H-GAC has created the Brown Bag Series to provide staff and member jurisdictions with a forum for education in market trends, emerging technologies, and key transportation and planning issues facing the industry. Each bi-monthly speaking engagement will give consultant firms, research institutes and other industry experts the opportunity to showcase an expert speaker from their firm for a presentation over lunch.
These meeting are open to all H-GAC member agencies and governments. Unless otherwise noted, all meetings will be held at H-GAC offices, 3555 Timmons Lane, Suite 120 Houston, TX 77027.
2012
5-21-2012
EcoDriving
Mr. Mike Speck
EcoDriving Solutions
EcoDriving Presentation 
3-19-2012
Visualization Through Animation in Transportation
Mr. Austin Reed
Sr. 3D Visualization Specialist
HNTB Corp. - Kansas City, Missouri
Animation Presentation
1-23-2012
A Group of Ideas for Healthy Roadway Planning
Mr. Paul Moore, P.E.
Director of Transportation Urban Design
AECOM - Atlanta, Georgia
Presentation on Smart Transportation (PDF)
2011
Past Meetings
10-11-2011
Bicycling and Walking Data: National Overview and International Efforts
Mr. Shawn Turner
Division Head
Texas Transportation Institute
Pedestrian and Bicyclist Data (ppt)
Pedestrian and Bicyclist Data
09-15-2011
The 2010 Census and GIS Framework
Mr. Jon Barlett
Geographer
United States Census Bureau, Dallas
The 2010 Census and GIS Framework (ppt)
The 2010 Census and GIS Framework
07-18-2011
Holistic Transportation Analysis Methodology
and Multimodal Operations Simulation Tools
Mr. J. Sam Lott, P.E.
Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.
Holostic Transportation Analysis Methodology (pdf)
Holostic Transportation Analysis Methodology
06-20-2011
Rough Proportionality
Eddie Haas and Dan Sefko
Freese and Nichols, Inc.
Rough Proportionality (pdf)
Rough Proportionality
05-16-2011
The Streetcar Renaissance
Charles Hales
Senior Vice President
HDR, Inc.
The Streetcar Mode – its place in Transit
Sign in Sheet
01-20-2011
Jonathan Reid, PB
Unconventional Intersection Design
2010
12-09-2010
Trent Lethco, ARUP
Sustainable Mobility (ppt)
If you are interested in presenting, please submit a 250-word abstract along with a biography and recent photograph or representative graphic of the presentation topic in .jpg format. Please contact Rosalind Hebert at Rosalind.Hebert@h-gac.com or 713-993-2471 with inquiries, comments, or to submit an abstract for a future presentation.