Below are the presentations (and a link to the video that we couldn’t hear in the meeting room)

CAV Microsimulation – Modeling the Latest Research – Rob Bostrom (CDM Smith)
Presentation – Video (opens in new window)

Problems and Solutions for Large-Scale Transportation Planning Models – Andrew Rohne (RSG)

NCHRP 08-110: Traffic Forecast Accuracy Assessment – Jawad Hoque (UK)

Meeting Minutes

Friday, March 15, 2019
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
ODOT, Broad Street Garage Complex, Large Training Room
1616 W. Broad St., Columbus, OH

10:00 – 10:15  Welcome and introductions

• Approval of last meeting’s minutes
• New Business / Requests for membership
• Website Update / Email List

10:15 – 11:15 CAV Microsimulation – Modeling the Latest Research – Rob Bostrom (CDM Smith)

11:15 – 11:30 Break

11:30 – 12:00  NCHRP 08-110: Traffic Forecast Accuracy Assessment – Jawad Hoque (UK)

12:00 – 12:30 Problems and Solutions for Large-Scale Transportation Planning Models – Andrew Rohne (RSG)

12:30 – 12:45 TRB Recap – All who went to TRB   

12:45 – 1:00    Other Business

Refreshment fund report

• CPD certificates

1:00     Lunch at Hofbrauhaus, 800 Goodale Blvd., Columbus, OH  43212

Fall Meeting Friday, September 13 at MORPC
111 Liberty St. #100, Columbus, OH 43215

Refreshments provided by OTDMUG refreshment fund – Please remember to donate

On behalf of ODOT’s Office of Statewide Planning and Research, registration is now open for the following courses.

• Traffic Forecasting Background – February 26 ➡ Click here to register. FULL
• Traffic Forecasting Background – February 27 ➡ Click here to register
• Traffic Forecasting Background – April 9 ➡ Click here to register

• Traffic Forecasting Methodologies – Feb. 27 ➡ Click here to register FULL
• Traffic Forecasting Methodologies – Apr. 10 ➡ Click here to register

• Traffic Forecasting Models – February 28 ➡ Click here to register
• Traffic Forecasting Models – April 11 ➡ Click here to register.

To access PDF flyers, click on each course name above.

“Can I attend just one of these courses, or do I have to attend all three?”

The instructors have provided the following guidance information.  Interested persons may sign up to attend:

• Course 1 (Background) by itself, or Course 3 (Models) by itself.
• Or, Courses 1 (Background) & 2 (Methodologies), or Courses 1 & 3.
• Or, the entire series of Courses 1, 2 & 3.
• Anyone who wants to attend Course 2 (Methodologies) should also sign up to attend Course 1 (Background) first.

“Do I need to bring anything to these courses?”

Yes.  For each of these courses, all attendees will need to bring their own laptop computer with Excel, Word, and either PowerPoint or a PDF viewer.

In addition – for Course 3 (Models) only, CUBE software is also needed (most MPOs should already have this).

ODOT employees may contact the instructors in the Office of Statewide Planning / Modeling & Forecasting Section prior to the course to ask about obtaining a CUBE software license.

If you have any questions about the Traffic Forecasting courses, please contact the following persons with the Office of Statewide Planning:

• Mark Byram – (614) 466-7825 or mark.byram@dot.ohio.gov
• Rebekah Anderson – (614) 752-5735 or rebekah.anderson@dot.ohio.gov
• Josh Kieselbach – (614) 752-5747 or josh.kieselbach@dot.ohio.gov

Save the date! The Ohio Travel Demand Model User Group Spring 2019 Meeting will be on March 15, 2019.

The agenda will be posted when it is ready.

Below are the presentations from the Winter Meeting. The minutes will be posted when it they are approved. Thanks to the presenters!

Minutes (draft)

Traffic Forecasting Trivia, Greg Giaimo (ODOT)

Seasonal Travel Models in Michigan Statewide Model, Vince Bernardin (RSG)

Seasonal Travel Models in Sandusky MPO Model, Sam Granato (ODOT)

Winter Meeting Agenda

Friday, December 14, 2018
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
ODOT, Don Scott Airport, Room 100
2829 W. Dublin-Granville Road, Columbus, OH

 

**** Text Message Rebekah if no one is at the door. ****

10:00 – 10:15  Welcome and introductions

• Approval of last meeting’s minutes
• New Business / Requests for membership
• Website Update / Email List
• Nomination/Election of Chair and Event Coordinator (2019/2020)

10:15-10:30 Traffic Forecasting Trivia, Greg Giaimo (ODOT)

10:30-11:30 Seasonal Travel Models in Michigan Statewide Model, Vince Bernardin (RSG)

11:30 – 11:45 Break

11:45 – 12:45  Seasonal Travel Models in Sandusky MPO Model, Sam Granato (ODOT)

12:45 – 1:00    Other Business

• Refreshment fund report
• CPD certificates

1:00     Lunch at Tadka, 3535 W. Dublin Granville Rd, Columbus, OH  43235

 

Spring Meeting Friday, March 15 at ODOT Training Room

1616 W. Broad St., Columbus, OH

Refreshments provided by OTDMUG refreshment fund – Please remember to donate

The Fall OTDMUG Meeting was held on September 14, 2018 in the Ohio EMA Building.

Sept 2018 Minutes

Presentations

MPO/ODOT Traffic Count Coordination

Implementations of AV/CVs Elsewhere

AV/CV Implementation in 3C Model

Introduction

This class will be a basic introduction to R in the context of travel modeling and transportation planning.

The class particulars (location, time) have been sent via email. Please remember to bring money for lunch and donations to the OTDMUG Refreshment Fund.

Preparation

Students will need their own laptop with R and R Studio installed, and will be provided data to work with.

R can be installed from https://cran.r-project.org/

RStudio can be installed from https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/ (the Open Source License distribution is free)

Upon installing R and RStudio, there will be some packages needed for the training – these should be installed in advanced, as we don’t know if (or how good) the Wifi is in the ODOT Training Facility.

Open RStudio, and go to Tools – Install Packages. In the “Packages…” textbox, paste this text:

dplyr tidyr rmarkdown ggplot2 foreign reshape2 openxlsx scales RColorBrewer kableExtra

RStudio will download and install these packages.

Additionally, download the Data File and decompress it onto your computer. All scripts are included in the file so everyone can follow along without delay for people to type commands. You should be able to open the data file in RStudio by opening RStudio and opening the project from there (don’t worry if you can’t get **there**, we can do that in class).

Data

There are five data files in the zip archive, none of it official:

Amtimecompare.xlsx: transit-highway time comparison of unknown vintage.

C_D15HASSIGN.DBF: Loaded highway network.

HHList.csv: random sample of 1,000 households from ABM.

PerList.csv: persons corresponding to HHList.csv.

Trips.csv: random sample of 10,000 trips from ABM.

 

The schedule will be provided at the training session.

 

Below are some of the presentations from the Fall 2017 OTDMUG Meeting from 9/8/2017.

Ami Parikh – Streetlight AADT Comparison

Sam Granato – Various Uses for Inrix/Streetlight Data: Ohio Plus Border Area

Nathan Shay – Using Streetlight InSight Data for a Small Area Study: Rickenbacker Area

Greg Giaimo – Comparison of Model to Streetlight Internal-Internal TAZ Trip Tables in Toledo Area

Vince Bernardin – Now That You’ve Downloaded Some Streetlight Data, What Should You Do First?

Angela Coates – Application of Streetlight Data for Miami University Circulation Study and Wisconsin DOT

OTDMUG Winter Meeting 

Thursday, December 8, 2016 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

ODOT, Don Scott Airport, Room 100

2829 W. Dublin-Granville Road, Columbus, OH

Agenda

10:00 – 10:15  Welcome and introductions

10:15-11:15 Results From ODOT Research on Estimating External Travel Using Purchased Third-Party Data, Harvey Miller and Morton O’Kelley (Ohio State University)

11:30 – 12:00  Development of Standardized Models in Kentucky Using Airsage Data, Yang (Johnny) Han (The Corradino Group)

12:00-12:30 Incorporating Big Data in Statewide and MPO Travel Demand Models in Tennessee, Vince Bernardin (RSG)

12:30 – 1:00    Other Business

Minutes

DRAFT Minutes

Next Meeting

Spring Meeting Friday, March 17 at Don Scott Airport, Room 100

2829 W. Dublin-Granville Road, Columbus, OH