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Volpe Center Highlights - Fall 2004
Published and Presented
Focus |
SAVE-IT |
Safety |
Mobility |
Global Connectivity
Environmental Stewardship |
Security |
Organizational Excellence
Highlighting Volpe Experts |
Awards |
Published and Presented
- Dr. Bahar Barami of the Economic and Industry Analysis Division presented:
- "Embedded Technologies to Secure the Supply Chain from End to End" on September 2, 2004, at SOLE 2004, the annual conference of the International Society of Logistics, in Norfolk, Virginia. Find the paper at http://www.volpe.dot.gov/library/published/sole_2004.doc.
- "Market Trends in Homeland Security Technologies" at the 2004 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 21 and 22, 2004.
Dr. Aviva Brecher of the Center's Office of Environmental Preservation and Systems Modernization presented the lecture "Balancing Transportation, Energy and the Environment" on March 9, 2004, at the Claremont Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California. The lecture was part of the Volpe Center's Outreach and Education Activity. Mr. Jeffrey Bryan and Ms. Ann Steffes of the Planning and Policy Analysis Division were the primary authors of the "District of Columbia Motor Carrier Management and Threat Assessment Study," August 2004 which was submitted to the District of Columbia Department of Transportation. Dr. Judith Burki-Cohen of the Operator Performance and Safety Analysis Division co-authored "Task and Vehicle Dynamics Based Assessment of Motion Cueing Requirements," Proceedings of the American Institute of Astronautics Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, August 16-19, 2004, Providence, Rhode Island. (Paper 2004-5154) Ms. Brittany Campbell of the Advanced Safety Technology Division presented "Safety and Business Benefit Analysis of NASA's Aviation Safety Program" at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics 4th Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Forum, Chicago, Illinois, September 20-23, 2004. Dr. Kim Cardosi of the Operator Performance and Safety Analysis Division wrote Human Factors Integration Challenges in the Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) Environment, published May 2004. (DOT-VNTSC-FAA-04-07, DOT/FAA/AR-04/18) Dr. Kim Cardosi of the Operator Performance and Safety Analysis Division presented "Rating the Severity of Runway Incursions," at the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Aeronautics held in Toulouse, France, September 29-October 1, 2004. Ms. Anya A. Carroll of the Railroad Systems Division Division presented "The Future of Intrusion and Obstacle Detection along High-Speed Rail Corridors with Highway Rail Intersections in the United States" at the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis: ISAS 2004 and International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications: CITSA 2004, held in Orlando, Florida, July 22-25, 2004. She also presented "A Global Perspective on Grade Crossing Safety" at FTA's 8th Annual State Safety Oversight Workshop, Boston, Massachusetts, September 19-23, 2004. Dr. James V. Carroll of the Surveillance and Assessment Division presented "Radio-frequency Interference Mitigation Technologies for Aviation Precision Approach Operations" at the Fourth Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference and Workshop held in Fairfax, Virginia, April 26, 2004. Mr. Kevin L. Clark and Ms. Melanie Soares of the Surveillance and Assessment Division authored FogEye UV Sensor System Performance Characteristics, published March 2004. (DOT-VNTSC-FAA-04-06) Ms. Sarah Dammen presented "The Effects of Safety Practices, Technology Adoption, and Firm Characteristics on Motor Carrier Safety" at the 45th Annual Forum of the Transportation Research Forum held in Evanston, Illinois, March 21-23, 2004. Mr. Marco daSilva of the Accident Prevention Division presented "Railroad Infrastructure Security Research" at the 2004 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 21-22, 2004. Mr. Marco DaSilva of the Accident Prevention Division presented "U.S. Prototype Research in Railroad Infrastructure Security Systems" at the 8th International Level Crossing Symposium in Sheffield, United Kingdom, April 13, 2004. The paper was co-authored with Ms. Anya A. Carroll of the Railroad Systems Division and Mr. William Baron of the Infrastructure Protection and Operations Division. - Mr. Allan J. DeBlasio of the Planning and Policy Analysis Division presented:
- "Effects of Catastrophic Events on Transportation System Management and Operations" at the Workshop on Optimizing Resource Allocation for Transportation Infrastructure Protection, Madison, Wisconsin, May 20, 2004.
- "ITS During and After the 2003 Blackout" at the ITS America 2004 14th Annual Meeting and Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, April 26-28, 2004.
- Mr. Allan J. DeBlasio of the Planning and Policy Analysis Division, Mr. Terrance J. Regan of Planners Collaborative, and Ms. Margaret E. Zirker of Cambridge Systematics co-authored:
 August 2003 Northeast Blackout. A Volpe team developed case studies documenting the actions taken by transportation agencies in the Great Lakes region and the New York City area in response to the blackout. This work is part of a larger effort to examine the impacts of catastrophic events on transportation system facilities and services and the role that intelligent transportation systems play in emergencies. Shown above: Region of the United States affected by the electrical power loss from the August 14, 2003 blackout.
Mr. Michael Dinning of the Office of Environmental Preservation and Systems Modernization presented the lecture "Challenges in Implementing Transportation Security and Logistics Management Technologies" to students in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell on March 2, 2004. Mr. Gregg Fleming, Chief of the Environmental Measurement and Modeling Division, presented "The Future of Aircraft Noise Research" at the National Conference on Noise Control Engineering, held in Baltimore, Maryland, July 12-14, 2004. Mr. Arthur Flores of the Environmental Measurement and Modeling Division presented "Mutual Acceptance of OIML Recommendation 126 Testing" at the 17th International Conference on Alcohol, Drugs, and Traffic Safety, held in Glasgow, Scotland, August 8-13, 2004. On April 25, 2004, he presented "Alcohol Concentration Extrapolation" at the Annual Meeting of the International Association for Chemical Testing. Mr. Kevin Green of the Transportation Strategic Plans and Programs Development Division presented "Technology to Increase CAFE" at the 12th Annual National Energy Modeling System/Annual Energy Outlook Conference in Washington, D.C. on March 23, 2004. Dr. James Hallock, Chief of the Aviation Safety Division, and Dr. Frank Wang of the Surveillance and Assessment Division co-authored Summary Results from Long-Term Wake Turbulence Measurements at San Francisco International Airport, published July 2004. (DOT-VNTSC-FA27-PM-04-13) Mr. Robert Hoaglund of the Infrastructure Protection and Operations Division presented "The Future of Security" at the National Cargo Security Council Seminar, at Baltimore, Maryland, July 17-20, 2004, and "Security in the Terminal and Beyond," at the 2004 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 21-22, 2004. Mr. Robert Hoaglund of the Infrastructure Protection and Operations Division presented a lecture titled "Cargo Security Best Practices in the Port Environment" to students in the Cargo Security Management Course at the Global Maritime and Transportation School of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, March 16, 2004. Ms. Karina Jacobsen, Mr. David Tyrell, and Dr. Benjamin Perlman of the Structures and Dynamics Division co-authored "Impact Test of a Crash-Energy Management Passenger Rail Car," presented at the 2004 ASME/IEEE Joint Rail Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, April 6-8, 2004. (RTD2004-66045) http://www.volpe.dot.gov/sdd/docs/2004/rail_cw_2004_1.pdf (PDF, 1.3MB) Dr. Douglass Lee of the Economic and Industry Analysis Division, Mr. Kevin Gay of the Service and Operations Assessment Division, and Ms. Anya Carroll, Mr. Adrian Hellman, and Ms. Suzanne Sposato, all of the Railroad Systems Division, co-authored Benefit-Cost Evaluation of a Highway-Railroad Intermodal Control System (ICS), published June 2004. (FHWA-JPO-04-055) http://www.itsdocs.fhwa.dot.gov//JPODOCS/REPTS_TE//14017.html Dr. Douglass Lee of the Economic and Industry Analysis Division wrote "Making the Case for ITS Investment," published in Assessing the Benefits and Costs of ITS, David Gillen and David Levinson, eds., Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. Ms. Esther Lee of the Planning and Policy Analysis Division, and Ms. Robin Smith and Ms. Felicia Young, both of the Federal Highway Administration Office of Planning, co-authored Domestic Scan Tour II Report, The Integration of Land Use and Transportation Planning: Lessons Learned from the Second Domestic Scan Tour, published May 2004. (DOT-VNTSC-FHWA-04-01) http://www.planning.dot.gov/Documents/DomesticScan/domscan2.htm Ms. Esther Lee of the Planning and Policy Analysis Division presented "Land Use and Transportation Coordination: Lessons Learned from Domestic Scan Tour I and II" at the 29th Annual Conference of the National Association of Environmental Professionals April 25-28, 2004, in Portland, Oregon. - Mr. Seamus McGovern of the Airport Surface Division presented:
- "Demanufacturing Strategy Based Upon Metaheuristics," at the 2004 Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Houston, Texas, May 15-19, 2004.
- "Multi-Objective Optimization in Disassembly Sequencing Problems," at the 2nd World Conference on Production & Operations Management and the 15th Annual Production & Operations Management Conference, Cancun, Mexico, April 30-May 3, 2004.
- "Metaheuristic Technique for the Disassembly Line Balancing Problem," at the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute 33rd Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, New Jersey, March 24-26, 2004.
Improving Railroad Safety Through Understanding Close Calls. For the FRA, a Volpe team designed and led a human factors workshop, "Improving Railroad Safety Through Understanding Close Calls," to educate the railroad industry on the benefits of understanding close call events and the challenges to the implementation and success of a close call reporting system. Input from workshop participants, representing a cross-section of industry stakeholders, led to the initiation of the Confidential Close Call Reporting System Demonstration Program, now underway at the Volpe Center. Workshop proceedings were published in May 2004. |
Dr. Jordan Multer of the Operator Performance and Safety Analysis Division, and Ms. Jane Saks and Ms. Katherine Blythe both of EG&G Technical Services (a Volpe on-site contractor), produced Proceedings of the Human Factors Workshop: Improving Railroad Safety through Understanding Close Calls, published May 2004. (DOT-VNTSC-FRA-04-01, DOT/FRA/ORD-04/03) http://www.fra.dot.gov/downloads/
Research/ord0403.pdf Dr. Eric Nadler of the Operator Performance and Safety Analysis Division, with Ms. Rosa Oseguera-Lohr of the NASA-Langley Research Center, co-wrote Effects of an Approach Spacing Flight Deck Tool on Pilot Eyescan, published as a NASA technical memorandum. (NASA/TM-2004-212987) http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/
ltrs/PDF/2004/tm/NASA-2004-tm212987.pdf On March 8, 2004, Dr. Wassim Najm of the Volpe Center's Accident Prevention Division presented a technical paper titled "Modeling Driver Response to Lead Vehicle Decelerating" at the Society of Automotive Engineers 2004 World Congress in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Najm co-authored the paper with Dr. David L. Smith of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Advanced Vehicle Safety Research Division.
Crashworthiness Analysis Report. The specific crash energy management design selected for the rail car test is a series of trigger mechanisms and crushable components that, when activated, cause the end of the car to crush in a controlled manner. There are three primary crushable elements: the pushback coupler module, the primary energy absorbers, and the roof absorbers. |
Mr. Daniel Parent, Mr. David Tyrell, and Dr. Benjamin Perlman of the Structures and Dynamics Division co-authored "Crashworthiness Analysis of the Placentia, CA Rail Collision," presented at the ICrash 2004, International Crashworthiness Conference, San Francisco, California, July 14-16, 2004. http://www.volpe.dot.gov/sdd/
docs/2004/rail_cw_2004_4.pdf (PDF, 640KB) Mr. Sean Peirce and Ms. Jane Lappin of the Economic and Industry Analysis Division co-wrote "Why Don't More People Use Advanced Traveler Information? Evidence from Seattle, Washington," Proceedings of the ERTICO Intelligent Transport System & Services Congress & Exhibition, Budapest, Hungary, May 24-26, 2004. Mr. Sean Peirce, Mr. Sodany Sor, and Ms. Sari Radin of the Economic and Industry Analysis Division co-wrote "Hazardous Materials Incident Costs: Estimating the Costs of the March 25, 2004, Tanker Truck Crash in Bridgeport, Connecticut," for the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, Research and Special Programs Administration, August 2004. - Mr. Stephen Popkin of the Operator Performance and Safety Analysis Division presented:
- "The Operator Fatigue Management Program: A Multimodal Initiative for the Transportation Enterprise" at the Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate School's: Human Factors Conference, Linthicum Heights, Maryland, April 27, 2004.
- "Railroad Dispatcher Workload, Stress and Fatigue," Railroad Dispatching Operations: A Tool for Traffic Planners and Dispatchers, Scottsdale, Arizona, September 30, 2004.
Dr. Alan Rao of the Railroad Systems Division presented "Applying Geospatial Technology in Homeland Security: A Review of the Latest Developments" at the 2004 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 21-22, 2004. - Dr. Judith Rochat of the Environmental Measurement and Modeling Division presented:
- "Evaluating Tire/Road Noise for Multiple Pavements -- Route 138 Study Update" and "FHWA's Traffic Noise Model (TNM) Version 2.5 Validation Results" at the National Conference on Noise Control Engineering, Baltimore, Maryland, July 12-14, 2004. She co-wrote "Quiet Pavement Technologies-An FHWA/AASHTO European Scan," also presented at the conference.
- "Using Quiet Pavements to Help Reduce Highway Traffic Noise: Wayside Noise Measurement Studies in California and Arizona and FHWA's Quiet Pavement Pilot Program" at the 29th Annual Conference of the National Association of Environmental Professionals, Portland, Oregon, April 26-27, 2004.
Dr. Judith Rochat and Mr. Gregg Fleming of the Environmental Measurement and Modeling Division wrote TNM Version 2.5 Addendum to Validation of FHWA's Traffic Noise Model (TNM): Phase 1, published July 2004. (DOT-VNTSC-FHWA-02-01 Addendum) http://www.volpe.dot.gov/acoustics/docs/2000/dts-34-04_1.pdf (PDF, 944KB) Ms. Nicole Rossbach of the Environmental Engineering Division presented "NEPA Compliance Process for the National Parks Air Tour Management Plan Program" at the 29th Annual Conference of the National Association of Environmental Professionals, April 25-28, 2004, Portland, Oregon. Ms. Amishi Joshi and Ms. Jen Papazian, also of the Division, co-authored the paper. Dr. Thomas Sheridan presented "Rating the Severity of Close-Call Events," co-authored by Dr. Kim Cardosi and Dr. Daniel Hannon also of the Division, on March 21, 2004, at the Human Performance, Situation Awareness, and Automation Technology Conference, Daytona Beach, Florida. Dr. Ted Sussmann of the Structures and Dynamics Division presented "Trackbed Deflection Under Combined Freight and High Speed Passenger Service," at the American Society of Civil Engineers Geo-Trans 2004 Conference, Los Angeles, California, July 30, 2004. Mr. Anthony Swierzbin and Mr. Timothy Hall of the Aviation Safety Division presented "Data Card Authentication Process," at the 2004 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 21-22, 2004. Dr. Frank Wang of the Surveillance and Assessment Division co-wrote "Aircraft Wake Vortex Measurements at Denver International Airport," 10th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Manchester, England, May 10-12, 2004. AIAA 2004-2880. http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltrs/PDF/2004/aiaa/NASA-aiaa-2004-2880.pdf Dr. Frank Wang, Mr. Kevin Clark, Mr. Hadi Wassaf, and Mr. Andrew Gulsrud of the Surveillance and Assessment Division co-wrote "Passive Wake Acoustics Measurements at Denver International Airport," 4th NASA Integrated CNS Conference and Workshop, Fairfax, Virginia, April 26-30, 2004. Dr. Frank Wang and Mr. Hadi Wassaf of the Surveillance and Assessment Division co-wrote "Sound Generation by Aircraft Wake Vortices Interacting with the Ground Plane," 10th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Manchester, England, May 10-12, 2004. AIAA 2004-2881. Dr. Michelle Yeh of the Operator Performance and Safety Analysis Division delivered the final report Human Factors Considerations in the Design and Evaluation of Moving Map Displays of Ownship on the Airport Surface, September 2004. DOT-VNTSC-FAA-04-11, DOT/FAA/AR-04/39 http://www.volpe.dot.gov/opsad/docs/smm.pdf (PDF, 3.7MB) Dr. Michael Zuschlag of the Operator Performance and Safety Analysis Division co-authored "Effects of Head-Up Display Airspeed Indicator and Altimeter Formats on Pilot Scanning and Attention Switching," presented at the Human Performance, Situation Awareness, and Automation II Conference, Daytona Beach, Florida, March 20-25, 2004 and "Hidden Markov Models as a Tool to Measure Pilot Attention Switching During Simulated ILS Approaches," presented at the 12th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, Dayton, Ohio, April 14-17, 2004, pp. 502-507. Dr. Michael Zuschlag of the Operator Performance and Safety Analysis Division presented "Quantification of Visual Clutter Using a Computational Model of Human Perception: an Application for Head-Up Displays" on March 21, 2004, at the Human Performance, Situation Awareness, and Automation Technology Conference, Daytona Beach, Florida. Volpe Center staff wrote "Head-Neck Finite Element Model of the Crash Test Dummy THOR," which appeared in the March 2004 issue of the International Journal of Crashworthiness. Dr. Hailing Yu of EG&G Technical Services (under contract to the Volpe Center) was lead author. Co-authors included Dr. Marisol Medri also of EG&G, Mr. Frank DiMasi of the Vehicle Crashworthiness Division, Dr. Qing Zhou, formerly with EG&G, and Dr. Faris Bandak, formerly with the Volpe Center. Last year, the Division completed the development of a finite element model of the THOR crash test dummy for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's National Transportation Biomechanics Research Center.
At left: the THOR physical dummy. At right: the Volpe-developed THOR finite element model.
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