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’s 2018 Annual Meeting to be Held at TRB on Jan 7

Join us at our annual meeting and reception on Sunday, Jan 07, 2018 from 5:30 PM to 7:30PM at Room/Venue: 101 / Washington DC Convention Center.

 

Officers:

 Founding Chair: Dr. Kumares Sinha, Purdue University, USA

President: Mr. Arun M. Shirole’, Engineering and Management Consultant, USA

Vice President: Dr. Vijay Gopu,

University of New Orleans

Secretary: Dr. Sushant Sharma,

Texas A&M Transportation Inst., USA

Treasurer: Dr. Sabyasachee Mishra, University of Memphis, USA

Board Members:

Dr. R. Jaykrishnan, University of California, Irvine, USA

Dr. Mohan M. Venigalla, George Mason University, USA

Dr. Kiran Bhatt, K.T. Analytics, Inc., USA

Praveen Pasumarthy, Cambridge Systematics, USA

Mr. Salil Gokhale, Dynatest North America, Inc.

Dr. Shashi Nambisan, University of Alabama, USA

Mr. Jaydeep Chaudhari, AICP

Introduction to the ATPIO

The ATPIO was established in 2004 to serve as a forum where an international community of transportation professionals that share a common heritage could come together to address relevant and emerging issues and challenges in transportation, exchange information and ideas, engage in technology transfer activities, and mentor young professionals eager to join the field. As an association that brings together transportation professionals of Indian origin, we strive to serve as an umbrella organization to facilitate enhancing of transportation systems and services in India. Our vision involves assisting and promoting transfer of transportation related knowledge and technology between professionals in India and rest of the world.The ATPIO organizes and supports workshops, seminars, meetings, and conferences where transportation professionals can share information and identify transport solutions that work in a variety of geographical, cultural, and societal contexts. The ATPIO is committed to facilitate professional networking and capacity-building and undertakes a range of mentorship activities to help junior and senior professionals alike further develop the skills and knowledge to be successful.

Support ATPIO and participation in its activities.

Hyperloop Becomes Closer To Reality In Colorado

By Jeff Todd

DENVER (CBS4)– Colorado is well positioned to be a leader in the hyperloop revolution.

(Reposted from: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2017/09/14/hyperloop-travel-cdot/)

On Thursday, the leading company Hyperloop One announced 10 international finalists, with five in the U.S.

(credit: Hyperloop One)

The route from Cheyenne, Wyo. to Denver with travel to Pueblo was picked as a finalist and immediately the Colorado Department of Transportation, AECOM, and Hyperloop one entered into a public-private partnership.

“It’s kind of a right place, right time, right tech. we are just trying to say Colorado is open for business for these innovative companies,” said CDOT Executive Director Shailen Bhatt.

CDOT Executive Director Shailen Bhatt (credit: CBS)

CDOT says it’s starting a feasibility study to see how this concept can become a reality.

“The question is, ‘Can I build it in a way, so that it pays, or it gets paid for’ and I think that’s the unknown,” Bhatt said. “I would say it’s realistic from a technology perspective, what I don’t know yet is if it’s financially feasible.”

(credit: Hyperloop One)

The feasibility study could cost up to $1 million and could take years. CDOT regularly spends millions of dollars each year studying transportation projects throughout Colorado.

“What we want to look at is, what is feasible, what is constructible, where can we get access to land, and that’s where we’ll start. We’re talking about a study that probably leads to a segment that leads to a much bigger network,” Bhatt said.

(credit: Hyperloop One)

The Eastern Plains of Colorado could be perfect for the first Hyperloop because it’s relatively flat and the land between Denver International Airport and Greeley is cheaper than other metropolitan areas.

The technology is an issue Hyperloop One is dealing with. It’s proposing pods that would magnetically levitate off of the track. Air is sucked out of the travel tube to allow the pods to reach speeds near 700 mph without drag or disruption. But a recent test at a quarter-mile facility near Las Vegas reached only 70 mph.

(credit: Hyperloop One)

While the technology may take years, Bhatt admits the governmental studies and procedures could take just as long.

“Here comes a new mode of transportation potentially if not us then who would look at it,” Bhatt said. “Just so many different applications and again we’re so early in this but shame on us if we’re not part of that conversation and we wait for someone else to take the lead. “

Jeff Todd joined the CBS4 team in 2011 covering the Western Slope in the Mountain Newsroom. Since 2015 he’s been working across the Front Range in the Denver Headquarters. Follow him on Twitter @CBS4Jeff.

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.