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Topic: Project update on the Bottineau Transitway
Speaker: Kim Zlimen
About: Kim is a professional engineer in Hennepin County’s Housing, Community Works, & Transit (HCWT) Department. Within HCWT, she is in the Engineering & Transit Planning group. This group represents the County on regional transit studies, and facilitates programs promoting alternative forms of transportation. She has been with the county for nearly two years; prior to that, she worked as an engineer for a local consulting firm for 7 years working on municipal reconstruction projects. Kim is a graduate of the civil engineering program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She also obtained a Master of Business Administration from the U of M Carlson School in 2010.

Title: “HOT,FIRST,ATMS,PDSL,ILCS,DMS,CCTV,RTMC — OMG! An overview on MNDOT traffic management in the Metro.”
Speaker: John McClellan
About: John McClellan is the Freeway Operations Supervisor at MNDOT’s Regional Transportation Management Center (RTMC) in Roseville. John has worked for the DOT since 2002, and got his start in traffic monitoring as the operations supervisor for an advanced traffic information service from 1998 to 2001. John’s group is responsible for monitoring 500 freeway traffic cameras, deploying overhead signs and ramp meters, as well as dispatching the Freeway Incident Response Safety Team (FIRST).

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Presenters: Carlos Carrion, Indrajit Chatterjee, Xuan Di, Xiaozheng He, Heng Hu, Arthur Huang, Saif Jabari, Jie Sun, and Hui Xiong

Speaker: Mark Filipi AICP PTP of the Metropolitan Council

Mr. Filipi will discuss his general activities at the Council. He will also present material on the scenario prepared for the Vikings and how the regional travel demand model was adjusted to fully evaluate the proposed stadium.

Mark Filipi is a transportation planner with the Metropolitan Transportation Services division of the Metropolitan Council, currently serving as the manager of their Technical Planning Support section which focuses on travel demand forecasting, air quality modeling, and GIS. This division is responsible for the large scale planning of the transportation system of the seven-county metropolitan region.

He has been with the Council since 1990, primarily involved in travel demand forecasting and serving as the Council’s only travel forecaster for over a decade. During his tenure with the Council he has been involved in the dual-track airport planning process, planning for many major transit corridors (including Hiawatha, Central, and SW LRT), the evaluation of the regions metropolitan principal arterial system, and over-all highway system planning.

Most recently, he prepared the travel demand forecasts for the evaluation of the proposed Viking Stadium in Arden Hills which was prepared in response to Governor Dayton’s request to the Metropolitan Council and the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission. Previous work prepared for the Vikings was based on a forecast based on a MnDOT highway project at I-494 and Snelling Avenue with a site impact traffic analysis prepared for the stadium site. That analysis was primarily designed to assess the road improvements needed to provide access to the site, but not a thorough evaluation of the impacts to the region’s highway system of the proposed stadium.

Free pizza & pop will be served!
Friday, November 18th, 12:30-1:30 pm, CivE
University of Minnesota

Minnesota GO: Crafting a Transportation Vision for Generations

Where & When
Friday, Oct 28, 2011
12:00PM – 1:30PM
12:00 – Registration
12:30 – Program

University of Minnesota
Herbert M Hanson, Jr Hall
Room 1-105
1925 4th Street S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Members: $15
Nonmembers: $20
Students: FREE
RSVPs required; box lunch included.

In February 2011, the Minnesota Department of Transportation launched Minnesota GO a visioning process to better align the transportation system with what Minnesotans expect for their quality of life, economy, and natural environment. Through Minnesota GO, MnDOT, the Citizens League and the University of Minnesota will engage Minnesotans from all walks of life in both online and in-person activities to help craft a transportation vision for generations. This collective vision will help MnDOT and the other partners set priorities and goals, as well as inform a statewide multimodal transportation plan by early 2012.

Please join WTS Minnesota and the University of Minnesota’s Interdisciplinary Transportation Student Organization (ITSO) for our October joint program. MnDOT’s Philip Schaffner, Project Manager for Minnesota Go, will provide information covering the range of methods used to engage the public in the visioning process, the outcomes of the effort and how the vision will shape the future transportation efforts. As always, this program is open to all, and to celebrate the new school year, it is FREE for students!

Philip Schaffner is a Principal Planner with Mn/DOT’s Office of Statewide Multimodal Planning and the Project Manager for Minnesota GO. He has nine years of experience in both the public and nonprofit sectors most recently with the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center. He holds a BA from Grinnell College and a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Please RSVP by Monday, October 24, 2011 to Molly Stewart at
wtsminnesota@gmail.com
Include name, organization and vegetarian meal requests in RSVP.

Payment at the door. No shows will be billed. Purchase orders should be addressed to:

WTS Minnesota, c/o Christina Miller, Treasurer, Center for Transportation Studies
200 Transportation & Safety Building
511 Washington Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
and should list the names of the people included in that purchase order.

ITSO will hold the the 1st Transtalk this semester on September 23rd. Dan Soler with the Central Corridor Project Office will be invited to talk about traffic and transportation related issues pertaining to the ongoing Central Corridor (“the Green Line”) construction project. Free food and drinks will be served. You are all invited to attend.

Time: 12:15 pm-1:15 pm, Friday, September 23rd. Location: Civil E Room 210.