Pan-American Seminar and Workshop on the Interface Between Automobile Traffic Networks Under Dynamic Traffic Assignment

该奖项代表了对会议研讨会的资助，以评估最先进的技术和实践的状态，并建议在北美，中美洲和南美洲的动态交通分配（DTA）下快速公交（BRT）和汽车交通系统整合的研究优先事项。 这次会议将提供一个难得的机会，使来自美洲的主要研究人员和从业人员聚集在一起，交流有关BRT和其他交通系统以及DTA和其他ITS系统下的汽车交通网络整合的想法和信息。在这次活动和后续活动中，与会者将介绍现有的DTA建模方法和BRT系统的操作，提出整合它们的方法，优先考虑研究需求，并建立对当地和区域需求的半球意识。这次会议研讨会将在波多黎各举行，将成为国际交流与合作的典范，并将BRT技术整合到DTA建模方法中，以在不久的将来改善城市交通。波多黎各由于了解拉丁美洲和美国的运输环境，在南北联合研究和技术转让方面具有独特的比较优势。这次会议-讲习班为半球合作提供了一个特殊机会，因为它使具有互补知识的国家聚集在一起，分享信息将产生互利。这个国际会议-研讨会将有助于识别来自美国或美洲其他国家的最先进的思想和技术;例如，在美国开发的建模技术和在拉丁美洲主要城市成功实施BRT。此外，这一活动将促进就今后合作研究项目和国际活动方面的协作交流意见。

This award represents funding for a conference-workshop to assess the state of the art and the state of the practice and suggest research priorities in the integration of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and automobile traffic systems under Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) in North, Central and South America. This conference-workshop will provide an extraordinary opportunity to bring together leading researchers and practitioners from the Americas to exchange ideas and information concerning the integration of BRT and other transit systems and automobile traffic networks under DTA and other ITS systems. During this activity and in follow-up activities, the participants will present existing DTA modeling approaches and BRT systems operations, suggest ways of integrating them, prioritize needs for research, and create hemispheric awareness of local and regional needs.This conference-workshop, which will take place in Puerto Rico, will be an example of international exchange and collaboration as well as the integration of BRT technology into the DTA modeling approach to produce improvements in urban mobility in the near future. Puerto Rico has unique comparative advantages for joint North-South research and technology transfer because of its understanding of Latin American and US transportation environments. This conference-workshop provides a special opportunity for hemispheric cooperation because it brings together countries with complementary knowledge, in a situation where sharing information will result in mutual benefits. This international conference-workshop will help identify the most advanced thinking and technologies from the US or other countries in the Americas; for example, modeling techniques developed in the US and successful implementation of BRT in major Latin American cities. In addition, this activity will foster the exchange of ideas in terms of future collaboration on cooperative research projects and international events.