In-Service Performance Evaluation of Guardrail End Treatments (2018)

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Study Committee Biographical Information Hugh W. McGee, Sr., Chair, has more than 40 years of experience as a consulting engineer engaged in research, design, and operations related to highway design and the application of traffic control devices of all types. He has been the principal investigator for numerous research studies sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, the National Cooperative High- way Research Program, and other organizations and agencies. Dr. McGee received the Edmund Ricker Transportation Safety Award for outstanding achievements in transportation safety from the Institute of Transportation Engineers (2013) and the D. Grant Mickle Award from the Transporta- tion Research Board as coauthor of the outstanding paper in the field of operation, safety, and maintenance of transportation facilities (2004). He has BS, MS, and PhD degrees in civil engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. Linda Ng Boyle is a professor and the chair of Industrial and Systems En- gineering and a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington, where she has been a faculty member since 2009. Previously she was an associate professor at the University of Iowa and a se- nior researcher at the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe National Transportation Research Center. Her research centers on crash and safety analysis, driving behavior, crash countermeasures, and statistical modeling. Dr. Boyle is an associate editor for the journal Accident Analysis and Pre- vention and is the chair of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Statistical Methods. She has a PhD in civil and environmental engineer- ing and an MS in inter-engineering (with a human factors emphasis) from 129

130 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF GUARDRAIL END TREATMENTS the University of Washington and a BS in industrial engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. James E. Bryden is a consulting engineer specializing in traffic safety, work zone traffic control, construction safety, and roadside safety. He retired from the New York State Department of Transportation in 2000 after nearly 36 years of service. For his last 12 years with that agency, he directed the department’s Construction Safety Program, with statewide responsibil- ity for work zone traffic safety and construction safety for workers. Prior to that, he headed the department’s highway safety research efforts for 15 years and was involved in a number of research projects involving work zone traffic control, traffic barriers, and roadside and traffic safety. He has authored numerous research publications on highway and work zone safety. Mr. Bryden continues to work as a highway safety consultant with clients in both the public and private sectors. In 2014, he was awarded the Kenneth A. Stonex award by the Transportation Research Board for his contributions and leadership to roadside safety. He is a licensed profes- sional engineer in New York State. Mr. Bryden earned a BS in civil engineer- ing from Northeastern University. Douglas J. Gabauer is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Bucknell University. His research interests are in roadside hardware crash performance, performance of roadside barriers, predicting occupant injury in roadside crashes, and predicting the sever- ity of motorcycle-to-barrier crash injury. His teaching specialties include transportation engineering, roadside safety design, vehicle crashworthiness analysis, and engineering mechanics. He has published papers on crash testing; crash severity; the relationship between crash tests and crash data; alternative crash test methods; occupant injury related to crashes; and evaluation of crash injury metrics by using event data recorders. He has a BS in civil engineering and an MS in engineering from Rowan University and a PhD in biomedical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Shauna Hallmark is a professor of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering and director of the Institute of Transportation at Iowa State University. Her current research includes studies of lane departure crashes, work zone safety, pavement markers, and intersection conflict warning systems. She is the vice-chair of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Safety Council. In recognition of her contributions to traffic safety, she was awarded the Commissioner’s Special Award for Traffic Safety (2011) from the Iowa Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau for outstanding service to the cause of reducing injuries and loss of life in traffic crashes in Iowa. She also

STUDY COMMITTEE BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION 131 received the Transportation Research Board’s 2012 Patricia Waller Award for an outstanding paper on safety and system users. Dr. Hallmark has a PhD in civil engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an MS from Utah State University, and a BS in civil engineering from Brigham Young University. David Harkey is the director of the Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on applying transportation engineering principles and research evaluation methodologies to improve highway safety for motorists, pedes- trians, and bicyclists in the areas of traffic operations, geometric design, and roadside design. He collaborates with behavioral researchers at HSRC on studies to develop countermeasures that combine engineering and be- havioral components to address safety problems. Dr. Harkey is the chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Safety and Systems Users Group. He is a registered professional engineer in North Carolina and holds a PhD in civil engineering from North Carolina State University and an MSE and a BSCE from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Douglas W. Harwood is the program director in the Transportation Re- search Center at MRIGlobal, a not-for-profit research institute located in Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Harwood has more than 40 years of research experience for federal, state, and local agencies. His research is in the areas of traffic safety, highway geometric design, and traffic operations. He has led research projects that have addressed the relationship of vehicle char- acteristics to highway geometric design and traffic safety. Mr. Harwood is a licensed professional engineer in Kansas, Missouri, and Montana. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Highway Safety Performance and holds a BS degree in civil engineering from Clark- son College and an MS degree in transportation engineering from Purdue University. Thomas Hicks is the director, Business Development, at Century Engineer- ing, Inc. He retired as the director of the Office of Traffic and Safety for the Maryland State Highway Administration (MSHA). Mr. Hicks joined MSHA in 1968 and served in several positions of increasing responsibility, including state traffic engineer, assistant chief engineer for traffic safety, and deputy chief engineer. Prior to his Maryland assignments, Mr. Hicks was the first state traffic engineer for the Oklahoma Department of Highways. Mr. Hicks taught traffic engineering fundamentals for 3 years at the Uni- versity of Oklahoma and was a guest lecturer in the Advanced Transporta- tion Operations program at the Texas Transportation Institute of Texas A&M University for 5 years. He is a registered professional engineer in

132 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF GUARDRAIL END TREATMENTS Maryland. Mr. Hicks has a BSCE from the University of Maryland and completed the graduate school program of the Bureau of Highway Traffic at Yale University. Cing-Dao Kan is a professor of Computational Solid Mechanics in the College of Science and the director of the Center for Collision Safety and Analysis at George Mason University. His research focuses on computa- tional solid mechanics using nonlinear finite element modeling applied to evaluations of vehicle crashworthiness and analysis of roadside hardware safety. Dr. Kan has a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland, an MS in mechanical engineering from Oregon State Univer- sity, and a BS in mechanical engineering from Jimei University in Xiamen, China. Susan Martinovich is the director of the Transportation Business Group’s North American Highway–Bridge business at CH2M Hill. Prior to joining CH2M Hill, she was the director of the Nevada Department of Trans- portation for 6 years; upon her retirement from the department, she had 28 years of service, having started as a summer intern while in school. Ms. Martinovich is active in national transportation organizations, in- cluding the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, the Transportation Research Board, and the Women’s Transportation Seminar. She is a past president of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and also served on the Transportation Research Board Executive Committee. She was recently honored as a White House Champion of Change for her contributions to transportation innovation in America. Priyaranjan Prasad worked at the Ford Motor Company for 35 years, retiring in 2008. Most recently he was Technical Fellow in Automotive Safety, reporting directly to the chief technical officer at Ford and the vice- president of Research and Advanced Engineering. He was responsible for directing the research, development, and implementation of active and passive safety technologies worldwide for the company. He is an expert in injury biomechanics. Dr. Prasad is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He has a PhD in biomechanics and an MS in mechanical engineering from Wayne State University and a BS in mechanical engineering from Bihar College of Engineering in India. C. Shane Reese is a professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Brigham Young University. His areas of interest include Bayesian hierarchical

APPENDIX C 133 models, Bayesian optimal experimental design, Bayesian reliability analysis, and sports statistics. Recently he has explored the impact of highway safety interventions on crash rates and established models to detect hot spots with high crash rates. His research also includes Bayesian hierarchical modeling of the impact of statewide (Utah) installations of cable barriers. The statistical models developed by Dr. Reese and colleagues were recognized by the Utah Department of Transportation’s Executive Directors’ Excellence in Transportation Safety Award in 2014. Dr. Reese is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has a PhD in statistics from Texas A&M University and an MS and a BS in statistics from Brigham Young University. He holds visiting appointments at Los Alamos National Laboratory and at the Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Omar Smadi is an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Con- struction, and Environmental Engineering and director of the Center for Transportation Research and Education at Iowa State University. He led the research program that established the Roadway Information Database for the Second Strategic Highway Research Program. He manages the In- stitute’s pavement management research projects, including two long-term pavement management-related projects for the Iowa Department of Trans- portation, and teaches civil engineering courses. He is a member of several technical committees of the Transportation Research Board, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the International Road Federation. He has a PhD and an MS in civil engineering from Iowa State University and a BS in civil engineering from Yarmouk University in Jordan.