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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

 

OLYMPIA II Hall

10:00-12:00

OPENING SESSION

Moderator: Basil Psarianos (Greece)

10:00

OPENING CEREMONY - WELCOME ADDRESSES

Richard A. Cunard (USA)
Senior Program Officer - Traffic and Operations Engineer, Transportation Research Board (TRB)

Christos Spirtzis (Greece)
President of the Technical Chamber of Greece

Stefanos Xekalakis (Greece)
President of the Hellenic Association of Rural and Surveying Engineers

Bill Chalkias (Greece)
President of the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers

TBA
Greek Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks

10:30

Access management issues and challenges in the US
Kristine M. Williams (USA)

11:15

Access Management - The UK Experience
John Smart (UK)

12:00-14:00

L u n c h   B r e a k

 

OLYMPIA I Hall

14:00-16:30

SESSION 1: Systems planning, traffic management and control, corridor design

Moderators: Nikiforos Stamatiadis (USA) - Polichronis Akritidis (Greece)

OP 1.1
Access management at peak hours on an interurban corridor under construction. The case of “Korinthos-Patra section of Olympia Odos”
Gerasimos Koklas (Greece), Konstantinos Papandreou (Greece) & Yannis Handanos (Greece)
Road access management: Classification of activity routes
Hein J. Stander (South Africa) & Malcolm L. Watters (South Africa)
Athens 2004 Olympics: The importance of a freeway for the access to an olympic size event
Bill Halkias (Greece), Fanis Papadimitriou (Greece), Dimitrios Mandalozis (Greece),
Helen Tyrogianni (Greece) & Anna Politou (Greece)
Study on quantitative analysis of traffic conflicts in traffic impact
Lei Du (China), Xiaokuan Yang (China) & Lei Lei (China)

 

OLYMPIA II Hall

14:00-16:30

SESSION 2: Road safety - I

Moderator: Karen Dixon (USA)

OP 2.1 Safety analysis of access management implementation in Utah
Grant G. Schultz (USA)
OP 2.2 Effectiveness of road safety measures at junctions
George Yannis (Greece), Eleonora Papadimitriou (Greece) & Petros Evgenikos (Greece)
OP 2.3 Guidelines for median treatment at urban roadways to solve left-turn movement
Mohammed Mallah (Saudi Arabia)
OP 2.4 Safety effects of access management techniques: State of knowledge and recent research
Bhagwant Persaud (Canada), Frank Gross (USA), Ajmal Hamidi (USA) & Craig Lyon (Canada)

17:00

WELCOME RECEPTION

Thursday, June 16, 2011

 

OLYMPIA I Hall

09:00-10:40

SESSION 3: Road safety - II

Moderator: Grant G. Schultz (USA)

OP 3.1 A critical assessment of intersection safety across Europe
Constantinos Antoniou (Greece), George Yannis (Greece), Petros Evgenikos (Greece),
Jackie Knowles (UK), Jeremy Broughton (UK) & Alan Kirk (UK)
OP 3.2 Performance-based safety evaluation of requests for new access or modifications to existing access on freeways
Richard J. Porter (USA) & Thanh Q. Le (USA)
OP 3.3 Possibilistic resource allocation optimization models for improving access safety over a network of interurban highways
Loukas Dimitriou (Greece) & Antony Stathopoulos (Greece)
OP 3.4 Quantification of impacts of road accessibility and selected factors of road surroundings development on road traffic safety
Stanisław Gaca (Poland) & Mariusz Kieć (Poland)

 

OLYMPIA II Hall

09:00-10:40

SESSION 4: Geometric design

Moderators: Constantinos Antoniou (Greece) - Aristidis Karlaftis (Greece)

OP 4.1 Intersection design tool to aid access management
Nikiforos Stamatiadis (USA) & Adam Kirk (USA)
OP 4.2 Roundabout performance analysis when introducing slip lanes
Majed Al-Ghandour (USA), Billy Williams (USA), William Rasdorf (USA) &
Bastian Schroeder (USA)
OP 4.3 Developing a risk assessment rating for conflict points at driveway locations
Karen K. Dixon (USA) & Robert Layton (USA)

10:40-11:10

C o f f e e   B r e a k

 

OLYMPIA I Hall

11:10-12:50

SESSION 5: Capacity, operations and signal control, tollways

Moderator: Richard J. Porter (USA)

OP 5.1 Implementation of an optimizing traffic responsive signal control strategy at grade separated intersections of Kifisou highway
Dimitris Sermpis (Greece) & Dimitris Kefallinos (Greece)
OP 5.2 Evaluation of methodologies for the design and analysis of freeway weaving sections
Alexander Skabardonis (USA) & Eleni Christofa (USA)
OP 5.3 Managing traffic on urban limited access facilities. Ingress through tolling and egress to large scale generators as keys to relieve congestion. The case of Attica Tollway in Athens, Greece
Bill Halkias (Greece), Helen Tyrogianni (Greece), Dimitris Mandalozis (Greece) &
Anna Politou (Greece)

 

OLYMPIA II Hall

11:10-12:50

SESSION 6: Land use, permit process, legal issues and master plans

Moderators: Demetrios Mandalozis (Greece) - Garyfallia Kosmoglou (Greece)

OP 6.1 Access management in Greece: Existing legislation - Proposals
Theodora Maratou (Greece), Nikoleta Kotsikou (Greece), Basil Psarianos (Greece) &
Zisimos Karvounis (Greece)
OP 6.2 The evolution of access management at the southern tip of Africa
Malcolm L. Watters (South Africa), Anthony D. Abrahamson (South Africa) &
Cecil A. Rose (South Africa)
OP 6.3 Program framework for implementing access management
Philip Demosthenes (USA)

12:50-14:20

L u n c h   B r e a k

 

OLYMPIA I Hall

14:20-16:00

SESSION 7: Economic impacts, sustainable development, complete streets, human factors, medians

Moderators: Majed Al-Ghandour (USA) - Ioanna Dounia (Greece)

OP 7.1 Integrated street design in high-volume junctions: The case study of London’s Oxford Circus
Joseph Mercieca (UK), Ioannis Kaparias (UK), Michael G.H. Bell (UK) & Elspeth Finch (UK)
OP 7.2 Investigation of Greek driver behavior during the approach to suburban un-signalized intersections
Constantinos Antoniou (Greece) & Konstantinos Papoutsis (Greece)
OP 7.3 Effectiveness of various ways of providing access and service of road surroundings on suburban roads
Marian Tracz (Poland), Stanisław Gaca (Poland) & Mariusz Kieć (Poland)

Friday, June 17, 2011

 
OLYMPIA II Hall

09:00-10:40

SESSION 8: Traffic management, operational and environmental controls

Moderators: George Yannis (Greece) - Emmanouil Drakakis (Greece)

OP 8.1 Traffic management in an intercontinental city: Istanbul
Seyma Ulucay (Turkey)
OP 8.2 Effectiveness of traffic management strategies in New Ionia
Costas Portokalidis (Greece) & George Lymberopoulos (Greece)
OP 8.3 Operational, environmental and safety comparisons between left-turn bypass, diverging flow and displacement left turn intersections
Claudia L. Olarte (USA), Evangelos I. Kaisar (USA), Alicia Benazir Portal Palomo (USA),
Praveen Edara (USA) & Joe G. Bared (USA)
OP 8.4 Urban mobility in the city of Larisa (What is the current status and what could be done in the future)
Anna Papadopoulou (Greece)

10:40-11:00

C o f f e e   B r e a k

 

OLYMPIA II Hall

11:00-12:15

WORKSHOP: What Have You Learned?

Moderator: Philip Demosthenes (USA)

 

OLYMPIA II Hall

12:15-12:30

CLOSING REMARKS

Basil Psarianos (Greece)
International Steering Committee Chair
Professor, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Member, TRB Access Management Committee

Kristine M. Williams (USA)
International Steering Committee Co-Chair
Program Director, Planning & Corridor Management, Center for Urban Transportation Research, Tampa FL, USA
Chair, TRB Access Management Committee 

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