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TFHRC Organizational Directory Winter 2007
Office of Operations R&D
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Office of Operations R&D, HRDO-01
Primary Responsibilities
- Leadership of the Office of Operations R&D
- Transportation management and operations improvement through research, development, and testing
- Identification of future opportunities
Major Projects
- Office business plan
- Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII)
Backup Person
Robert Ferlis
Primary Responsibilities
Major Projects
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Technical Director, HRDO-02
Primary Responsibilities
- Coordination of project team activities with FHWA's Strategic Plan and Performance Plan goals and objectives
- Technical advice for project teams
- Customer/partner feedback
- RD&T product deployment
- Advanced Research Program
Major Projects
- Unit planning
- ITS support
- Advanced mobility systems
- Liaison to headquarters and field offices
- Vehicle-Highway Automation
- Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration (VII)
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Travel Management Team, HRDO-03
Primary Responsibilities
- Program management and development
- Contract management
- Technical direction
- Team management and leadership
- University Transportation Center (UTC)
- Strategic Highway Research Program & Liaison
- National Cooperative Highway Research Program Liaison
Major Projects
- Adaptive control hardware and software development including national standards
- Dynamic control software
- Adaptive Control Software (ACS) "Lite"
- Traffic management center (TMC) pooled fund
- Vehicle Infrastructure Integration
- Advanced Traffic Control
- Operations Research
Backup Person
Deborah Curtis
Vacant
Highway Research Engineer
202-493-3xxx
Primary Responsibilities
- Development of Dynamic Traffic Assignments (DTA) Systems
- Capacity and level of service
- Infrastructure security
- Weather
Major Projects
- Dynamic Traffic Assignments and traffic flow theory
- Technical support and program management
- Software testing
- Adverse weather traffic operations
Backup Persons
Raj Ghaman
Deborah Curtis
Primary Responsibilities
- Adaptive Control Software (ACS), ramp metering, ACS evaluation, and operation of work zones
- Exploratory Advanced Research program
- Freight analysis and modeling
- Performance Measures
Major Projects
- Vehicle-Infrasturcture Integration Day 1 Applications
- Modeling and Simulation Workshop
- Adaptive Control Software LITE Phase II
- QuickZone and Work Zone Final rule
Vacant
Highway Research Engineer
202-493-3xxx
Primary Responsibilities
- Freeway operations
- Traffic analysis and simulation tools
- Next Generation Simulation Modeling (NGSIM)
- Traffic modeling of evacuations
Major Projects
- Next Generation Simulation (NGSIM) program
- Traffic Analysis Toolbox
- CORSIM Application Guidelines
- Ramp Management and Control Handbook
- Coordinated Freeway and Arterial Operations Handbook
- Empirical Studies of Traffic Flow in Increment Weather
Primary Responsibilities
- Operations partnerships
- Access management
- Performance measures and data quality
Major Projects
- TMC pooled fund
- Integrated corridor management systems
Primary Responsibilities
- Traffic Research Laboratory (TReL) development and management
- Incident management
- Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) specialty vehicles
- Technology facilitation
Major Projects
- Manage TReL
- Development of TReL integrated environment
- TReL Strategic Plan development
- Specialty vehicle field operational test with Minnesota DOT
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Enabling Technologies Team, HRDO-04
Primary Responsibilities
- Technical direction
- Team management and leadership
- Infrastructure-related aspects to cooperative vehicle-infrastructure collision avoidance systems
Major Projects
- Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance Systems (CICAS)
- Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII)
Backup Person
Peter Huang
Primary Responsibilities
- Global positioning system (GPS)
- Dedicated short-range communication (DSRC)
- Spectrum Management
Major Projects
- Nationwide Differential GPS (NDGPS) and High-Accuracy NDGPS
- Technical support to ITS communications systems
Backup Person
Rudy Persaud
Primary Responsibilities
- Advanced and innovative research
- University research liaison
- Traffic sensors and detection
- Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Liaison
Major Projects
- Sensors and controllers for Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance Systems (CICAS)
- University Research Centers of Excellence
- Stereo-Pedestrian Sensor Project
Backup Person
Gene McHale
Primary Responsibilities
- Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) enabling research
- Intersection collision avoidance
Major Projects
- Technologies for Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance Systems (CICAS) testing and evaluation
- ITS applications for work zones
Backup Person
David Gibson
Primary Responsibilities
- Road weather management
- Rural ITS
- Global Positioning System (GPS)
Major Projects
- Winter maintenance decision support systems
- Environmental sensor stations investments
- Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System (NDGPS) deployment
Backup Person
James Arnold
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