Civil and environmental engineering professor and colleagues honored with prestigious award at national conference
Joseph Hummer, chair of Wayne State's civil and environmental engineering department, was honored with an award for Best Paper 2014 at the Transportation Research Board's (TRB) 94th Annual Meeting, held in January in Washington. Hummer co-authored the paper "Lane Utilization at Two-Lane Arterial Approaches to Double Crossover Diamond (DCD) Interchanges" with colleagues Chunho Yeom, Bastian Schroeder, Christopher Cunningham, Christopher Vaughan and Nagui Rouphail. The award was from the Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee.
"The TRB Annual Meeting is the largest in our profession, it is important for WSU to be well-represented at the conference so faculty and students can make connections and showcase our great program and all of our capabilities," states Hummer.
The meeting program covers all transportation modes, with more than 5,000 presentations in nearly 750 sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers and representatives of government, industry and academic institutions. The 2015 conference's theme was Corridors to the Future: Transportation and Technology. The information-packed program drew the participation of nearly 12,000 transportation professionals from around the world.
Representatives from WSU gave five lectern presentations and five poster presentations. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Tapan Datta represented Wayne State's Transportation Research Group in a national focus group meeting, conducted/moderated discussions and gave a 30-minute presentation at the Federal Highway Administration's Work Zone Safety Program strategic meeting. Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Timothy Gates gave presentations on two papers he co-authored relating to factors associated with helmet use after a transition from universal to partial helmet law, as well as an analysis of rural interstate fatalities in relation to speed limit policies. A list of the 10 presentations given by WSU College of Engineering faculty and students is available below.
Lectern presentations and authors:
Driver Attention and Performance Effects of Guide and Logo Signs Under Freeway Driving
Carl Pankok, North Carolina State University
David B. Kaber, North Carolina State University
William J. Rasdorf, North Carolina State University
Joseph E. Hummer, Wayne State University
Pedestrian and Bicyclist Accommodations and Crossings On Superstreets
Anne M. Holzem, Patrick Engineering Inc.
Joseph E. Hummer, Wayne State University
Christopher M. Cunningham, North Carolina State University
Sarah Worth O'Brien, North Carolina State University
Bastian J. Schroeder, North Carolina State University
Katy Salamati, North Carolina State University
Examination of Factors Associated with Motorcycle Helmet Use after Transition from Universal to Partial Helmet Law
Jeffery Morden, Wayne State University
Brendan James Russo, Iowa State University
Peter Tarmo Savolainen, Iowa State University
Timothy Jordan Gates, Wayne State University
A Longitudinal Analysis of Rural Interstate Fatalities in Relation to Speed Limit Policies
Amelia Davis, Wayne State University
Elizabeth Hacker, Wayne State University
Peter Tarmo Savolainen, Iowa State University
Timothy Jordan Gates, Wayne State University
Analysis of Vehicle-Speed Characteristics among States with Uniform and Differential Speed Limit Policies Presentation
Brendan James Russo, Iowa State University
Emira Rista, Iowa State University
Peter Tarmo Savolainen, Iowa State University
Timothy Jordan Gates, Wayne State University
Sterling Frazier, Wayne State University
Poster presentations and authors:
Long-Term Monitoring of Wrong-Way Maneuvers at Diverging Diamond Interchanges
Christopher Logan Vaughan, North Carolina State University
Chaithra Jagadish, Moffatt & Nichol
Shreyas Srivatsa Bharadwaj, RK&K Engineers
Christopher M. Cunningham, North Carolina State University
Bastian J. Schroeder, North Carolina State University
Joseph E. Hummer, Wayne State University
Daniel J. Findley, North Carolina State University
Nagui M. Rouphail, North Carolina State University
Economic Analysis of Speed Limit Policy Impacts
Timothy Jordan Gates, Wayne State University
Peter Tarmo Savolainen, Iowa State University
Evaluation Safety Impacts of High-Tension Cable Median Barrier Installation Program
Brendan James Russo, Iowa State University
Peter Tarmo Savolainen, Iowa State University
Timothy Jordan Gates, Wayne State University
Trevor Kirsch, Wayne State University
Freeway Crash Trends in Relation to Posted Speed Limits: Contrasts between Cross-Sectional and Before-and-After Evaluations
Peter Tarmo Savolainen, Iowa State University
Timothy Jordan Gates, Wayne State University
Safety Impacts of a Statewide Centerline Rumble Strip Program
Jonathan Kay, Wayne State University
Peter Tarmo Savolainen, Iowa State University
Timothy Jordan Gates, Wayne State University
Tapan K. Datta, Wayne State University
Jacob Finkelman, Wayne State University
Bachir Hamadeh, Penn State University