Transportation Research Forum

2005 Annual Forum
Conference Proceedings

The 46th Annual Forum was held Mar. 6-8, 2005 at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. View the Foreword from the TRF Program Vice-President (PDF, 40K)

Sponsors

  • The George Washington University Aviation Institute
  • TRF New York Chapter

Papers & Presentations

  • A Framework for Analysis of Security Measures within On-airport Cargo Facilities
    Carla D. Rountree, Delta Airport Consultants
    Dr. Michael J. Demetsky, University of Virginia
  • A New Public-Private Partnership Model for Road Pricing Implementation
    Patrick DeCorla-Souza, Federal Highway Administration
  • A Qualitative Choice Model for the US Airline Network
    (Formerly - Network Evolution: A Markov Chain Analysis of US Air Transportation)
    Dipasis Bhadra, Brendan Hogan, Center for Advanced System Development (CAASD), The MITRE Corporation
  • A Refined Game Theory Approach to Railroad-Shipper Negotiations
    William Huneke, Surface Transportation Board
  • Advocating System Safety Concept in Preventing Airline Accidents
    Chien-tsung Lu, Michael Wetmore, John Smith, Department of Aviation, Central Missouri State University
  • Air Cargo Security - The Cost of Doing Business in the 21st Century
    Prof. Kathleen M. Sweet and Prof. Michael Suckow, Purdue University
  • Airline Balance Sheet Strategies in the Post-9/11 Environment: An Application of Canonical Correlation Analysis and Canonical Scores
    Carl A. Scheraga, Fairfield University
    John A. Haslem, University of Maryland-College Park
  • Airline Entry Following U.S. Deregulation: The Definitive List of Startup Passenger Airlines, 1979-2003
    William A. Jordan, York University
  • Airline Passenger Profiling Systems after 9/11: Personal Privacy Versus National Security
    Timothy M. Ravich, Esq., Hunton & Williams LLP, Miami, Florida
  • Airport Transportation: The Search for Benefits of Rural Airports
    Ken Casavant, Eric Jessup, Jon Newkirk, Washington State University
  • An Analysis of Gender Differences in Vehicles Miles Traveled (VMT) Using Nonparametric Methods
    Brian W. Sloboda, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation
    Vincent W. Yao, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  • Analysis of Applicability of Innovative Systems for Transport of Marine Containers
    Branislav Dimitrijevic, M.S., Lazar N. Spasovic, Ph.D, N. Aboobaker, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Analysis of the Effect of Milestone Aviation Accidents on Safety Policy, Regulation, and Technology
    Lagos, A., Motevalli, M., Motevalli, V. and Sakata, N., Aviation Institute, School of Engineering and Applied Science, The George Washington University
  • Assessing Transportation Funding Equity within a State: The Case of Miami-Dade County, Florida
    Xuehao Chu, Steven E. Polzin, Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida
  • Cargo Security: The Calm before the Storm - Productivity, Regulation & Technology
    Michael Wolfe, North River Consulting Group
  • Crisis Communications - Creating Media Partners for Transportation Disasters
    Jill A. Lynn, Aviation Technology, Purdue University - Indianapolis
  • Does Vehicle Taxation Impact Vehicle Ownership?
    Alex Bertram, Pierre Vilain, The Louis Berger Group
  • Emerging Commuting Trends: Evidence from the Chicago Area
    Joseph DiJohn, Joost Berman, Siim Soot, Urban Transportation Center, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Enhancing Passenger Mobility Services in North Dakota through Increased Coordination
    Gary Hegland, Jon Mielke, Jill Hough, Dr. Jim Miller, Small Urban & Rural Transit Center, North Dakota State University
  • Estimating the Impact of Seasonal Truck Shortages to the Pacific Northwest Apple Industry: Transportation Cost Minimization Approach
    Eric Jessup, Washington State University
    Ryan Herrington, DelMonte, Inc
  • Evaluation of Resource Allocation Strategies in Incident Management Systems
    Weihua Xiao, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  • Evolution of the MRO Business: Findings from Research at the Floor Level
    Mike Suckow, Dave Stanley, Denver Lopp, Willis Wierich, Joshua Riehle, Aviation Technology, Purdue University
  • Expansion of the Panama Canal - Its Likelihood and Implications
    Dr. Asaf Ashar, Professor, National Ports & Waterways Institute, Univ. of New Orleans
  • Factors Influencing Inter-Modal Facility Location Decisions: Comparison of Different Empirical Estimation Procedures
    Steven Peterson, Washington State University
  • Financial Comparisons Across Different Business Models in the Canadian Airline Industry
    Triant Flouris, Ph.D, Thomas Walker, Ph.D., Concordia University
  • Financing Transportation in Fiscally Constrained Times: Transportation Strategies for Mumbai, India
    Prakash M.Apte., Urban Development Consultant, World Bank
  • Forecasting Cycles in the Transportation Sector
    Vincent Yao, Transportation Research Center, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    Brian W. Sloboda, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation
  • Framework for the Disaggregate Truck Trip Generation Model Based on the Survey of Retail Businesses
    Hyeon-Shic Shin and Kazuya Kawamura, Urban Transportation Center, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Freight Demand Statistical Modeling: A Classification and Review
    Maria Boile, Michail Golias, Rutgers University
  • Freight Origin and Destination Study for Washington State Trucking: Characteristics and Trends
    Steve Peterson, Eric Jessup, Ken Casavant, Washington State University
  • Galileo - Technology for Worldwide Air Traffic Control
    Richard A. Taylor, Jill A. Lynn, Aviation Technology, Purdue University - Indianapolis
  • HAL Cars & Short-Line Track
    Denver Tolliver, Associate Director & Senior Research Fellow, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota
  • Impact of Air Transport Liberalization and the Role of Framing Economic Mechanism in Airport Regulation and Competition - Modern Approach towards Regulating Utility Industry
    Dr. P.S.Senguttuvan, Manager (Economic Planning), Airports Authority of India
  • Impact of Landing Fee Policy on Airlines' Service Decisions, Financial Performance and Airport Congestion
    Wenbin Wei, San Jose State University
  • Lessons Learned from the Value Pricing Pilot Program
    Patrick DeCorla-Souza, Susan Lee and Angela Jacobs, Federal Highway Administration
  • Meeting Small Urban Transit Needs in North Dakota: A Case Study Perspective
    Del Peterson, Dustin Ulmer, Jill Hough, Small Urban & Rural Transit Center, North Dakota State University
  • Mining and Analysis of Traffic Safety and Roadway Condition Data
    Hong Lin, Sudheer Cheedella, John Rushing, Michael Anderson, Ken Keiser, Sara J. Graves, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • NASA Alliances: Collaboration within Public-Private Partnerships
    Nanette Scarpellini Metz, Aviation Institute, University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • National Airspace System Capital Investments Have Not Reduced FAA Operating Costs
    Arthur Shantz, Mathew Hampton, Office of Inspector General, US Department of Transportation
  • National Security and Passenger Privacy Rights (Paul Rosenzweig)
    Paul Rosenzweig, The Heritage Foundation, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, Senior Legal Research Fellow
  • North American Containerport Capacity
    Michael Maloni, Eric Jackson, Black School of Business, Penn State Erie
  • North American Short Line and Regional Railroads Industry Report
    Richard F. Timmons, President, American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association, Washington, D.C.
  • Oil Pipeline Markets and Operations
    Bradley Hull, John Carroll University
  • Pacific Northwest Waterborne Commerce: A Detailed Analysis of Up-River and Down-River Movements on the Columbia/Snake River System
    Eric Jessup, Shushanik Makaryan, Ken Casavant, Washington State University
  • Planning Considerations for Projected Intermodal Rail Yards in the Chicago Region Studied By Key-Informant Interviews
    Norm West, Kazuya Kawamura, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Positive Train Control (PTC): Calculating Benefits and Costs of a New Railroad Control Technology
    Randolph R. Resor, Pradeep K. Patel, ZETA-TECH Associates
    Michael E. Smith, Wilbur Smith Associates
  • Post September 11, 2001, Security Measures Impact on the Fiscal Aspects of General Aviation
    D. Scott Worrells, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
  • Public Private Partnerships from an NS Perspective: Principles, Experiences and Challenges
    Steve Eisenach, Director-Public Partnerships, Norfolk Southern
  • Public-Private Partnerships in the Port Sector: The Case of Stock Listing of Operating Port Entities
    Sotiris Theofanis, Maria Boile, Rutgers University
  • Public/Private Transportation Partnerships and American Space Transportation
    Patrick O'Neil, Carol Ebdon, Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • Red River Valley & Western Railroad Company
    Daniel L. Zink, Director of Administration, Red River Valley & Western Railroad Company, Wahpeton, ND
  • Research Needs in Transportation Economics (Gary Barnes)
    Gary Barnes, University of Minnesota
  • Research Needs in Transportation Economics (Gerard McCoullogh)
    Gerard McCoullogh, University of Minnesota
  • Ridership Accuracy and Transit Formula Grants
    Xuehao Chu, Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida
  • Risk Assessment at Rail Grade Crossings: The Event Window
    Tim Hess, Halcrow Group LTd
  • Shellpot Bridge: Reinstating a Key Rail Link
    Randolph R. Resor, Vice President, Costing & Economic Analysis, Zeta-Tech Associates, Inc.
  • Should Shortline Railroads Upgrade Their Systems to Handle Heavy Axle Load Cars? A Kansas Case Study
    Michael W. Babcock, James Sanderson, Kansas State University
  • Storage, Slow Transport and the Law of One Price: Theory with Evidence from Nineteenth Century U.S. Corn Markets
    Andrew Coleman, University of Michigan
  • Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Paratransit Brokerage
    Anthony M. Pagano, Paul Metaxatos, Roseann M. O'Laughlin, Alicia Morreale, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Supporting Asset Management for Incident Management Using GIS
    Nebahat Noyan, Rutgers University
  • The "NEW" "Silk Road" Rail Corridor
    Robert Gernon, Vice President - Logistics Sales, Pacer Global Logistics
  • The Dirty Job of Truck Movement Data Gathering: An Evaluation of Intercept Surveys
    Eric Jessup, Ken Casavant, Washington State University
    Catherine Lawson, The University at Albany
    Alan Kirk, Oregon Dept. of Transportation
  • The Economic Value of Barge Transportation: A Case Study of the Minneapolis Upper Harbor
    Jerry Fruin, University of Minnesota
    Keith Fortowsky, University of Regina
  • The Evolution of U.S. Domestic Airline Route Networks since 1990
    Clinton V. Oster, Jr., Indiana University
    John S. Strong, College of William & Mary
  • The Impact of IT Investment on Safety Performance: Theory and Evidence from the Trucking Industry
    David E. Cantor, Curtis M. Grimm and Thomas M. Corsi, The Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
  • The Journey to Work: 25 Years on the Jamaicaway
    Carl D. Martland, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • The Outlook for the Suez Canal Route
    John Vickerman, Principal, TranSystems Corp.
  • The Political Economy of Maritime Container Security
    Kenneth Button, Marc Thibault, George Mason University
  • The Port of NY & NJ's Rail Development Program
    Paul K. Gessner, Senior Freight Specialist, The Port Authority of NY & NJ
  • The Relative Efficiency in the Blending of Strategic Dimensions Utilized in the Generation of Customer Satisfaction in the LTL Motor Carrier Industry
    Carl A. Scheraga, Fairfield University
  • The Stochastic School Transportation Problem
    David Ripplinger, Small Urban & Rural Transit Center, North Dakota State University
  • The U.S. Coast Guard Vessel Inspection Program: A Probability Analysis
    Wayne K. Talley, Old Dominion University
    Di Jin, Hauke Kite-Powell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • The Use of a Genetic Algorithm in Forecasting Air Carrier Financial Stress and Insolvency
    Sergio Davalos, Ph.D., University of Washington-Tacoma
    Richard D. Gritta, Ph.D., University of Portland
    Bahram Adrangi, Ph.D., University of Portland
    Jason Goodfriend, Ph.D., Bureau of Transportation Statistics
  • Transportation Information Clearinghouse
    Karin Allen, Joseph DiJohn, Shamus Misek, University of Illinois at Chicago, Urban Transportation Center
  • Transportation Infrastructure and the Private Sector
    Jeffery N. Shane, Under Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Transportation
  • Transportation Infrastructure in Asia: Priorities That Will Facilitate Trade with Europe
    Nikolaos Deonas and Carl Martland, MIT
  • Transportation Logistics and Supply Chain Characteristics of Washington Hay and Livestock Movements
    Stephanie Meenach, Eric Jessup, Ken Casavant, Washington State University
  • Transportation Security (Dr. Patrick Griffin)
    Dr. Patrick Griffin, Sandia
  • Transportation Security (Robert Gallamore)
    Robert Gallamore, Director, Transportation Center, Northwestern University
  • Transportation Usage and Characteristics of the Washington Warehouse/Distribution Center Industry
    Quinton Pike, Ken Casavant, Eric Jessup, Washington State University
  • Trends and Analyses of General Aviation Fatalities
    Shane Nordyke, Indiana University
  • U.S. Commercial Aviation Safety in the 1990s
    Clinton V. Oster, Jr., Indiana University
    John S. Strong, College of William & Mary
    C. Kurt Zorn, Indiana University
  • Vehicle-Based Demand Modeling: A New Approach
    Michail Gkolias, Rutgers University
  • Vulnerability of Civil Aviation Infrastructure to Attacks by Explosive-Laden Vehicles
    Motevalli, V., Lagos, A., Boivin, L., and Marzougui, D., The George Washington University Aviation Institute
  • What Makes Them Viable? Determining the Attributes that Offer Potential Viability to Inter-Modal Truck-Rail Facilities in Washington State
    Ken Casavant, Eric Jessup, Washington State University
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