Managing and Organizing Comprehensive Highway Safety in Europe
U.S.
Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
International Technology Exchange Program
April 2003
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TEAM MEMBERS Dwight M. Bower (team co-chair) is director of the Idaho Transportation
Department in Boise, Idaho. He is responsible for the activities of more than
1,800 employees and an annual budget of $431.9 million. Before joining the Idaho
department, Bower was deputy director of the Colorado Department of Transportation,
where he also served as a district engineer, assistant district engineer, and
senior highway engineer. He began his career as an engineering technician in
1957, earning a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of
Colorado in 1967. He was co-chairman of the National Quality Initiative and
a member of the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board. Bower
was president of the Western Association of State Highway and Transportation
Officials in 1997, and now serves on the American Association of State Highway
and Transportation Officials' (AASHTO) Board of Directors. He was vice chairman
of AASHTO's Strategic Forum Steering Committee and now chairs the Standing Committee
on Research. He also serves on the Research and Technology Coordinating Committee
and the Joint AASHTO-AGC-ARTBA Executive Committee.
Michael Halladay (team co-chair) is acting director of the Office of
Program Integration and Delivery for the Safety Unit at the Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA). This office leads safety strategic and performance planning
for FHWA, along with developing safety research and technology programs and
integrating safety programs and issues with other key initiatives. Before that,
Halladay served as a senior official in the FHWA Office of Research, Development,
and Technology and chief of the Technology Management Division, where he directed
research and technology strategic planning and evaluation initiatives and facilitated
development of broad-based strategic partnerships for national research and
technology delivery programs. Halladay has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering
from Duke University and is a registered professional engineer in Virginia.
He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and Institute of Transportation
Engineers, and is active on several Transportation Research Board committees.
John Baxter is division administrator for the Federal Highway Administration's
Indiana Division in Indianapolis, Indiana. He leads a 24-person staff that administers
a $700 million annual Federal-aid program in partnership with the Indiana Department
of Transportation. As division administrator, Baxter has directed an increased
focus on safety at leadership and technical program levels. Earlier in his career,
Baxter was involved in infrastructure improvements for the 2002 Salt Lake City
Winter Olympic Games, worked with Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories
to convert defense-related technologies to civilian applications, and administered
elements of the Intelligent Transportation Systems program at the national level.
He is a civil engineering graduate and has a master's degree in transportation
engineering from Clemson University in South Carolina. He is a registered professional
engineer in Utah.
Troy E. Costales is the governor's highway safety representative for
the State of Oregon in Salem, Oregon, and directs the Transportation Safety
Division of the Oregon Department of Transportation. He manages driver education,
motorcycle driver education, highway safety, governor-appointed committees,
and highway safety programs, including those on safety belts, alcohol and other
drugged driving, work zones, pedestrians, and bicyclists. Before joining the
Transportation Safety Division in 1997, Costales supervised the statewide crash
data system, motor carrier crash data system, fatality data system, traffic-counting
program, and Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act management systems
for Oregon. He has been involved in creating and testifying on State legislation
for highway safety for the past 12 years. Costales has a bachelor's degree in
management from George Fox University in Oregon. He is a member of the National
Association of Governor's Highway Safety Representatives' executive instructor
core, the Oregon Real Estate Board, and the American Association of State Highway
and Transportation Officials' Safety Management System Committee.
Mike Crow is bureau chief of traffic engineering for the Kansas Department
of Transportation. His bureau is responsible for crash analysis, signing, lighting,
and pavement markings statewide. Crow is chairman of the American Association
of State Highway and Transportation Officials' national Transportation Safety
Information Management System project. The project is developing a crash data
system that will be able to integrate numerous databases, including emergency
medical services, road inventory, crash, police report, and driver's license
databases. Crow is a graduate of the University of Missouri at Rolla and has
a master's degree in civil engineering from Kansas State University. He is a
licensed professional engineer in Kansas. He is a member of the National Committee
on Uniform Traffic Control Devices and the American Traffic Safety Services
Association.
Michael S. Griffith is technical director for the Office of Safety Research
and Development for the Federal Highway Administration at the Turner-Fairbank
Highway Research Center in McLean, Virginia. Griffith manages the Safety Analyst
Project. His research emphasis includes highway safety data, analytical tools
for safety management, development of relationships between safety and highway
geometric design elements, and before-and-after evaluation of the safety effects
of highway improvements. Griffith has a master's degree in transportation engineering
from the University of Maryland and a master's degree in statistics from State
University of New York at Buffalo. He serves as chairman of the Transportation
Research Board's Committee on Statistical Methodology and Statistical Computer
Software in Transportation Research.
Douglas W. Harwood is principal traffic engineer for Midwest Research
Institute, a not-for-profit research organization in Kansas City, Missouri.
Harwood serves as principal investigator of a Federal Highway Administration
project to develop a comprehensive highway safety improvement model, an effort
that will develop new software tools for safety management of the roadway system
and identification of the need for site-specific safety improvements. Harwood
has more than 28 years of experience at Federal, State, and local agencies.
He is a civil engineering graduate of Clarkson College and has a master's degree
in transportation engineering from Purdue University in Indiana. He is a licensed
professional engineer in Missouri. Harwood chairs the Transportation Research
Board's Committee on Operational Effects of Geometrics, and is a member of its
Committee on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service and Joint Subcommittee
on the Development of a Highway Safety Manual.
Dr. Keith Knapp (report facilitator) is assistant professor/program
director for the Engineering Professional Development Department and the Civil
and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Knapp directs and organizes programs for transportation professionals in the
operations and safety fields. Before joining the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Knapp was assistant professor at Iowa State University and manager of Traffic
and Safety Programs at the Center for Transportation Research and Education.
Knapp is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has a master's
degree from Cornell University in New York and a doctorate from Texas A&M
University. He is a licensed professional engineer in Illinois, Michigan, and
Iowa. He serves on the Geometric Design and Operations Committee of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, and the Joint Subcommittee for the Development of
a Highway Safety Manual and the Operational Effects of Geometrics Committee
of the Transportation Research Board.
George E. (Ed) Rice, Jr. is State safety engineer for the Florida Department
of Transportation in Tallahassee, Florida. Rice directs the department's Safety
Office, which has functional responsibilities related to the traffic crash database
for State roads, Highway Safety Improvement Program, State and Community Highway
Safety Grant Program, pedestrian and bicycle safety, Highway Safety Management
System, Community Traffic Safety Teams, industrial safety, and emergency management.
He participates on a department management steering committee for work zone
safety. Rice also spent 23 years with the Federal Highway Administration, the
last 16 of which included highway safety duties. He has a bachelor's degree
in civil engineering from the University of Kentucky. He is a member of the
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' Standing
Committee on Highway Traffic Safety, the Board of Directors for the Florida
Operation Lifesaver initiative on railhighway grade crossing safety, and several
other committees related to his functional areas.
Douglas Van Buren is superintendent of the Wisconsin State Patrol in
the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Van Buren understands all aspects
of traffic law enforcement, having held numerous positions in the Wisconsin
State Patrol over his 30-year career. He oversees all patrol, commercial vehicle,
communications, training, chemical testing, and support services activities
of the Wisconsin State Patrol. Van Buren holds a business administration degree
from Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He also is a graduate
of Northwestern University's Traffic Institute in Evanston, Illinois. He is
a certified police officer and serves on the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Standards
Board and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials'
Standing Committee on Highway Traffic Safety. He serves on the Wisconsin Governor's
Council on Highway Safety.
Dr. Eugene Wilson is a professor of civil engineering at the University
of Wyoming and director of Wyoming's Local Technical Assistance Program. Wilson
conducts research and training on proactive safety, focusing on issues associated
with road safety audits. He also develops and provides training on other areas
of transportation safety. His recent activities have focused on training workshops
tailored to applying road safety audits for State departments of transportation
and local governments. Before 1974, he served on the faculty at the University
of Iowa and was also director of its Center for Urban and Regional Research.
Wilson has bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from the University
of Wyoming and a doctorate from Arizona State University. He is a licensed professional
engineer in Iowa, Colorado, and Wyoming and is certified as a professional traffic
operations engineer. Wilson serves on several technical committees of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, Institute of Transportation Engineers, and Transportation
Research Board. He also is director of the Transportation Professional Certification
Board, Inc.
Contact Information
Biographic Sketches
John Baxter
Division Administrator FHWA, Indiana
575 North Pennsylvania St., Room 254
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Phone: 317-226-7476
Fax: 317-226-7341
Email: john.baxter@fhwa.dot.govDwight M. Bower Director
Idaho DOT
3311 West State St.
Boise, ID 83707
Phone: 208-334-8807 Fax: 208-334-3858
Email: dbower@itd.state.id.us
Troy E. Costales
Governor's Highway Safety Representative
Oregon DOT, Transportation Safety Division
235 Union St. NE
Salem, OR 97301-1054
Phone: 503-986-4192 Fax: 503-986-4341
Email: troy.e.costales@odot.state.or.usMike Crow
Chief of Traffic Engineering Kansas DOT
217 SE Fourth St.
Topeka, KS 66612
Phone: 785-296-3618 Fax: 785-296-3619
Email: mikec@ksdot.org
Mike Griffith
FHWA, TFHRC
6300 Georgetown Pike
McLean, VA 22101-2296
Phone: 202-493-3316 Fax: 202-493-3374
Email: mike.griffith@fhwa.dot.govMichael Halladay
Director
Office of Safety Program Integration & Delivery
FHWA, HAS-30, Room 4136
400 Seventh St. SW
Washington, DC 20590
Phone: 202-366-9469 Fax: 202-366-3222
Email: michael.halladay@fhwa.dot.gov
Douglas W. Harwood
Principal Traffic Engineer Midwest Research Institute
425 Volker Blvd.
Kansas City, MO 64110
Phone: 816-753-7600, extension 1571 Fax: 816-561-6557
Email: dharwood@mriresearch.orgDr. Keith Knapp
University of Wisconsin, Madison
432 North Lake St., Room 713
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-263-6314 Fax: 608-263-3160
Email: knapp@epd.engr.wisc.edu
George E. Rice, Jr.
State Safety Engineer Florida DOT
605 Suwannee St., MS-53
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0450
Phone: 850-410-4904 Fax: 850-922-2935
Email: ed.rice@dot.state.fl.usDouglas Van Buren
Former Superintendent
Wisconsin DOT, Division of State Patrol
4802 Sheboygan Ave., Room 551
Madison, WI 53702
Phone: 608-267-7102 Fax: 608-267-4495
Email: doug.vanburen@dot.state.wi.us
Dr. Eugene Wilson
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Wyoming
University Station, Box 3295
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307-766-3202 Fax: 307-766-6784
Email: wilsonem@uwyo.edu
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