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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
The director’s resume and list of recent publications are as follows.
Director, TRC
- State and Local Government - Highway Design and Research, 1968-1972
- Private Industry - Transportation, Human Factors, and Highway Safety Research, 1973-Present
- Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1968
- Master of Science in Civil Engineering, Major: Transportation Engineering, West Virginia University, 1970
- Ph.D. Program in Transportation Engineering, University of Maryland, Course Work Requirements Completed
- Highway Capacity Workshop; Northwestern University, 1971
- Transportation Systems Engineering; University of Vir-ginia, 1972
- Human Factors Engineering; University of Michigan, 1974
- Coordinated Traffic Signal Systems; Georgia Institute of Technology, 1975
- Highway Accident Research; National Highway Institute, 1981
- Advanced Statistics Workshop; SYSTAT: The System for Statistics; Evanston, Illinois, 1988
- Traffic Access and Impact for Site Development; Institute for Transportation Engineers, 1990
- Traffic Accident Analysis and Reconstruction; George Washington University, 1990
- Motor Vehicle Accident Reconstruction, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1999
- National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
- Member, representing the Human Factors Resources and Executive Board
- Transportation Research Board
- Committee on Motorist Information Systems
- Committee on Methodology for Evaluating Highway Improvements
- Technical Review Panel for Truck Size and Weight
- Institute for Transportation Engineers, Fellow
- Experimental Traffic Control Device Committee
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- Human Factors Society
- Licensed Professional Engineer, Virginia and California
- June 1968 to June 1969 - Arlington County Government; Arlington, Virginia
- Highway Design Engineer
- Determined alignment of street, curb, and driveway access
- Designed open and closed culvert and pipe storm drainage systems
- Served on select task force to develop utility inventory system
- Highway Design Engineer
- June 1969 to May 1972 - Virginia Highway Research Council; Charlottesville, Virginia
- Highway Research Engineer
- Guide sign design and human factors evaluation based on erratic vehicle maneuvers
- Conducted statewide analytic survey of highway signing inventory systems
- Member of special task force to develop remedial measures for accident-prone interchanges
- Participated in engineering evaluations of highway construction zone devices, railway grade crossing warning devices, and reflective delineators
- Highway Research Engineer
- May 1972 to January 1981 - BioTechnology, Inc., Falls Church, Virginia
- Senior Transportation Research Engineer
- Directed numerous major research studies evaluating driver/pedestrian behavior
- Emphasis on driver responses to signing and other traffic control devices
- Applied sophisticated roadway instrumentation data collec-tion techni-ques
- Developed and analyzed driver surveys
- Senior Transportation Research Engineer
- January 1981 to Present - Transportation Research Corporation; Markham, Virginia
- Director
- Conducted major sponsored research in transportation engineering/human factors
- Consulted on numerous highway safety studies
- Provided expert testimony in a variety of traffic safety related cases.
- Director
- Fifty refereed papers, published in four languages
- Institute of Transportation Engineers, National Past Presidents' Award, 1975
- Chairman, Human Factors in Transportation Workshop, Transportation Research Board, 1995/96
- Marital Status: Married Health: Good
- Interests: Computer Technology; Residential Design
- Non-professional Accomplishments:
- NASTAR ski racing medals (Colorado, Utah; 1986-93)
- United States Tennis Association, NRTP-Rated
- Diploma in French Cuisine
Hanscom, F.R. Highway Infrastructure Safety Research Agenda: Summary and Proceedings, Research and Technology Partnership, NCHRP Project 17-18(9), Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC 2003
Hanscom, F. R. and Dewar, Chapter 2, Human Factors in Traffic Control Devices Handbook 2001, Publication IR-112; ISBN 0-935403-66-3 Institute of Transportation Engineers; Washington, DC 2002
Dewar, R. E and Hanscom, F. R. Chapter 17, Work Zones in Human Factors in Traffic Safety, Lawyer’s and Judges Publishing Company, Tucson, AZ; 2002.
Hanscom, F. R. Evaluation of the Prince William County Collision Countermeasure System, Report VTRC 01-CR5, Virginia Transportation Research Council, Charlottesville, VA, February 2001
Lerner, N.D., Steinberg, G. V., Huey, R. W., and Hanscom, F.R. Driver Misperception of Maneuver Opportunities and Requirements, Paper presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, Santa Monica, CA, July 2000
Hanscom, F.R. Rural Stop-sign Controlled Intersection Accident Countermeasure Device - - A Behavioral Evaluation, Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, Washington, DC, May 2000
Lerner, N.D., Steinberg, G.V., and Hanscom, F.R. Development of Countermeasures for Driver Maneuver Errors, Report FHWA-RD-00-022, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C., December 1999
Hanscom, F.R. Human Factors Issues in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Invited paper, presented at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, Washington, D.C., August 1999
Lerner, N.D., Steinberg, G.V., Huey, R.W., and Hanscom, F.R. Understanding Driver Maneuver Errors, Final Report, Contract DTFH61-96-C-00015, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C., July 1999
Hanscom, F.R. Experience with a Collision Countermeasure System at a Rural, Stop-Controlled Intersection in Prince William County. Invited paper, presented at the 1999 Annual Conference on Transportation Safety, Sponsored by the Virginia Department of Transportation, May 5, 1999, Norfolk, VA
Hanscom, F.R. and Goelzer, M.W. Truck Weight Enforcement Measures of Effectiveness: Development and Software Application, Transportation Research Record 1643, Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 1998
Hanscom, F.R. Vehicle Behavioral Evaluation of the Collision Countermeasure System (CCS) Federal Highway Administration Contract DTFH61-94-C-00131, Final Report submitted to Raytheon Company, Falls Church, Virginia, December 1998
Hanscom, F.R. Truck Weight Enforcement M.O.E. User Guide Proceedings of the 1998 North American Travel Monitoring Exhibition and Conference, Institute for Transportation Research and Education, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 5-9 May, 1998
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