Transportation, Planning, Land Use and Air Quality Conference 2011 -- Agenda

2011 Transportation Planning, Land Use, and Air Quality Conference
May 9th and 10th, 2011
The Pavilion, Hilton Palacio del Rio Hotel
San Antonio, Texas

Monday, May 9th, 2011
7:00-8:00 am	Registration
7:30-8:00 am	Breakfast
8:00-8:30 am	Welcome and Introduction of the Keynote Speaker, Bob O'Loughlin, Chair, TRB Environment and Energy Section Keynote Speaker: The Honorable Julian Castro, Mayor of the City of San Antonio
8:45-10:00 am	Plenary Session 1: Addressing Sustainability and Livability at the National Level Moderator: Kirk Fauver, FHWA Sustainable Communities at the National Level, Christopher Forinash, EPA FHWA's Sustainable Highways Initiative, Mike Culp, FHWA U.S. Green Building Council, Edgar Farrera, U.S. Green Building Council, Central Texas
10:00-10:30 am	Break
10:30-11:45 pm	Plenary Session 2: Addressing Sustainability and Livability at the Local and Regional Level Moderator: Harold Brazil, MTC Addressing Sustainability and Livability in San Antonio, Bill Barker, City of San Antonio Sustainable Mobility and Livablity, Jeff Taebel, Houston-Galveston Area Council Addressing Sustainability and Livability at the Local and Regional Level, Natalie Bettger, North Central Texas Council of Governments
11:45 - 1:30 pm	Lunch (TRB Transportation and Air Quality Committee meeting)
1:30-2:45 pm	Session 1: Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategies: Tools and Methodologies Moderator: Tara Ramani, TTI "National Perspective" Mike Culp, FHWA "Regional Perspective" Kelly McGourty, PSRC "Using MOVES to Estimate GHG Emissions"Laura Berry, EPA Session 2: Truck/Bus/Diesel Issues Moderator: Srinivas Pulugurtha, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte "Modeling Tools for Freight Vehicles" Tianjia Tang, FHWA "School Bus Engine Idle Emission Reductions"; Chris Rome, Randall Guensler, and Vetri Elango, Georgia Institute of Technology "Characterization of Exhaust Emissions from Heavy Duty Diesel Vehicles in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria Area" Jeremy Johnson, Josias Zietsman, Tim Wood, Mohamadreza Farzaneh, and Doh-Won Lee, Texas Transportation Institute
2:45-3:00 pm	Break
3:00-5:00 pm	Session 3: Near Road Issues Research Results Moderator: Rich Baldauf, EPA "Characterizing Temporal Variations of Roadside PM₁₀ and PM_2.5 Mass Concentrations" B. Srimuruganandam and S.M. Nagendra, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras "Air Pollutant Concentrations Near Texas Roadways" Elena McDonald, Univ. of Texas "EPA/FHWA Near Road Collaboration Project: National Near Road MSAT Study" Sue Kimbrough, EPA Session 4: Transit Strategies Moderator: Jane Lin, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago "Sensitivity of MOVES Emissions Analyses to Land Use and Transit Related Strategies in Regional Emissions Estimates" Anna Alynick and Theodore Ehrlich, AECOM Transportation "Analyzing the Impact of Traffic Volume and Composition on Pedestrian/Transit Users' Exposure to Particular Matter and Other Air Toxins in a Congested Transportation Corridor in Portland, Oregon" Miguel A. Figliozzo, Adam Moore, Chrisine Kendrick, Chris Monsere and Linda George, Portland State Univeristy "Light Rail, Smart Growth, and the Field of Dreams: Lessons Learned from Portland" John A. Charles, Jr., Cascade Policy Institute
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
8:00-9:00 am	Breakfast
9:00-10:30am	Session 5: Particulate Matter Project-level Conformity Moderator: Laura Berry, EPA "EPA PM Project-level Guidance" Laura Berry, EPA "Using AERMOD in PM_2.5 and PM₁₀ Conformity Hot-Spot Analyses" George J. Schewe and Thomas Grosch, Trinity Consultants "Transportation Conformity Particulate Matter Hot-Spot Air Quality Modeling" Suriya Vallamsundar and Jane Lin, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago Session 6: Regional Sustainability Issues Moderator: Bill Barker, City of San Antonio "Conceptualizing and Defining Sustainability- A Proposed Approach for Transportation Agencies" Tara Ramani and Josias Zietsman, Texas Transportation Institute "The First Phase Technical Analysis in the Development of the San Francisco Bay Area's Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) and Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS)" Harold Brazil, MTC "Towards an Equilibrium Traffic Assignment Model for Green Transportation Considering Land Use, Air Quality, and Noise Impacts" Manoj K. Jha, Min Wook Kang and Ramesh Buddaraju, Morgan State Univ.
10:30-10:45am	Break
10:45-noon	Session 7: Project-level Air Quality Modeling Moderator: Mike Claggett, FHWA "Examining the Effect of Spatial Accessibility in Estimating Link Level Traffic" Srinivas S. Pulugurtha and Prasanna R. Kusam, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte "Using MOVES, AERMOD and CAL3QHCR for Air Quality Project-level Analyses" Laura Berry, EPA "Comparing Approaches for Using MOVES' Link Drive Schedule for a Project-Level Analysis" Robert Chamberlin, Resource Systems Group, Inc. Session 8: Climate Change Issues Moderator: Mike Culp, FHWA "The Impact of Land Use, Trip Characteristics, Socioeconomic, and Demographic Characteristics on Carbon Dioxide (CO₂ ) Emissions" J.A. Perkins and J.L. Mwakalonge, Prairie View A&M Univ. "Quantifying the Future Transport-related Air Quality Impacts of Land Policies for Cambridge, UK" Anil Namdeo, Paul Goodman, Gordon Mitchell and Tony Hargreaves, Newcastle Univ. "Interagency Transportation, Land Use, and Climate Change Pilot Program" B. Rasmussen and R. Lupes, FHWA "Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programs and Strategies- Applications for the Houston-Galveston Metropolitan Area" Tara Ramani, Josias Zietsman, Graciela Lubertino, Jinpeng Lv, Texas Transportation Institute
Noon-1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00-2:15 pm	Session 9: Regional Strategies Moderator: Joe Zietsman, TTI "Performance Based Planning- What Gets Measured, Get's Done" Matt Riffkin, InterPlan "Emissions Impact of Speed Limit Enforcement" Reza Farzaneh, Texas Transportation Institute "Assessment of Visual Vehicle Occupancy Data Collection Methods" Kate D' Ambrosio, Katie Smith and Randall Guensler, Georgia Institute of Technology Session 10: Near Road Air Quality Issues/ New Conformity Monitoring Requirements Moderator: Victoria Martinez, FHWA "National Near-Road NO₂ Monitoring Requirements" Nealson Watkins, Anna Ciesielski, Timothy Barzyk and Richard Baldauf, EPA "Establishing a Near Road Air Quality Monitoring Network: Lessons Learned"Kevin Black, FHWA "Near Road Air Quality- Past, Present, and Future" Victoria Martinez, FHWA
2:15-2:30 pm	Break
2:30-3:00 pm	Wrap-up, Bob O'Loughlin, Chair, TRB Environment and Energy Section