Foresite Group Welcomes New Transportation Division Director!
Please join us in welcoming Foresite Group’s new Transportation Division Director, John Karnowski! John is a Professional Engineer in several states across the Southeast and Texas, and offers over 20 years of experience in transportation, planning, and engineering. He is also a PTOE and an AICP with extensive knowledge in transportation planning, traffic engineering, roadways, traffic signals, safety, ITS, and intersection design.
Foresite Group is a full-service engineering, planning, landscape architecture, and design firm headquartered in Norcross, Georgia with branch offices in Auburn, Alabama and Tampa, Florida. The firm provides comprehensive consulting services to public and private clients throughout the country.
Foresite Group’s practices include:
- land development
- landscape architecture
- parks + greenspace
- telecommunications
- transportation
- infrastructure
Foresite Group to present at National TRB Annual Meeting
Chris Rome, Transportation Project Manager with Foresite Group will be attending the Transportation Research Board(TRB) Annual Meeting 2012 in Washington, D.C. this January to present his paper entitled “Emissions and Idling of the Cobb County School District Buses.”
TRB’s Annual Meeting program covers all transportation modes, with more than 4,000 presentations in nearly 650 sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to all 11,000 attendees: policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions.
Chris's paper was developed under the effort of an ARRA-funded $1.3 million dollar contract awarded to Cobb County School District (CCSD) and Georgia Tech for development, creation, testing, and deployment of a control system to reduce the amount of idling of CCSD buses. The paper uses the latest national emission model to develop estimates of the emission and greenhouse gas savings, as well as fuel savings. The emission model used second-by-second vehicle activity data collected from over 200 in-use GPS units, which were manufactured by and installed in CCSD buses by Georgia Tech. The speed and acceleration of the vehicles were used to categorize the calculations by operating mode to maximize the accuracy of the estimates. The paper was submitted to TRB’s Transportation and Air Quality Committee (ADC20) and was recommended for presentation. One reviewer noted: “This is an excellent paper partially due to its tight focus, but also do to the high quality execution of the research. I commend the authors on a very fine piece of research.”
The presentation will be completed in a session titled: “Current Environmental Issues in Transportation” on Tuesday, January 24th, from 8:30-10:15 AM in the International Center at the Washington Hilton. You can find out more information about Chris's presentation and the annual meeting by visiting the TRB Annual Meeting website.
TRB’s Annual Meeting program covers all transportation modes, with more than 4,000 presentations in nearly 650 sessions and workshops addressing topics of interest to all 11,000 attendees: policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions.
Chris's paper was developed under the effort of an ARRA-funded $1.3 million dollar contract awarded to Cobb County School District (CCSD) and Georgia Tech for development, creation, testing, and deployment of a control system to reduce the amount of idling of CCSD buses. The paper uses the latest national emission model to develop estimates of the emission and greenhouse gas savings, as well as fuel savings. The emission model used second-by-second vehicle activity data collected from over 200 in-use GPS units, which were manufactured by and installed in CCSD buses by Georgia Tech. The speed and acceleration of the vehicles were used to categorize the calculations by operating mode to maximize the accuracy of the estimates. The paper was submitted to TRB’s Transportation and Air Quality Committee (ADC20) and was recommended for presentation. One reviewer noted: “This is an excellent paper partially due to its tight focus, but also do to the high quality execution of the research. I commend the authors on a very fine piece of research.”
The presentation will be completed in a session titled: “Current Environmental Issues in Transportation” on Tuesday, January 24th, from 8:30-10:15 AM in the International Center at the Washington Hilton. You can find out more information about Chris's presentation and the annual meeting by visiting the TRB Annual Meeting website.
