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Volpe Center Highlights - September/October 2006
Published & Presented
Letter from the Director |
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Environmental Stewardship |
Reduced Congestion |
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Awards & Honors
- Production and Operations Management. On May 1, 2006, Dr. Seamus
M. McGovern of the Airport Surface Division presented the technical
paper "Performance Metrics for End-of-Life Product Processing" for
publication in the proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference
of Production and Operations Management Society held in Boston,
Massachusetts.
- Communications, Navigation and Surveillance. On May 2, 2006, Volpe
Center staff presented papers for publication in the proceedings of
NASA's Sixth Integrated Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance
(ICNS) Technologies Conference and Workshop held in Baltimore,
Maryland.
- Dr. Seamus McGovern of the Airport Surface Division presented two
technical papers co-authored with Mr. Steven Creaghan, "Tandem
Optical Sensors to Assist in Runway Incursion Prevention" and
"Simple Methodology for the Stochastic Independent Event
Calculation of Air Traffic Conflicts."
- Mr. Kevin Harnett of the Infrastructure Protection and Operations Division presented "Cyber Security Research Plans for a Secure Aircraft Data Network."
- Highway-Rail Safety. Ms. Suzanne Sposato of the Rail and Transit Systems Division presented the results of the Public Education and Enforcement Research Study sponsored by the Federal Railroad Administration at the 2006 Midwest States Highway-Rail Safety Meeting and Training held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 7-10, 2006.
- Intelligent Transportation Systems. Dr. Mary Stearns of the Human
Factors Division presented "Driver Acceptance of Forward Collision
Warning (FCW)" at the ITS America 2006 16th Annual Meeting and
Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 8, 2006. The presentation
was co-authored by Dr. Heidi Howarth of the Human Factors Division
and Dr. Wassim Najm of the Advanced Safety Technology Division.
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Wake Turbulence. Members of the Surveillance and Assessment
Division co-authored four papers on wake turbulence presented at the
12th American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aeroacoustics
Conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 8-10, 2006. The
papers, listed below, may be obtained either by purchase from the conference
website or by contacting the
authors at the Volpe Center.
- Wake Acoustic Analysis and Image Decomposition via Beamforming of
Microphone Signal Projections on Wavelet Subspaces, by Mr. Hadi Wassaf
of the Volpe Center and co-authors from the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory and the University of Massachusetts. AIAA 2006-2536.
- Use of a Commercial SODAR for Measuring Wake Vortices, co-authored by
Mr. Stephen Mackey of the Volpe Center and Scientific and
Engineering Solutions. AIAA 2006-2537.
- Influence of Vortex Core on Wake Vortex Sound Emission, by Kansas State
University, with co-authors Mr. Hadi Wassaf and Dr. Frank Wang of
the Volpe Center. AIAA 2006-2538.
- Atmospheric Effects on Microphone Array Analysis of Aircraft Vortex Sound,by Mr. Hadi Wassaf and Dr. Frank Wang of the Volpe Center with
co-authors from L3-Communications and the Titan Group. AIAA
2006-253.
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Air bags do not preclude the need for seat
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- Strategic Highway Safety Planning. Dr. John Brewer of the
Crashworthiness and Occupant Safety Division presented "The
Importance of Seat Belts in the Age of Airbags" at the Stakeholder
Meeting for the Massachusetts Strategic Highway Safety Plan, hosted
by the Federal Highway Administration and held at the Volpe Center
on June 14, 2006.
- Grade Crossing Safety Conference. Ms. Anya Carroll of the Rail and
Transit Systems Division presented "Recent Advances and Research
Needs Assessment" at the 2006 Western Regional Grade Crossing
Safety Conference held in Vancouver, Washington, June 5-7, 2006.
- World Congress on Railway Research. Mr. David Tyrell of the
Structures and Dynamics Division and Mr. Thomas Tsai of the Federal
Railroad Administration Office of Research and Development coauthored
"Improved Crashworthiness of Rail Passenger Equipment in
the United States," presented at the 7th World Congress on Railway
Research, Montreal, Canada, June 5-8, 2006.
- Fatigue Management. Dr. Stephen Popkin, Chief of the Human Factors
Division, presented work conducted by the Volpe Center for the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration at a conference titled
"Monitoring Sleep and Sleepiness—From Physiology to New Sensors"
held in Basel, Switzerland, May 28-30, 2006. Dr. Popkin presented
research on the in-vehicle alertness monitoring and warning technologies
for use in a commercial motor carrier environment.
- Human Factors in Airport Surface Incidents. On May 15, 2006, Ms.
Amanda DiFiore and Dr. Kim Cardosi of the Human Factors Division
published a report of an analysis conducted for the Federal Aviation
Administration Office of Runway Safety and Operational Services,
Human Factors in Airport Surface Incidents: An Analysis of Pilot Reports
Submitted to the Aviation Safety Reporting System. ASRS, DOT/FAA/
AR-06/5.
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