Long-Term Stewardship of Safety Data from the Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Letter Report: October 14, 2013 (2013)

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10 Appendix B Biographical Information on the Committee on the Long-Term Stewardship of Safety Data from the Second Strategic Highway Research Program Joseph L. Schofer is professor of civil and environmental engineering and associate dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. He is also director of Northwestern’s Infrastructure Technology Institute, which focuses on monitoring and protecting surface transportation infrastructure. He chaired the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from 1997 to 2002 and was director of research and interim director of the Transportation Center for various periods until 2008. Dr. Schofer’s research interests focus on planning and management of transportation systems, particularly the provision and use of data and information for effective decision making and evaluation of systems, plans, and projects. His current research includes studies of the sustainability of transportation systems, decision support for infrastructure preservation and rehabilitation, privatization of transportation facilities, and transportation policy. Dr. Schofer has been significantly engaged in transportation data issues through the technical activities of the Transportation Research Board, including the Data and Information Systems Section of the Policy and Organization Group; the Special Task Force on Data for Decisions and Performance Measures; and the Task Force on Understanding New Directions for the National Household Travel Survey. He is also currently a member of the SHRP 2 Technical Coordinating Committee for Capacity Research. Dr. Schofer chaired the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Equity Implications of Evolving Transportation Finance Mechanisms. He also chaired the NRC Committee to Review the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ Survey Programs. He is a member of other advisory organizations, including the Congestion Pricing Technical Group for the Chicago Civic Consulting Alliance, and the Transportation Committee of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. He earned a B.E. degree from Yale University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University, all in civil engineering. John F. Adam is the highway division director and chief engineer for the Iowa Department of Transportation. He was appointed interim director in January 2010 and was permanently appointed in September 2010. In this position, Mr. Adam is responsible for all aspects of highway infrastructure, including right-of-way management, project development from design through construction and contract administration, and operation and maintenance of the system, including winter maintenance operations. Before holding the position of highway division director and chief engineer, he spent 8 years as the statewide operations bureau director, where he was responsible for the functional areas of maintenance, materials, contracts, construction, local systems, and specifications. Mr. Adam is an active member of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Standing Committee on Highways, and the AASHTO Standing Committee on Highway Traffic Safety. He is a member of the Industry Advisory Council for the Construction Engineering Program at Iowa State University. He also serves on the executive board for the National Concrete Pavement Technology Center. Mr. Adam served as a member of the Iowa Highway Research Board for 10 years, and served as board chair for a portion of that period. He holds a B.S. degree in construction engineering from Iowa State University. He is a licensed civil engineer in the State of Iowa.

11 Troy E. Costales has more than 20 years of experience in transportation safety. He has served as the transportation safety division administrator at the Oregon Department of Transportation and governor's highway safety representative since 1997. Mr. Costales also serves as a member of the executive management team for the Oregon Department of Transportation. Before joining the Transportation Safety Division in 1997, he supervised the statewide crash data system. He has served for seven terms as a member of the board for the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) and as chair of GHSA from December 2011 through August 2012, and he led the member services committee. Mr. Costales served as a member of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)–Standing Committee on Highway Traffic Safety; and as a team member for the revisions to the NHTSA impaired driving program management course. He is currently serving as a member of the Transportation Safety Management Committee and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program Panel 17-18 for the Transportation Research Board. Mr. Costales is also currently serving as a member of the AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan initiative, and he is on the Technical Advisory Panel of the International Association of Chiefs of Police–Drug Evaluation and Classification Program. Mr. Costales received a B.S. degree in management from George Fox University. Forrest M. Council is a senior research scientist at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC), where he served as director from 1993 to 1999. He is also a senior research consultant to VHB, a transportation engineering firm in Vienna, Virginia. In his 40 years at HSRC, Dr. Council directed more than 20 projects and authored more than 150 articles and reports. His research has ranged from studies of motor vehicle injury for specific populations (children, beginning drivers, seat-belted occupants) to projects aimed at identifying and strengthening research methodologies in the roadway safety field. He has directed the planning, development, and implementation of FHWA’s Highway Safety Information System, a database that contains crash, roadway inventory, and traffic volume data for nine states. Dr. Council chaired the National Research Council’s Committee for Review of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Large Truck Crash Causation Study and served on the Research and Technology Coordinating Committee and the Committee for Guidance on Setting and Enforcing Speed Limits. He has also served on several Transportation Research Board standing committees and National Cooperative Highway Research Program project panels. Dr. Council is chair of the SHRP 2 Safety Technical Coordinating Committee for Safety Research. He earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from North Carolina State University, all in civil engineering. James P. Foley is a senior principal human factors engineer at the Toyota Technical Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At the center, he is a team leader for human factors research in the Collaborative Safety Research Center. He has more than 30 years of experience in automotive human factors, traffic safety, and intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies. Previously, he worked at Noblis, where he provided support and human factors expertise to the U.S. Department of Transportation and worked closely with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the ITS program office. Dr. Foley is active in both SAE Safety and Human Factors and ISO WG8 committees. He is a member of the TRB Technical Expert Task Group on Data Access for the Naturalistic Driving Study. He received a Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University.

12 Michael J. Franklin is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in large-scale data management applications and infrastructure. He works primarily in database and operating systems and networking technology areas. Dr. Franklin is director of the Algorithms, Machines and People Lab (AMPLab), an industry- and government-supported collaboration of students, postdocs, and faculty who specialize in data management, cloud computing, statistical machine learning, and other topics necessary for making sense of vast amounts of varied and unruly data. He is a founder of Truviso, a high-performance analytics software company in Foster City, California, that has been acquired by Cisco. Dr. Franklin is a member of the NRC Committee on the Analysis of Massive Data. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Nicholas J. Garber is the Henry L. Kinnier Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Virginia. He has authored more than 120 refereed publications and reports and has co-authored two textbooks. He is a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia and a chartered engineer of the United Kingdom. He is also a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers of the United Kingdom. He is a member of ASCE’s Committee on Highway Safety and Traffic Operations and a former member of the editorial board of ASCEʼs Journal of Transportation Engineering. He has served as the principal investigator for many research projects sponsored by federal, state, and private agencies. His research areas include traffic operations and highway safety, with particular emphasis on intelligent transportation systems, speed management on high-speed roads, work zones, and large truck safety. Dr. Garber has served on the following committees of the Transportation Research Board: the Executive Committee, the Oversight Committee for the Second Strategic Highway Research Program, and the Committee on Research Priorities and Coordination in Highway Infrastructure and Operations Safety. Dr. Garber served as chair of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Traffic Safety in Maintenance and Construction Operations. Before joining the University of Virginia faculty, he taught at the University of Sierra Leone and the State University of New York at Buffalo and worked as an engineer in London and Sierra Leone. Dr. Garber received a Ph.D. degree in civil engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004. Rochel Gelman is professor of psychology and cognitive science in the Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She has extensive experience working with observational (usually, videotaped) data and in pairing the observational method with experimental ones. Ongoing research in her lab includes studies of both verbal and nonverbal representations of numbers and arithmetic. Part of her research is focused on the task of developing the kind of theory of learning that accommodates both the early learning that occurs on the fly and the later learning that requires effort and a protracted period of time. Before moving to Rutgers, Dr. Gelman was on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Los Angeles. She received a Ph.D. degree in psychology from UCLA. Dr. Gelman was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. Dorothy J. Glancy is a professor of law at the Santa Clara Law School of Santa Clara University. Her academic research interests include policy issues regarding privacy and advanced transportation programs known as intelligent transportation systems. Professor Glancy has served as a privacy auditor for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the San Francisco Bay Area, worked with the U.S. Department of Transportation regarding privacy policy issues, and

13 served as a consultant regarding legal and regulatory issues for US DOT’s Rural Interstate Corridor Communications Study Report to Congress (2007). She received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and a B.A. degree from Wellesley College. Joanne L. Harbluk is a human factors specialist with the Ergonomics and Crash Avoidance Division of Transport Canada, which is responsible for transportation policies and programs within the Canadian government. She is active in research investigating the interaction of the driver, vehicle, and road systems. Her current work is focused on the safety of in-vehicle information and communication systems and the efficacy of crash avoidance and mitigation systems for drivers. She is involved with the Canadian Naturalistic Driving Study, which was undertaken with the goal of obtaining data on driver performance and behavior in the moments leading up to a crash. Dr. Harbluk is an adjunct research professor in the Psychology Department at Carleton University and an associate member of the Center for Applied Cognitive Research (Carleton University). She is chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Technical Expert Task Group on Data Access for the Naturalistic Driving Study. She earned a Ph.D. degree in cognitive psychology from the University of Western Ontario and was a Fogarty International Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, Laboratory of Clinical Studies, in the Cognitive Neurosciences Section. Julia I. Lane is a senior managing economist at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, D.C. Previously, she served as a program director at the National Science Foundation, where she led a program to document the outcomes of science investments. Dr. Lane also served as a senior vice president at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, where she developed and managed a data enclave to provide a protected environment within which authorized researchers could access sensitive data remotely. She was a senior research fellow at the U.S. Census Bureau. Dr. Lane’s specialties are science policy; innovation policy; development and analysis of large scale databases; administrative, transaction, and survey data; confidentiality; and workforce and economic development. She received a Ph.D. degree in economics and an M.A. degree in statistics from the University of Missouri at Columbia. Daryl Pregibon is a research scientist at Google, Inc. His work focuses on data mining, the interdisciplinary field that combines statistics, artificial intelligence, and database research. From 1981 to 2004, he worked at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs and served as head of statistics research for 15 years. He is a past member of the NRC Committee on National Statistics, NRC Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (past chair), and NRC Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals. He also served on the National Advisory Committee for the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, and he is a former director of the Association for Computer Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Development and Data Mining. In 1985, he co-founded the Society for Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. Dr. Pregibon received a Ph.D. degree in statistics from the University of Toronto. Jerome P. Reiter is the Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor of Statistical Science in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University. Dr. Reiter participates in both applied and methodological research in statistics. He is most interested in applications involving social science and public policy. His methodological research focuses mainly on statistical methods for protecting data confidentiality, for handling missing data, and for making causal inferences. Dr. Reiter served as a member of the NRC Panel on Collecting, Storing, Accessing, and Protecting Biological Specimens and Biodata in Social Surveys. He also served on the NRC Panel on

14 Confidentiality Issues Arising from the Integration of Remotely Sensed and Self-Identifying Data. Dr. Reiter received a Ph. D. degree in statistics from Harvard University. Johanna P. Zmud is director of the RAND Transportation, Space, and Technology Program. She has 24 years of experience in survey research design, implementation, and statistical analysis. Before joining RAND, she served as founding owner and president of NuStats, a U.S.-based survey science consultancy specializing in complex and large-scale social research studies. She has used social science and survey science practices in many areas of transportation research. Currently, she is co-chair of the International Steering Committee for Travel Survey Conferences. Dr. Zmud served on the NRC Committee on Equity Implications of Alternative Transportation Finance Mechanisms. She also served on the NRC Committee on Strategies for Improved Passenger and Freight Travel Data. She earned a Ph.D. degree from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.