Safe Mobility for Older Americans (2005)

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Committee Member Biographical Information Richard A. Marottoli, Chair, is Associate Professor in the Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, specializing in geriatrics. He is a practic- ing and teaching physician at VA (Veterans Administration) Connecticut, where he is Director of the Geriatrics and Extended Care section. His published research includes work on screening functional ability in the elderly, crash risk and experience of older drivers and pedestrians, older-person driving skill and assessment, the effects of driv- ing cessation on older individuals, and counseling older persons about driving. He has conducted sessions on older-person driving at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Human Factors in Transportation Workshop. He served two terms as Chair of the TRB Safe Mobility of Older Persons Committee. In addition to an M.D. degree with certification in geriatrics, Dr. Marottoli holds a master’s degree in public health and a B.A. degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry. Karlene K. Ball is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She is the Director of UAB’s Edward R. Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging and Mobility and Associate Director of the UAB Center for Aging. Dr. Ball has served on committees of TRB, the National Research Council (NRC), the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Institutes of Health. She has served as Chair of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Technical Group on Aging and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. She is frequently asked to consult on projects and expert panels con- cerning the setting of standards for commercial drivers and has provided expert testi- mony for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Dr. Ball has authored numerous publications on visual, attentional, and other cognitive changes that occur with age, as well as on identification of high-risk drivers. She has received awards from the National Institutes of Health, UAB, and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. She holds a Ph.D. in experimental psychology and aging from Northwestern University. Christopher G. B. Mitchell is the retired Head of the Environmental Centre, Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), in the United Kingdom. He is a mechanical engineer and scientist with expertise in vehicle dynamics, the environmental and social effects of road transportation, and transport for the disabled. During a 30-year 48

tenure at TRL he served as Head of three divisions: Environmental Centre, Vehicle Engineering, and Access and Mobility. His experience covers the gamut of public transit, mobility and accessibility, and vehicle factors involved with providing trans- portation for older or disabled persons. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering from Cambridge University. His research is published as TRL technical reports and in the academic literature. He served on a variety of government advisory panels during his career. He is now an overseas director of the International Centre for Accessible Transport, Montreal, Canada. Currently he is active in the TRB Accessible Transportation and Mobility Committee. Anne Long Morris established Elder Care Consulting, an occupational therapy practice, in 1999. Before that she was a Practice Associate with the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA), where she was responsible for the AOTA geriatric programs. Before joining AOTA, Dr. Morris was a Geriatric Consultant to the Virginia Health Department, Research Coordinator for the Fairfax County (Virginia) Area Agency on Aging, and a Geriatric Contractor for INOVA Health Care. Recognizing the special needs of older persons, she developed and promoted geriatric programs within AOTA. She has also been active in tracking and encouraging research for older persons in general and older drivers specifically. She has been active on the TRB Safe Mobility of Older Persons Committee for 8 years, served the National Institutes of Health on a Special Proposal Review Panel, and was an alter- nate delegate to an American National Standards Institute Committee (ANSI 117.1) for 5 years. She is Board Certificated in Gerontology and is a Fellow of AOTA. In 2003 she became certified as an Aging in Place Specialist by the National Association of Home Builders. In 2004 she accepted a 5-year appointment to the AOTA Specialty Certification Board. In that role, she serves as the AOTA Liaison to the Driving and Community Mobility Certification Panel and the Environmental Modification Certification Panel. She holds a B.S. degree in occupational therapy, an M.P.A. in public administration, and the Ed.D. in adult/continuing education. Robert Raleigh is the retired Director of Driver Safety Research and the Chief of the Medical Advisory Board for the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration. He con- tinues to cochair the Maryland Research and Development Consortium on Older Drivers. The consortium is currently involved in running a model older-person mobili- ty program in the state. Dr. Raleigh was leader of the session “Toward Standardizing the Evaluations of Drivers with Cognitive Impairments” for the 32nd Human Factors in Transportation Workshop, January 1999. He is an M.D. and a Certified Specialist of the American Board of Preventive Medicine. Earlier experience includes 14 years as Corporate Director of the Health and Environmental Laboratories, Eastman Kodak, and 10 years as Clinical Professor of Environmental Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. COMMITTEE MEMBER BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION 49

Peter F. Rusch is the Safety Engineer at the Federal Highway Administration Midwest Resource Center. He retired from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, where he was the State Traffic Engineer. He had responsibility for overseeing application of traffic engineering functions of the state highway system. Also within his purview was the department’s Safety Section. As part of these respon- sibilities Mr. Rusch developed and applied the Wisconsin Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices and work zone traffic control strategies. He worked on the design, installation, and maintenance of traffic control devices and represented the department before the legislature concerning traffic/operations laws and regulations. Specific activities for older drivers include upgraded signing, plowable raised pavement mark- ers, shoulder rumble strips on all 65-mph facilities, and additional intersection or interchange lighting. He currently serves on the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Standing Committee on Highway Traffic Safety and the Subcommittee on Traffic Engineering. For TRB he served as chairman of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Panel on Traffic Control Device Design and Redundancy to Aid the Older Driver and is a member of the Panel on Geometric Design Consistency. He also served on two previous NCHRP project panels. He is chairman of the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices’ Subcommittee on Regulatory, Warning, and Technical and Guide Signs. Jane C. Stutts is Manager of the Social and Behavioral Studies Division at the Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During the past 5 years her research activities have centered on driver distraction, pedestri- an/bicycle projects, and older drivers. Her older-driver work involves both conse- quences of cessation of driving and cognitive and visual performance and crash risk of older drivers. She holds a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina. Dr. Stutts served two terms as chair of the TRB Bicycling Committee. She currently serves on the TRB System Users Group Council. Martin Wachs is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently Acting Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies and Director of the University of California Transportation Center. He moved to Berkeley in 1996 after spending 25 years as a member of the faculty of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he served three terms as department chair and founded the UCLA branch of the Institute of Transportation Studies. In addition to his wide-ranging transportation expertise, he provides continuity with the original committee that produced Special Report 218: Transportation in an Aging Society: Improving Mobility and Safety for Older Persons, of which he was a member. Dr. Wachs has served on numerous TRB committees and panels. He chaired the TRB/Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education study on urban SAFE MOBILITY FOR OLDER AMERICANS 50

transportation congestion pricing and has been a member of the TRB Executive Committee. He is the author of many articles on urban transportation, public trans- portation, transportation finance, and the relationships between transportation and air quality. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering from Northwestern University. Patricia F. Waller (deceased) was retired as Director of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). Prior to her tenure at UMTRI she was founding Director, Injury Prevention Research Center, and Associate Director for Driver Studies at the Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served on TRB’s Motor Vehicle Size and Weight Committee; Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Transportation Committee; and Research and Technology Coordinating Committee (Highways). She chaired TRB’s Group 3 and Group 5 Councils and received the Roy W. Crum Distinguished Service Award from TRB in 1994. She received the National Safety Council Distinguished Service Safety Award in 2003. She was a member of NRC Committees on Injury in America and Injury Control. She held a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of North Carolina. COMMITTEE MEMBER BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION 51