Introduction to the Journal Editorial Board

All newly published books pertinent to the practice of transportation engineering can be considered for review. Dr. Bullock (Fig. 1) is a professor and assistant head in the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. He received a BS (1988) and a PhD (1992) in civil engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the states of Louisiana and Indiana. His teaching and research interests are in the general area of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and traffic engineering. He has published over 50 papers in the area of travel time-data collection, data acquisition, data management, real-time traffic control, and the impact of traffic signal preemption. Bullock is the past chair of the ASCE Transportation and Development Institute’s Advanced Technology Committee and is the secretary for the Transportation Research Board’s Traffic Signal System Committee.

This area includes primarily the geometric design of transportation elements including roads, airports, passenger and freight terminals, bicycle facilities, site access, emergency access lanes, and others. Studies related to the operational effects of geometrics are also included in this area.

Dr. Easa (Fig. 2), professor and chair of the department of civil engineering at Ryerson University, has extensive experience in the field of highway geometric design and road safety, human factors in transportation, and traffic operations and management. He earned his MEng degree from McMaster University in 1976 and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982. He has authored and coauthored more than 300 technical works, including 160 refereed journal articles and book contributions. Dr. Easa currently serves as chair of the ASCE Transportation and Development Institute’s Intermodal Committee, a member of the Transnational Professional Practice Group of the North American Alliance, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. His work has received numerous national/international best-paper and lifetime achievement awards.

Kieran Feighan’s (Fig. 3) role is to oversee the review of papers submitted by European authors, particularly in the area of pavements and materials. He is also responsible for soliciting papers over all areas of the Journal and to recommend European reviewers to other area editors.

Dr. Feighan is a member of ASCE and a chartered member of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland. He received a BE in civil engineering from the University College Galway, Ireland, and his MSCE and PhD from Purdue University. He is the managing director of PMS Pavement Management Services, Ltd., a consulting engineering company specializing in pavement evaluation and analysis. He is also the managing director of Highway Testing Laboratory Ltd., a materials testing company. The two companies have carried out work in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Central America. He lectures in pavement design and evaluation at University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. He has published numerous papers in the pavement management and pavement evaluation areas.

Tien Fang Fwa (Fig. 4) serves the same function in Asia Pacific Region as Dr. Feighan does in Europe. Dr. Fwa is professor and head in the Department of Civil Engineering and director of the Centre for Transportation Research, National University of Singapore. He is the founding president of the Pavement Engineering Society (Singapore), and the Intelligent Transportation Society (Singapore). He is presently a vice president of the International Society for Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Transport Infrastructure, and a board member of the East Asia Society of Transportation Studies. He also heads the executive committee that manages the International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology and the Asia Pacific Conference on Transportation and the Environment. His research interests are in the areas of pavement maintenance and management, pavement materials testing and evaluation, and highway design. He has published more than 160 technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings. His work has also led to three patents in nondestructive pavement testing and evaluation. He has received a number of awards for his academic and research contributions, including the Wellington Prize of ASCE, the Katahira Award of the Road Engineering Association of Asia and Australia, and the Engineering Achievement Award of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore.

Chris T. Hendrickson (Fig. 5) works with the editor-in-chief in monitoring Journal performance and developing policies for quality enhancement. He also supervises reviews in the area of technology, finance, environmental design, and project management.

Dr. Hendrickson is the Duquesne Light Company Professor of Engineering, head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, codirector of the Green Design Institute, and director of the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research at Carnegie Mellon University. His research, teaching, and consulting are in the general area of engineering planning and management, including design for the environment, system performance, project management, finance, and computer applications. He has coauthored two textbooks, Project Management for Construction (Prentice-Hall 1989) and Transportation Investment and Pricing Principles (John Wiley & Sons 1984) and two monographs “Knowledge Based Process Planning for Construction and Manufacturing” (Academic Press 1989) and “Concurrent Computer Integrated Building Design” (Prentice-Hall 1994). In addition, he has published numerous articles in the professional literature. Prof. Hendrickson has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Rhodes Scholarship (1973). He holds degrees from Stanford (BS/MS), Oxford (M. Phil Economics) and MIT (PhD).

This area includes papers on finding hazardous sites, choosing measures and treatments for those sites, and evaluating postinstallation performance. Papers on obtaining, analyzing, and modeling collision data or collision surrogates are also considered. The safety area concentrates on infrastructure-oriented engineering measures, and papers in the policy and planning areas are also of interest.

Dr. Hummer (Fig. 6) is a professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. His area of expertise includes highway safety and traffic operations. He received his PhD at Purdue University and his MS and BS degrees from Michigan State University. He has authored or coauthored over 40 peer-reviewed papers and numerous other papers and reports. He served as assistant editor for the Manual of Transportation Engineering and has also written book chapters on traffic signs and intersection and interchange design. His research specialty is unconventional intersection and interchange designs, like the median u-turn, superstreet, and continuous flow intersection.

While modeling is common to all areas, the coverage of this area embraces both the traditional issues of transportation modeling, such as statistical evaluation of transportation modes, stated preference models, and classical mathematical programming, as well as modeling topics that have evolved more recently, such as joined revealed/stated preference modeling, spatial modeling, advanced choice and activity models, and nonlinear optimization.

Dr. Karlaftis (Fig. 7) received his civil engineering diplomas from the University of Miami in Florida (BSCE 1993, MSCE 1994) and a PhD (1996) from Purdue University. After receiving his PhD and serving in the Greek Air Force for a $2\text{-}\text{year}$ period, he joined the faculty in the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. His areas of interest are transportation planning and modeling, urban mass transportation operations, infrastructure systems planning, and statistical and optimization problems in transportation. He is a coauthor of Statistical and Econometric Methods for Transportation Data Analysis published by Chapman & Hall/CRC in 2003.

This forum is a special section in the Journal devoted to papers and notes prepared by and of interest to practitioners, dealing with various applications of transportation engineering.

Mr. Levinson (Fig. 8) is a practitioner and researcher who has advised public agencies in the United States and abroad. He is a recognized authority on transportation planning, traffic engineering, and public transport. He has authored several books, many research reports, and more than 200 publications. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the recipient of many awards. He has been an independent consultant since 1980 and is currently an Urban Transportation Research Center Icon Mentor at City College, New York.

This area covers planning, design, and construction of underground pipeline systems. Topics include, but are not limited to, asset management, risk assessment, operation and maintenance, pipe materials, trenchless technology, new construction and renewals, manholes, fiber optics, safety and security, reliability issues, and research and development.

Dr. Najafi (Fig. 9) is the director of the Center for Underground Infrastructure Research and Education at Michigan State University. He received his PhD from Louisiana Tech University. He is the author of Trenchless Technology: Pipeline and Utility Design to be published by Prentice-Hall. He has also authored more than 70 papers on trenchless technology. He is a member of several ASCE technical committees and he serves as the secretary of the ASCE Pipelines Installations Committee. He served as the technical program chair of the ASCE International Pipeline Conference in 2003.

The focus of this area is on papers in traffic engineering and transit operations, network modeling and optimization, microsimulation modeling, and intelligent transportation systems. Special emphasis is on the dynamic and stochastic nature of problems related to these topics.

Dr. Rilett (Fig. 10) is a distinguished professor of civil engineering and is the inaugural holder of the Keith W. Klassmeyer Chair in Engineering and Technology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Previously, he held the E. B. Snead II Developmental Professorship in the Department of Civil Engineering at Texas A&M University. He also has held academic positions at the University of Alberta. Dr. Rilett specialized in multimodal transportation systems analysis, transportation planning and operations, dynamic network modeling and optimization, and intelligent transportation systems applications. Dr. Rilett has authored or coauthored over 40 refereed journal papers and over 50 conference papers. He received his BS (1987) and MS (1988) from the University of Waterloo and his PhD (1992) from Queen’s University.

Kumares C. Sinha, P.E., (Fig. 11) is responsible for the overall coordination of the editorial board, including the assignment of editors, scheduling of papers, and formulating and implementing policies regarding the quality of the Journal. He also oversees reviews in the areas of transportation systems analysis and infrastructure management.

Dr. Sinha is the Edgar B. and Hedwig M. Olson Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and the director of the Joint Transportation Research Program of Purdue University and the Indiana Department of Transportation. He has been involved in teaching, research, and professional practice in the area of transportation engineering for over three decades. He has published over 350 journal articles and other publications and has mentored numerous students worldwide. He advises governments at all levels and consults for the World Bank on transportation and infrastructure issues. He has served as the president of the Transportation and Development Institute of the ASCE, president of the Research and Education Division of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA), and as a member of the Federal Advisory Council on Transportation Statistics. He received his PhD from the University of Connecticut in 1968.

Papers in this area are related to planning, economics, and policies, with particular emphasis on innovations having impacts on transportation engineering practice.

Dr. Sullivan (Fig. 12) is professor of civil and environmental engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Before 1989, he was a research engineer at the Institute of Transportation Studies, University California, Berkeley, and a lecturer in civil engineering. Beyond his university activities, he has taught and consulted in transportation engineering and planning in this country and abroad, including China, South America, Africa, and India. He is a member of ASCE, the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the Transportation Research Board, and the American Society for Engineering Education. He has authored many technical articles and reports on transportation engineering safety, innovative road pricing, transportation systems analysis, and modeling.

This area covers all aspects of pavements and materials, with particular emphasis on pavement performance and management.

Zimmerman (Fig. 13) is the president of Applied Pavement Technology, Inc., a civil engineering firm specializing in the areas of pavement management, pavement evaluation and design, and technology transfer. She has worked with numerous state and local highway agencies and the FHwA’s Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division to assist them with their pavement management activities. In addition, she regularly teaches course on pavement management and preventive maintenance concepts. She is a past chair of the Pavement Management Committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and a member of the TRB Maintenance and Operations Management Committee, the Asset Management Committee, and the Pavement Monitoring, Evaluation, and Data Storage Committee. Zimmerman is a graduate of the University of Illinois-Urbana, where she received both her BS and MS in civil engineering.