USTDA Webinar: India Smart Cities Opportunities

USTDA announces a webinar update on the smart cities landscape in India and learn of new opportunities for U.S. companies.  This Webinar, presented by KPMG, will outline the India Smart Cities Mission and the role of the U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA).

Registered participants will have the opportunity to engage with USTDA staff on project support opportunities and will receive the latest USTDA commissioned Smart Cities India: Market Assessment report.

Registration is required and closes on April 30th at 11:59 pm EDT. Register here.

Webinar: Roundabout Design: Workflow, Limitations, and Solutions

ATPIO hosted a webinar on “Roundabout Design: Workflow, Limitations, and Solutions” on April 19, 2018 (Thursday) at 1:00 PM EDT (10:30 PM IST).

Recorded Webinar Link: https://connect.extension.iastate.edu/psf6w0o0cnr8/

 

Abstract

Transoft will present a one-hour session on roundabout design.

What You Will Learn:

  • History of roundabouts
  • Roundabout characteristics
  • Benefits of roundabouts
  • Challenges of roundabouts
  • Common principles and objectives for roundabout design
  • Case Studies
  • Introduction to roundabout design solutions
  • Software demonstration for roundabout design. You will be shown the right tools to design roundabouts smarter, more efficiently, and with fewer errors while giving you the ability to make better decisions regarding safety. The software produces initial geometry that is generated with your design criteria in mind, and provides real-time feedback regarding recommended dimensional and analytical ranges.

About the Speaker, Hannah Koshravi

Hannah Khosravi is a Civil Designer working at Transoft Solutions Vancouver, Canada’s head office. She has over five years of experience in road design and traffic consulting, including two years of experience in researching and developing solutions for road, intersection and roundabout design projects.   Hannah co-authored a research paper and presented on “A Deterministic Method of Evaluating Speeds For The Fastest Path Analysis At Roundabouts” at the 5th International Conference on Roundabouts at TRB. With a B.A. Sc. in civil engineering, Hannah has presented and lead educational sessions on roundabouts and intersection design at UBC, BCIT, Ryerson, and University of Texas.

ATPIO and TRG Webinar: The Kumbh Mela Experiment

ATPIO and TRG jointly hosted a webinar on “The Kumbh Mela Experiment (KME): Measuring and Understanding the dynamics of mankind’s largest crowd – Experiences from Kumbh Mela 2016 in Ujjain” on 22nd August, 2017;  9:00 AM IST (11:30 PM ET 21st Aug).

Recorded Webinar Link: https://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p2mbuts3towf/

Abstract:

The Kumbh Mela Experiment (http://www.the-kumbh-mela-experiment.com/) is an ongoing Indo-Dutch collaborative research project funded jointly by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Govt. of India and Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands. The aim of the project is to use big data and Internet of Things (IOT) for understanding crowd dynamics in mass gatherings and develop crowd management solution particularly focusing on crowd risk. The project aims to deliver the core components of an entire crowd management solution, all the way from designing and building personnel devices for tracking movement (or more precisely human-to-human interaction) to developing advanced computational models to help predict how the crowd may evolve.
As name clearly suggests, the data collection was done during the recently held Kumbh Mela (Simhasth-2016) in Ujjain, M.P., India during 22nd April to 21st May 2016. This presentation on KME will explain the scientific aspects of the project and initial results of various experiments done/ongoing under the project.

About the Speaker, Dr. Ashish Verma:

Dr. Ashish Verma is a Ph.D. from IIT Bombay and currently serving as Associate Professor of Transportation Engg. at Dept. of Civil Engg., Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation, and Urban Planning (CiSTUP), and Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems (RBCCPS) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. Further, he was a Visiting Professor at ITMO University, Saint Petersberg, Russia during 2016. He has authored more than 100 research publications in the area of sustainable transportation and road safety.
He is the Founding and Current President of Transportation Research Group of India (TRG). He is presently serving as Country Representative from India, Vice Chair (Conference) of Scientific Committee, and Steering Committee Member of World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) based in University of Leeds, UK.

 

Webinar: A Case Study from Maricopa County Connected Vehicle Test Bed

A Case Study from Maricopa County Connected Vehicle Test Bed: How have Traffic Signal Systems Transitioned to Connected Vehicle Enabled Systems?

Webinar on APRIL 20, 2017 (Thursday) at 1:00 PM (US Eastern Daylight Savings Time)

Webinar link: https://connect.extension.iastate.edu/atpio/

Registration: Please register for the webinar by sending email to atpio.secretary@gmail.com, with the subject line: “Webinar April 2017 Registration”

Abstract:

The foundation of rapidly advancing connected vehicle technology was the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocation of 75 MHz of spectrum in the 5.9 GHz band to be used by intelligent transportation systems (ITS). The primary purpose of this allocation is to drastically reduce crashes and improve road safety through the Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications and applications. USDOT is leading the connected vehicle program and the program has advanced to pilot deployment stages. The three pilot deployment sites – New York, Tampa and Wyoming are in the deployment process. The national test beds including the Maricopa County test bed in Anthem, Arizona developed through the MCDOT SMARTDrive ProgramSM and in partnership with Arizona State DOT and University of Arizona continue to facilitate the development, testing and implementation of technology and applications with emphasis on traffic signals.

The presentation will provide overview of the connected vehicle technology and will focus on the deployment of MCDOT SMARTDrive test bed and applications in Maricopa County, Arizona.

About the Speaker, Faisal Saleem:

Faisal Saleem is the Intelligent Transportation Systems Branch Manager for Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) in Arizona. He is responsible for the overall supervision and management of MCDOT and AZTech ITS Projects, REACT Incident Management Program and MCDOT Traffic Management Center. He is the Chairperson of the AZTech Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) Working Group. Saleem also serves as the MCDOT SMARTDrive Program Manager and is the Chair of Deployment Guidance Technical Working Group of the National Vehicle -to– Infrastructure Deployment Coalition.

Saleem has a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Civil Engineering and is a graduate of University of Maryland Operations Academy Senior Management Program. He is the former President of Intelligent Transportation Society of Arizona (ITSA) and founder President of Indian Engineers Forum in the Middle East.

 

ATPIO and TRG Webinar on March 31st – “Current Trends and Future Prospects for Transportation Systems”

ATPIO and TRG are jointly hosting a webinar on “Current Trends and Future Prospects for Transportation Systems” on March 31st at 11:00 am CDT (9:30 pm IST).

The webinar will present an overview of the current trends facing the transportation sector in both the developing and the developed countries, how the rapid changes in technology are going to transform the ways we transport people and goods and what needs to be done to meet these challenges. The focus of the discussion will be on surface transportation.

The presenter for the webinar is Dr. Kumares C. Sinha, Edgar B. and Hedwig E. Olson Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University.