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CATMUG (Chicago Area Travel Model User Group) was formed in 1997 as a forum to share and discuss travel model research and application efforts among the Chicago area transportation planning community. CATMUG is a multidisciplinary group of over 100 members including engineers, planners, professors, and researchers. CATMUG normally meets at noon on the first Wednesday of each month at CMAP. It is coordinated by Matt Stratton and Xiaohong Zhang. Please contact them to be added to the e-mail distribution list.
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Past Meetings
February 1, 2012
Topic: Vulnerability and Adaptation Options of European Transport Systems towards Weather Extremes – Intermediate Findings from the EU-Funded Research Project WEATHER
Presenter: Claus Doll, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI
October 5, 2011
Topic: CMAP's Activity-Based and Freight Models
Presenter: Matt Stratton and Kermit Wies, CMAP
Activity-Based Model Final Report
Meso-Scale Freight Model Final Report
September 7, 2011
Topic: Localized Application of Texas Transportation Institute's Cost of Congestion Methods
Presenter: Max Shmaltsuyev
July 6, 2011
Topic: Using Toll Plaza Transaction Data for Model Calibration
Presenter: Zubair Ghafoor, Wilbur Smith Associates
June 1, 2011
Topic: Validation of CMAP's 2010 Travel Demand Model Results
Presenter: Craig Heither, CMAP
May 4, 2011
Topic: Diverging Diamond Interchanges
Presenter: Xin Tian, Regina Webster & Associates
April 6, 2011
Topic: Evaluating the Economic Impact of Improvements in Freight Infrastructure: An Input-Output Approach
Presenter: Ethan Halpern-Givens, UIC
March 2, 2011
Topic: TCRP H-37: Characteristics of Premium Transit Services that Affect Choice of Mode
Presenter: Maren Outwater, Resource Systems Group
February 18, 2011, Symposium on Surveying Hard-To-Reach Populations with an emphasis on Latino Households
Moderator: Kermit Wies, CMAP
February 11, 2011, Peer Exchange on Advanced Travel Models
Topic: Presentation and panel discussion about Pricing and Freight Models under development at CMAP
Moderator: Kermit Wies, CMAP
October 6, 2010
Topic: An Introduction to TRANSIMS: Core Components and New Developments
Presenter: Mike Hope, Argonne National Laboratory
September 1, 2010
Topic: CTA Rider/Non-Rider Behavior and Attitudes Survey
Presenter: Tara P. O'Malley, Market Research Coordinator, CTA
August 4, 2010
Topic: UIC's Vehicle Transaction Timing Model
Presenter: Taha Hossein Rashidi, UIC
June 2, 2010
Topic: Development of UIC's ADAPTS (Agent-based Dynamic Activity Planning and Travel Scheduling) Model
Presenter: Josh Auld, UIC
May 5, 2010
Topic: A Road Network Design Method Revisited: Expressway Spacing and Economic Evaluation
Presenter: David Boyce, Ph.D., Northwestern University
A paper on this subject, presented at a symposium in Germany in 2005, and published in 2007, can be found here.
April 12, 2010
Topic: Computing Environment for CMAP's Advanced Travel Model
Presenter: Peter Vovsha, Ph.D., Parsons Brinckerhoff
April 7, 2010
Topic: Arriving On Time? Finding Reliable Shortest Paths in a Stochastic Network
Presenter: Yu (Marco) Nie, Ph.D., Northwestern University
March 10, 2010
Topic: CMAP's Advanced Travel Model Cadre Project
Presenters: Kermit Wies and John Bowman
Presentation (Wies): CMAP's Advanced Travel Model Cadre
Presentation (Bowman): Strategic Plan for Advanced Travel Modeling at CMAP: Data Development
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