2015 Conference – A Conduit to the Future

The ITS Arizona 22nd Annual Conference was held on Wednesday September 30, 2015 and Thursday, October 1, 2015 at the Mesa Convention Center. The conference began with a half-day course on ‘Improving Safety with ITS’, courtesy of ITS America and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Professional Capacity Building Program.

On the second day of the conference, a total of 28 presentations were available to attendees, including 3 from the finalists of the Student Paper Competition presenting their work. The Past Presidents’ Awards were given out, including the Member of the Year, which was posthumously awarded to Pete Yingling for his years of service to both ITS Arizona and IMSA. The winner of the Student Paper Competition was announced and the results of the elections for the 2015-16 ITS Arizona Board of Directors were presented.  Following on the success of the 2014 conference, we again had excellent attendance by both individuals and sponsors/exhibitors, and we hope to continue the trend at next year’s ITS Arizona 23rd Annual Conference.

---

 Photo Highlights

---

Conference Program and Presentations

Final Conference Program

Day 1 – USDOT Professional Capacity Building Course

• Improving Safety with ITS

Day 2 – Conference Sessions

• SESSION 1A
  • Road Map of the AZTech Regional Information System (ARIS)
  • Efficiency and Safety of Dynamic Advance Detection
  • Mesa Adaptive Control Update
  • Emergency Vehicle Preemption Best Practices, Findings & Recommendations
• SESSION 1B
  • Intersection Performance and Safety Analytics
  • Bike Detection Using Inductive Loops
  • Bicycle Detection with Smartphones
• SESSION 1C – STUDENT PAPER SESSIONS
  • A City With a Fully Coordinated Vehicle Sharing System
  • A Distributed Framework for Network-Wide Traffic Monitoring
  • Estimating Freeway Travel Times Using General Motors Model
• SESSION 2A
  • Arizona Connected Vehicle
  • Truck Automation: Challenges and Opportunities
  • AZ 2 V2I
• SESSION 2B
  • Recent IT Transit Innovations in SF Bay Area (Headway Management Video) (Schedule Adherence Video)
  • Mobility on Demand: 21st Century Approach to Connecting Veterans with Transportation Services
  • Transit Automatic Passenger Counters: A Tool for Smart Decision Making
• SESSION 2C
  • MAG STSP – Strategies for Improving Road Safety via Traffic Operations and ITS Solutions
  • Glendale Flashing Yellow Arrow Implementation (FYA PSA video) 
  • Detection and Warning System for Wrong-Way Driving
• SESSION 3A
  • The Next Generation of Freeway Management is Coming to Arizona – Spine Near Term Improvements
  • AZTech’s Big Data Vision in Support of Future Regional Transportation Initiatives
  • Development of ICM Strategies Using Advanced Simulation Modeling
• SESSION 3B
  • Statistical Validations for Evaluation of Bluetooth/Wi-Fi Technology on Urban Freeway Applications
  • ARID Technology Verification on Arterials and AZ-MX Ports of Entry
  • Arterial Performance Measurement Using Multi-Source ITS Data
• SESSION 3C
  • Enhancing Traveler Information on Arterials Through the AZ511 System
  • Are Intelligent Street Lights in Our Future?
  • Improving TIM with ITS

---

2015-16 Board of Directors Election Results

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

(From left to right: Scott Miller, Mike Sutton, Ratna Korepella, Kim Carroll, Scott Clark, Jamie Blakeman, Jeff Jenq, Khamchanh Ratsavong. Not Pictured: David Lucas)

---

Past Presidents’ Award Winners

Best ITS Planning Project EVP Best Practices Study MAG & OZ Engineering
Best ITS Implementation Project Valley Metro Ridekick Valley Metro & GlobeSherpa
Member of the Year Pete Yingling

---

Student Paper Competition Winner

Monirehalsadat Mahmoudi, from Arizona State University, won the competition for her paper titled “A City with Fully Coordinated Vehicle Sharing System: Finding Optimal Solutions for Vehicle Routing Problem with Pickup and Delivery Services with Time Windows“.