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2006 Annual Meeting

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The 2006 ITS Texas Annual Meeting was held November 15-17 at the Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake, in Houston, TX.

Session I – ITS Primetime

Commercial Break 1-Cornet Technologies (56 KB )
TransVista Use During the 2006 El Paso Floods (1,920 KB )– Edgar Fino, P.E., Transportation Operations Engineer Supervisor, TxDOT El Paso District
Commercial Break 2-FDS (159 KB )
NASA Technology At Your Dinner Table (143 KB ) – Richard Lehman, Senior Software/Safety Engineer, JSC-NASA
Commercial Break 3-Texas Highway Products (587 KB )
ITS – The Next Generation (100 KB )– Patrick McGowan, P.E., Vice President, Telvent Farradyne, Inc.
Commercial Break 4-VBrick Systems (104 KB )

Session 2A – Real World ITS

Traffic Incident Management Towers Perspective (77 KB )- Rick Chron, Vice Chairman and Light Duty Instructor, Texas Towing & Storage Association
Incident Detection, Management and Response Utilizing the TxDOT SDI Architecture (275 KB )– Lynne Randolph, Sr. Research Engineer, Southwest Research Institute
Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport ITS Master Plan, Safety and Security Focus (78 KB )– Vickie Morris, Area manager, Telvent Farradyne
Clear Channel's Total Traffic Network (639 KB )- Kevin Loftus, Director of Data Services and Traffic Content, Clear Channel Radio

Session 2B – Homeland Security Applications

Advances in Truck Crossings at Texas – Mexico Border (500 KB )– Dr. Bill Stockton, Associate Agency Director, Texas Transportation Institute
Homeland Security Activities in Texas A&M Engineering (562 KB )– Dr. Don Phillips, Professor, Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University
Homeland Security: A Ft. Worth Perspective: Part 1 (353 KB )–Carl Johnson, Ft. Worth Transp. PW/ITS
Homeland Security: A Ft. Worth Perspective: Part II (Local agency policies restrict presentation from being posted)– Gilbert Banda, Ft. Worth PD/Intel/Homeland Security

Session 3A – Multimodal ITS

Dallas CBD Light Rail-traffic Operations (77 KB )– Mark Titus, P.E., ITS Program Manager, City of Dallas
DalTrans Transportation Management Center (748 KB )– Andy Oberlander, P.E., Assistant Director of Operations, TxDOT Dallas District
Multimodal Multi-Agency Information Sharing Network (244 KB )– Dr. Ahmad Sadegh, Vice President, Telvent Farradyne
US 75 Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) (1689 KB )– Koorosh Olyai, P.E., Assistant Vice President, Dallas Area Rapid Transit

Session 3B – Traveler Information

Keep the Data Flowing! Maximizing Travel Time Availability with Dynamic Linking (1.159 KB )– Matt D’Angelo, Program Manager, PBS&J
Traffic Data 2.0 – It’s Impact on Traveler Information (997 KB )– Rick Schuman, Vice President, Public Sector, Inrix
The Texas Three-Step: HCRS…ATIS…511 (314 KB )- Alex Power, ITS Project Manager, Traffic Operations Division, TxDOT
Balancing Statewide and Regional Needs for 511 (58 KB )– Michael Berman, AICP, Program Manager, PBS&J

Session 4 – Vendor Technology Forum

Session 5A – Toll Roads and CDA’s

Tolling – Current and Future Practices (XX KB )- Mr. Jay Johns, Senior Transportation Analyst, Wilbur Smith Associates
Open Road Tolling and ITS Elements that Made Rapid Deployment Possible (XX KB )- Mr. John Benda, General Manager of Maintenance and Traffic, Illinois Toll Authority
CDA Program Overview (XX KB )- Ms. Diana Vargas, CDA Program Manager, Texas Turnpike Authority Division

Session 5B – Performance Measures

National Activities on System Performance Monitoring (136 KB )– Shawn Turner, P.E., Mobility Analysis Program, Texas Transportation Institute
Statewide Performance Measures: The Transformational Shift (211 KB )– Steve Corbin, ITS Operations Manager, FDOT
Measuring System Performance: A Regional/Local Perspective (730 KB )– Natalie Bettger, Senior Program Manager, NCTCOG

Session 6A – Professional Development

Engineering Ethics – C.W. Clark, P.E., Director of Compliance & Enforcement, Texas PE Board of Engineers

Session 6B – ITS The Enabler

SDI Program (686 KB )– Charles Farnham, SDI Configuration Manager, TxDOT
Municipal Experiences (XX KB )– Jake Smith, President, Cactus Computer, Inc.
ITS Enabling Communications, RDVCS In DFW Area (298 KB )– Mark Workman, Senior Research Engineer, Southwest Research Institute

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