The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting is looking very different this as it moves online due to COVID 19 restrictions, but UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Lab are well represented. This year, 58 Faculty, Researchers, and Students will present or preside in four workshops, one lectern session, two meetings, one symposium and 43 posters in 27 poster sessions. Learn more about the meeting: http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/AnnualMeeting.aspx
2021 Event Dates
Committee Meetings: January 5–8 and 11–15
Sessions & Exhibits: January 21–22 and 25–29
View the Schedule at a Glance
Tuesday Jan. 5, 2021
7 AM PT
Equity of New Mobility Services and Technologies Subcommittee, AP020(3)
Tuesday, January 05 10:00 AM- 11:30 AM ET
Adam Cohen, University of California, Berkeley, presiding
Thursday Jan. 7, 2021
11 AM PT
Information and Knowledge Management Committee
Thursday, January 07 2:00 PM- 3:30 PM ET
Kendra Levine, University of California, Berkeley, presiding
Thursday, Jan. 21 2021
7 AM PT
1003 - Highlights from the 2020 Automated Vehicle Symposium
Thursday, January 21 10:00 AM- 1:00 PM ET
10:05-10:15
· Synthesis of Issues from the Plenary Sessions – Steve Shladover, UC Berkeley PATH
11 AM PT
1467 - Open Science in Transportation: Challenges and Opportunities in a COVID-19 Era
Thursday, January 21 2:00 PM- 5:00 PM ET
Workshop
Librarian Perspective
Kendra Levine, University of California, Berkeley
Friday, Jan. 22 2021
7 AM PT
1036 - Pandemics and Public Health in Integrated Transport Modeling
Friday, January 22 10:00 AM- 1:00 PM ET
Workshop
Integrated Transportation System Modeling of the New York City Metropolitan Area under COVID-19 Response using BEAM
Zachary Needell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
11 AM PT
1047 - Electrification of Fleet and Rideshare Vehicles
Friday, January 22 2:00 PM- 5:00 PM ET
Workshop
Energy and emissions impacts of electrifying transportation network companies - a research lab startup perspective
Samveg Saxena, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Vehicle design and infrastructure requirements for electrifying new mobility - a startup perspective
Colin Sheppard, Marain Inc. and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
11 AM PT
1048 - Navigating a New Normal in Public Transit and Shared Mobility
Friday, January 22 2:00 PM- 5:00 PM ET
Workshop
Susan Shaheen, University of California, Berkeley, presiding/speaker
Monday, Jan. 25, 2021
7 AM PT
1061 - Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics, Part 1: Emerging Trends in Traffic Flow Theory: Connected and Automated Vehicles and Data-driven Methods (Part 2, Session 1101; Part 3, Session 1352)
Monday, January 25 10:00 AM- 11:30 AM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-03666
Continual Learning of Microscopic Traffic Models using Neural Networks
Yashar Zeinali Farid, University of California, Berkeley
Abdul Rahman Kreidieh, University of California, Berkeley
Alexandre Bayen, University of California, Berkeley
7 AM PT
1067 - Pavement Condition Evaluation
Monday, January 25 10:00 AM- 11:30 AM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-01847
Bicycle Level of Service: Proposed Updated Pavement Quality Index
Jiayun Huang, University of California, Berkeley
Nicholas Fournier, University of California, Berkeley
Alexander Skabardonis, University of California, Berkeley
8:30 AM PT
1071 - Freeway Operations 2021
Monday, January 25 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-01137
Is Third-Party Provided Travel Time Helpful to Estimate Freeway Performance Measures?
Anthony Patire, University of California, Berkeley
11:30 AM PT
1109 - Advancements in Road User Measurement & Evaluation
Monday, January 25 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-03634
Visualization of Driving Scenes for Realistic Simulator Experimentation - An Efficient Framework
Tingting Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
Pei Wang, University of California, Berkeley
Ching-Yao Chan, University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
11:30 PT
1112 - Advances in Network Equilibrium Models
Monday, January 25 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-03196
Parallel Network Flow Allocation in Repeated Routing Games via LQR Optimal Control
Yiling You, University of California, Berkeley
Marsalis Gibson, University of California, Berkeley
Alexandre Bayen, University of California, Berkeley
TRBAM-21-04122
Performance of Reservation-Based Carpooling Service under Detour and Waiting Time Restrictions
Carlos Daganzo, University of California, Berkeley
11:30 AM PT
1113 – Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program Posters, Part 1 (Part 2, Session 1215; Part 3, Session 1306; Part 4, Session 1397)
Monday, January 25 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET
Poster
P21-20371
Personal Mobility Behaviors following Large Unexpected Shocks - The Case of COVID-19
Mohamed Amine Bouzaghrane, University of California, Berkeley
P21-20372
Accounting for Streetscape Design in Pedestrian Preferences Using a Mixed Methods Field Experiment
Chester Harvey, University of California, Berkeley
P21-20373
To Pool or Not to Pool? Exploring Opportunities to Expand the Market for Pooling Through Multi-Objective Optimization of Pricing Policies
Jessica Lazarus, University of California, Berkeley
P21-20398
DDETFP poster 30
Gregory Harasym, University of California, Berkeley
P21-20403
Estimating transportation pollution burden to inform zoning protocols in Oakland, California
Lily MacIver, University of California, Berkeley
P21-20409
DDETFP poster 38
Edward Forscher, University of California, Berkeley
P21-20412
Diversifying transportation: Nurturing mobility cultures
Timothy Wickland, University of California, Berkeley
P21-20415
Make room for buses: A case study of transit revival in Seattle, and lessons for urban America
Madeleine Parker, University of California, Berkeley
P21-20423
DDETFP poster 51
Alexandra Pan, University of California, Berkeley
P21-20425
Accurate, multimodal microsimulation of urban air mobility and its impact on travel behavior and land use
Pavan Yedavalli, University of California, Berkeley
P21-20427
Examining Transport Access, Egress, and Heterogeneity at U.S. Community Colleges
Aqshems Meten Nichols, University of California, Berkeley
1 PM PT
1136 - Papers on Geographic Information Science or Geographic Information Science
Monday, January 25 4:00 PM- 5:30 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-00856
A METHODOLOGY TO DEVELOP A GEO-SPATIAL TRANSPORTATION TYPOLOGY
Natalie Popovich, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
C. Anna Spurlock, E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Zachary Needell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ling Jin, E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Tom Wenzel, E O Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Colin Sheppard, Marain Inc.
Tuesday, Jan. 26 2021
7 AM PT
1157 - Design and Rehabilitation of Concrete Pavements
Tuesday, January 26 10:00 AM- 11:30 AM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-03125
Pavement ME Transverse Cracking Model Calibration Using California’s Pavement Management System
Angel Mateos, University of California, Berkeley
TRBAM-21-03471
An Insight into Moisture-Dependence of Concrete Coefficient of Thermal Expansion in Concrete Pavements
Angel Mateos (angel-mateos@berkeley.edu), University of California, Berkeley
8:30 AM PT
1166 - Emerging Technologies: User Understanding and Opinions
Tuesday, January 26 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-01824
Exploring Public Perception of Level-2 Automation and Full Automation: Interview Based Study
Pei Wang, University of California, Berkeley
Ching-Yao Chan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
8:30 AM PT
1168 - Vehicle-Highway Automation 2021, Part 2 (Part 1, Session 1155)
Tuesday, January 26 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-03778
Field Experiments of Commercially Available Automated Vehicles on Freeways
Servet Lapardhaja, University of California, Berkeley
Xingan (David) Kan, Florida Atlantic University (alumni)
8:30 AM PT
1170 - Mining Data Deeper to Understand Travel Behavior
Tuesday, January 26 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-01383
Operationalizing Mobile Data for Urban Transport: Lessons from Freetown, Sierra Leone
Marta Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley
8:30 AM PT
1172 - Public Transportation and Shared Mobility
Tuesday, January 26 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM ET
Poster
Bo Zou, University of Illinois, Chicago (alumni) presiding
TRBAM-21-03792
A General Model of Demand-Responsive Transportation Services: From Taxi to Ridesharing to Dial-A-Ride
Carlos Daganzo, University of California, Berkeley
TRBAM-21-03961
Planning Bus Systems for Mega-Cities: A Case Study for Beijing
Carlos Daganzo, University of California, Berkeley
11:30 AM PT
1209 - Omnibus Bicycle Research Poster Session
Tuesday, January 26 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-00593
Bicycle Level of Service: Accounting for protected lanes, traffic exposure, and delay
Nicholas Fournier, University of California, Berkeley
Jiayun Huang, University of California, Berkeley
Alexander Skabardonis, University of California, Berkeley
11:30 AM PT
1212 - Highway Capacity and Quality of Service for Uninterrupted Flow Facilities 2021
Tuesday, January 26 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-02087
Impact of Commercially Available Automated Vehicles on Freeway Bottleneck Capacity
Servet Lapardhaja (servet.lapardhaja@berkeley.edu), University of California, Berkeley
Xingan (David) Kan, Florida Atlantic University (alumni)
TRBAM-21-00945
Development of a System Analysis Method for the Highway Capacity Manual
Alexander Skabardonis, University of California, Berkeley
11:30 AM PT
1215 – Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program Posters, Part 2 (Part 1, Session 1113; Part 3, Session 1306; Part 4, Session 1397)
Tuesday, January 26 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET
Poster
Policy Transfer of Autonomous vehicle controllers via Multi-agent adversarial noise
P21-20650
Kathy Jang, University of California, Berkeley
Energy Optimization of Mixed Autonomy Traffic at Scale using Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
P21-20659
Eugene Vinitsky, University of California, Berkeley
11:30 AM PT
1226 - Transportation Equity: Addressing Equity Issues in New Mobility Systems
Tuesday, January 26 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET
Poster
Evidence of Ridesourcing Increasingly Being Used for Commuting in New York City’s Low-Income Communities
TRBAM-21-03958
Anaka Maher, University of California, Berkeley
11:30 AM PT
1232 - Planning for Diversity: Facilitating Transit Connections
Tuesday, January 26 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-01534
Who Gets to Sit? Mapping the Distribution of Transit Amenities via a Bus-Stop Census of San Francisco
Marcel Moran, University of California, Berkeley
Wednesday Jan. 27, 2021
8:30 AM
Chair's Plenary Session
Recognition of Global Affiliates, Patrons, Exhibitors, and Deen Lecturer
Susan Shaheen, University of California, Berkeley
Presentation of TRB Achievement Awards
Susan Shaheen, University of California, Berkeley
New Chair Remarks and Adjournment
Susan Shaheen, University of California, Berkeley
10 AM PT
1290 - Economic Impacts, Development and Land Use Research: Priorities for the Next Quarter Century
Wednesday, January 27 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM ET
Lectern
The History of Transportation and Land Development Research at TRB
Elizabeth Deakin, University of California, Berkeley
10 AM PT
1295 - Safety Performance and Analysis, Act 3: Evaluations, SPFs, and CMFs (Act 1, Session 1169; Act 2, Session 1202; Act 4, Session 1327)
Wednesday, January 27 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-04188
Impact of Injury-Based Safety Performance Functions on Network Screening
Praveen Vayalamkuzhi, University of California, Berkeley
Aditya Medury, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (former post doc)
Lin Yang, University of California, Berkeley
Offer Grembek, University of California, Berkeley
11:30 AM PT
1304 - Transportation Safety Management Systems from Start to Finish
Wednesday, January 27 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-03043
Traffic Safety During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of How Incident-Based Traffic Safety Metrics Changed Over Time on State Highways in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles Regions
Matthew Hui, University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Kupfer, University of California, Berkeley
Offer Grembek, University of California, Berkeley
11:30 AM PT
1310 – Current Topics in Information and Knowledge Management
Wednesday, January 27 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET
Poster
Kendra Levine, University of California, Berkeley presiding
Thursday, Jan. 28, 202
7 AM PT
1353 - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Methods for Transportation Applications (Part II)
Thursday, January 28 10:00 AM- 11:30 AM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-00483
Travel Behavior Modeling with Images
Joan Walker, University of California, Berkeley
8:30 AM PT
1360 - Traffic Simulation 2021, Part 2 (Part 1, Session 1303)
Thursday, January 28 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-02505
Velocity Change Model of Multi-vehicle Interactive Lane-changing Based on Potential Energy Field
Ching-Yao Chan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley
TRBAM-21-01858
A Rigorous Multi-Population Multi-lane Hybrid Traffic Model and its Mean-field Limit for Dissipation of Waves via Autonomous Vehicles.
Nicolas Kardous, University of California, Berkeley
Alexandre Bayen, University of California, Berkeley
8:30 AM PT
1368 - Emergency Evacuations
Thursday, January 28 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-00170
Understanding the Willingness to Share Resources in the Hurricane Irma Evacuation: A Multi-Modeling Approach
Stephen Wong, University of California, Berkeley
Mengqiao Yu, University of California, Berkeley
Anu Kuncheria, University of California, Berkeley
Susan Shaheen, University of California, Berkeley
Joan Walker, University of California, Berkeley
TRBAM-21-01647
Developing Transportation Response Strategies for Wildfire Evacuations via an Empirically Supported Traffic Simulation of Berkeley, California
Bingyu Zhao, University of California, Berkeley
Stephen Wong, University of California, Berkeley
Friday, Jan. 29, 2021
8:30 AM PT
1433 - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Methods for Transportation Applications (Part III)
Friday, January 29 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-00442
Travel and Built Environment: A Deep Learning Approach
Joan Walker, University of California, Berkeley
8:30 AM PT
1441 - Current Issues in Urban Air Mobility (UAM)
Friday, January 29 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-00693
Designing and Simulating Urban Air Mobility Vertiport Networks under Land Use Constraints
Pavan Yedavalli (pavyedav@berkeley.edu), University of California, Berkeley
10 AM PT
1449 - Predicting the Future of Mobility Systems: Automation, Transit, and Hailing
Friday, January 29 1:00 PM- 2:30 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-04145
A Glimpse of the Future: Simulating Life with Personally-Owned Autonomous Vehicles & Their Implications on Travel-Related Behaviors
Mustapha Harb, University of California, Berkeley
Joan Walker, University of California, Berkeley
11:30 AM PT
1465 - Public Transportation Fare Policy and Marketing: Research Results and Implications for Practice
Friday, January 29 2:30 PM- 4:00 PM ET
Poster
TRBAM-21-00400
A Comparison of Reduced Fare Programs for Low Income Transit Riders
Wesley Darling, University of California, Berkeley