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UMD-ITS Host Seminar Featuring Kimley Horn EngineersOn Thursday March 3rd, University of Maryland ITS-ITE student chapter held a seminar, in which Mr. Jiaxin Tong and Mr. Edwin Cheng from Kimley-Horn presented their recent project with VDOT and the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT). The topic of the seminar is “Transform 66 Outside the Beltway –Multimodal Solutions from 495 to Haymarket”. The goal of the project is to transform 25 miles of I-66 from U.S. Route 15 in Haymarket to I-495/Capital Beltway into a multimodal corridor that moves traffic and people more efficiently. Under the proposed plan, I-66 would be improve to provide:
In addition, the improvement would be brought by the projects, details of modeling approaches, project schedule, and challenges were introduced by the presenters. The values of the project to the researchers and practitioners are:
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