfall Impacts on Traffic Parameters and Benefits of Implementing Weather

Responsive Signal Timing

Kathryn Slater UMass Amherst Integrating Policy, Planning and Public Health: Best Practices in Health Impact

Assessment Relative to Transportation Policy

Erica Swansen UMass Amherst Examination of Work Zone Safety Through Design and Field Studies

Sunil Balaganchi Thammaiah

UMass Lowell A Computer Program for Progression Optimization on Arterial Streets and Urban Grid

Networks

Hengliang Tian UMass Amherst Route Choice Behavior in Driving Simulator with Real-Time Information

Steven Tupper UMass Amherst Connecting Gap Acceptance Behavior to Crash Experience

Joseph Tyros UMass Amherst Using Micro-simulation Models to Analyze Transit Signal Priority Strategies in Small and

Medium Sized Cities

Qixing Wang Uconn Game Theory Approach to Measuring the Transportation Network Vulnerability

Cheng Zhang UMass Amherst Validation and Benchmarking of the Longitudinal Control Model

Jason Zheng UConn Assessment of the Environmental and Economic Aspects of Transportation

Sustainability

Please RSVP to umassite@gmail.com by Noon on Monday, March 21st.

Directions to the UMass Campus Center (Event is on the 10th Floor)

Please RSVP to umassite@gmail.com by Noon on Monday, March 21st.