Year: 2020

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) selected an RSG-authored paper as the “Technical Area Pick” in the noise category. The paper, titled “Wind turbine audibility and noise annoyance in a national U.S. survey: Individual perception and influencing factors” was co-authored by RSG’s Ryan Haac, Ken Kaliski, and Matthew Landis. It was part of a multi-disciplinary research effort to evaluate the factors that affect outdoor audibility and noise annoyance of wind turbines.

Interestingly, they found that wind turbine sound level was the most robust predictor of audibility yet only a weak, albeit significant, predictor of noise annoyance. Consistent with international findings, they found that communities in the US are less tolerant of wind turbine noise than other common environmental noise sources.

JASA’s Technical Area Pick honors the best paper published in each category from the last year. As a selected article, access is free through the end of May. Read it in full at https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.5121309.

RSG CEO Stephen Lawe is presenting at the Joint Florida Model Task Force & Transportation Data and Analytics Workshop today. The workshop brings together transportation modeling professionals from across the state to discuss statewide modeling standards and model enhancements. Stephen’s presentation, titled “Behavioral Data: State of the Practice,” will cover his perspective on the historical and future evolution of travel behavioral data and its implications.  

RSG’s Erica Wygonik recently led a presentation to the Miami-Dade Freight Transportation Advisory Committee (FTAC). She shared takeaways from work that RSG has done on how drone delivery can reduce carbon emissions.

Maybe in a few years your Valentine’s Day flowers will be delivered by drones…

http://www.miamidadetpo.org/freight-transportation-advisory-committee.as

On Monday, the Transportation Research Board (TRB)’s Transportation-Related Noise and Vibration Committee honored a paper co-authored by RSG Sr. Director Ken Kaliski and AECOM’s Roger Wayson with the Harter Rupert Award. The paper, titled “Acoustic Modeling of Meteorological Effects on Roadway Noise,” shares how to account for meteorological impacts when modeling road traffic noise levels. The award honors TRB’s best paper on transportation noise.

We are pleased to welcome Jay Evans as Vice President of Operations at RSG. Jay brings over 25 years of experience in consulting and successfully building teams and delivering results across distributed, highly matrixed organizations. His addition to RSG will enhance the delivery of projects through supportive business operations and investments in RSG staff. For more information on Jay, check out his profile at https://rsginc.com/team/jay-evans/.