ITS Massachusetts 14th Annual Meeting and Conference

ITS Massachusetts
14 th Annual Meeting and Conference
“Saving the Green”
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Transportation Building
Ten Park Plaza
Boston, Massachusetts

Saving the Green!
This year’s ITS Massachusetts Annual Meeting will provide you with the most up-to-date
information on ITS in Massachusetts! Join us for the largest gathering of the Intelligent
Transportation Systems community in the Commonwealth. With the current financial crisis
taking hold in the Commonwealth, state transportation officials are searching for ways to save
money and increase the efficiency of the transportation system. This coupled with the backdrop
of increasingly expensive fuel and the vital need to reduce the release of greenhouse gasses into
the atmosphere finds our industry at a crossroads. Therefore, this year's theme, "Saving the
Green" will explore the role of ITS in developing an environmentally and monetarily
sustainable transportation system.
Preliminary Program
8:30 a.m. Registration Desk Opens / Exhibits Open
9:15 a.m. ITS Massachusetts Business Meeting and Opening Session
9:45 a.m. Welcome:
David Markt, President, ITS Massachusetts
ITS America Update:
Scott Belcher
President and Chief Executive Officer
Intelligent Transportation Society of America
Keynote Speaker:
10:30 a.m. Break / Exhibits
Frank Tramontozzi, P.E.
Chief Engineer
Massachusetts Highway Department

10:45 a.m. Concurrent Technical Sessions (1 & 2)
Technical Session 1
Broadband Access and Communications
This session will detail some of the initiatives States are implementing to utilize highway right of
way to support telecommunications initiatives, including rural broadband.
Moderator: John Colangelo, Jacobs Engineering Group
Panelists:
“VTrans Shared Resource Program”
Robert White, Vermont Agency of Transportation
“FHWA National Rural Communications Study”
Erin Flanigan, Cambridge Systematics
“I-91 ITS Project”
Ken DeRose, Adesta, LLC and Kevin Hunt, Gannett Fleming, Inc.
Technical Session 2
MTA Deployment of Automatic Incident Detection Using Video Analytics – A Case Study
The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA) operates the largest ITS deployment in the country,
with stringent incident detection and response requirements. At the Traffic Operations Center a
reliable and effective operations tool is their automatic incident response program. The MTA over
the past two years has installed and evaluated a video based incident detection program with
promising results. This session will discuss: What were MTA reasons and options for deployment
of video incident detection; What technology has MTA deployed and why; What are the results to
date and lessons learned; and, What is planned for the future.
12:00 p.m. Lunch (Provided) / Exhibits
Moderator: Robert Desrosiers, Senior Engineering Manager, Parsons Transportation
Panelists:
“MTA Video Incident Detection Program Options and Analysis”
William Nordstrom, Director of Communications, Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
“MTA Video Incident Detection Deployment and Lessons Learned”
Tony Wade, Communications System Engineer, Massachusetts Turnpike Authority
“Systems Integration of Video Incident Detection and Incident Response”
Mark Curry, Transdyn Corportation

1:00 p.m. Awards Presentation:
John Colangelo, Chairman of the Board, ITS Massachusetts
Award of Excellence:
James Barrett Sorensen
IBI Group
Joseph M. Sussman Leadership Award:
Luisa M. Paiewonsky
Commissioner
Massachusetts Highway Department
1:15 p.m. Transportation Finance Mega Session
Whether transportation improvements include building new projects or enhancing existing
transportation services and facilities, a major challenge facing the transportation community is
how to finance such improvements. Questions of concern are: How can capital and operating costs
be reduced and what portion of these costs should be covered with tolls, fares, and other fees
versus revenues from gas taxes and other tax sources? How should bus and train fares, highway,
bridge, and tunnel tolls, parking fees, and other user fees be established and how might technology
facilitate the collection and processing of such revenue? These and other questions surrounding
the issues and challenges of financing transportation improvements will be addressed and debated
in this session.
2:30 p.m. Break / Exhibits
Moderator: Dr. John Collura, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Panelists:
Executive Office of Transportation and Public Works Perspective
Jeffrey Mullan, Undersecretary and Chief Operating Officer, EOT
Legislative Perspective
Representative Joseph Wagner, Co-Chair of the Joint Transportation Committee (invited)
Construction Industry Perspective
John Pourbaix, Executive Director, Construction Industries of Massachusetts, Inc.
Financial Industry Perspective
Phil Puccia, Financial Analyst, JPMorgan
Professional Organization Perspective
Anatoly Darov, P.E., Esq., President, Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section

2:45 p.m. Concurrent Technical Sessions (3 & 4)
Technical Session 3
Opportunities for ITS Professionals; Meeting the Workforce and Training Needs
What are the opportunities in ITS under the Stimulus Package for ITS professionals? What is
being done to meet the future workforce and training needs? Perspectives from the University of
Massachusetts, the state level for cities and towns, and from a national level.
Moderator: Stephen L. Pepin, Manager of Research and ITS Planning Programs,
Office of Transportation Planning, Executive Office of Transportation and
Public Works
Panelists:
“Introduction: ITS as a Priority under the Stimulus Package”
Nathan Gartner, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
“K-12 Summer Transportation Institute”
Tomas Materdey, University of Massachusetts-Boston
“5-yr MS/BS Civil and Environmental Engineering Degree”
John Collura, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
“UMass Collaborative for ITS and the ITS Certificate Program”
Marguerite Zarrillo, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
“National Perspective, USDOT Transportation Leadership Certificate Program”
Thomas F. Humphrey, ITS Independent Consultant, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
“ITS Training for the Cities & Town of Massachusetts”
Christopher Ahmadjian, Bay State Roads

2:45 p.m. Concurrent Technical Sessions (3 & 4), cont.
Technical Session 4
ITS Hot Topics
This popular session will provide an opportunity for the panelists to discuss the latest ITS
technology deployments/developments and how they can address transportation needs. In
addition, this session will provide an insight on ITS learning for the future. We will hear about
emerging trends and concepts, systems undergoing active research and development, as well as
recently deployed technologies.
Moderator: Carol Schweiger, TranSystems
Panelists:
“ITS Strategic Business Planning”
Dr. Robert Edelstein, AECOM
“Increasing Real Time Interagency Decision Support Using a Service Oriented
Architecture Approach”
Russ Bond, Massachusetts Highway Department, and Carl-Henry Piel & Rebecca
Morgan, IBI Group
“Real-Time Tracking of Snow Operations in the City of Boston”
Claire Lane, City of Boston, and Carl Nylen, ESRI
“MassHighway Continuously Operating Reference Station Network”
James Jodice, P.E., Survey Section, MassHighway
4:00 p.m. Social Hour / Vendor Presentations / Raffle
(Food and Refreshments Provided)