Leadership Senior Reseach Team Key Administrative Personnel Advisory Boards
Dr.
Roger Stough, ITS Center Director, is a professor at George Mason University,
where he holds the NOVA Endowed Chair, is Professor of Public Policy, and is an
Eminent Scholar. He is also Associate Dean for Research and External Relations
at George Mason's School of Public Policy, and he is Director of the Mason Enterprise
Center at George Mason. During the past year Dr. Stough has published two books
on transportation, Intelligent Transport Systems and Transport Policy. He has
authored more than one hundred scholarly articles, including many on intelligent
transport systems, such as “Evaluating ITS Infrastructure in a Metropolitan
Area” and “Impact of Network Configuration on the Efficacy of ITS”.
Dr. Stough also writes extensively on regional development issues, and has recently
published two books on this topic, Regional Economic Development and Theories
of Endogenous Regional Growth. Dr. Stough’s research interests in ITS include
evaluation, telecommuting, and traveler information systems. He received his Ph.D.
in Geography and Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins.
Dr.
Thomas A. Dingus, ITS Center Co-Director, is Director of the Virginia Tech
Transportation Institute and Professor of Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech,
where he teaches humans factors and system safety analysis. Dr. Dingus has authored
over 90 scientific articles and technical reports. His research on intelligent
vehicle highway systems, driver attention demand, driver workload, advanced information
display design, human factors, and safety has been supported by the Federal Highway
Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, General Motors,
Ford, SAIC, Battelle, Boeing, Hughes Aircraft, EG&G, Hewlett Packard, Frontier
Engineering and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Dr. Dingus
has managed 15 projects as a principal investigator or project manager. He received
his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University.
Dr.
Brian Smith,
Dr.
Brien Benson, ITS Center Manager, is Research Associate Professor at the School
of Public Policy at George Mason University, where he teaches intelligent transportation
systems, the policy process, evaluation, and English composition. Dr. Benson has
published in such journals as Transportation Research Record, ITS Quarterly, and
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. His research areas are public opinion
in the transportation field, ITS institutional issues, and the policy process.
Dr. Benson is immediate past President of ITS Virginia and was Chairman of the
ITS America Communications and Outreach Committee for several years. Dr. Benson
has served as Associate Administrator at the Federal Transit Administration. He
received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from George Mason University.  Dr.
Kenneth Button is Professor at George Mason University’s School of Public
Policy, where he teaches on transportation economics, transportation logistics,
international transportation, and managerial economics. He is a prolific author
whose books include Handbook of Transport Systems and Traffic Control, The Future
of International Air Transport Policy, and Transport and Public Policy, and he
has written more than 200 scholarly articles on economic and transportation topics.
He edits Transportation Research: Transportation and Environment. Dr. Button has
served as Special Advisor to the House of Commons Transport Committee and as a
full time advisor to the OECD. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Loughborough
University, the United Kingdom. |
Dr. John Collura is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Advanced Transportation Systems and Infrastructure Programs (Northern Virginia) at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. He teaches public transit design and operations, and public transit planning and analysis. He has published some 40 peer-reviewed articles on transportation. Dr. Collura’s current research focuses on the application of information-based technologies in public transportation. Dr. Collura was formerly with the North Carolina Department of Transportation, and he has done extensive consulting. Dr. Collura received the James L. Tighe Civil Engineering Distinguished Teaching award at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and was a Distinguished Faculty fellow with the Intelligent Transportation Society of America in 1992 (then the Intelligent Vehicle Highway Society). Dr. Collura received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Transportation) from Northern Carolina State University, Raleigh. |
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 Dr.
Nicholas Garber is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia,
where he teaches courses in Traffic Operations and Safety. Dr. Garber has authored
over 100 refereed publications and reports and has co-authored a textbook. His
research interests include traffic operations and highway safety with particular
emphasis on intelligent transportation systems, speed management on high-speed
roads, work zones and large trucks safety. Dr. Garber received the Transportation
Research Board’s D. Grant Mickle Award in 1996 for the best paper in operations
and maintenance. He served for several years as chair of the Transportation Research
Board Committee on Traffic Safety in Maintenance and Construction Operations,
and he is a Fellow of ASCE and a member of the ASCE’s Committee on Highway
Safety and Traffic Operations. Dr. Garber received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering
from Carnegie-Mellon University. |
 Dr.
Jonathan GiffordDr. Jonathan Gifford is a Professor at George Mason's School
of Public Policy, where he directs and teaches in the Transportation Policy, Operations
and Logistics Master's program, which he helped found in 2000. Dr. Gifford also
teaches a course on the interstate highway system. Dr. Gifford
has recently published the book Flexible Urban Transportation. He has published
numerous articles on transportation and infrastructure topics. Dr. Gifford received
his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from theUniversity of California, Berkeley. |
 Dr.
Vicki Neale is the Director of the Center for Crash Causation and Human Factors
at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. In this role, Dr. Neale is responsible
for directing, coordinating, and conducting research in the area of driving human
factors and safety. Dr. Neale is currently leading a project for the FHWA Infrastructure
Consortium to develop the system architecture, components, algorithm, and driver
interface for infrastructure cooperative intersection crash prevention support
systems. In addition, Dr. Neale is the Co-Principal Investigator on the "100
Cars Naturalistic Driving Study," a NHTSA-sponsored project to provide detailed
data on driver errors and other events leading to crashes. Dr. Neale's training
includes undergraduate and master degrees in psychology with a human factors option.
She received her doctoral degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a
human factors option. |
 Dr.
Byungkyu “Brian” Park is Research Assistant Professor of
Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia, where he teaches Traffic Operations
and Simulation Modeling courses. Dr. Park has published numerous articles in the
area of traffic operations and intelligent transportation systems. The journals
include Journal of Transportation Engineering, Transportation Research Record,
Journal of Transportation Statistics, and Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure
Engineering. His research interests are traffic operations, stochastic optimization,
and simulation modeling, especially in microscopic simulation model calibration
and validation. Dr. Park is a recipient of a Charley V. Wootan Award (for best
Ph.D. dissertation) from the Council of University Transportation Centers. He
received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University. |
 Dr.
Hesham Rakha is Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
at Virginia Tech where he teaches traffic signal control, freeway traffic management,
transportation planning, and systems analysis. He also heads the Virginia Tech
Transportation Institute Transportation Systems & Operations Group. Dr. Rakha
has authored more than 50 refereed publications, including articles in the ASCE
Journal of Transportation Engineering, Transportation Research Part A and B, and
Transportation Research Record. His research interests include traffic flow theory,
traffic modeling and simulation, traffic control, environmental modeling, and
traffic safety modeling. Dr. Rakha has consulted for various organizations, including
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Parsons Brinkerhoff, and
Burgess and Niple. Dr. Rakha received his Ph. D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering
from Queen’s University. |
 Dr.
William T. Scherer is an Associate Professor of Systems and Information Engineering
at The University of Virginia, where he teaches and conducts research in the areas
of Intelligent Transportation Systems, stochastic control, decision analysis,
and systems engineering methodologies. He has conducted research for varied agencies,
ranging from the National Geographic Society to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Recently he has been assisting the Virginia Department of Transportation in developing
intelligent transportation systems, including the design of the traffic management
centers and information-driven transportation modeling and decision-making. Dr.
Scherer has published over 80 refereed articles and currently serves as an associate
editor for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Transactions. Dr. Scherer
received his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. |
 Dr.
Laurie Schintler is Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy at
George Mason University, where she teaches graduate courses on transportation
theory and models, regional development theory, and statistics and econometrics.
Dr. Schintler has written numerous articles and papers in her field, including
“A Prototype Dynamic Transportation Network Model” and “Evaluation
of the Smart Flexible Integrated Real-time Enhancement System (SaFIRES)”.
She is Book Review Editor for the Annals of Regional Science, and, among other
service activities, is helping the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
design and set up a web site for complaints regarding signalized intersections
in the Washington region. Dr. Schintler received her Ph.D. in Regional Planning
from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
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Dr.
Michael J. Demetsky is Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department at the
University of Virginia, where he teaches Intelligent Transportation Systems and
transportation planning courses. His publications include “Evaluation of
Traveler Diversion Due to En-Route Information” and “Hampton Roads
ATIS Evaluation”. Dr. Demetsky’s research interests include intermodal
freight transportation planning and operations, evaluation of ITS deployments,
and decision support systems for transportation systems management using ITS data.
Dr. Demetsky is Vice-President of the Council of University Transportation Centers
and past-president of ITS Virginia. He has chaired the Transportation Research
Board Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the Executive Committee of the
ASCE’s Urban Transportation Division. Dr. Demetsky received the ASCE Journal
of Transportation Engineering, Best Paper Award, 1999, and the ASCE 1995 Frank
M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering
from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Dr.
Aaron Schroeder is Leader of Virginia Tech’s Information Applications
& Policy Group, which uses information technology and public-private partnerships
to develop and deploy new or enhanced public services. The Group has over $3 million
in committed contract funding, 17 staff members (programmers, policy analysts,
marketing analysts, a lawyer, project managers, data operators), 4 associated
Virginia Tech faculty members, and 11 graduate research assistants (representing
systems engineering, public administration, computer science, and marketing).
The Group is involved in a number of projects, including Travel Shenandoah, Travel
Virginia, ACCESS to Rides, I-81 Intelligent Transportation Systems, and the Enhancement
of Night Visibility. Dr. Schroeder received his Ph.D. in Public Affairs and Administration
from Virginia Tech.DIRECTORY OF KEY ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
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Roger Stough ITS Center Director George Mason University The School of Public Policy 4400 University Avenue Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 993-2281 (703) 993-1574 (fax) rstough@gmu.edu Dr. Brian Smith Dr. Thomas Dingus Dr.
Brien Benson
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Ms. Sherri Cook Saeed Eslambolchi Ms.
Daisy Botros
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Policy Advisory Board
Mr. Philip Shucet, Chairman
Commissioner
Virginia Department of Transportation
Richmond, VAMr. Ronald Kirby
Director, Transportation Planning
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
Washington, D.C.Dr. T.R. Lakshmanan
Professor, Center for Transportation Studies
Boston University
Boston, MAMr. Alan Pisarski
Consultant
Falls Church, VAMr. Robert Skinner
Executive Director
Transportation Research Board
Washington, D.C.Dr. Wilbur A. Steger
President
CONSAD Research Corporation
Pittsburgh, PAMr. Alan Voorhees
Summit Enterprises
Woodbridge, VAResearch Advisory Board
Mr. Stephen C. Lockwood, Chairman
Vice President, Parsons Brinckerhoff
Rockville, MDDr. Gary R. Allen
Director, Transportation Research Council
Virginia Department of Transportation
Charlottesville, VAMr. Raymond H. Ellis
Executive Vice President
AECOM Consult, Inc.
Fairfax, VA
Mr. Tom Jennings
Transportation Management Engineer
Federal Highway Administration
Richmond, VAHon. John Mason
Former Mayor, City of Fairfax
Fairfax, VAMr. Robert E. Parsons
Consultant
Midlothian, VAMr. James R. Robinson
Mobility Management Division
Virginia Department of Transportation
Richmond, VAMr. Michael S. Townes
President & CEO
Hampton Roads Transit
Hampton, VAMs. Toni Wilbur
Technical Director, Operations Research and Development
Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
Federal Highway Administration
McLean, VA