The Midwest Transportation Consortium
is one of 10 competitively awarded Tier 1 University Transportation Centers sponsored by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) of the U.S. DOT

Student Presentations

2011

Date Speaker Topic
Jan. 14 Shauna Hallmark, Chris Albrecht, ISU Introduction to theSeminar Series
Jan. 21 Rema Nilakanta, Go! Magazine Go!: extending transportation to K-12
Feb. 4 Dr. Dan McGehee Driver Distraction: Definitions and Data
Feb. 11 A.J. Million, Transportation Librarian at MoDOT Seven Strategies for “Search”
Feb. 18 Chuck Taylor, Awake! Consulting Logistics and the supply chain industry
Feb. 25 Jeremy Vortherms, Chief Safety Engineer for Iowa DOT Safety Focus in Iowa
March 4 Professor Wilfrid Nixon Sustainability in Winter Maintenance
March 11 Wes Bolton - All State Consultants
Rick Kaufmann – City of Columbia		 How roundabouts solve traffic problems
March 18 No seminar - ISU Spring Break
March 25 Jon Nekritz –FHWA Washington, DC National Bridge Safety Inspection Program
April 1 Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, Airport Director, Lambert-St. Louis Int'l Airport Federal Perspective on Asset Management
April 8 Peter Appel, U.S. DOT RITA TBD
April 15 Kent Lande, Louis Berger Group The Role for Engineers in Nation Building
April 22 Forrest Van Schwartz, Global Transportation Consultancy TBD
April 29 Carlos Sun – Law Journal Paper Is Robo-Cop a Cash Cow?

 

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2010

Date Speaker Topic
Jan. 15 Shauna Hallmark, Chris Albrecht, ISU Introduction to the Tom Maze Transportation Seminars
Jan. 22 Jon Luer, Burns and McDonnell Alternate Intersection and Interchange Designs
Jan. 29 Paul Hanley, University of Iowa Mileage Charges
Feb. 5 Tim Brown, University of Iowa Adaptive Cruise Control
Feb. 12 Ted Curtis, City of Columbia, MO Implementation of Non-Motorized Transportation
Feb. 19 Jerry Roche, FHWA Iowa "Safety Edge" Pavement Edge Treatments
Feb. 26 Corinne Peek-Asa, University of Iowa Injury Prevention in Transportation
March 5 Tim Matisziw, University of Missouri Access to Air Transportation in the US
March 12 Doug Couto, Citrix Information Systems and Emerging Technologies
March 19 No seminar - ISU Spring Break  
March 26 Pete Rahn, Missouri DOT Missouri DOT's Focus
April 2 Butch Wlaschin, FHWA Federal Perspective on Asset Management
April 9 Don Hillis, Missouri DOT Traffic and Safety Programs in Missouri
April 16 Chris Monsere, Portland State University TBD
April 23 Tim Klein, RITA TBD
April 30 Howard Preston, CH2M Hill Crashes at Curves Research

 

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2009

Date Speaker Topic
Jan. 16 NO CLASS  
Jan. 23 Jamson Sims KC Scout IT/Safety
Jan. 30 Elizabeth Westlake, University of Iowa Teen Driving Project
Feb. 6 Shauna Hallmark, Iowa State University Naturalistic Driver Safety Evaluation
Feb. 13 Nadia Gkritza, Iowa State University Economic Development Effects of Highway Investment
Feb. 20 Mara Campbell, MoDOT MoDOT's Tracker Performance Measurement Tool
Feb. 27 James Noble, Univ. of Missouri, and Rod Massman, Missouri DOT Amtrak St. Louis to Kansas City Rail Capacity Solution
March 6 John Woodrooffe, University of Michigan Heavy Vehicle Safety
March 13 Stuart Anderson, Iowa DOT Economics and Transportation Funding
March 20 NO CLASS Due to ISU Spring Break  
March 27 Tim Neuman, CH2MHill 500 Series, Origins and Uses
April 3 Brian Kinsey, Lambert International Airport in St. Louis "Branding" the airport and making it a cargo hub for China
April 10 Keith Knapp, University of Minnesota CERS and Rural Safety Projects
April 17 Fred Mannering, Purdue University Risk Compensation and Effectiveness of Vehicle Safety Features
April 24 TBA  
May 1 Howard Preston, CH2MHill Investment in Safety Improvements

 

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2008

Date Speaker Topic
Jan. 18 Nemmers/Vap/McDonald (UMC) Safety Corridors National Summary
Synthesis 1.6 mb pdf
Iowa Summary 913 kb pdf
Jan. 25 John Donahue (MoDOT) and Dean Bierwagen (Iowa DOT) Rapid Concrete Pavement Replacement: A Safety Strategy
Feb. 1 CANCELLED  
Feb. 8 Lesley Hoffarth (MoDOT) Total Highway Closure as an Option During Reconstruction
Feb. 15 Rudy Umbs (FHWA) Your Legacy in Highway Safety 2.2 mb pdf
Feb. 22 Kevin Blanshan (Waterloo/Cedar Falls MPO) and Tom Kane (Des Moines MPO) Metropolitan Planning Organizations: Today’s Challenges and Tomorrow’s Directions
Tom Kane's presentation 4.6 mb pdf
Feb. 29 Ron Achelpohl (MARC) Highway Safety in the Kansas City Region
March 7 Linda Boyle (University of Iowa) Human Factors Research in Highway Safety
March 14 Stuart Anderson (Iowa DOT) State DOT Revenue Shortfalls and Strategies 1.1 mb pdf
March 21 No Class Due to ISU Spring Break  
March 28 Howard Preston (CH2M Hill) State Strategic Highway Safety Plans: Lesson Learned 2.3 mb pdf
April 4 CANCELLED  
April 11 CANCELLED  
April 18 Edwards/May (Springfield, MO MPO) and Johnson (UMC) Springfield, Missouri Activity Center Based-Planning and Cost Calculator
April 25 Eric Wright (Iowa DOT) How Land Developers Look at Transportation Systems and Access 1.7 mb pdf
May 2 Doug Harwood (Midwest Research Institute) and and Peter Kissinger (AAA Foundation for Transportation Safety) AAA's Road Safety Programs

 

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2007

Date Speaker Topic
Jan. 12 Hillary Isebrands (ISU CTRE) European Scanning Tour on Rural High Speed Roundabouts 1.5 mb pdf
Jan. 19 Susan McCubbins/Josh Scott (MoDOT) I-435 and Front St. Interchange in Kansas City (An Innovative Design)
Jan. 26 CANCELLED  
Feb. 2 Carlos Schwantes (UMSL) What We Can Learn From Transportation History
Feb. 9 Chris Gutierrez (Kansas City SmartPort) International Intermodal Freight
Feb. 16 Robert C. Brown (ISU Office of Biorenewables) Biofuels and Transportation 1.5 mb pdf
ISU's Bioeconomy Initiative 946 kb pdf
Feb. 23 James Cooper (University of Glasgow, Scotland) Public Transportation in Low Density Rural Areas
March 2 Linda Boyle (University of Iowa) Driver Distraction--CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
March 9 Mike Tully and Sunshine Yang (Aerial Services, Inc.) Photogrammetry and Transportation Data Acquisition
March 16 No Class Due to ISU Spring Break  
March 23 Larry Frevert (National President Elect of American Public Works Assn. and HDR, Inc.)  
March 30 Libby Ogard (Prime Focus LLC) Leveraging Private Sector Railroad Assets
April 6 Gary Davis (University of Minnesota) Crash Causation
April 13 Allen Hines (Consultant ) Crash Reconstruction
April 20 Dick Hemmingsen (Initiative for Renewable Energy and Environment, University of Minnesota) The Future of Transportation Energy
April 27 Kevin Keith (MoDOT Chief Engineer) Missouri DOT’s 800 Bridge Program

 

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2006

 

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2005

 

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2004

  • Terry Browne (Collins Engineering), Underwater Bridge Inspection (Part 1 5.4 mb pdf , Part 2 4.9 mb pdf)
  • Matt Shands (Transportation Policy Institute), Asset Management as Communications ( 5.4 mb ppt, 1.2 mb pdf)
  • Glen Washer (FHWA Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center), Non Destructive Evaluation in Condition Assessment for Asset Management
  • Terry Wipf and Brent Phares (Iowa State University), Bridge Health Monitoring: Present and Future (9.5 mb pdf)
  • Mike Smid (Yellow Freight), The Trucking Industry
  • Ernest Barenberg (University of Illinois) and Dulci Rufino (ERES Consultants), PCC Pavement Issues (Rockford airport, 7.2 mb pdf; design criteria, 17 kb pdf; Denver airport, 7.4 mb pdf)
  • Mark Ward (John Deere), Global Logistics
  • Steve Andrle and Dennis Kroeger (Iowa State University), Winter Maintenance Management—The MDSS System (3.9 mb pdf)
  • Tom Maze (Iowa State University), The Science of Asset Management (1.3 mb pdf)
  • Spring Break, no seminar
  • David Plazak and Reg Souleyrette (Iowa State University), Process to Identify High Priority Corridors for Access Management Near Large Urban Areas in Iowa (2.7 mb pdf)
    (NOTE: These speakers were emergency substitutes for the previously scheduled Chris Huffman of the Kansas DOT; however, the main topic remained the same.)
  • Keith Herbold (Federal Highway Administration), Pavement Preservation and Asset Management ( 2.3 mb pdf)
  • Wayne McDaniel (PB Consultants), GASB 34 Modified Approach Implementation (part 1, 14.3 mb pdf; part 2, 9.4 mb pdf)
  • Joseph Kellett (US Army Corps of Engineers), US Army Corps of Engineers: Overview and Opportunities
  • Stuart Anderson (Iowa Department of Transportation), Iowa DOT’s Long Range Transportation Plan Update
  • Donald Broughton (A. G. Edwards), Financial Health of Transportation

 

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2003

  • Mei Meiarashi, Public Works Research Institute of Japan, Infrastructure Asset Management Overseas
  • Yiannis Papelis, National Advanced Driving Simulator, Human Factors and Advanced Driving Simulation
  • Daryl Smith, Kirk Henderson, Greg Houseal, Native Roadside Vegetation Center, UNI, Native Roadside Vegetation
  • Katie Zimmerman, Applied Pavement Technologies, Pavement Management (4.9MB **ppt)
  • Tom Ryan, Missouri Department of Transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems in the St. Louis Metro Area
  • Steve Chase, FHWA Turner Fairbank Laboratories, Observations on the Future of Bridge Technology (4.5MB *pdf)
  • Brad Hagen, Waterloo Regional Airport, Regional Airport Management (3.4MB **ppt)
  • Howard Preston, Howard R. Green Company, Performance Measures in Highway Corridor Planning and Design
  • Gene Amparano, FHWA-NHTSA Liaison, Kansas City, Highway Safety in the Midwest
  • John Craig, Nebraska Dept. of Roads, AASHTO Asset Management Activities (4.8MB **ppt)
  • Ken Welch, Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha, Asset Management in the Railroad Industry
  • Robert Rasmussen, Transtec Group, Inc., Advanced Pavement Materials, Analysis, and Design (1.4MB *pdf)
  • Susan Stauder, Regional Commerce and Growth Association, Public Transportation Use of Intelligent Transit Systems
  • Chris Yarnell, Cole County, Missouri Public Works, Asset Management Deployment in Central Missouri
  • Don Taylor, McAninch Corporation, and Ed Jaselskis, ISU, Advanced Construction Technologies: Stakeless Grading and Laser Scanning

 

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2002

 

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