Conference Program
Concurrent Technical Sessions (1-6)
Monday, June 7, 2010 -
10:30am - noon
1. Green Transportation Initiatives - Part I
Moderator: Dave Soltis, TLI Solutions
This session will focus on the state and federal "green" transportation programs such as Green Highways, GreenLITES and Green Roads (see session #8 too).
- Green Highways - Hunt Presentation (5.17MB); Dietrich Presentation (78KB)
Mary Hunt, Environmental Protection Agency Region III; Becky Dietrich, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality - GreenLITES (21.77MB)
Gary McVoy, New York State Department of Transportation - Green Roads (1.50MB)
Sam Seskin, CH2M Hill
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2. Sharing Sustainability Practices in Aviation (319KB)
Moderator: Burr Stewart, Principle Burrst
The aviation industry is using a highly collaborative approach to advance sustainability practices. This session will describe the creation of a web-based aviation sustainability practices tool called SAGA and the perspectives of several participants on where sustainability is headed.
- Introduction to Sustainable Aviation Guidance Alliance (SAGA ) (4.02MB)
Kristin Lemaster, CDM - Bringing Sustainability to Airports (643KB)
Jessica Steinhilber, ACI-NA - Approaches that Airlines are Taking to Address Sustainability and its Multiple Stakeholders
Tim Pohle, ATA
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3. Historic Bridges: New Approaches Toward Sustaining the Legacy
Moderator: Mary Ann Naber, Federal Highway Administration
This session will present new tools and approaches that should be helpful in maintaining the viability of historic bridges.
- Hawthorne Street Bridge: Rehabilitation of an Historic Phoenix Truss and Use of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Deck. The rehabilitation of this structure illustrates the value of modern materials and technology to keep an historic truss bridge in service and reduce load restrictions (758KB)
Tony Opperman, Virginia Department of Transportation - An Innovative Programmatic Approach to Manage Indiana’s Historic Bridge Population. The system evaluates both relative historic significance and engineering condition to evaluate potential for preservation and establish priorities instead of an inefficient project-by-project approach (2.76MB)
Amy Squitieri, Mead and Hunt, Inc. - Challenges and Suggestions for Sustaining and Use of Historic Bridges (2.17MB)
John Hinman, CH2M Hill
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4. Particulate Matter Project-Level Analysis
Moderator: Cecelia Ho, Federal Highway Administration
This session will discuss how particulate matter can be modeled at the project level. Includes meeting conformity requirements and using MOVES to model particulate matter.
- Quantitative PM Hot-spot Analysis Guidance
Meg Patulski, Environmental Protection Agency - Using the MOVES Model to Do a PM Project Level Air Quality Analysis (2.12MB)
Mike Claggett, Federal Highway Administration - Research on PM
Randy Guensler, Georgia Institute of Technology
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5. Addressing Climate Change Impacts at the Transportation Project Scale (1.19MB)
Moderator: Carissa Schively Slotterback, University of Minnesota
This session will examine approaches and issues related to addressing climate change impacts at the project scale, integrating perspectives from both research and practice. Emerging policies related to addressing climate change in environmental impact analysis and new models for calculating greenhouse gas impact will be examined. Approaches to considering climate change in recent transportation projects will be discussed.
- Documenting Climate Change Considerations in the National Environmental Policy Act Process (742KB)
Jeff Houk, Federal Highway Administration - California Senate Bill 375 Implementation: Greenhouse Gas Target Setting - Statewide and SANDAG Hybrid Scenario Testing
Muggs Stoll, SANDAG - Columbia River Crossing: NEPA GHG/Climate Change Case Study (453KB)
Jeff Heilman, Parametrix, Inc.
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6. Vehicle Electrification: How Close/Ready Are We?
Moderator: Dan Santini, Center for Transportation Research, Argonne National Laboratory
This session differentiates the attributes of plug-in electric vehicles - plug-in hybrids and battery electric vehicles - showing that they will serve fundamentally different markets and present different problems and opportunities for electric utilities.
- Electric Power Consumption by Light-Duty Plug-in Electric Vehicles (1.83MB)
Di Wu, Iowa State University - On the Cost Effectiveness of PHEV in Suburbia (707KB)
Anant Vyas, Center for Transportation Research, Argonne National Laboratory - Plug-in Electric Drive Impacts on the Grid (1.66MB)
Arindam Maitra, Electric Power Research Institute
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