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The Relative Risks of School Travel A National Perspective and Guidance for Local Community Risk Assessment -- Special Report 269 (2002) / Chapter Skim
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Study Committee Biographical Information
Pages 166-170

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From page 166...
... He has worked in the public and private sectors as well as academia, and has a broad perspective of past, present, and potential future transportation safety needs and services. He is former Vice President and Regional Operations Manager for Science Applications International Corporation's Transportation Consulting Group; previous positions also include ITS America, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
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From page 167...
... He has authored more than 20 reports on school bus transportation safety issues and has participated in more than 30 conferences. His professional affiliations include the Minnesota Association for Pupil Transportation, National Committee for Motor Fleet Supervisor Training, School Bus Operators Association, the National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT)
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From page 168...
... He has authored two articles: Gray Line Tours Bus Crash, Schroon Lake N.Y., which appeared in the July/August 1994 issue of Accident Reconstruction Journal, and How to Make System Safety Work in Transit. He is a member of several organizations including APTA and the New York State Association of Transportation Engineers.
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From page 169...
... His general research involves normative and descriptive risk analysis. Past and current research includes the development of a risk index to prioritize inspections of offshore oil production platforms, an engineering and economic policy analysis of air pollution from international shipping, a large-scale probabilistic risk assessment of the space shuttle's tile protection system, and a geographic information system designed to evaluate the environmental risk, economic potential, and political factors of abandoned industrial sites.
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From page 170...
... Tsai directs the Pupil Transportation Group (PTG) and manages the Operation Research/Education Laboratory of the Institute for Transportation Research and Education at North Carolina State University, whose mission is to apply technological and scientific principles to the operation and management of multimodal school transportation systems in order to provide for the safe and efficient transportation of school children.
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