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Craig E Philip has been appointed by the Transportation Research Board to its new Section on Transportation Systems Resilience – ABR00.  Appointment is from Sep 2015 to April 2018… Read More

Craig E Philip has been appointed by the National Research Council to the TRB Committee for the Study of Domestic Transportation of Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Ethanol. Appointment is from Dec 2015 thru April 2017. Read More

Craig E.Philip presented paper coauthored with Katherine Nelson and Janey Camp;  “Navigable Inland Waterway Transportation Modelling: A conceptual Framework and Modeling Approach for Consideration of Climate Change Induced Extreme Weather Events”.; at the 5th SmartRivers Conference, Buenos Aires Argentina, Sept 9, 2015  … Read More

Craig E. Philip was recognized by Seamen’s Church Institute with their Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing his contributions to mariner safety and training through his work with the Coast Guard and the Center for Maritime Education. Award was presented at the Silver Bell Annual Dinner, June 4, 2015  … Read More

New Faculty – Hiba Baroud New faculty: Hiba Baroud uses Bayesian modeling to better predict natural disasters by Heidi Hall | Oct. 13, 2015, 8:40 AM | Want more research news? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter » Hiba Baroud, assistant professor of civil and environmental… Read More

Dr. Dobbins completed the following projects before his departure (for the Ingram Barge Company) at the end of June. CAIT 10 – Phase II: Inland Marine Transportation Analytics Corpslocks application with real-time lock performance data… Read More

Two research projects were completed this week related to the use of Internet GIS in transportation analysis. Click on the relevant links below for more information on each project. Intermodal Freight GIS Network: User Interface Development Project page… Read More

Congratulations go to Janey Camp for winning the 2012 ASCE Citizen Engineer Award. Janey won this award for their community service involvement in 2012. Click on the following links for more information: ASCE press release Vanderbilt University School of Engineering press release… Read More

VECTOR is pleased to announce openings for two post-doctoral fellowships. There are two positions that are available: The first position is geared toward GIS/DBMS/development/programming (working primarily with Dr. Dobbins on transportation-related projects). Click here for the position description. The second is oriented… Read More