NGSIM Stakeholders –
Users Group
Chair Overview
Presented by Dr. George List
Goals and Challenges
 Membership
• Representatives from state and local transportation
agencies, consultants and academia
 Goals
• Focus on the needs and requirements of end-users of traffic
simulation models
• Identify what needs to be advanced in the state of the
practice
 Challenge
• Simulation users have distinct and widely differing needs,
levels of expertise, resource competencies and limitations
 Benefits to model users
• Help identify needs; exchange experiences with other
users; develop solutions to analytical problems
Users Group - Membership
Bloomberg
Loren
CH2M-HILL
Bond
Russell
Massachusetts DOT
Mirzaei
Arash
North Central Texas Council of Governments
Chang
Gang-Len
University of Maryland at College Park
Hague
Steve
Caltrans HQ
Hsia
Liang
Florida Department of Transportation
McGhee
Cathy
Virginia Tech RC
Ozbay
Kaan
Rutgers University
Paracha
Jawad
Maryland State Highway Administration
Rouphail
Nagui
NC State ITRE
Shaw
John
Wisconsin DOT
Trueblood
Michael
HDR Engineering
Walker
Susan
ITERIS
Bullock
Darcy
Purdue University
Sabra
Ziad
Sabra, Wang & Associates