PTRG staff and research associates are set to present a total of 16 papers in both lectern and poster sessions, as well as a number of workshop presentations, at the 95^th Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, to be held in Washington D.C. from 10-14 January 2016. The theme for the conference is ‘Research convergence for a multi-modal future’. Papers include:

1. A Time-Series Model of Vehicle Kilometers Traveled in Australia (Mohsen Nazemi, Mohammad-Sajjad Shafiei,Dr Meead Saberi, Prof Majid Sarvi)
2. Commuters’ Cycling Behavior in Response to Weather Variation: Insight from Extended Theory of Planned Behavior (Farhana Ahmed, Prof Geoff Rose, Dr Christian Jakob)
3. Development and Application of a Scale to Measure Station Design Quality for Personal Safety (Mustafizur Rahaman, Prof Graham Currie, Dr Carlyn Muir)
4. E-bike Safety: Insights from a Survey of Australian E-bike Riders (Dr Marilyn Johnson, Prof Geoff Rose)
5. Evaluating Pay-on-Entry Versus Proof-of Payment Ticketing in Light Rail Transit (Prof Graham Currie, James Reynolds)
6. Experimental Study of Multiplier Effects Created by Providing Transit Signal Priority at Multiple Intersections (Long Truong, Prof Majid Sarvi, Prof Graham Currie)
7. Exploring Causes of Tram-Involved Crashes Using a Random Effects Negative Binomial Model (Farhana Naznin, Prof Graham Currie, Dr David Logan, Prof Majid Sarvi)
8. Factors Influencing Variability in the Usage of Secure Bicycle Parking at Railway Stations in Melbourne, Australia (Daniel Mead, Dr Marilyn Johnson, Prof Geoff Rose)
9. Impacts of Rail-Road Crossings: International Synthesis and Research Gaps (Dr Chris De Gruyter, Prof Graham Currie)
10. Insights Toward Characteristics of Merging Streams of Pedestrian Crowds Based on Experiments with Panicked Ants (Zahrah Shahhoseini, Prof Majid Sarvi, Dr Meead Saberi)
11. Investigating Effects of Traffic, Socioeconomic, and Land Use Characteristics on Pedestrian and Bicycle Crashes: Case Study of Melbourne, Australia (Richard Amoh-Gyimah, Prof Majid Sarvi, Dr Meead Saberi)
12. Is There a Modal Bias to the Transit-Orientation of Urban Development? (Laura Aston, Prof Graham Currie, Katerina Pavkova)
13. New Method to Identify Transit Preferential Link Treatments Using Lorenz Curves (Katerina Pavkova, Prof Graham Currie, Dr Alexa Delbosc, Prof Majid Sarvi)
14. Should Optimal Stop Spacing Vary by Land Use Type? New Methodology (Jingxu Chen, Prof Graham Currie, Prof Zhiyuan Liu, Prof Wei Wang, Dr Zhibin Li)
15. Social Transit as Mass Transit in Suburban Greenfield Development (Dr Alexa Delbosc, Prof Graham Currie, Dr Larissa Nicholls, Dr Cecily Maller)
16. Travel Plans for New Residential Developments: Measuring Self-Selection Effects to Better Understand Travel Behavior Impacts (Dr Chris De Gruyter, Prof Geoff Rose, Prof Graham Currie)

Further information about the Annual Meeting is available from the Transportation Research Board website.