Mr. David Gao is Chief Transportation Planner with the Travel Demand Modeling group at the Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC). David has worked for HGAC for over ten years. His job duties at H-GAC cover a variety of Travel Demand Forecasting related tasks. Before that, he worked for four years as an Associate Transportation Planner for the Association of Central Oklahoma Governments, the MPO in Oklahoma City metro area. He obtained a Master’s degree in Urban & Regional Planning from the University of Iowa. David is an active member of American Planning Association.  He is also a Certified Planner by the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).

Shuaiyu Chen, Ph.D., has seven years of traffic engineering experience. He has extensive experience in operation, simulation and modeling, planning, and safety studies. His experience includes traffic engineering studies, traffic signal design, traffic control plans; signing, pavement markings, operation analyses with SYNCHRO and TRANSYT-7F software for implementation of signal timing and capacity analyses, simulation and modeling studies with PARAMICS and VISSIM software, transportation planning with TRANSCAD and VISUM software packages, and ITS planning, design, deployment, operations, and maintenance.

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Heng Wang

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Lang Yang