Information about the travel forecasting package, Quick Response System II
QRS II was never about making money. I initially developed the software with a federal grant to my university, and I was perfectly willing in 1987 to give the software away through the McTrans Center. It was only the decision by the Reagan Administration to kill distribution of QRS II that prompted Shirley and me to begin …
With much help and encouragement from Kermit Wies and TRB’s ADB45 committee, I have placed most of the content of the Hawaii Guidelines for project-level traffic forecasting on the TFResource.org website in fully editable format. At this moment there are 50 “topics” pages containing just about all the methodologies from the Hawaii Guidelines. Some longer …
At a reception at the TRB annual meeting a few years ago I ran into Sue Langdon, one of my former students, and we talked for a while about the remarkable accomplishments of those students who graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee with a specialization in transportation engineering. Sue suggested that it’s a …