Oak Ridge National Laboratory  Center for Transportation Analysis  National Transportation Research Center  2360 Cherahala Blvd.  Knoxville, TN 37932  United States of America

(865) 946-1254 (office)  (865) 946-1314 (fax)  Chins@ornl.gov (email)

Specialty Research Areas:

• Data, Statistical Analysis and Information Tools
• Highway Safety
• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Modeling and Simulation
• Operations
• Planning and Systems Analysis
• Security
  

Current or Recent Work:

• High Threat and Rail Corridor and Food Security Studies
• Visualization for Transportation Decision Support Systems
• National Intermodal Bottlenecks Evaluation Tool (IBET)
• Temporary Losses of Highway Capacity Study (TLC)
• Estimating International Freight Flows (Section 5115 Study)
• National Household Travel Survey, American Travel Survey, and applications
• Commodity Flow Survey and Applications
• Real-time ITS data applications

Significant Publications:

Geospatial Products and Techniques at the Center for Transportation Analysis, DOE Special Issue of Geoscapes, Journal of Map & Geography Libraries. To be published in 2007.

Temporary Loss of Highway Capacity and Impacts on Performance: Phase 2, ORNL/TM-2004/209. ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, November 2004.

Adverse Weather Impacts on National Highway Networks, Proceedings of the 10th World Congress and Exhibition on ITS, 2004.

“Comparison of Distance Estimates for the Commodity Flow Survey Based on the Great Circle Distance versus Network-based Distances,” Transportation Research Record, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, to be published in 2002.

Temporary Losses of Capacity Study, ORNL/TM-2002/3, January, 2002.

“In, Out, Within, and Through: The Geography of Truck Freight in the Lower 48,” Transportation Research Record, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1768, pp 18-25, November, 2001.

“Evaluating the Accessibility of U. S. Airports: Results from the ATS,” Personal Travel: The Long and Short of It, Transportation Research Circular, No. E-C026, pp 287-305, March 2001.

“Real-Time Indicators of VKT and Congestion: One Year of Experience,” Transportation Research Record, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1719, pp 209-214, December, 2000.

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