The transportation community will gather to learn about new research and share ideas at the 96th Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting from January 8 to January 12, 2017. Volpe staff from across the organization will preside over sessions and present a variety of papers.

If you’re attending TRB, be sure to check out the sessions we’re participating in—or stop by booth #1029.

Sessions with Volpe Staff

Volpe staff will preside over the following sessions at TRB—sign in to reveal the locations:

Safety

• Crash Modification Factors: Can Driving Simulators Identify Crash Mechanisms?
  Donald Fisher (Volpe), co-presiding with Richard Porter of the University of Utah
  Sunday, January 8, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
• Driver Adaptation to Automation and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
  Emily Nodine (Volpe), co-presiding with John Sullivan of University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
  Sunday, January 8, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  HF-D Ticket required
• Beyond the Bedroom: Breakthroughs and Implementation Strategies in Fatigue Management
  James Higgins, Kimberly Davies-Schrils, and Heidi Howarth (Volpe)
  Sunday, January 8, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
  HF-D Ticket required
• Advances in Railroad Operating Technologies
  Poster and practice-ready paper
  Adrian Hellman (Volpe)
  Monday, January 9, 3:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
• Rail Group Executive Board
  Stephen Popkin (Volpe)
  Monday, January 9, 6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
  By invitation
• Railroad Operating Technologies Committee
  Adrian Hellman (Volpe)
  Tuesday, January 10, 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 p.m.
• Optimization and Scheduling of Mainline and Station Operations for Passenger Rail Systems
  Practice-ready paper
  Adrian Hellman (Volpe)
  Tuesday, January 10, 1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
• Current Railroad Maintenance Issues and Innovative Solutions
  Practice-ready paper
  Theodore Sussmann (Volpe) co-presiding with Hai Huang of Pennsylvania State University and Joseph Smak of Amtrak
  Tuesday, January 10, 3:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
• Rail and Public Transportation Caucus
  Stephen Popkin (Volpe) co-presiding with Dennis Hinebaugh of the University of South Florida Center for Urban Transportation Research
  Tuesday, January 10, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
• Simulation and Measurement of Vehicle and Operator Performance Committee
  Donald Fisher (Volpe), co-presiding with Omar Ahmad from the National Advanced Driving Simulator
  Wednesday, January 11, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Cybersecurity

• Understanding Transportation Resilience Intersection with Cybersecurity
  Michael Dinning (Volpe), co-presiding with David Fletcher of GPC, Inc.
  Sunday, January 8, 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
• Cyber Security Subcommittee, ABR10(7)
  Practice-ready paper
  Michael Dinning (Volpe)
  Monday, January 9, 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
• Cyber Security and Resilience for the Internet of Moving Things
  Michael Dinning (Volpe)
  Tuesday, January 10, 10:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Knowledge Management

• Methods and Tools for Collaboration in a New Era
  Alexander Linthicum (Volpe)
  Monday, January 9, 8:00.m. – 9:45 a.m.

Transportation Planning

• Transportation Management and Productivity
  Poster
  Rachel Winkeller (Volpe)
  Monday, January 9, 8:00.m. – 9:45 a.m.
• Research for Transportation in National Parks and Public Lands
  Eric Plosky (Volpe)
  Monday, January  9, 10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
• Rail Transit Research
  Poster and practice-ready paper
  Alan Rao (Volpe)
  Monday, January 9, 3:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Future Technologies

• Alternative Fuel and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Keeping Up with Rapidly Changing Technology Options
  Michael Scarpino and Diane Turchetta (Volpe) co-presiding with Marcy Rood Werpy from the Argonne National Laboratory
  Thursday, January 12, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Papers by Volpe Staff

Volpe staff will present the following papers:

Safety

• Drivers’ Long Term Adaptation to ADAS: Use, Misuse, Disuse and Abuse
  Donald Fisher (Volpe)
  January 8, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
• Novice Drivers
  Donald Fisher (Volpe)
  Sunday, January 8, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
• Strategies to Improve Highway Safety Through Identification of Illicit Transportation of Hazmat and Other Contraband on Highways
  John Wojtowicz and Dawn Johnson (Volpe)
  Sunday, January 8, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
• Experience of Other Modes and Where FTA Stands in the Process
  Jordan Multer (Volpe)
  Monday, January 9, 8:00 am – 9:45 am
• Track Support Measurements for Improved Resiliency of Railway Infrastructure
  Theodore Sussmann and Hugh Thompson (Volpe); Timothy Stark and Stephen Wilk (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)
  Monday, January 9, 8:00 am – 9:45 am
• Driver Ability to Cope with Acceleration by Shifting Gears in a Simulator Experiment
  John Pollard, Jared Young, Donald Fisher, John Guglielmi, and Amanda Mattson (Volpe); Geena Lucibello (athenahealth)
  Monday, January 9, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm
• Comparative Analysis of Toll Plaza Safety Features in Puerto Rico and Massachusetts Using a Driving Simulator
  Donald Fisher (Volpe); Didier Valdes, Benjamin Colucci, Bryan Ruiz-Cruz, Johnathan Ruiz Gonzalez, Enid Colón Torres, and Ricardo Garcia Rosario (University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez); Michael Knodler and Foroogh Sadat Hajiseyedjavadi (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
  Monday, January 9, 1:30 pm – 3:15 pm
• Evaluation of Confidential Close Call Reporting System: Yearly Update on FRA’s Largest Proactive Safety Program
  Joyce Ranney and Cassandra Cantu (Volpe); Jonathan Morell (Fulcrum Corporation); Melinda Davey (Jacobs)
  Monday, January 9, 1:30 pm – 3:15 pm
• A Human Factors Evaluation of an Experimental Locomotive Engineer Crew Station
  Matthew Isaacs (Volpe)
  Monday, January 9, 3:45 pm – 5:30 pm
• Moving Map Displays: Using CTIL and Eye Tracking Technologies to Measure Operator Glance Durations and Performance in Locomotive Cabs
  Jared Young (Volpe)
  Monday, January 9, 3:45 pm – 5:30 pm
• Simulator Evaluation of Effectiveness of Comprehensive Teen Driver Training Program
  Jared Young and Donald Fisher (Volpe); Tingru Zhang, Siby Samuel, and Michael Knodler (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
  Monday, January 9, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
• Motorcyclists’ Glance Behaviors at Unsignalized Intersections: Left Turn Across Path
  Donald Fisher (Volpe); Jeffrey Muttart (Crash Safety Research Center, LLC.); Wade Bartlett (Mechanical and Forensic Science); Tracy Zafian and Siby Samuel (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Louis Peck (Dial Engineering);Yusuke Yamani (Old Dominion University); Chris Kauderer (Kauderer and Associates); Swaroop Dinakar (Crash Safety Research Center, LLC)
  Tuesday , January 10, 1:30 pm – 3:15 pm
• The Effects of a Change in Environment on the Minimum Time to Situation Awareness in Transfer of Control Scenarios
  Donald Fisher (Volpe); Ravi Agrawal, Siby Samuel and Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Massachusetts, Amherst); Timothy Wright (Dunlap and Associates, Inc.)
  Wednesday, January 11, 8:00 am – 9:45 am
• Naturalistic Study of Truck-Following Behavior
  Emily Nodine, Andy Lam, and Wassim Najm (Volpe)
  Wednesday, January 11, 10:15 am –12:00 am

Transportation Planning

• Impact Assessment
  Scott Smith (Volpe); Satu Innamaa (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)
  Sunday, January 8, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
• Evaluating the Potential Economic Efficiency of Project Delivery Options
  Patrick DeCorla-Souza and Douglass Lee (Volpe)
  Monday, January 9, 8:00 am – 9:45 am
• Collected Hypotheses Concerning Benefits of Highway Public-Private Partnerships
  Douglass Lee (Volpe)
  Monday, January 9, 8:00 am – 9:45 am
• Setting the Scene: The FAST Act, Beyond Traffic, and Critical Transportation Topics
  Aaron Jette (Volpe)
  Monday, January 9, 8:00 am – 9:45 am
• Breaking Down Barriers to Mega-region Planning: Political, Economic, and Technical Challenges
  Haley Peckett (Volpe)
  Monday, January 9, 1:30 pm – 3:15 pm
• Awareness and Use of Real-Time Travel Information: Panel Study of Dallas US-75 and San Diego I-15 Corridors
  Joseph Luna (Volpe)
  Wednesday, January 11, 8:00 am – 9:45 am
• Uses and Impacts of the NHTS
  Margaret Petrella (Volpe)
  Wednesday, January 11, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Cybersecurity

• TRB's Role in Researching Cybersecurity of Transportation Systems and Networks
  Michael Dinning (Volpe)
  Sunday, January 8, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Future Technologies

• The Effects of Alert Cue Specificity on Situation Awareness in Transfers of Control in Level 3 Automation
  Donald Fisher (Volpe); Timothy Wright (Dunlap and Associates, Inc.); Ravi Agrawal, Siby Samuel, Yuhua Wang, and Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
  Monday, January 9, 8:00 am – 9:45 am
• Technology Readiness Level Assessments for Transportation Research
  Nate Deshmukh Towery, Matt Cuddy, Elizabeth Machek, and Jarred Myers (Volpe)
  Tuesday, January 10, 8:00 am –12:00 pm

Knowledge Management

• Like Peanut Butter and Jelly: How to Start a Knowledge Management Program That Is a Natural Fit with Your Organization
  Alexander Linthicum (Volpe)
  Monday, January 9, 10:15 am – 12:00 pm

Environmental Issues

• National Transportation Noise Map, Meghan Ahearn
  Gary Baker, Aaron Hastings, Christopher Roof, and Ed Strocko (Volpe)
  Monday, January 9, 3:45 pm – 5:30 pm