Surface Transportation Technical Group

STTG member Mahtab Ghazizadeh won the 2013 Best Student Paper Award with the paper titled "Text Readability and Drivers' Reading Time: Insights from the Visual Occlusion Method." She won this award from 5 top student papers. This paper is co-authored by Vindhya Venkatraman, Miralis Torres, Madeleine C. Gibson, John D. Lee, and Linda Ng Boyle. Mahtab is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Text Readability and Drivers' Reading Time: Insights from the Visual Occlusion Method Mahtab Ghazizadeh 1 , Vindhya Venkatraman 1 , Miralis Torres 2 , Madeleine C. Gibson 1 , John D. Lee 1 , Linda Ng Boyle 3 1 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 2 Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, Anasco, PR 3 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Abstract Interne...

STTGs, How fast fall approaches us! It's time to get the Fall Newsletter Issue together. STTG needs updates about your research, labs, opinions/good stories, etc. Please send them to Nick ( nick@autonomics-consulting.co.uk ) by November 2. Also, the link for 2013 Spring Newsletter is shown as below. Please feel free to download it. STTG 2013 Spring Newsletter

It’s STTG election time! Since we are halfway through our two year term for the TG Chair (Greg Fitch) and Newsletter Editor (Nick Gkikas), we are looking for one or more nominees for each of the following positions: ·          Program Chair Elect (1 year as Elect + 1 year as Program Chair) ·          Webmaster (1 year term) Positions become effective at the close of the 2013 TG business meeting. You may nominate yourself or a colleague. If you nominate someone else, please check to be sure that the person is willing to run. Following HFES rules, nominees for the Program Chair Elect position must be Full Members of HFES and members of the TG. The Webmaster position can be filled by any HFES member provided they are members of the TG. Please reply to Greg Fitch (gfitch@vtti.vt.edu) with nominations by August 26 th , 2013. Election ballots will be emailed shortly after the close of the nomina...

STTGs: If you received an email regarding voting in the HFES election, please remember to log into the voting website provided in the email and vote for the following positions: President-elect (one position) Secretary-treasurer-elect (one position) At-large members of the Executive Council (two positions) The election is open as of 12:00 a.m. PDT on July 2, 2013, and will close at 12:00 noon (PDT) on August 2, 2013.