Year: 2014
RSG Senior Consultant, Erica Wygonik, co-authored the chapter āComparison of Vehicle Miles Traveled and Pollution from Three Goods Movement Strategies,ā which was published in the book Sustainable Logistics. The 6th in the Transport and Sustainability series, this book looks at the role of logistics in addressing and contributing to transportationās environmental impacts. Ericaās chapter, written with Dr. Anne Goodchild of the University of Washington, looks at the impacts from various ways to move goods their last mile to consumers.
RSG Senior Consultant, Jeffrey Dumont, and Director, Stephane Hess, co-authored the article āContrasting Imputation with a Latent Variable Approach to Dealing with Missing Income in Choice Models,ā which was published in the latest issue of the Journal of Choice Modelling. In the article, Jeff, Stephane, and co-authors explored the use of advanced choice techniques to impute missing income and compared that to simpler, more traditional approaches of imputation.
RSG Vice President, Maren Outwater, was recently featured in TR News, Transportation Research Boardās bimonthly magazine. The profile highlights her background working in the public sector and her pioneering research on national forecasting models of passenger and goods movement.
RSG has been named one of the ā101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work Forā in the nation!
The Best and Brightest Companies to Work Forā¢ competition identifies and honors organizations throughout the nation that display a commitment to excellence in their human resource practices and employee enrichment. This award is on the heels of two other workplace awards – GreatRated! and When Work Works (Sloan) Award.
RSG Senior Director, Peter Plumeau, was recently named a member of the Project Advisory Board for a National Institute of Transportation and Communities (NITC) study titled āIntegrating Freight into Livable Communities.ā The study is being performed by the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) at the University of South Florida.
RSG Senior Consultant Elizabeth Greene and Director Stephane Hess will attend the 10th International Conference on Transport Survey Methods in Leura, Australia from November 16th-21st. The conference will focus on embracing technological and behavioral changes to improve the conduct of surveys.
RSG Senior Director, Michael Geilich, was recently awarded his fourth patent. This latest patent (US Patent # 8,862,454) is for a method and apparatus for simulating risk tolerance and associated adversary costs in a distributed business process.
RSG Senior Director, Kenneth Kaliski, will be co-chairing a conference session on Wind Turbine Noise at the fall meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in Indianapolis on October 29th.
Ken will also be presenting a paper with RSG analyst, David-Michael Lozupone, titled, āMassachusetts Wind Turbine Acoustics Research Project ā Goals and Preliminary Results.ā The presentation will outline the methodologies and preliminary results of a study that RSG is working on with the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to provide a quantitative basis for testing and evaluating pre-construction and post-construction wind turbine noise.
RSG Senior Director, Robert Chamberlin, is presenting today at the Ohio Transportation Engineering Conference (OTEC) in Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is researching the vulnerability of Ohio's transportation infrastructure to identify climate change impacts. Bobās presentation titled āODOT Climate Change Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessmentā will review the status of that research with discussion of initial findings and potential asset-specific adaptation needs.
RSG Senior Consultant Chad Worthen and Transportation Engineer Kordel Braley will be attending the Utah Department of Transportation Annual Conference in Sandy, Utah. The conference offers unique networking and training opportunities for attendees, including tracks on leadership, program development, and project delivery.
The annual Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (AMPO) conference will be held this week in Atlanta, GA. RSGers Peter Plumeau and Steven Gayle will be in attendance and RSG Senior Consultant, Jeff Frkonja, will be presenting in the Thursday session titled āProject Evaluation.ā His presentation will provide an overview of benefit cost analysis principles, identify environmental issues relevant to long-range transportation plans, describe key inputs and assumptions used in benefit cost analysis, and provide examples and illustrations.
RSG President, Tom Adler, will be presenting this week in Berlin, Germany at the German Aerospace Centerās Institute of Transport Research. His presentation titled, āFrom Surveys to Big Data: Future Tools for Travel Forecastingā will summarize the large body of research that RSG has generated related to long-distance travel by air, rail, bus, and auto and explore opportunities for collaboration with European researchers in this field.