Review of USDOT Truck Size and Weight
Study
An ad hoc committee will provide a peer review of a comprehensive truck size and weight study that Congress required the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) to conduct. The review will include two letter reports. The first will review “desk scan reports” (literature reviews) prepared by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) based on their thoroughness in reviewing the existing literature, analysis of existing models and data for conducting the comprehensive study, and overall synthesis of the preceding body of work as it applies to the study that is to follow. The desk scans are expected to be available for committee review in August-September 2013. Once FHWA has completed the technical analysis for the study in March 2014, the committee will prepare and issue its second and final report, commenting on the extent to which the technical analysis and findings address the issues identified by Congress. The committee’s second letter report will be due by May 1, 2014.
The project is sponsored by U.S. Department of Transportation.
The approximate start date for the project is 5/13/2013.
Committee Membership
Chair
James Winebrake
Professor and Dean, College of Liberal Arts
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
Members
Imad L. Al-Qadi
Director
Illinois Center for Transportation
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL
Christopher Caplice
Executive Director
Center for Transportation Logistics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Raymond Cook
Lieutenant, Pennsylvania State Police
Director, Commercial Vehicle Safety Division
Harrisburg, PA
Georgene Geary
State Research Engineer
Georgia Department of Transportation
Forest Park, GA
Douglas W. Harwood
Program Director
MRI Global
Kansas City, MO
Susan Hida
Assistant State Bridge Engineer
California Department of Transportation
Sacramento, CA
José Holguín-Veras
Director
Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
Brenda Lantz
Program Director
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
North Dakota State University
Lakewood, CO
Sandra Q. Larson
Systems Operations Bureau Director
Iowa Department of Transportation
Ames, IA
Ted Miller
Senior Research Scientist
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
Calverton, MD
Eric Teoh
Senior Statistician
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Arlington, VA
Michael Tooley
Director
Montana Department of Transportation
Helena, MT
Sharon Wood
Dean
Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Committee Updates
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