Traffic and Safety Conference 2008

Tentative Conference Agenda

Home Registration Location Conference Agenda Keynote Address Exhibitor Room Professional Development Hours 2007 Archive Contact Us	Wednesday, April 30, 2008
	Pre-Conference Seminars (4 PDHs)
	12:30 - 4:30 pm
	A)	Intersection Design Shawn Leight, CBB Trent Brooks, MoDOT
	B)	Media Relations for Traffic Engineers Jeff Briggs, MoDOT Community Relations Elisa Crouch, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Lindsey Rendlen, KMIZ 17
	C)	Road Safety Assessments Sany Zein, Opus Hamilton
	Thursday, May 1, 2008
	Traffic Conference (11 PDHs)
	8:00 - 9:30 am
		Opening Session Moderator: Charlie Nemmers, University of Missouri-Columbia
		MoDOT Pete Rahn, Director NHTSA Romell Cooks, Regional Administrator FHWA Allen Masuda, Division Administrator Keynote: 21st Century Traffic Engineering (Beyond Star Wars) Michael R. Ostrom, Mygistics
	9:30-10:00 am
		Networking Break in Exhibit Area
	10:00-11:30 am
		Safety Programs Moderator: Chris Luebbert, MoDOT Highway Safety Division
		National Safety Overview David Nicol, Director, FHWA Office of Safety Design Toward Zero Deaths Bernie Arseneau, State Traffic Engineer, Minnesota DOT Blueprint 2 - Where Are We Going from Here? John Miller, Traffic Safety Engineer, MoDOT
	11:45 am-1:00 pm
		Lunch
	1:15-3:00 pm
		Bike/Ped Moderator: Praveen Edara, University of Missouri-Columbia
		Tour of Missouri 2007 Dennie Pendergrass, Tour of MO, Columbia Coordinator Sue Cox, Special Projects Coordinator, MoDOT Great Streets St. Louis Les Sterman; Executive Director, East-West Gateway Safe Routes to School Program Greg Luttrell, Principal, TrailSystems Engineering
	3:00-3:30 pm
		Networking Break
	3:30 - 5:00 pm
		Speed Moderator: Eileen Rackers, MoDOT Traffic Division
		Is 85th Percentile the Answer for Speed Limits? Gary Davis, University of Minnesota Automated Speed Enforcement: Fixed Camera Demonstration Project Simon Washington, Arizona State University I-64 Reconstruction and Variable Speed Limits Ed Hassinger, District Engineer, MoDOT
	Friday, May 2, 2008
	8:00-9:30 am
		Incident Management Moderator: Troy Pinkerton, MoDOT Traffic Division
		Innovations in Incident Management Using ITS and Video Game Technology Michael Pack, CATT Lab Director, University of Maryland Practical Design and Safety -- Incompatible or the Solution? Kevin Keith, Chief Engineer, MoDOT I-35 Bridge Collapse - Incident Response Bernie Arseneau, State Traffic Engineer, Minnesota DOT
	9:30-10:00
		Networking Break
	10:30-11:45
		Safety Moderator: Charlie Nemmers, University of Missouri-Columbia
		Safety Scanning Tour - Maryland & Philadelphia Matt Myers, District Traffic Engineer, Corridor Safety: State of Oregon Anne Holder, Oregon DOT America’s Infrastructure in Crisis Larry Frevert, HDR (APWA National President)