Technical Topics
The 1st T&DI Congress will cover a broad range of technical topics in transportation engineering, planning and development. The topics are related to the five major themes of the Congress:
Transportation Operations & Safety
This track focuses on multimodal transportation operations and safety, innovations in traffic operations and safety, work zone traffic, incident and special event operations, older driver and human factors, fatality reduction programs and strategies, and safety and operational effects of geometrics and congestion.
Theme Topics:
Pedestrian, bicycle, and transit operations in mixed traffic
Accessibility, mobility, and safety in access management
Context sensitive design and traffic operations
Work zone safety, traffic management and traffic mitigation planning
Coordination of IntelliDrive and legacy traffic signal technology
Emergency transportation operations, incident management and special event traffic management
Active traffic management
Reducing fatalities: strategies and evaluation
Contributions of transportation safety to development
Impacts of congestion and roadway geometry on transportation safety
Improving urban safety: best practices
Best practices in highway safety improvement program implementation & state highway safety plans
Influence of pedestrians, older drivers, and human factors on transportation safety
Pavements and Transportation Materials
This track focuses on highway, airfield and off-highway flexible and rigid pavement materials, design, construction, rapid rehabilitation, analysis/modeling, laboratory and field-testing, performance, sustainability considerations and case histories.
Theme Topics:
Rapid renewal of transportation facilities
Advanced construction materials
Sustainability considerations
Innovative pavement design & construction practices
Durability of paving materials
Integrated approaches in pavement design & materials
Modeling of transportation facilities
Pavement mechanics
Pavement interlayer systems
Full-scale testing and field studies
Advanced Technologies in Transportation Systems
This track focuses on advanced technologies in transportation and infrastructure systems with particular emphasis on automated and remote data collection and processing, positioning technologies, pavement and bridge condition survey technologies, high-speed surface transportation systems, intelligent transportation systems, advanced transit systems, asset management methodologies, critical infrastructure protection, and sustainable transportation infrastructure.
Theme Topics:
Automated People Movers and Personal Rapid Transit
High-speed Rail / Maglev Transportation
Automated Infrastructure Condition Assessment / Monitoring
Automated Asset Inventory and Attribute Data Collection
Geographic Information Systems / Electronic Map Technologies
Wayside Infrastructure for "Connected Transportation"
Innovative Financing and Electronic Payment Systems
Real-time Traffic Monitoring
IntelliDrive and Active Traffic Management
Precise Positioning, Navigation and Timing Systems - GPS and Beyond
Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure Concepts and Technologies
Airport Planning & Design
This track focuses on the sustainable growth of airports and aviation systems worldwide with respect to the environment, operation, economics, LEED for airports, airport planning, airport safety and security, airport development case studies, and airport GIS and other emerging technologies.
Theme Topics:
Planning, design, construction, management, economics, and administration
Design and development of multimodal facilities
Airport congestion, modeling and simulation
Implementation of GIS and emerging technologies
Runway incursions and runway safety areas
Airport Capacity and Delay
Safety and security management systems
Perimeter protection and air cargo facility security
Environmental and sustainability issues
Airport - Land Use Compatibility
LEED certification process
Development case studies
Airport Innovative financing
Smart Development and Sustainability
This track focuses on the latest land use planning and development, including integration of transportation and development, new regulations, sustainability and financing. Emphasis will be placed on the role of the engineer in all phases of planning and development.
Theme Topics:
Complete streets and their relationship to land development
* New urbanism in suburbia
* Mixed use developments and sustainability
* A new generation of land development regulations
Impact of green development
Economic development - land use and transportation
Alternative modes of transportation and land use impacts
Coordination of planning for land use and transportation.
Context sensitive design
Transit oriented development
New generation of funding and financing techniques
The engineer's role in public private partnership agreements
Climate change impacts on development