Review of U.S. Department of Transportation Truck Size and Weight Study - Second Report: Review of USDOT Technical Reports (2015)

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64 STUDY COMMITTEE BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION James Winebrake (Chair) is Professor and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Co-Director of the RIT Laboratory for Environmental Computing and Decision Making. Previously, he was chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society/Public Policy, directing a BS program in public policy and an MS program in science, technology, and public policy. Dr. Winebrake has published on a wide variety of transportation, energy, and environmental topics. Over the past decade, he has been involved in evaluating the environmental impacts of freight transportation, with emphasis on air quality, health, climate change, and regulations. He has served or is serving on a number of professional committees related to freight transportation, including the U.S. Department of Energy Transportation Energy Futures Steering Committee, the National Academies Committee to Assess Fuel Economy Technologies for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles, and the National Academies Committee for a Study of Potential Energy Savings and Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Transportation. Before joining RIT, Dr. Winebrake served as an associate professor of integrated science and technology at James Madison University. He received a BS in physics from Lafayette College, an MS in technology and policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a PhD in energy management and policy from the University of Pennsylvania. Imad L. Al-Qadi is the Founder Professor of Engineering, Director of the Advanced Transportation Research and Engineering Laboratory, and founding Director of the Illinois Center for Transportation at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Before that, he was the Charles E. Via, Jr., Professor at Virginia Tech. His work has resulted in the development of new pavement modeling methods, techniques, and testing standards. He is the President of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Transportation and Development Institute Board of Governors and the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Pavement Engineering. Professor Al-Qadi has received the National Science Foundation’s Young Investigator Award, the quadrennial International Geosynthetics Society Award, the ASCE James Laurel Prize, the American Road and Transportation Builders Association Steinberg Award, the ASCE Turner Award, and the French Limoges Medal. In 2010 he was elected as an ASCE Distinguished Member. He is a registered professional engineer. Dr. Al-Qadi holds a BS from Yarmouk University and an MEng and a PhD from Pennsylvania State University, all in civil engineering. Christopher Caplice is Executive Director of the Center for Transportation and Logistics at MIT and founder of the MIT FreightLab, a research initiative that focuses on improving the way freight transportation is designed, procured, and managed. His research is in the design, procurement, and management of freight transportation systems. Before joining MIT, Dr. Caplice held senior management positions in supply chain consulting, product development, and professional services at several companies, including Logistics.com, Sabre, and Princeton Transportation Consulting Group. He is also the Chief Scientist for Chainalytics, an analytical supply chain consulting firm. Dr. Caplice served 5 years in the Army Corps of Engineers, achieving the rank of captain. He received a PhD from MIT in 1996 in transportation and logistics systems, an MS in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BS in civil engineering from the Virginia Military Institute. Raymond Cook is a Lieutenant with the Pennsylvania State Police and the Director of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Division, a position he has held since 2008. He oversees the department’s Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program and Pennsylvania’s Size and Weight Enforcement Program. Previously, he served as a station commander, a supervisor in the Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Intelligence Division, a trooper in a patrol unit, and a special investigator for the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General. He holds a BS in administration of justice from Pennsylvania State University. Georgene Geary is the Principal Engineer at GGfGA Engineering, LLC, in Stockbridge, Georgia. Until her retirement in 2014, she was State Research Engineer with the Georgia Department of Transportation

65 (GDOT). Earlier, she worked for the department as a geotechnical engineer, as the Assistant State Utilities Engineer, as the Office Head of the Information Services Office, and as the State Materials and Research Engineer, creating the first Pavement Management Branch in GDOT in 2001. Ms. Geary is Chair of the TRB Rigid Pavement Design Committee and the TRB Nanotechnology in Concrete Task Force. She holds a BS in civil engineering from the University of Illinois (Urbana–Champaign) and an MS in civil engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and is a licensed engineer in Georgia. Douglas W. Harwood is Program Director in the Transportation Research Center at MRIGlobal, a not- for-profit research institute in Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Harwood has more than 40 years of research experience for federal, state, and local agencies, and he has served as principal investigator of numerous Federal Highway Administration and National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) research projects concerning traffic safety, highway geometric design, and traffic operations. He has led research projects that have addressed the relationship of truck characteristics to highway geometric design and traffic safety. Mr. Harwood is a licensed professional engineer in Missouri, Kansas, and Montana. He is a member of TRB’s Committee on Highway Safety Performance and served as chair of the TRB Committee on Operational Effects of Geometrics. He holds a BS in civil engineering from Clarkson College and an MS in transportation engineering from Purdue University. Susan Hida is the Assistant State Bridge Engineer for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) in Sacramento. Her professional experience includes the design and analysis of bridges, as well as structural reliability and probability-based design methods. She is a member of the AASHTO Subcommittee on Bridges and Structures and chairs the AASHTO Loads/Load Distribution Technical Committee. Previously, she was Chair of the Caltrans Loads Committee and Project Engineer for the Bayshore Viaduct Seismic Retrofit, Grass Valley–Yuba City Seismic Retrofit, and New River Bridge redesign, among others. Ms. Hida is a licensed professional engineer in California and Oregon. She received the James E. Roberts Award for Outstanding Structures Engineering in Transportation. She holds a BS and an MS in civil engineering (structural emphasis) from Purdue University and an MS in civil engineering (emphasis on structural mechanics) from Princeton University. José Holguín-Veras is the William H. Hart Professor and Director of the Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is Director of the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations’ Center of Excellence on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems at the Institute. He was previously a faculty member at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and the City College of New York. He has served as Vice President for Logistics of the Pan- American Conferences of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Elected Member of the Council for the Association for European Transport, member of the International Organizing Committee of the City Logistics Conferences, and member of technical committees and task forces on freight modeling at TRB. He is Review Chair for freight transportation at TRB and Transportation Editor at Networks and Spatial Economics. He received the 2013 White House Champion of Change Award for his contributions to freight transportation and disaster response research. He has a BS from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, an MS from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, all in civil engineering. Brenda Lantz has been a researcher at the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute since 1990, first as a graduate student and professionally since 1994. She specializes in the areas of intelligent transportation systems for commercial vehicle operations, business logistics and supply chain management, statistical modeling and diagnostics, and commercial vehicle safety. She is the Chair of the TRB Committee on Truck and Bus Safety and is a member of the TRB Committee on Trucking Industry Research. She is also a member of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance Intelligent Transportation Systems and Information Systems committees. She holds a BS in sociology and an MS in applied statistics, both from North Dakota State University, and a PhD in business administration from Pennsylvania State University.

66 Sandra Q. Larson is the Systems Operations Bureau Director at the Iowa Department of Transportation, where she has served since 1988. She has also served as Research and Technology Bureau Director, Engineering Bureau Director, Bridges and Structures Office Director/State Bridge Engineer, a Resident Construction Engineer, and a Bridge Design Engineer. She is a member of the TRB Long-Term Bridge Performance Program Committee and TRB General Structures Committee and former Chair of the NCHRP Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis panel. She served on the Committee for the Strategic Highway Research Program 2 Implementation and the National Academies Committee for Pavement Technology Review and Evaluation. Ms. Larson is a past AASHTO Research Advisory Committee Chair, past AASHTO Standing Committee on Research Vice Chair, and past AASHTO Highway Subcommittee on Bridges and Structures Vice Chair. She has bachelor’s degrees in civil engineering and general science and biology from Iowa State University and is a licensed civil and structural engineer in Iowa. Ted R. Miller is a Senior Research Scientist and program director at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. He previously served on the staffs of the Urban Institute and the Granville Corporation. His publications analyze the incidence and costs of societal problems, evaluate programs, or analyze policies. His crash cost estimates have been used in safety planning or regulatory analysis by USDOT, state and foreign transportation agencies, and vehicle manufacturers. Dr. Miller has estimated benefit–cost ratios for health and safety measures, highway safety laws, and enforcement efforts. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. He received the Excellence in Science Award from the American Public Health Association’s Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section in 1999 and the Vision Award from the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association in 2005. He serves on the editorial boards of Accident Analysis and Prevention, Injury Prevention, Journal of Safety Research, and Ergonomics Open Journal. Dr. Miller holds a BS from Case Western Reserve University and an MS in operations research, a master’s in city planning, and a PhD in regional science, all from the University of Pennsylvania. Eric Teoh is a Senior Statistician with the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. He was previously a Mathematical Statistician at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. He has published more than 20 papers and is a member of the American Statistical Association, the Washington Statistical Society, the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, and TRB’s Committee on Motorcycles and Mopeds. He holds a BS and an MS in mathematics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Michael Tooley is the Director of the Montana Department of Transportation, a position he has held since January 2013. Before that, he served in the Montana Highway Patrol for 28 years, including 4 years as colonel. He is also President of Tooley and Associates, which provides consulting services to the public safety community, and has extensive experience in highway safety project management and research. He has a BS in public safety administration from Grand Canyon University, and he has attended the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy at the University of Virginia and the Senior Executives in State and Local Government program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.