2016 Conference – Connecting Mobility and Safety

The ITS Arizona 23rd Annual Conference was held on Wednesday, September 28th and Thursday, September 29th, 2016 at the Mesa Convention Center. The conference began with a very well-attended half-day Connected Vehicle workshop that discussed the latest developments from the Connected Vehicle National Pilot Deployments in Tampa, Florida; Wyoming and New York City, as well as an update on the Arizona Connected Vehicle test bed in Anthem.  This was followed by a live Connected Vehicle demonstration of V2I technologies with DSRC, presented by Gridsmart and Denso.

The second day of the conference began with a great keynote address and a panel discussion with the newly formed Arizona Self Driving Vehicle Oversight Committee. During the breakout sessions, a total of 24 presentations and a panel discussion were available to attendees, along with several opportunities to visit the booths of our great sponsors and exhibitors and learn more about their latest products and services. During lunch, the Past Presidents’ Awards were presented, including the Member of the Year, which was followed by a celebration of AZTech and its 20 Years of Innovation.  In addition, the ITS Arizona membership voted to approve amended bylaws, the undergraduate and graduate winners of the Student Paper Competitions were announced and the results of the elections for the 2017 ITS Arizona Board of Directors were announced.  Following on the success of the 2015 conference, we again had excellent attendance by both individuals and sponsors/exhibitors, and we look forward to continuing the trend at next year’s ITS Arizona 24th Annual Conference.

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 Photo Highlights

AZTech 20th Anniversary Celebration

• AZTech – 20 Years of Innovation
• Implementation Plan and Current Projects
• Performance Indicators

Additional Photo Galleries

• Day One Workshop
• Keynote and Arizona Self Driving Vehicle Oversight Committee
• Past President Awards and AZTech 20th Anniversary Celebration
• Breakout Sessions
• Vendors and Attendees

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Conference Program and Presentations

Final Conference Program

Day 1 – Connected Vehicle Workshop

• Part I
  • Connected Vehicle National Pilot Deployment Overview
  • V2I Deployment Coalition
• Part II
  • New York City Connected Vehicle Deployment
  • Tampa Florida and State of Wyoming Connected Vehicle Deployment
  • Arizona Connected Vehicle Deployment Experience

Day 2 – Conference Sessions

• SESSION 1A – TRAVELER INFORMATION SYSTEMS
  • Multimodal Real-time Traveler Information System for Connected Mobility
  • Multi-resolution Approach in Investigating the Impacts of Pre-planned Road Capacity Reduction
  • V2If: Cars to Infrastructure on the Cheap
• SESSION 1B – PERFORMANCE MEASURES
  • MCDOT Traffic Signal Management, Operations and Maintenance Program
  • Outfitting Next Generation Hi-Resolution Signal Performance Measures in Portland, Oregon
  • Applications of Event Based (High Resolution) Traffic Signal Data
• SESSION 1C – TECHNOLOGY I
  • Pavement Data Collection: What Bikes Could Tell Us
  • The Connected Responder: Demonstrating How V2V and V2I Will Drastically Improve Responder Safety and Efficiency
  • Improving Emergency Vehicle Response Times with Traffic Signal Preemption on the Las Vegas Strip
• SESSION 2A – SMART CITIES
  • Transportation Nerve Centers
  • Smart Cities, the Next Wave of Transportation Technology Innovation
  • Impacts of Traffic Controls on Distributed Traffic Monitoring
• SESSION 2B – MOBILITY/TRANSIT
  • Autonomous Transit Vehicles: Past, Present and Future
  • Bike Counting Methods for Public Transportation Systems
  • Development and Deployment of a Pedestrian Priority Algorithm
• SESSION 2C – DETECTION
  • Optical Based Loop Detection
  • Acyclica Freeway and Arterial Data
  • Wrong Way Detection
• SESSION 3A – FUNDING PANEL
  • Current and Future Funding and Policy for Transportation Technology
• SESSION 3B – SAFETY
  • Detecting Impacts of Communication Loss on Signal Performance Using Event-Based Data
  • Implementation of AASHTOWare Safety Analyst by ADOT
  • Total Cabling Infrastructure Protection That Reduces Time Incident Management and Saves Cost
• SESSION 3C – TECHNOLOGY II
  • Data Collection/Performance Measures & ITS Safety
  • Active Traffic Management (ATM) System on I-66
  • Deployment of Shared Autonomous Vehicles in California

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2017 Board of Directors Election Results

President – Scott Clark Vice-President – Kim Carroll Secretary – Ratna Korepella Treasurer – Sanjay Paul Past President – Jamie Blakeman Members-at-Large – Jeff Jenq, David Lucas, Scott Miller and Mike Sutton

Jamie Blakeman, Scott Clark, Kim Carroll, Ratna Korepella, Sanjay Paul, David Lucas, Mike Sutton, Scott Miller, Jeff Jenq and Michelle Beckley

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Past Presidents’ Award Winners

Best ITS Planning Project Benefit-Cost Evaluation of the Pilot Project to Co-Locate DPS Troopers at the ADOT TOC MARICOPA ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS	Brent Cain, Sarath Joshua and Jamie Blakeman
Best ITS Implementation Project Arizona Transportation Research Institute UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA	Larry Head and Jamie Blakeman
Best Use of a New/Improved Industry Product FLGRide Passenger App MOUNTAIN LINE TRANSIT	NO PHOTO AVAILABLE
Member of the Year LARRY HEAD University of Arizona	Scott Miller, Larry Head and Jamie Blakeman

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Student Paper Competition Winners

Miranda Aakre and Christian Tafoya, from Northern Arizona University, won the undergraduate competition for their paper titled “Pavement Data Collection: What Bikes Could Tell Us“.

Chengchuan An, from The University of Arizona, won the graduate competition for his paper titled “Detecting Impacts of Communication Loss on Signal Performance Using Event-Based Data“.