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1 | Day 1 Western: Wednesday, August 12 (CDT) | ||
2 | 10-11 am CDT | Towards Just Transitions in Urban Transportation | Headliner: Dr. Tim Schwanen - Oxford University (Intro: Dr. Kara Kockelman, UT Austin) |
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5 | 11 am- 1 pm CDT (Central US) | Session W1: Active Transportation & Shared Mobility - Session Chair: Dr. Negin Alisoltani (Uni Gustave Eiffel) | |
6 | Click to join this session | Zoom Coordinator: Saurav Pokharel | |
7 | Understanding User Retention in Bike-Sharing Systems with a Survival Analysis of Operational, Environmental, & Demographic Influences | Yeji Jeon, Jun Zhao, Xi Zhang, Ali Shamshiripour, Yao-Jan Wu (Univeristy of Arizona) | |
8 | From Local to Global: Comparing Shared Micromobility Market Dynamics in 52 Nations | Merja Kajava, Miloš Mladenović, Elnert Coenegrachts, Joris Beckers (Aalto University) | |
9 | Assessing the Relationship Between Urban Road Design, Sense of Place, & Walking | Polycap Chebe (Technion) | |
10 | Designing the Next Generation of Urban Mobility: Unlocking the Potential of Micro-Mobility Hubs | Panagiota Mavrogenidou, Amalia Polydoropoulou, Charisma Choudhury (Univesity of Aegean) | |
11 | Exploring the Impact of Pedestrian Network on Bikeshare-Induced Multimodal Accessibility in Small Urban Networks: A Case Study of Fort Smith, AR | Anindya Debnath, Suman Mitra, Sebastian Jordan (University of Arkansas) | |
12 | Intersections as Barriers to Low-Stress Cycling: Intersection Level of Traffic Stress & Dual-Graph Network Modeling | Nathan Obeng-Amoako, Peter Furth, Armin Akhavan, Bita Sadeghinasr, Ray Saeidi, Luis Mir.-Moreno, Christine Théb.-Barrette, Paul Moser (Northeastern University) | |
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14 | 11 am- 1 pm CDT (Central US) | Session W2: Inclusive Mobility, Aging, & Accessibility - Session Chair: Dr. Efthymia Kostopoulou (Michigan State U) | |
15 | Click to join this session | Zoom Coordinator: Baldev Giri | |
16 | Advancing Inclusive Service Design Thinking in Transport Buildings: Reflections from Research & Practice | John Harding (WSP) | |
17 | Designing Inclusive Demand-Responsive Transport: Comparative Insights from Wales & Israel | Noam Katzir, Orit Rotem, Yoram Shiftan (Technion & Bar Ilan University) | |
18 | Public Transport Use Cessation & Age-Related Functional Decline: a Quasi-Causal Analysis Using the English Longitudinal Study of Aging | Omer Dilian, Paul Feigin, Nadav Davidovitch, Karel Martens (Technion) | |
19 | Beyond Formal Services: The Role of Social Networks in Supporting Older Adults’ Transportation Needs | Arna Nishita Nithila, Suman Mitra, Daniel Rodriguez (Univesrity of Arkansas) | |
20 | Do People with Similar Disabilities Travel the Same Way? | Md Musfiqur Rahman Bhuiya, Jesus Barajas (UC Davis) | |
21 | Frequency & Severity of Daily Mobility Problems: A New Framework for Measuring Systemic Social Exclusion | Ilana Har-Tal Prishkunik, Karel Martens,Matan Singer (Technion & Bar Ilan University) | |
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23 | 11 am- 1 pm CDT (Central US) | Session W3: Transportation Safety & Roadway Design - Session Chair: Dr. Alyssa Ryan (Michigan State U) | |
24 | Click to join this session | Zoom Coordinator: Lika Mamiseishvili | |
25 | Testing Models of Traffic Safety Culture in Lethbridge, Alberta using Confirmatory Factor Analysis & Structural Equation Modelling | Sam Pollock, Tyler Golly, Laurel Flanagan, Leanne Janke, Jason Hawkins, Lina Kattan (Univesrity of Calgary) | |
26 | A Grid-Based Approach to Counting Vulnerable Road Users from Video Data | Mubarak Thanni, Suman Mitra (Univ of Arkansas) | |
27 | Patterns & Predictors of Total & Fatal Injury Crashes in Bexar County, Texas: A Decade-Long Spatiotemporal Study | Mahbuba Ahsan, Hatim Sharif (UT San Antonio) | |
28 | Exploring the Impact of Roadway Lighting on Driver Behavior & Road Safety | Keya Li, Kara Kockelman (Univ Texas Austin) | |
29 | Analyzing School-Zone Speeding Using Vehicle Telematics Data: A Case Study in Charlottesville & Albemarle County, Virginia | Shi Feng, Brian Park, Andrew Mondschein (University of Virginia) | |
30 | A User-Driven Importance–Performance Analysis of Bus Stops for Prioritizing Improvements | Karzan Ismael (Sulaimani Polytechnic University) | |
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32 | 11 am- 1 pm CDT (Central US) | Session W4: AI, Machine Learning, & Data Science for Transportation - Session Chair: Dr. Mostafa Ameli (Uni Gustave Eiffel) | |
33 | Click to join this session | Zoom Coordinator: Sebastian Ramallo | |
34 | Multi-Stage Framework for Vehicle Profiling from Traffic Video Using Object Detection & Vision Language Models | Daming Wang, Laura Minet (University of Victoria) | |
35 | Analysis of Choice Model & Machine Learning Algorithm Performance using Machine Learning Metrics | Lorenzo Munoz Torrejon, Stephane Hess, Thomas Hancock, Georges Sfeir (University of Leeds) | |
36 | Zero-Shot Travel Diary Generation Using Large Language Models | Sepehr Golrokh Amin, Devin Rhoads, Fatemeh Fakhrmoosavi, Nick Lownes, John Ivan (U Conn) | |
37 | Recent Development of AI Agents Across Transportation Systems Lifecycle: Review & Implications | Jiangbo Yu (McGill University) | |
38 | IntelliSUMO: Simulating the Traffic Impact of Bridge Closures Using a Large Language Model-Powered Framework | Onindo Akash Shuvro, Alican Sevim, Ruimin Ke, Qianwen Vivian Guo, Eren Erman Ozguven (Florida A&M) | |
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40 | Afternoon Western Sessions | ||
41 | 1 pm-3 pm CDT (Central US) | Session W5: Traffic Operations, Control, & Autonomous Systems - Session Chair: Dr. Mohammad Miralinaghi (IIT) | |
42 | Click to join this session | Zoom Coordinator: Anindya Debnath | |
43 | Learning the Pareto Space of Multi-Objective Autonomous Driving: A Modular, Data-Driven Approach | Mohammad Elayan, Wissam Kontar (University of Nebraska) | |
44 | MAPLE: Macro–Micro Aligned Pigouvian Lane Control for Mixed-Autonomy Traffic Efficiency | Kexin Wang (University of Southern California) | |
45 | Staging at the Curb: Evaluating the Impacts of Shared Automated Vehicle Fleet Operations Under Curb Usage Restrictions | Younghun Bahk, Michael Hyland, Susan Shaheen, Brooke Wolfe, Adam Cohen (Ajou University, UC Irvine, UC Berkeley) | |
46 | Robotaxis as Transit: Simulation-Informed Benefit-Cost Comparisons | Kentaro Mori, Krishna Murthy Gurumurthy, Kara Kockelman (U of Texas at Austin + ANLab) | |
47 | Demand-Contingent Optimality of Lane Relocation: Integrating Traffic Flow Constraints into a Nash Bargaining Framework | Mehrnoosh Zare, Mariana Otero Becerril (University of Calgary) | |
48 | Traffic is Loopy: Insights & Findings about Traffic State Hysteresis | Benjamin Coifman & Yuan Liu (Ohio State Univ.) | |
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50 | 1 pm-3 pm CDT (Central US) | Session W6: Traffic Prediction, Simulation, & Computational Methods - Session Chair: Dr. Fatemeh Fakhrmoosavi (UConn) | |
51 | Click to join this session | Zoom Coordinator: Arna Nishita Nithila | |
52 | A Robust Multi-Cluster Correction Method for Parallelizing Large Discrete-Event Simulations | Silvano Bernabel, Felisa Vázquez-Abad (CUNY) | |
53 | Structural Compatibility Between Physical & Learning Models: Quantifying AI Gain in Fundamental Diagram-Based Traffic Prediction | Yuyan Pan, Qianwen Guo, Xianbiao Hu, Xuesong Zhou (Florida State, Penn State, Arizona State) | |
54 | Reinforcement Learning-Guided Dynamic Multi-Graph Fusion for Evacuation Traffic Prediction | Md Nafees Fuad Rafi, Samiul Hasan (Univesity of Central Florida) | |
55 | Behavior-Aware Traffic Prediction for Hurricane Evacuations via Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning & Deep Neural Networks | Daniel Udekwe, Qianwen (Vivian) Guo (Florida State University) | |
56 | An AI-Driven Disruption-Aware Transportation Systems Framework Integrating Mobile Applications, Machine Learning, & Optimization | Mahmoud Heshmat (Assiut University) | |
57 | CHEER: Calculating Holistic Energy Estimates on Route: A Fine-Grained, Quasi-Real-Time System for Computing the Energy Impact of Personal Transportation | Abigail Wheelis, Natalie Schultz, Jack Greenlee, Jacques Fleischer, Louis Grassi, K. Shankari (Natinal Lab of Rockies) | |
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59 | 1 pm-3 pm CDT (Central US) | Session W7: Travel Behavior, Choice, & Demand Analysis - Session Chair: Dr. Sania Esmaeilzadeh Seilabi (Purdue) | |
60 | Click to join this session | Zoom Coordinator: Mubarak Thanni | |
61 | Why Are People Moving? Temporally Validated Detection of Residential Relocation & Its Urban Drivers Using Smart Card Data | Renato Muñoz Garrido, Bastián Henríquez Jara, C. Angelo Guevara, Omar Perez (Universidad de Chile) | |
62 | Integrating Instrumental, Hedonic & Symbolic Factors in Interurban Transport Mode Choice using Psychophysiological & Visual Context Indicators | Pablo González, C. Angelo Guevara, Bastian Henríquez, Ricardo Daziano (Unversidad de Chile & Cornell University) | |
63 | Beyond household Vehicle Ownership: Developing A Person-Level Car-Access Index | Baldev Giri, Suman Mitra, Arna Nithila (University of Arkansas) | |
64 | Flattened Preferences: Distributional Distortion in LLM-inferred Responses for Stated Preference Surveys | Chenyu Yuan, Matthew Dean (Univ of California Irvine) | |
65 | The Intention-Action Gap in E-Shopping: Longitudinal Evidence & Predictive Insights from Latent Attitudinal Representations | Adedolapo Ogungbire, Suman Mitra (U Arkansas) | |
66 | From Potential Access to Realized Travel: Heterogeneity in Healthcare-Related Travel Behavior Across Transportation & Socioeconomic Contexts | Mohammad Maleki, Ehsan Poorvahedi, Janille Smith-Colin (Southern Methodist University) | |
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68 | Regarding Time Zones: | ||
69 | • CDT = US Central Daylight Time Time; EDT = US Eastern Daylight Daylight (1 hr after CDT); CEST = Central Europe Summer Time (7 hr after CDT) | ||
70 | Western tracks: 10 am CDT = 1 am in Sydney, 3 am in Auckland, 9 am in San Francisco, 11 am in New York & Toronto, 4 pm in London, 5 pm in Munich, Madrid & Stockholm, 6 pm in Nairobi, 7:30 pm in Tehran, 8:30 pm in Delhi, 11 pm in Beijing & Singapore, & midnight in Tokyo (0 am of the next day). | ||
71 | • AEST = Australia Eastern Standard; CST = China Standard Time (2 hr before AEST); JST = Japan Standard Time (1 hr before AEST) | ||
72 | Eastern tracks: 1 pm AEST = 11 am in Beijing, 4 am in London, 5 am in Munich, Madrid & Stockholm, 6 am in Nairobi, 7:30 am in Tehran, 8:30 am in Delhi, 1 pm in Sydney, 12 pm in Tokyo, 3 pm in Auckland, 8 pm in San Francisco (the day before), 10 pm in Chicago (the day before), & 11 pm in New York & Toronto (the day before). | ||
73 | ➔ Eastern sessions start a "half-day" before Western, because both begin on Wed. August 12 ➔ Since time zones confuse us all, please check exact times at https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock. Thanks! | ||
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