The Transportation Research Board’s 91st Annual Meeting (TRB 91) was held in Washington, D.C. January 22-26, 2012, and the information-packed program attracted more than 11,000 transportation professionals from around the world. The theme for 2012 was “Transportation: Putting Innovation and People to Work,” and the Annual Meeting program covered all transportation modes, with more than 4,000 presentations in nearly 650 sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to all attendees—policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. The number of presentations, the diversity of topics, and the sheer volume of collaborations with other people on the part of grad students from UCSB Geography’s GeoTrans Laboratory was impressive. To quote Professor Kostas Goulias, co-director of the GeoTrans Lab, it was a “great meeting and great show by our research associates and students.”
UCSB Geography presentations included:
- “Exploratory Analysis of Differences Between Men and Women in Time and Travel Task Allocation Patterns and Time-Space Prism Accessibility in Dual-Income Households With and Without Children” by Seo Youn Yoon and Kostas Goulias (both UCSB)
- “Opportunity-Based Dynamic Transit Accessibility in Southern California: Measurement, Findings, and Comparison with Automobile Accessibility by Ting Lei, Yali Chen, and Kostas Goulias (all UCSB)
- “Exploratory Analysis of Spatial Hierarchical Clustering Using Opportunity-Based Accessibility and Reported Land Values and Their Relationship with Residents’ Characteristics in Los Angeles County” by Srinath Ravulaparthy, Pam Dalal, Yali Chen, and Kostas Goulias (all UCSB)
- “Household-Level Activity Pattern Generation Model: Simulator of Activities, Greenhouse Emissions, Networks, and Travel in Southern California” by Chandra Bhat (U. of Texas, Austin), Kostas Goulias (UCSB), Ram M. Pendyala (Arizona State U.), Rajesh Paleti (U. of Texas, Austin), Raghuprasad Sidharthan (U. of Texas, Austin), Laura Schmitt, (Georgia Inst. of Technology), and Hsi-hwa Hu (So. California Association of Governments)
- “Understanding Place Using Mixed-Method Approach” by Kate Deutsch and Kostas Goulias (both UCSB)
- “Parental Attitudes Toward Children Walking and Bicycling to School: Multivariate Ordered Response Analysis” by Saamiya Seraj (U. of Texas, Austin), Raghuprasad Sidharthan (U. of Texas, Austin), Chandra Bhat (U. of Texas, Austin), Ram M. Pendyala (Arizona State U.), and Kostas Goulias (UCSB)
- “A Joint Vehicle Holdings (Type and Vintage) and Primary Driver Assignment Model with an Application for California” by Gaurav Vyas (U. of Texas, Austin), Rajesh Paleti (U. of Texas, Austin), Chandra Bhat (U. of Texas, Austin), Kostas Goulias (UCSB), Ram M. Pendyala (Arizona State U.), Hsi-hwa Hu (So. California Association of Governments), Thomas Jay Adler (Resource Systems Group, Inc.), and Aniss Bahreinian (California Energy Commission)
- “Simulator of Activities, Greenhouse Emissions, Networks, and Travel in Southern California” by Kostas Goulias (UCSB), Chandra Bhat (U. of Texas, Austin), Ram M. Pendyala (Arizona State U.), Yali Chen (UCSB), Karthik Charan Konduri (Arizona State U.), Rajesh Paleti (U. of Texas, Austin), and Hsi-hwa Hu (So. California Association of Governments)
- “Application of Socioeconomic Model System for Activity-Based Modeling: Experience from Southern California” by Ram M. Pendyala (Arizona State U.), Chandra Bhat (U. of Texas, Austin), Kostas Goulias (UCSB), Rajesh Paleti (U. of Texas, Austin), Karthik Charan Konduri (Arizona State U.), Raghuprasad Sidharthan (U. of Texas, Austin), Hsi-hwa Hu (So. California Association of Governments), Guoxiong Huang (So. California Association of Governments), and Keith P. Christian (Arizona State U.)
- “A Structural Equations Model Of Land Use Patterns, Location Choice, And Travel Behavior In Southern California” João de Abreu e Silva (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal), Kostas Goulias (UCSB), and Pam Dalal (UCSB)
- “Feasibility of Using Time-Space Prism to Represent Available Opportunities and Choice Sets for Destination Choice Models in the Context of Dynamic Urban Environments” by Seo Youn Yoon (UCSB), Kate Deutsch (UCSB), Yali Chen (UCSB), and Kostas Goulias (UCSB)
- “Using Smart Phones to Collect Travel Behavior Data,” a poster by Kate Deutsch (UCSB)
“The GeoTrans Laboratory merges research and practice through collaboration of the academic, public, and private sectors in Transportation planning and operations. Co-directed by Professor Rick Church and Professor Kostas Goulias, the GeoTrans Laboratory is the confluence of two distinct and influential research fields in Transportation, each with unique foundations in quantitative geography. One is the logistics and transportation field, solving problems of spatial optimality through operations research techniques. The other is the travel behavior field, which is concerned with data collection, design of statistical and econometric models, and their use in policy and decision making.”
