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vi I N N O VAT I O N S I N T R AV E L D E M A N D M O D E L I N G , V O L U M E 1
CONFERENCE FORMAT Volume 2: Papers
The conference opened with two workshops: Innova- This volume contains 31 full papers from the breakout
tions in Practice and FTA Findings for Meaningful Fore- sessions.
casts. Two plenary sessions at the beginning of the
conference framed the underlying policy issues that drive
model development and the issues associated with mov- PEER REVIEW PROCESS AND
ing innovative modeling techniques into practice. Fol- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
lowing these plenary sessions, 11 breakout sessions were
held. These sessions were largely based on the papers, Of the more than 65 full papers (of five to six pages)
although several presentations not based on papers were that were initially received in response to the call for
included when the committee felt that additional infor- papers, the committee selected 31 for conference pre-
mation was required to cover a topic. The breakout ses- sentation. Breakout session moderators provided review
sions were designed to allow for lively discussion. A final comments and worked with the authors to make
plenary session focused on the institutional issues that improvements to the papers. After the conference,
must be faced to move research into practice. authors submitted their final papers, updated on the
basis of the comments received and discussion held at
the conference.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS FORMAT The conference planning committee wishes to
thank the TRB Transportation Demand Forecasting
Volume 1: Session Summaries Committee, the Traveler Behavior and Values Com-
mittee, the Travel Survey Committee, and the Mov-
Volume 1 contains summaries of the plenary and breakout ing Activity-Based Modeling into Practice Task
sessions. The conference summary was prepared by Force. The leadership and members of these commit-
Katherine F. Turnbull, Texas Transportation Institute. The tees and task force were important contributors to
appendix contains a list of all conference participants. the conference.
