June 3 5 Hilton Fort Worth Fort Worth, Texas

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1 June 3 5 Hilton Fort Worth Fort Worth, Texas The 2013 Traffic Safety Conference is sponsored and hosted by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute with significant support from the Texas Department of Transportation Traffic Safety Section through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration s State Highway Safety Grant Programs.

2 THANK YOU We would like to extend a special thank you to the following companies and organizations for sharing their products and services with attendees during the conference. They are: Safety Research and Outreach Exhibit booths are located on the. Be sure and visit with them during the Welcome Reception/ Exhibitor Showcase as well as the scheduled breaks.

3 MONDAY, June 3, :00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Exhibitor Set-up 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Conference Registration Desk Open 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Welcome Reception/Exhibitor Showcase Tuesday, June 4, :30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast 7:30 a.m. 5:00 p.m. Exhibitor Showcase 7:30 a.m. 5:00 p.m. Registration Desk Open 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Opening Welcome Session Moderator: Robert Wunderlich, Director, Center for Transportation Safety Panelists: Douglas Wiersig, Director, Transportation and Public Works, City of Fort Worth Jeff Halstead, Chief, Fort Worth Police Department Chris Nordloh, Major, Texas Department of Public Safety Georgia Chakiris, Regional Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration John Barton, Deputy Executive Director, Texas Department of Transportation 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Break 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon Concurrent Breakout Sessions Breakout Session 1: Drunk Driving in Texas The Worst in the Country, but Getting Better: An Update on MADDs Initiatives and Activities Moderator: Jeff Miracle, North Texas Executive Director, Mothers Against Drunk Driving MADD and Victim Services Terri Peaks, Manager of Victim Services, Mothers Against Drunk Driving MADD and Court Room Monitoring Carl Trebesh, Court Monitoring Project Specialist, Mothers Against Drunk Driving MADD and Law Enforcement Cathy Quaid, Outreach Program Specialist, Mothers Against Drunk Driving

4 Tuesday, June 4, 2013 (continued) Breakout Session 2: Innovating Towards Improved Work Zone Safety Moderator: Jerry Ullman, Senior Research Engineer, Texas A&M Transportation Institute Texas AB Testing and Deployment of Automated Flagger Assistance Devices to Improve Work Zone Safety Wade Odell, Research and Technology Implementation, Texas Department of Transportation North Texas Tollway Authority s Efforts to Improve Work Zone Safety Eric Hemphill, Director of Maintenance, North Texas Tollway Authority Efforts to Improve Work Zone Safety during I-35 Reconstruction Andy Petter, Waco Deputy District Engineer, Texas Department of Transportation Breakout Session 3: Texas CD Safety Analysis 101 Moderator: Stephen Ratke, Safety Engineer, Federal Highway Administration Fundamentals of Intersection Safety Improvements Timothy Taylor, Safety & Design Technical Services, Federal Highway Administration Stephen Ratke, Safety Engineer, Federal Highway Administration 12:00 noon - 1:45 p.m. Conference Luncheon Crystal Ballroom D Moderator: Robert Wunderlich, Director, Center for Transportation Safety Keynote John Horsley, Executive Director, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions Breakout Session 4: Safety Oversight of Motorcoach Operations and Local Enforcement Programs Moderator: Rodney Baumgartner, State Programs Manager, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Safety Oversight of Motorcoach Operations Rodney Baumgartner, State Programs Manager, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration San Antonio TACT Program Wayne Alsup, Officer and Steve Markgraf, Sergeant, San Antonio Police Department Fort Worth High-Priority Traffic Enforcement Program Robert Mills, Officer, Fort Worth Police Department

5 Tuesday, June 4, 2013 (continued) Breakout Session 5: Texas AB Issues in Ignition Interlocks for Alcohol and Drug Offenders Moderator: Maury Dennis, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Transportation Safety Overview of TxDOT Alcohol/Ignition Interlock Training for Probation Officers Maury Dennis, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Transportation Safety Texas Ignition Interlock Laws and Ignition Interlock Research, Evaluation and Trends Debra Coffey, Vice President, Government Affairs, SmartStart, Inc. Breakout Session 6: Texas CD Driver Education: Starting Young Drivers on the Path to Safety Moderator: Dannell Thomas, Program Coordinator, Education Service Center, Region 6 Driver Education Classroom Instruction Donald Brown, Program Coordinator for Driver Education, Education Service Center, Region 6 Driver Education In-Car Instruction Romona Cook, Driver Education Instruction/Supervisor, Education Service Center, Region 6 Diverse Clientele in Driver Education Patricia Larke, Professor, Texas A&M University State Oversight of Driver Education Schools Nina Jo Saint, Program Manager, Education Service Center, Region 13 3:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Break 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions Breakout Session 7: New Research in Distracted Driving Moderator: Laura Higgins, Associate Research Scientist, Center for Transportation Safety Manual Texting vs. Voice-to-Text Mobile Applications Christine Yager, Associate Transportation Researcher, Center for Transportation Safety Studies of Behavior, Beliefs, and Solutions to Distracted Driving Katie Womack, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Transportation Safety Investigating Ambient Speedometer Displays to Support Speed Tracking and Eyes-on-Road Driving Thomas Ferris, Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University

6 Tuesday, June 4, 2013 (continued) Breakout Session 8: Traffic Incident Management in the North Texas Region Moderator: Sonya Jackson Landrum, North Central Texas Council of Governments Avoiding Struck-bys Through Effective Incident Management Ron Moore, Freeway Incident Management Training Instructor, North Central Texas Council of Governments Tower s Role in Traffic Incident Management Rick Chron, General Manager/Towing Instructor, Signature Towing Traffic Crash Data Collection, Analysis & Response Gary Lindsey, Deputy Chief, Dallas County Sheriff s Office Texas AB Breakout Session 9: Unintended Consequences of the Texas Energy Boom: Traffic Safety Issues Moderator: Carol Rawson, Texas Department of Transportation Panelists: Carol Rawson, Texas Department of Transportation Luke Legate, Director, Texas Oil & Gas Joint Association Chris Nordloh, Major, Texas Department of Public Safety Texas CD Wednesday, June 5, :30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast 7:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Exhibitor Showcase 7:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Registration Desk Open 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Concurrent Breakout Sessions Breakout Session 10: Keeping Children Safe: Child Passenger Safety Programs in Texas Moderator: Irene Rodriguez, Assistant Research Specialist, Center for Transportation Safety Keeping Children Safe: Child Passenger Safety Programs in the DFW Metro Area Sharon Evans, Cook Children s Medical Center Child Safety Restraints: Understanding Head Injuries in Motor Vehicle Collisions Brian D. Robertson, Research Scientist, Injury Prevention Are There Limits to LATCH? Changes to FMVSS 213 You Need to Know Beth Warren, Coordinator of Occupant Protection Safety Programs, Texas Department of Public Safety

7 Wednesday, June 5, 2013 (continued) Breakout Session 11: Texas AB Federal Highway Administrations Systemic Safety Analysis and Project Selection Tool Moderator: Stephen Ratke, Safety Engineer, Federal Highway Administration Systemic Approach Another Way To Do Safety Timothy Taylor, Safety & Design Technical Services, Federal Highway Administration Breakout Session 12: Texas CD Crash Data and Mobile Applications Moderator: Debra Vermillion, Safety Construction Programs & Data Analysis Branch Manager, Texas Department of Transportation Crash Data and Mobile Applications Margo McCormick, CRASH Project Manager, Texas Department of Transportation Breakout Session 13: Citizens ABC Steering Clear of Fraud and Abuse in Safety Projects Moderator: James Sanders, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Region 6 Law Enforcement Liaison Detecting and Preventing Fraud Max Smith, Office of Inspector General, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Importance of Internal Controls and Monitoring Practices Michael Weaver, Traffic Safety Section, Texas Department of Transportation Taking Accountability to a Higher Level in Dallas County Captain Mark Howard, Dallas County Sheriff s Office 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Break 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon Conference Closing Plenary Session The Future of Transportation Safety: Safety Impacts of Technologies Even Jules Verne Couldn t Imagine Moderator: Robert Wunderlich, Director, Center for Transportation Safety Panelists: Scott Belcher, President and CEO, Intelligent Transportation Society of America Steven W. Dellenback, Ph.D., Director R&D - Intelligent Systems, Southwest Research Institute

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