Center for Safety Equity in Transportation

rural • isolated • tribal • indigenous

PacTrans Conference Agenda

A downloadable version of the program is available.

Time

Session

Location

8:00am – 8:30am

Registration and Check-in

ELIF Lobby

8:30am – 8:45am

Welcome/ Opening Remarks

Schaible Auditorium

 

Dr. Nathan Belz, Planning Committee Chair

University of Alaska Fairbanks

 

 

Dr. Yinhai Wang, PacTrans Director

University of Washington

 

 

Billy Connor, CSET Director

University of Alaska Fairbanks

 

 

Senator Lisa Murkowski (Digital Welcome) State of Alaska

 

8:45am – 9:15am

Keynote Address

Schaible Auditorium

 

Moving Safer, Moving Smarter. Transportation in Alaska

 

 

Ryan Anderson, Assistant Commissioner

Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities

 

9:15am – 9:30am

Break

ELIF Lobby

9:30am – 10:30am

Mobility Track:Session 1

Connected+Autonomous Mobility

Schaible Auditorium

 

Autonomous Intersection Control Formulation and Optimization Enabled by CV+AV

 

 

Zhenning Li

University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

 

Connected Vehicle Deployment in Ada County, Idaho: Lessons Learned

 

 

Dr. Ahmed Abdel-Rahim

University of Idaho

 

 

Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control: Assessing Implementation Challenges and Solutions

 

 

Dr. Brian Park

University of Virginia

 

9:30am - 10:30am

Safety Track: Session 1

Rural+Context Sensitive Safety

BP Design Theater, 4th Floor ELIF

 

Rural Safety Case Studies that Fit a Need as well as a Context

 

 

Brian Walsh

Washington State Department of Transportation

 

 

Ongoing Challenges of Providing Transit Services in Northern Climates

 

 

Glenn Miller

Fairbanks North Star Borough

 

 

Safety of Rural Unpaved Two-way Roads in Idaho

 

 

Angel Gonzalez

University of Idaho

 

10:30am - 10:45am

Break

ELIF Lobby

10:45am – 11:45am

Mobility Track: Session 2

The Controversy of Technology

Schaible Auditorium

 

Vehicular Networking for Connected Vehicles: Prospects & Challenges for Mobility & Safety

 

 

Dr. Sumit Roy

University of Washington

 

 

Opportunities and Barriers of Smart Vehicles and Cities for RITI Communities

 

 

Dr. Sameh Sorour

University of Idaho

 

10:45am – 11:45am

Safety Track: Session 2

Traffic Safety in Tribal/ Indigenous/Pacific Islander Communities

BP Design Theater, 4th Floor ELIF

 

A Culture of Traffic Safety on Reservation Roads

 

 

Dr. Margo Hill

Eastern Washington University

 

 

Building Traffic Safety Capacity Among Washington State Tribes

 

 

Scott Waller

Washington Traffic Safety Commission

 

 

Best Practices for Planning and Developing Transportation Safety Projects in Rural Communities

 

 

Adison Spafford

 

 

 

Fatality Analysis of Native Hawaiians in the State of Hawaii: 2007-2016

 

 

Kishor Bhatta

University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

11:45am – 1:00pm

Lunch and Awards

Wood Center Ballroom

1:00pm – 1:30pm

Poster Session Elevator Pitch

Wood Center Ballroom

1:30pm – 2:20pm

Poster Session

Wood Center Ballroom

2:20pm – 2:30pm

Break

ELIF Lobby

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Mobility Track: Session 3

Shared Mobility/ MaaS

Schaible Auditorium

 

Emerging Mobility and Automated Vehicle Trends

 

 

Ali Lohman

Oregon Department of Transportation

 

 

Shared Mobility is like Air BnB on Wheels

 

 

Anne Eskridge

University of Washington

 

 

Exploring Factors Affecting Young Travelers’ Mode Choice Considering E-hailing Service

 

 

Dr. Hao Yu

University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Safety Track: Session 3

Workshop: Defining Isolation in a Transportation Context

BP Design Theater, 4th Floor ELIF

 

Dr. Cary de Wit

University of Alaska Fairbanks

 

 

Hillary Strayer

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium

 

 

Panos Prevedouros

University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

 

Dr. Sveta Yamin-Pasternak

University of Alaska Fairbanks

 

 

Dr. Igor Pasternak

University of Alaska Fairbanks

 

3:30pm – 3:45pm

Break

ELIF Lobby

3:45pm – 4:45pm

Closing Panel

Balancing Safety and Mobility

Schaible Auditorium

 

Annie Chang, Program Manager

SAE International

 

 

Dan Schacher, Director

Alaska DOT&PF Northern Region M&O

 

 

Dr. David Yang, Executive Director

AAA

 

 

Dr. Daniel Work, Associate Professor

Vanderbilt University

 

4:45pm – 5:00pm

Closing Remarks

Schaible Auditorium

 

Dr. Nathan Belz

University of Alaska Fairbanks

 

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Social Hour + Networking

BP Design Theater, 4th Floor ELIF

 

Student Conference Agenda for October 13, 2018

Session / Event  Time
Breakfast & Check-In 8:30am - 9:00am
Transporation Engineering: a balance between the fundamentals and creative solutions 9:00am - 9:55am

Colin Singleton 

CRW Engineering Group - Anchorage, AK

 
Transportation Engineering in the North; planning, budget, logistics of transportation 10:00am - 10:55am

Jackson Fox  

Executive Director of the Fairbanks Metropolitan Area Transportation System

 
Building Resiliency in Transportation 11:00am - 11:55am

Marc Luiken, C.M. 

Commissioner of Alaska Department of Transportation + Public Facilities

Poster Competition & Lunch 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Permafrost Tour 1:00pm - 5:00pm


Please contact either Gabriel Fulton - gfulton3@alaska.edu or Dylan Baffrey - dylan.k.baffrey@gmail.com for more information on the Student Conference.