Volpe Center: Information Resources - Volpe Journal Summer 2000

Volpe Journal Summer 2000

Technical Reference Center

The Technical Reference Center (TRC) at the Volpe Center was established in 1970 when the Transportation Systems Center opened. Today as part of the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, a staff of six responds to a broad range of information needs from the 1,500 Volpe Center federal and contractor staff, its federal sponsors, and the surrounding community. The library is run by Susan Dresley who has directed the Technical Reference Center for 15 years. She is active in the international transportation library community and has helped establish the library as an important national resource.

The library is considered by the transportation library community as housing one of the most significant transportation collections in the country. The collection consists of 32,000 books and technical reports covering all modes of transportation, as well as the fields of computer science, economics, engineering, environment, management, operations research, psychology, public policy, and statistics.

The library receives more than 250 professional journals and general interest periodicals. The TRC Bulletin is published regularly and provides a selected acquisitions list.

The Technical Reference Center houses all the formal publications of the Volpe Center. A selection of recent reports published by the Center appears in the Published and Presented section of this journal.

John A. Volpe
National Transportation Systems Center
Technical Reference Center

Mailing Address:
55 Broadway/Kendall Square Cambridge, MA 02142-1093

Phone:
617/494-2306

Fax:
617/494-3125

E-mail:
dresley@volpe.dot.gov

Hours:
Monday - Friday,
8:00am - 4:00pm

Director:
Susan Dresley

Collection size:
32,000 books and technical reports
250 serial titles
200,000 microfiche titles

Published and Presented

Recent Reports, Conference Presentations, Technical Papers, Articles, and Other Published Material Contributing to the Transportation Literature

Recently Published Reports
Recent Presentations
Other Publications

Recently Published Reports

1999. Effective Global Transportation in the Twenty-First Century: A Vision Document, Prepared by "ONE DOT" Working Group on Enabling Research. Research and Technology Coordinating Council, US Department of Transportation, September 1999.

Adduci, R.J., W.T. Hathaway, and L.J. Meadow. 2000. Hazard Analysis Guidelines for Transit Projects, DOT-VNTSC-FTA-00-01.

Bradley, Kathleen, Marilyn Gross, Sarah May, and Eric Aftandilian. 2000. National Transportation Statistics 1999, BTS99-04, for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Burke, Nora, John Brewer, and Margaret Zirker. 1999. The Intelligent Vehicle Initiative Needs Assessment, FTA-TRI-11-99-33, for the Federal Transit Administration.

Burnham, D.C. and J.N. Hallock. 2000. Motion of Aircraft Wake Vortices in Ground Effect, DOT/FAA/AAR-0016.

Cardosi, Kim M. 1999. Human Factors for Air Traffic Control Specialists: A User's Manual for Your Brain, DOT-VNTSC-FAA-99-6.

Carroll, Anya A. and Cassandra Oxley. 2000. ITS Technology at Highway-Rail Intersections: "Putting it to the Test," Proceedings for the ITS Joint Program Office Highway-Rail Intersection Evaluation Workshop, May 6-7, 1999.

Coplen, Michael. 1999. Compliance with Railroad Operating Rules and Corporate Culture Influences Results of a Focus Group and Structured Interviews, DOT-VNTSC-FRA-97-7.

Harrison, James A. et al. 1999. Drug and Alcohol Testing Results 1998 Annual Report, DOT-VNTSC-FTA-99-6. Jeong, David Y., Yim H. Tang, Oscar Orringer, and A. Benjamin Perlman. 1998. Propagation Analysis of Transverse Defects Originating at the Lower Gage Corner of Rail, DOT-VNTSC-FRA-98-14.

LaFrance-Linden, Dawn, Spencer Watson, and Marsha Haines. 1999. Threat Assessment of Hazardous Materials Transportation in Aircraft Cargo Compartments, DOT-VNTSC-RSPA-99-1.

Lee, Harvey Shui-Hong. 1999. Assessment of Potential Aerodynamic Effects on Personnel and Equipment in Proximity to High-Speed Train Operations, DOT-VNTSC-FRA-98-3.

Liao, Sam, Paul Mosier, William Kennedy, and David Andrus. 1999. The Aerodynamic Effects of High-Speed Trains on People and Property at Stations in the Northeast Corridor, DOT-VNTSC-FRA-99-11.

Luna-Long, Maureen, Suzanne Sloan, Thomas Humphrey, and Jeff Loftus. 1999. Building Professional Capacity in ITS An Assessment of ITS Training and Education Needs: The CVO Perspective, for the Joint Program Office, Federal Highway Administration.

Luna-Long, Maureen. 1999. Electronic Credentialing for Commercial Vehicle Operations: Building a Framework for ITS Integration, for the Joint Program Office, Federal Highway Administration.

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Maloney, Cynthia, et al. 1999. The National ITS Program Plan: Five-Year Horizon, for the Joint Program Office, Federal Highway Administration.

Radin, Sari, Basav Sen, and Jane Lappin. 2000. Advanced Traveler Information Service (ATIS): Private Sector Perceptions and Public Sector Activities, for the Joint Program Office, Federal Highway Administration. Rossetti, Michael. 1999. Conference Proceedings for the Advanced Multimodal Transportation Weather Services Partnership Initiatives held on September 28, 1998.

Sloan, Suzanne, et al. 2000. Building on Florida's Strengths: A Plan for Action, for the Joint Program Office, Federal Highway Administration.

Soolman, Jonah and Sari Radin. 2000. Features of Traffic and Transit Internet Sites, for the Joint Program Office, Federal Highway Administration.

Stearns, Mary, E., Donald Sussman, and Jonathan Belcher. 1999. Denver's RTD's Computer-Aided Dispatch/Automatic Vehicle Location Systems: The Human Factors Consequences, DOT-VNTSC-FTA-98-8.

Turnbull, Katherine F. 2000. Assessment of the Seattle Smart Traveler, DOT-VNTSC-FTA-99-4.

Tyrell, David, Kristine Severson, and A. Benjamin Perlman. 2000. Rail Passenger Equipment Collision Tests Single Passenger Rail Car Impact Test. Volume I: Overview and Selected Results, DOT-VNTSC-FRA-00-01.

VanIngen-Dunn, Caroline. 2000. Rail Passenger Equipment Collision Tests Single Passenger Rail Car Impact Test. Volume II: Summary of Occupant Protection Program, DOT-VNTSC-FRA-00-02.

Wright, Donald, John Ohman, and Leon Parkin. 2000. Analysis of New Entrant Motor Carrier Safety Performance and Compliance Using SafeStat, for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Wright, Donald, David Madsen, and Thomas Corsi. 1999. OMCHS Safety Program Performance Measures. Revised Draft, for the Office of Motor Carriers. Wright, Donald, David Madsen, and Thomas Corsi. 1999. OMCHS Safety Program Performance Measures: Assessment of Initial Models and Plans for Second Generation Models. Draft, for the Office of Motor Carriers.

Wright, Donald, and David Madsen. 2000. SafeStat Motor Carrier Safety Status Measurement System Methodology: Version 8, for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

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Recent Presentations

Barr, Larry. 2000. "Testing for the Significance of Induced Highway Travel Demand in Metropolitan Areas." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Burki-Cohen, Judith. 1999. "Preliminary Results of an Investigation of the Requirement for Realistic Radiocommunications Simulation for Airline Pilot Training in the Simulator." Presented at the Society of Automotive Engineers World Aviation Congress, San Francisco, CA, October 20, 1999.

Burki-Cohen, Judith, E. Boothe, N. Soja, R. DiSario, and T. Longridge. 2000. "Simulator Fidelity The Effect of Platform Motion." Published in Proceedings of the Royal Aeronautical Society International Conference on Flight Simulation The Next Decade, May 10-12, 2000, London, UK, pages 23.1-23.7.

Burki-Cohen, Judith. 2000. "Simulator Validation: The Case of Platform Motion." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Burnham, D.C., and J.N. Hallock. 2000. "Wind Effects on Lateral Motion of Wake Vortices." Presented at the XXV General Assembly European Geophysical Society, Nice, France, April 27, 2000.

Canha, Joseph, Frank P. DiMasi, Yim Tang, Mark P. Haffner, and Tariq Shams. 2000. "Development of a Finite Element Model of the THOR Crash Test Dummy." Presented at the Society of Automotive Engineers SAE 2000 World Congress, Detroit, MI, March 6-9, 2000. SAE Paper 2000-01-0159.

Canha, Joseph. 1999. "The Effects of Common Misuses of a Child Safety Seat in an Automobile Crash." Presented at the 1999 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Nashville, TN, November 17, 1999.

Carroll, Anya A. 2000. "Federal Railroad Administration's Highway-Railroad Grade Crossing Research Needs Workshop." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Chappell, Debra. 2000. "Highway-Rail Intersection Intelligent Transportation Systems Cross-Cutting Study." Presented at the ITS America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, May 1-4, 2000.

DeBlasio, Allan J., and Sue McNeil. 2000. "Asset Management: What is the Fuss?" and "Survey on Asset Management." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

DeBlasio, Allan J., and David W. Jackson. 2000. "Operations and Management Activities Within the Transportation Planning Process." Presented at the Institute of Transportation Engineers ITE 2000 International Conference, Irvine, CA, April 2-5, 2000.

DeBlasio, Allan J. 2000. "What Have We Learned in ITS? Cross-Cutting Issues Institutional." Presented at the Institute of Transportation Engineers ITE 2000 International Conference, Irvine, CA, April 2-5, 2000.

Dial, Robert. 2000. "Minimal Revenue Congestion Pricing, Part II: Efficient Algorithm for the General Case." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Fleming, Gregg. 2000. "FAA's Aircraft Noise Initiatives in the National Parks." Presented at the Year 2000 International Airport Noise and Air Quality Symposia, San Diego, CA, February 14 -16, 2000.

Fleming, Gregg. 1999. "Guidelines for the Measurement and Assessment of Low-Level Ambient Noise." Presented at the Workshop on Preservation of the Natural Quiet, co-sponsored by the Acoustical Society of America and the Federal Interagency Committee on Aviation Noise, Columbus, OH, November 3, 1999.

Flores, Arthur. 2000. "The Relationship between Breath Temperature and Breath Alcohol Concentration." Presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Chemical Testing, Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 16-20, 2000.

Gilbo, Eugene P., and K.W. Howard. 2000. "Collaborative Optimization of Airport Arrival and Departure Traffic Flow Strategies for CDM." Presented at the Third USA/Europe Air Traffic Management R&D Seminar, Napoli, Italy, June 2000.

Gilbo, Eugene P. 2000. "Optimal Utilization of Airport Capacity for Strategic Traffic Flow Management." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Hallock, J. N., D.C. Burnham, J. Jenkins, J. Konopka, and R. Rudolph. 2000. "Wake Vortex Tracking Using Frankfurt Windline." Presented at the XXV General Assembly European Geophysical Society, Nice, France, April 27, 2000.

Kish, Andrew, and Gopal Samavedam. 1999. "Risk Analysis Based CWR Track Buckling Safety Evaluations." Presented at the International Conference on Innovations in the Design and Assessment of Railway Track, Delft University, The Netherlands, December 2-3, 1999.

Koutsopoulos, Haris. 2000. "Simulation Laboratory for Evaluating Dynamic Traffic Management Systems." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

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Koziol, Joseph S., John S. Hitz, and Vaughan W. Inman. 2000. "Safety Evaluation Results from the Field Operational Test of an Intelligent Cruise Control (ICC) System." Presented at the Society of Automotive Engineers SAE 2000 World Congress, Detroit, MI, March 6-9, 2000. SAE Paper 2000-01-1352.

Lacombe, Annalynn. 1999. "Ideas for Action: A Summary of the Spirit of Innovation in Transportation Conference," held at the Volpe Center, Cambridge, MA, June 24-25, 1999.

Lappin, Jane. 1999. "Car Sharing: Issues and Opportunities for ITS." Presented at the ITS World Congress, Toronto, Ontario, November 10, 1999.

Lappin, Jane. 1999. "Consumer Responses to In-Vehicle Safety Devices." Presented at the MIT Media Lab CC++ Special Interest Group, Cambridge, MA, November 1, 1999.

Lappin, Jane. 2000. "Consumer Responses to ITS Traffic Applications." Presented at the ITS America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, May 1-4, 2000.

Lappin, Jane. 1999. "Customer Satisfaction with Advanced Traveler Information Services: Findings from the Metropolitan Model Deployment Initiative." Presented at the ITS World Congress, Toronto, Ontario, November 10, 1999.

Lappin, Jane. 2000. "Dynamics of the ITS Consumer Market." Presented at the ITS America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, May 1-4, 2000.

Lappin, Jane. 2000. "Filling the ATIS Data Gap: Perspectives of ATIS Consumers." Presented at the ITS America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, May 1-4, 2000.

Lappin, Jane. 2000. "Technology Push Versus Demand Pull." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Lappin, Jane. 2000. "User Acceptance of ATIS Products and Services." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Lappin, Jane. 2000. "What We have Learned from ITS: Consumer Response to Traveler Information Services." Presented at the Institute for Transportation Engineers Transportation Operations Conference, Irvine, CA, April 2-5, 2000.

Lappin, Jane. 2000. "Who are the Likely Users of ATIS? Evidence from the Seattle Region." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Laube, Melissa. 2000. "Grand Canyon National Park: Assessment of Transportation Alternatives." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Lee, Douglass B., Jr. 2000. "Benefit-Cost Evaluation of Traveler Information: Seattle's WSDOT Web site." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Lee, Douglass B., Jr. 2000. "The Efficient City: Impacts of Transportation Pricing on Urban Growth." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Markos, Stephanie, et al. 1999. "Development of a Hazard-Based Method for Evaluating the Fire Safety of Passenger Trains." Presented at the Interflam '99, 8th International Fire Science and Engineering Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 29 July 1, 1999.

Markos, Stephanie, N., Thomas Tsai, and Richard W. Bukowski. 1999. "Development of U.S. Passenger Train Fire Standards." Presented at the 28th International Conference on Fire Safety, Columbus, OH, July 28, 1999.

Markos, Stephanie, and John K. Pollard. 2000. "Passenger Rail Car Evacuation Considerations." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Mauri, Ronald. 2000. "Defining the Market for Seven U.S. Maglev Projects." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Multer, Jordan. 2000. "Solving the Accident Puzzle: Human Factors Methods for Highway Grade Crossings." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

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Najm, Wassim G., and Marco P. Da Silva. 2000. "Estimation of Crash Injury Severity Reduction for Intelligent Vehicle Safety Systems." Presented at the Society of Automotive Engineers SAE 2000 World Congress, Detroit, MI, March 6-9, 2000. SAE Paper 2000-01-1354.

Riddell, William. 2000. "A Probabilistic Model for Fatigue Crack Growth, Inspection, and Repair." Presented at the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) 2000 Spring Conference and 9th Annual Research Symposium, Birmingham, AL, March 27-31, 2000.

Riddell, William. 1999. "Use of Numerical Models to Interpret Experimental Observations of Spectrum Fatigue Crack Growth Rates." Presented at the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Workshop on Spectrum Fatigue Crack Growth Testing, Kansas City, MO, November 18, 1999.

Rosenberg, Norman S., and John Krumm. 2000. "Cyber-Wars... Practical Lessons Learned." Presented at the Interagency National Security Technology Symposium, Cambridge, MA, May 9-11, 2000.

Rossetti, Michael, Thomas Seliga, and Basav Sen. 2000. "Challenges and Opportunities for Using Weather Information to Support Transportation." Presented at the 80th Annual American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting, Long Beach, CA, January 9-14, 2000.

Seliga, Thomas. 2000. "Comparisons of Observer Reports of Thunderstorms with Similar Reports Derived from the National Lightning Detection Network Data." Presented at the 80th Annual American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting, Long Beach, CA, January 9-14, 2000.

Seliga, Thomas. 2000. "Contribution to a Baseline Understanding of Impact of Weather on Airline Carrier Operations." Presented at the 80th Annual American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting, Long Beach, CA, January 9-14, 2000.

Seliga, Thomas. 2000. "Final Performance Evaluation of the Automated Lightning Detection and Reporting System (ALDARS)." Presented at the 80th Annual American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting, Long Beach, CA, January 9-14, 2000.

Seliga, Thomas. 2000. "The Stand Alone Weather Sensors System: An FAA Program for Replacement and Backup of Critical Weather Observations at Service Level C' Airports and Flight Service Stations." Presented at the 80th Annual American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting, Long Beach, CA, January 9-14, 2000.

Sen, Basav, and Michael Rossetti. 2000. "A Complete Count of the U.S. Transportation Workforce." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Skinner, David. 2000. "Switching Operations Fatalities Analysis." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Spitzer, E. A., R.P. Rudis, J.N. Hallock, and G.C. Greene. 2000. "Windline for Parallel Runway Operations at SFO." Presented at the XXV General Assembly European Geophysical Society, Nice, France, April 27, 2000.

Stearns, Mary D. 2000. "Job Expansion: An Additional Benefit of a Computer-Aided Dispatch/Automatic Vehicle Locator (CAD/AVL) System." Presented at the ITS America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, May 1-4, 2000.

Sussman, E. Donald. 2000. "The Human Factors in Safety: Operator Performance and Other Behavioral Issues Across Modes." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Trella, Thomas J., and Randa Radwan Samaha. 2000. "A FMVSS-214 Moving Deformable Barrier with Dynamic Force and Deflection Spatial Measurement Capabilities for Full- Scale Tests." Presented at the Society of Automotive Engineers SAE 2000 World Congress, Detroit, MI, March 6-9, 2000. SAE Paper 2000-01-0637.

Tyrell, David, Eloy Martinez, and Tomasz Wierzbicki. 1999. "Crashworthiness Studies of Locomotive Wide Nose Short Hood Designs." Presented at the ASME 1999 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Nashville, TN, November 15-19, 1999. Published in Crashworthiness Occupant Protection and Biomechanics in Transportation Systems, ASME, AMD Vol. 237/BED Vol. 45, 1999.

Tyrell, David. 2000. "FRA Full-Scale Crash Test Program." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

Tyrell, David, Kristine Severson, Brian Marquis, Eloy Martinez, and A. Benjamin Perlman. 1999. "Simulation of an Oblique Collision of a Locomotive and an Intermodal Container." Presented at the ASME 1999 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Nashville, TN, November 15-19, 1999. Published in Crashworthiness Occupant Protection and Biomechanics in Transportation Systems, ASME, AMD Vol. 237/BED Vol. 45, 1999. Van Dyke, Karen. 2000. "The World After Selective Availability: Benefits to GPS Integrity." Presented at the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Position Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS) 2000, San Diego, CA, March 14 16, 2000.

Vance, Lawrence L. 1999. "The Technical and Economic Feasibility of Tube Freight Transportation Systems." Presented at the International Symposium on Underground Transportation of Freight by Capsule Pipelines and Other Tube/Tunnel Systems, Columbia, MO, September 2-4, 1999.

Zevitas, Christopher, and Irvine W. Wei. 2000. "Removal of Arsenic from Groundwater at the Baird & McGuire Superfund Site." Presented at the 32nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Industrial and Hazardous Waste Conference, Troy, NY, June 26-28, 2000.

Zolock, John. 2000. "A Study of Low-Speed Curving Performance of MU Type Commuter Cars." Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 9-13, 2000.

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Other Publications

Fleming, Gregg, Joseph Burstein, Amanda Raposa, David A. Senzig, and John M. Gulding. "Ground Effects in FAA's Integrated Noise Model." Noise Control Engineering Journal V. 48, n. 1, January/February 2000, pp. 16-24.

Lappin, Jane, and Michael Kemp. 1999. "Need To Know: What Data Will Drivers Pay to Access?" ITS International, Issue 21, March/April 1999, pp. 57-58.

Lappin, Jane. 2000. "What do ATIS Customers Want?" and "Who are ATIS Customers?" Published in Proceedings of the ATIS Data Collection Guidelines Workshop, Scottsdale, AZ, February 9-10, 2000.

Manning, Peter. 2000. Forum on Transportation Learning Needs for a 21st Century New England. February 1, 2000.

Mehndiratta, Shomik Raj, Sean Pierce, Michael Kemp, Jane Lappin, and Christopher Cluett. "A Profile of the Emerging ATIS Consumer: Evidence from Five Metropolitan Model Deployment Initiative Sites." ITS Quarterly, Winter 2000.

Mehndiratta, Shomik Raj, Michael Kemp, Jane Lappin, and Daniel Brand. 1999. "What Advanced Traveler Information System Information Do Users Want? Evidence from In-Vehicle Navigation Device Users." Transportation Research Record 1679, pp. 41-49.

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