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6 8 Committee Biographical Information Ysela Llort, Chair, is currently Assistant Secretary for Intermodal Systems Development at the Florida Depart- ment of Transportation. When she was appointed to the committee, she was the State Transportation Planner. As chief planner, she had oversight responsibility for the statewide and systems planning functions for the depart- ment. Her primary responsibilities included executive- level policy formulation and interpretation, and she worked with numerous transportation partners, includ- ing metropolitan planning organizations, to obtain con- sensus on needs and priorities for the state. She has broad experience on the issues that drive spatial information technology requirements. She is the Chair of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program Project Panel on Development of an Update to the 1977 AASHTO Redbook and a member of the Surface Transportation Environmental Cooperative Research Program Advisory Board, and she has been active in a number of Trans- portation Research Board (TRB) committees. Ms. Llort is a graduate of Duke University, where she earned a degree in economics, and has master’s degrees from Clemson University in both city and regional planning and transportation engineering. David S. Ekern is currently Director of the Idaho Department of Transportation. When he was appointed to the committee, he was Assistant Commissioner, Min- nesota Department of Transportation. While he was with the Minnesota Department of Transportation, he was assigned to the American Association of State High- way and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), where he focused on initiatives and policy development that are changing the face of the nation’s transportation agen- cies. At the Minnesota Department of Transportation, he served as Division Director of Engineering Services, Assistant Chief Engineer, and District Engineer. He has also held positions in environmental policy and plan- ning, preliminary design, metropolitan and regional planning, and highway maintenance. Mr. Ekern brings to the committee extensive knowledge of transportation operations and management issues. He chairs the National Research Council (NRC) Steering Committee for the Conferences on Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Technologies for Transportation, which is organizing a series of three annual conferences. He is a Registered Professional Engineer. He received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota and a master’s in business administration from the University of St. Thomas. Kathleen L. Hancock is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her interests include information systems for transportation includ- ing design and implementation of geographic informa- tion systems (GIS), spatial analysis, and intelligent mapping. Among her research projects are coordination of the GIS framework for national transportation pol- icy and planning tasks and design and implementation of a spatial emergency management planning environ- ment for hazardous materials incidents. She has wide knowledge of transportation applications of spatial information technologies. She chairs the TRB Committee on Spatial Data and Information Science

and is a member of the Technical Activities Division’s Group 5 Council. She is currently Associate Director, Center for Geospatial Information Technology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Robert C. Johns is Director of the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota. Previously he served as the center’s Deputy Director and Associate Director. Before joining the university in 1988, he worked in management positions at the Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities Area, the Minnesota Department of Transportation, and the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway. He is chair of TRB’s Committee on Strategic Management and a for- mer member of the TRB Committee on Management and Productivity. In Minnesota, he administers the Transportation and Regional Growth Study and chairs the ITS Institute Board. He also serves on the Guidestar Board of Directors, the Minnesota Road Research Section Board of Directors, and the Minnesota Freight Investment Committee. He has a broad knowledge of management issues for transportation organizations. Brian C. Logan has been the Cartography/GIS Manager for the Kansas Department of Transportation for 15 years. He is currently the Program Chair of AASHTO’s Geographic Information Systems for Transportation Symposium and serves on the newly formed Spatial Information Task Force of AASHTO’s Standing Committee on Highways. He served on the Technical Advisory Committee of the Kansas GIS Initiative and on its Policy Board. He has extensive knowledge of the use and challenges of spatial information technologies in a state department of transportation. Mr. Logan holds a master’s degree in geography from Kansas State University. Xavier R. Lopez is Director of Oracle’s Location-Based Services group. He leads Oracle’s efforts to incorporate spatial technologies across Oracle’s database, applica- tion server, and e-business technologies. He has 12 years of experience in GIS and spatial databases. He holds advanced engineering and planning degrees from the University of Maine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Davis. Dr. Lopez has been active in numerous academic and gov- ernment research initiatives on geographic information and is the author of a book on government spatial information policy. He provides the committee with knowledge of emerging spatial information technolo- gies. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Maine in spatial information engineering and completed a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow program at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998. Harvey J. Miller is Professor of Geography at the Uni- versity of Utah. His research and teaching interests include GIS, transportation and telecommunication, spa- tial analysis, and geocomputation. He is coauthor, with Shih-Lung Shaw, of Geographic Information Systems for Transportation: Principles and Applications. He is cur- rently North American Editor of the International Jour- nal of Geographical Information Science, a member of the Board of Directors of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, Councilor-at-Large of the North American Regional Science Council, and a member of the NRC Committee on Identifying Data Needs for Place-Based Decision Making. He has exten- sive knowledge of the application of emerging spatial information technologies and their use in transportation. Dr. Miller is currently the Chair of the Geography Department at the University of Utah. Randall J. Murphy is the founder of Grafton Technologies, Inc., a firm dealing with the implementa- tion of spatial technologies within the aviation sector. His efforts have focused on the advancement of spatial data standards, the definition of spatial data needs to support aviation, the investigation of new data collec- tion technologies, and the development of web-based systems to deploy spatial and related attribute data to end users. His clients include the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), state aviation officials, and air- ports. Murphy is an active member of the GIS Committee of the American Association of Airport Executives and is Chairman of the FAA/DOT Liaison Subcommittee. Mr. Murphy is also a founding member of the GIS Working Group of FAA’s National Airspace System Information Architecture Committee. Michael J. Shiffer is on an extended leave from his posi- tion as Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago while he serves as Vice President for Planning and Development at the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). Dr. Shiffer spearheads CTA’s overall strategic and operations plan- ning efforts, including service scheduling and facilities development. He is responsible for a staff of 82 plan- ners, architects, engineers, and other transit profession- als in five departments. His academic research investigates the ways information technologies could better inform decision making, with a focus on spatial information and multimedia representational aids. He has taught courses in analytic methods, emerging tech- nologies for planning and decision support, and urban public transportation. Dr. Shiffer blends a strong aca- 6 9COMMITTEE BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

demic background with concern for implementing and maintaining spatial information technologies in an operating transit organization. He received a Ph.D. in regional planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1991. James M. Sims recently retired. When he was appointed to the committee, he was Director of Information Services for the Southern California Association of Governments, where he was responsible for transporta- tion modeling, GIS services, database management, and Internet services including management of the organi- zation’s website. He also had oversight responsibility for Southern California Rideshare, the nation’s largest rideshare organization. Southern California Rideshare developed and maintains the world’s largest rideshare and transit databases, covering all of Southern California. Mr. Sims has expertise in the development and use of spatial information technologies in a metro- politan planning organization and to support transit planning. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Auburn University. Wayne Watanabe is the supervisor of King County Metro Transit’s Infrastructure and Integration Section in Seattle, Washington. His responsibilities include GIS, network infrastructure, desktop and server support, application development, and database administration. He was the project manager for Metro’s $2.4 million core GIS project completed in 1995. This core GIS now serves as a key data infrastructure layer for multiple automated transit information systems, including auto- matic vehicle location, automatic passenger counting, automated timetable information, and automated trip (itinerary) planning, as well as for supporting service and facility planning and safety and security functions. He has experience in developing, using, and maintain- ing spatial information technologies in an operating transit organization. Mr. Watanabe is a graduate of the University of Washington, with B.S. degrees in mathe- matics (numerical analysis) and psychology (behav- ioral) and an M.B.A. with an emphasis on quantitative methods and operations systems. Francis M. Winters, Jr., heads the GIS Unit of the New York State Department of Transportation. He is respon- sible for GIS policies, standards, and application devel- opment. As an expert in the use of spatial information technologies for transportation, he brings an under- standing of successful implementation strategies in a multimodal transportation organization. He has a mas- ter of science degree in geography from the University of Idaho, with concentrated study in cartography, com- puter science, and GIS. 7 0 GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TRANSPORTATION ORGANIZATIONS

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TRB Conference Proceedings 31: Geospatial Information Infrastructure for Transportation Organizations -- Toward a Foundation for Improved Decision Making summarizes the importance of geospatial information in decision making and the committee’s recommendations resulting from three workshops held in 2002. Also included are selected current practices, trends in decision-making tools, and a detailed discussion of the committee’s findings and recommendations related to geospatial information infrastructure.

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