14th Annual COTA/WCTA Symposium on Transportation Operations and Planning in Mega-Regions Time: 8:00am~5:30pm, January 23, 2011, Sunday Morning sessions: Georgetown East, Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington DC Afternoon sessions: Kalorama Ballroom, Churchill Hotel (across street from Hilton)

8:00 ~ 8:30 Registration8:30 ~ 8:45 Opening Remarks Yinhai Wang, University of Washington, Allen Yang, Precision Systems Inc. 8:45 ~ 9:00 Keynote Remarks Wei Zhou, Director, Research Institute of Highways (RIOH), Chinese

Ministry of Transport (RIOH-COTA Business Meeting by Invitation:10:15~11:30am) 9:00 ~ 10:15 Sustainable Mega-Region Planning and Development (in English)

Moderator: Lei Zhang, University of Maryland Developing CO2 Emission Inventory for China: A Case Study,

Jinxuan Lai, Guohua Song, Lei Yu, Beijing Jiaotong University Emerging Land Use and Transportation Modeling with Uplan and Emme in

China, Jia Hao Wu, W & S Solutions Transportation Consultants High-Speed Rail Planning in the Yangtze River Delta Megaregion of China,

Xueming (Jimmy) Chen, Virginia Commonwealth University Reducing Vessel Speeds to Reduce Mega-region Air Pollutions,

Haifeng Wang, The International Council on Clean Transportation 10:15 ~ 10:30 Coffee Break Sponsored by TranSmart Technologies/TrafficCast10:30 ~ 11:45 Emerging ITS Technologies (in English)

Moderator: Henry Liu, University of Minnesota Deploying a Real-Time Cellular and GPS Probe Data System for Shanghai

World Expo and the BlueToad System in the US, Bin Ran, University of Wisconsin; Connie Li, TranSmart Technologies/TrafficCast

Visualization and Assessment of Arterial Progression Quality Using High Resolution Signal Event Data and Probe Vehicle Travel Time Data, Darcy Bullock, Purdue University

Wireless Detection Systems for 21st Century Transportation Management Solutions, Hamed Benouar, Sensys Networks

SMART-SIGNAL: Systematic Monitoring of Arterial Road Traffic Signals, Henry Liu, Univ. of Minnesota

12:00 ~ 13:30 Lunch Break Symposium moved to Kalorama Ballroom, Churchill Hotel13:30 ~ 14:45 Innovations in Transportation Operations and Safety (in English)

Moderator: Yafeng Yin, University of Florida Highway Network Operation Monitoring and Emergency Management in

China, Ke Zhang, Research Institute of Highway, Ministry of Transport Determining the Effectiveness of Graphic-aided Portable Changeable

Message Signs in Highway Work Zones,Yong Bai, Univ. of Kansas Emme Transit Assignment and Analysis: New Variants on the Optimal

Strategy, Shuguang He, INRO Integration of Safety Management Procedures, Wen Cheng, California State

Polytechnic University, Pomona 14:45 ~ 15:00 Coffee Break15:00 ~ 16:30 Government Forum: State-of-the-Art Practices (in English)

Moderator: Ruihua Tao, Maryland State Highway Administration An Overview of Federal-Aid Program, Guan Xu, U.S. Federal Highway

Administration China High Speed Railroad, Jun Liu, Bejing JiaoTong University, Kyle

Liang,Montgomery County DPW National Surface Transportation Program:A Framework Comparison between

US and China, Jason Wang, Appalachian Regional Commission VDOT Northern Region Traffic Operations and Management - Overview of

the State of Art Practice, XiaoLing Li, Virginia Dept. of Transportation China ITS (Holdings) Co Ltd - Growth and Development, Fang Ge, China

ITS (Holdings) Co Ltd 16:30 ~ 16:45 Coffee Break 16:45 ~ 17:30 Special Session in Memory of Professor Fang Zhao (in Chinese)

Moderator: Xiaoduan Sun, University of Louisiana Videos and PowerPoint presentations of Professor Zhao’s life and

achievements; Tributes from family, colleagues, friends, and students. 17:30 ~ 17:45 Closing Remarks18:00 Dinner at Buca di Peppo Italian Restaurant Across the street from the Churchill Hotel;1825 Connecticut Avenue NW

See attached Dinner Flyer for additional information

Chinese Overseas Transportation Association

SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS Yinhai Wang COTA President Univ. of Washington Allen Y. Yang WCTA President Precision Systems, Inc EXECUTIVE AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIRS Lei Zhang University of Maryland Mike Houh Precision Systems, Inc.

ACADEMIC COMMITTEE CHAIRS Henry Liu University of Minnesota Jianwei Wang Precision Systems, Inc.

SYMPOSIUM STEERING COMMITTEE Fang Fang University of Hartford Chung C. Fu University of Maryland Bingji Huang Federal Aviation Adm. Hongchao Liu Texas Tech. Univ. Ruihua Tao MSHA Xin Wang PSI Heng Wei University of Cincinnati Ken (Qingyan) Yang Iteris Inc. Ping Yi University of Akron Yafeng Yin University of Florida Zhanping You Michigan Tech. Univ. Yu Zhang Univ. of South Florida Shanjiang Zhu University of Maryland SYMPOSIUM SPONSOR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chinese Overseas Transportation Association

The Chinese Overseas Transportation Association 

Is pleased to invite you to our welcome dinner at the 

Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting 

Sunday, January 23, 2011 6:00‐10:00 p.m. 

Buca di Beppo Italian Restaurant 

1825 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 

Only 100 meters from Washington Hilton Hotel! 

$25 for a classic Italian Dinner and Beverage! 

For COTA information, please visit www.cota‐home.org 

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The Chinese Overseas Transportation Association

Is pleased to invite you to our annual reception at the

Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting

Tuesday, January 25,2011 6:00-10:00 p.m.

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1835 18th Street NW, Washington, DC

Only THREE-MINUTE walk from Washington Hilton Hotel!

FREE food and beverage will be provided by COTA!

For COTA information, please visit www.cota-home.org

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The main objectives of COTA include:

• Promote transportation development in China by providing technologies and ex-pertise through its members;

• Strengthen the links between transporta-tion professionals and students overseas and their counterparts in China;

• Promote networking among Chinese overseas transportation professionals and students;

• Disseminate information on transporta-tion developments and major Events in China to COTA members and partners overseas.

Current Events* • COTA Call for Hosting ICCTP 2012 • Call for papers: ICCTP 2011, Nanjing, P.R. China, August 2011 • Workshop for transpiration police and traffic operation improvements in Beijing, 2011 * For more current events and detail information, please visit cota-home.org.

—Chinese Overseas Transportation Association , former North America Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (NACOTA), was established in January 1996.

is a registered non-profit professional organiza-tion with its members who work or study in the transpor-tation or related fields oversea and who are interested in the transportation development in China. Visit cota-home.org for member registration Now COTA has approximately 2000

members and friends in North America and other parts of the world.

CHINESE OVERSEAS TRANSPORTATION

ASSOCIATION

海外华人交通协会

Contact Information: Dr. Yinhai Wang,

President of COTA

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-2700

Tel: 206-616-26966 Fax: 206-543-1543

Email: yinhai@uw.edu

• Fang (Clara) Fang • Hongchao Liu • Qinyi Shi • Yinhai Wang

• Heng Wei • Ken Yang • Ping Yi • Yafeng Yin

• Zhanping You • Lei Zhang • Yu Zhang

2010 Events

Jointly Organized by Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA) and Washington, D.C. Chinese Transportation Association (WCTA), COTA/WCTA An-nual Technical Symposium is held in Washington D.C. every year before the TRB Annual Meeting. The 13th COTA/WCTA Annual Technical Symposium on “Sustainable Transportation Development in China” was successfully held on January 10th,2010. More than 100 Chinese transportation professionals attended this event, including people from top research institutes, uni-versities and consulting firms in both China and US.

Jointly Organized by Chinese Overseas Transporta-tion Association (COTA) and universities in China, International Conference of Chinese Transportation Professionals (ICCTP) is the most influential an-nual transportation conference in China involving professionals from all over the world. The 10th an-nual conference was held at Beijing University of Technology from August 4th to 8th, 2010. It focuses on the current situation of the development of China transportation, discusses the issues encountered while building up the intelligent transportation in urban areas and exchanges international experi-ences in this field.

CHINESE OVERSEAS TRANSPORTATION

ASSOCIATION

2009 Events: • The 9th ICCTP, Harbin, China, August 5-8,2009

• Call for Papers: Traffic Safety and Driving Behavior Studies (Special Issue of The Open Transportation Journal)

2008 Events: • 11th Annual COTA/WCTA Technical Symposium • Final Candidate List of COTA Board Member Election, 2008 • 8th International Conference of Chinese Transportation and

Logistic Professionals, Chengdu, China, July 31-August 3 • 44th International Planning Congress, Dalian China, 19-23

September, 2008

Board of Directors (alphabetic)