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BTS is an active participant in the national professional transportation community. We regularly attend the national ITS America and North American Traffic Monitoring Exhibition and Conference (NATMEC) conferences. In addition, BTS participates in the Transportation Research Board (TRB) activities, volunteering on committees and presenting at the annual meeting.

Selected Projects

  • September 2011, “VDOT Transportation Operations Data Distribution Services.” Virginia DOT.
  • August 2011, “Arterial Performance Measurement Systems.” Santa Clara County.
  • July 2011, “PeMS Reporting and Analysis.” Caltrans.
  • June 2011, “Dynamic Mobility Applications Data Sets.” Caltrans.
  • May 2011, “Highway Performance Monitoring System Manuals.” Abu Dhabi DOT.
  • Jan 2011, “Performance Monitoring System.” Minnesota DOT.
  • June 2009, “Arterial Performance Measurement System.” City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LA DOT), Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG).
  • May 2009, “Universal Ramp Metering System Protocol Support.” Caltrans.
  • May 2009, “Performance Measurement System Analytical Support, Advanced and Elementary.” Caltrans.
  • Feb 2009, “Transportation Management Center Activity Logging System.” Caltrans.

BTS at Conferences

  • “Return on Investment of Performance Measurement Programs Implemented by Public Sector Transportation Agencies,” presented by Rob Hranac at the 18th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, Orlando, FL, October 16-20, 2011.
  • “Automating the ITS Data Supply Chain,” presented by Rob Hranac at the 18th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, Orlando, FL, October 16-20, 2011.
  • “Visualizing ITS Data,” presented by Rob Hranac at the 18th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, Orlando, FL, October 16-20, 2011
  • “Visualizing Bus Schedule Adherence and Passenger Load Through Marey Graphs,” by Eric Mai, Mark Backman, Rob Hranac. Presented at the 18th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, Orlando, FL, October 16-20, 2011.
  • “Optimally Measuring and Reporting Arterial Performance Using Different Detection Networks,” by Tiffany Barkley, Rob Hranac. Presented at the 18th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, Orlando, FL, October 16-20, 2011.
  • “Incident Fingerprints for Integrated Corridor Management,” by Rob Hranac. Presented at the 18th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, Orlando, FL, October 16-20, 2011.
  • “Performance Measurement 101: Strategies for Addressing Increasing Data Collection and Accountability Requirements in an Era of Decreasing Resources,” presented by Karl Petty at the 18th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, Orlando, FL, October 16-20, 2011.
  • “Passenger-Centric Transit Visualization,” by Eric Mai at the 6th International Symposium on Visualization in Transportation, Aug 20-23, 2011, Chicago, IL.
  • “Asking the Right Questions: Timely Advice for Emering Tools, Better Data, and Approaches for Systems Performance Measures,” invited panelist Karl Petty. At the TRB Fourth International Transportation Systems Performance Measurement Conference, May 18-20, 2011, at the Beckman Center, Irvine, California.
  • “Algorithm for Finding Optimal Paths in a Public Transit Network with Real-Time Data,” Jerald Jariyasunant, Eric Mai, Raja Sengupta. Presented at the TRB 90th Annual Meeting, Jan 23-27, 2011, Washington, D.C.
  • “Decomposition of Travel Time Reliability into Various Sources: Incidents, Weather, Work Zones, Special Events, and Base Capacity,” Jaimyoung Kwon, Tiffany Barkley, Rob Hranac, Karl Petty, Nick Compin. Presented at the TRB 90th Annual Meeting, Jan 23-27, 2011, Washington, D.C.
  • “Heuristic Approach for Estimating Arterial Signal Phases and Progression Quality from Vehicle Arrival Data,” by Tiffany Barkley, Rob Hranac, Kim Fuentes, Philip Law. Presented at the TRB 90th Annual Meeting, Jan 23-27, 2011, Washington, D.C.
  • “Using Marey Graphs to Visualize Transit Loading and Schedule Adherence,” by Rob Hranac. Presented at the TRB 90th Annual Meeting, Jan 23-27, 2011, Washington, D.C.
  • “Adding Arterial Data to a Freeway Archived Data Management Systems,” presented at the North American Travel Monitoring Exposition and Conference (NATMEC), Seattle, WA, June 22-24, 2010.
  • “Integration of WIM data into an Archived Data User Service,” presented at the North American Travel Monitoring Exposition and Conference (NATMEC), Seattle, WA, June 22-24, 2010.
  • “Fusing Bluetooth Data and ITS Data for Performance Measurement,” presented at the North American Travel Monitoring Exposition and Conference (NATMEC), Seattle, WA, June 22-24, 2010.
  • “Estimation of Truck Travel Times and Other Stuff from WIM Signature Data,” presented at the North American Travel Monitoring Exposition and Conference (NATMEC), Seattle, WA, June 22-24, 2010.
  • “Visualization Evaluation Framework for Traffic Data,” presented by Rob Hranac. Presented in the session on "Innovative Management and Applications of Archived ITS Data" at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) 89th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, Jan 10-14, 2010.
  • “Sharing Traffic Data. How do we share data and why?” Northwest Traffic Data Workshop (in conjunction with the TRB Joint Mid-Year Meeting), Seattle Sheraton Hotel, Seattle, WA, July 22, 2009
  • “Using an ADUS to Compute and Visualize Performance Measures on Managed Facilities,” presented at The 2nd International Symposium on Freeway and Tollway Operations, Honolulu, HI, June 21-24, 2009.