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Virginia Longitudinal Data System Expansion - Linking to Workforce and Postsecondary
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| Dates: 2010-2013 |
Role: PI |
Award: $2,562,113 |
| Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education |
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Working with the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE), the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA), the State Council of Higher Education (SCHEV), the Virginia Community College System, and Virginia’s workforce agencies on a $17.5 million grant to establish a comprehensive, longitudinal P-20 data system, including: creation of an integrated K-12 student-teacher information system; creation of a longitudinal data linking and reporting system; development of a web-based portal to access education and workforce data; design of a data management and control system; and development of a secure mechanism for post-secondary institutions to receive high school transcripts in the form of electronic data.
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Virginia Early Childhood Professional Registry
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| Dates: 2010-2011 |
Role: PI |
Award: $90,840 |
| Sponsor: Virginia Department of Social Services |
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The creation of an early childhood education workforce personnel and training registry system for the Commonwealth of Virginia is necessary for two reasons—to provide the most complete and best understanding of the day care environment a child has experienced in concert with the child and provider data, and to establish a professional development tracking system for child care professionals. The relationship between practitioner level of education and types and level of training and impact on child outcomes, for example, can be accurately assessed. To build this system, practitioner, trainer and training core data elements will be adapted to existing standards and translated to a normalized relational structure to allow for accurate analysis and reporting. Additionally, the data system will incorporate linkages to existing data sources that already provide the needed core data elements. The resulting functional database system will be accessed through a web-based interface for both administrative management and participant interaction.
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Child HANDS: Building Child and Family Policy Research Data Capacity for the Commonwealth of Virginia: An Integrated Model
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| Dates: 2008-2011 |
Role: PI |
Award: $650,000 |
| Sponsor: Administration for Children & Families (US Department of Health & Human Services) |
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Using a federated data approach to multi-agency data integration, the central aim of Project Child HANDS (Child Care Subsidy, Health and Early Education: Helping Analyze Needed Data Securely) is to build an integrated, web-based data system for Virginia childhood initiatives aimed at low-income families, to guide program evaluation and policy decisions at the state and local levels. Data from agencies at local levels will provide the main source of information for use in local planning, as well as state evaluation of large-scale programs. Partners in the grant include the Virginia Department of Social Services and the Virginia Department of Education, with input from the Virginia Department of Health. Initial questions will focus on child care quality in relation to the child care subsidy program, family demographics, parental choice, and how these factors relate to children’s outcomes in kindergarten. Later questions will expand into other areas of child welfare and health.
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Website: Project Child HANDS
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| Intelligent Transportation Systems Implementation: Virginia Traveler Information Clearinghouse |
| Dates: 1999-2006 |
Role: PI |
Award: $1,800,000 |
| Sponsor: Research and Special Programs Administration (US Department of Transportation) |
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Co-directed a $12 million / 6-year program to facilitate ITS deployment in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Center for
Technology Deployment was responsible for directly administering $1.8 million over the 6-year period and focused on the design
, development and production of the “Virginia Traveler Information Clearinghouse.”
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Report: Transportation Data Clearinghouse
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| 511 Virginia |
| Dates: 2000-2003 |
Role: PI |
Award: $1,207,000 |
| Sponsor: Virginia Department of Transportion (VDOT) |
 Contracted by the Virginia Department of Transportation in 2000 to investigate the feasibility of converting an existing ATIS, Travel Shenandoah (see below), into 511Virginia, an ATIS accessible to the public by dialing 511. Responsibilities included the design both conceptually, and technically of an enhanced coverage area and improved voice recognition technology. VTTI was responsible for the development and deployment of the new voice recognition technology.
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Website: 511 Virginia
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Report: 511 Virginia Evaluation
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| Travel Shenandoah – An Advanced Traveler Information System for Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley |
| Dates: 1998-2000 |
Role: PI |
Award: $1,400,000 |
| Sponsor: Virginia Department of Transportion (VDOT) and Shenandoah Telecommunications (SHENTEL) |
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Directed the conceptual and technical design, development, and deployment of a Traveler Information System in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley: Travel Shenandoah (www.travelshenandoah.com). The system integrated current traffic & travel conditions, food and lodging information, traveler services information, tourism information, emergency services information, and trip routing capabilities.
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Media Coverage: ScienceBlog.com
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Media Coverage: Informed at the wheel: Valley travel data offered. Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 27, 2000.
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Media Coverage: Real-Time Traffic Information Offered for I-81 in Virginia - information of safety in the roads - Brief Article. Public Roads. Nov 2000.
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| Truck Fleet Alert |
| Dates: 1999-2000 |
Role: PI |
Award: $75,000 |
| Sponsor: Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) |
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Truck Fleet Alert was built as a particular application of Travel Shenandoah. The system provided timely, relevant information on traffic and road conditions, weather, parking availability, route guidance, and other information for commercial traffic traveling through the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Report: Evaluation of the
Truck Fleet Support Program
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| Policy Implementation Networks |
| Travel Virginia – A Statewide System of Private-Public Partnerships |
| Dates: 1999-2000 |
Role: Co-PI |
Award: $200,000 |
| Sponsor: Virginia Department of Transportion (VDOT) |
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Co-directed a planning and design effort to replicate the success of Travel Shenandoah across the Commonwealth of Virginia
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Report: Travel Virginia
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| Enhanced Night Visibility |
| Dates: 1997-2002 |
Role: Co-PI |
Award: $125,000 |
| Sponsor: Federal Highway Administartion (FHWA), US Department of Transportation (USDOT) |
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Worked with the Federal Highway Administration on a project to establish a policy implementation network for the nationwide deployment of UV-A Fluorescent headlamps and traffic control devices.
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Report: Enhanced Night Visibility Series: Overview of Phase I and Development of Phase II Experimental Plan
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| Web-Enabled Public Services |
| Bedford Ride |
| Dates: 2000-2001 |
Role: PI |
Award: $86,000 |
| Sponsor: Bedford County, VA |
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Following on the success of the Access to Rides system in Montgomery County, VA, Bedford County, VA contracted with our research group to develop a strategic plan for medical ride-sharing and a software support system. The program was developed and is currently considered a Bedford County “success story.”
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Media Coverage: Medical Transportation Program Supported By VTTI Flourishes
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| ACCESS to Rides – A Dynamic System for Volunteer and Transportation Resource Management |
| Dates: 1998-2002 |
Role: PI |
Award: $56,000 |
| Sponsor: Federal Highway Administartion (FHWA), US Department of Transportation (USDOT) |
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Designed, developed and operated, in partnership with local non-profit and governmental organizations, a dynamic on-line scheduling system for managing a volunteer-based ride-sharing program in Virginia’s New River Valley.
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Manual: Access To Rides Dispatcher User Guide
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| Wireless Technologies |
| Wireless Testing Protocols |
| Dates: 2006 |
Role: PI |
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| Sponsor: Virginia Department of Transportion (VDOT) |
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This project’s objective was to develop hardware and software tools that can be used to
quantitatively measure bandwidth metrics across wireless networks. These tools will
either transmit real data traffic across a wireless network and measure the amount of data
transmitted over time, or will simulate different types of traffic and estimate the
bandwidth.
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Report: Wireless Testing Protocols
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| Wireless Linear LAN for Interstate 81 (Salem District) |
| Dates: 2003-2005 |
Role: PI |
Award: $593,603 |
| Sponsor: Virginia Department of Transportion (VDOT) |
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Based on successful preliminary analysis of the US460 installation (see below), VDOT provided funding for a 10 mile section of Interstate 81 around Roanoke to covered with an 802.11 wireless spine, 9 digital cameras, and a series of digital traffic
counters and weather stations. This project is being used as both a ‘further proof of concept’ and as a test-case for
adjusting how DOTs procure operational IT systems (which are traditionally used for 15-30 year planning cycles).
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| US460 Wireless Corridor |
| Dates: 2001-2004 |
Role: PI |
Award: $250,000 |
| Sponsor: Virginia Department of Transportion (VDOT) |
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Directed installation and operation of experimetnal 802.11 wireless cooridor on US460 in Virginia. This project is being used by the Salem District of the Virginia Department of Transportation to demonstrate the benefits and costs of wireless backbone technology for managing VDOT assets (cameras, sensors, counters, etc.).
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Report: Route 460 Wireless Network
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| I-81 Video System Design & Implementation |
| Dates: 2003 |
Role: PI |
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| Sponsor: USDOT Center for ITS Implementation Research |
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The goal of this project was to install several Internet-based traffic monitoring cameras along the
Interstate corridor in the Northern Shenandoah Valley to provide video images to the Virginia
Department of Transportation (VDOT) and to the traveling public via the 511 web page. One
objective was to develop partnerships with public institutions along the I-81 Corridor in order to
utilize existing Network Virginia Internet Connections. Cameras would be located as closely to
the Interstate as possible, and wireless Internet communications would be used to transmit the
camera image from the roadside to the Network Virginia Internet backdrop.
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Report: I-81 Video System Design & Implementation
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| Program Evaluation/Policy Analysis |
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Virginia's Wounded Warriors: Assessment of the Experiences, Supportive Service Needs and Service Gaps of Veterans within the Commonwealth of Virginia
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| Dates: 2009-2010 |
Role: PI |
Award: $148,780 |
| Sponsor: Virginia Department of Veteran Services |
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Assessed the current service experiences (consumer satisfaction), emerging and unserved needs and service gaps within the range of veteran’s services available in the Commonwealth of Virginia. There are over 800,000 veterans residing within the Commonwealth of Virginia. While all veterans’ experiences and needs were assessed, particular consideration was given to the mental and behavioral health and traumatic brain injury service needs of the veterans of Operation Iraq Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF).
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Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence (IC-CAE)
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| Dates: 2009-2012 |
Role: Co-PI |
Award: $2,500,000 |
| Sponsor: U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence |
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Saving Dollars While Making Sense: Comparing Operational Costs of Intergenerational Shared Site Facilities
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| Dates: 2006-2007 |
Role: Co-PI |
Award: $14,000 |
| Sponsor: Generations United (GU) and the MET Life Foundation |
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Working with Generations United (GU) and Dr. Shannon Jarrott of the Virginia Tech Department of Human Development, tested the hypothesis that operational costs of day care facilities with intergenerational components are the same or less than the operational costs of day care facilities without intergenerational components.
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Report: Intergenerational Shared Sites: Saving Dollars While Making Sense
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| I-81 Evaluation Framework |
| Dates: 2002-2004 |
Role: PI |
Award: $140,200 |
| Sponsor: Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) |
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The I-81 ITS Program is a framework for on-going coordination, planning, design, and implementation of ITS investments along the I-81 Corridor in Virginia. Numerous stakeholders are involved in the Program including the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), who sponsors the Program, the Virginia State Police (VSP), the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI), and ITS Consultants working in the Corridor. The Program began in June of 2000, and VTTI managed the Program from June 2000 through June 2001. VTTI also evaluated the Program from September 2001 through March 2002, and through 2004 developed an Evaluation Framework for the on-going evaluation of ITS projects funded through the Program.
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Report: I-81
ITS Program Evaluation Framework
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| Case Study Evaluation of the Virginia Department of Transportation’s I-81 ITS Program |
| Dates: 2003 |
Role: PI |
Award: |
| Sponsor: Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) |
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The primary goal of this report is to provide information to the Sponsors, Policy Committee, and Management of the I-81 ITS Program that may improve the Program. In order to do this, the report focuses on the development of the Program and the lessons learned. Through lessons learned,recommendations are made about how the Program can be improved.
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Report: Case Study Evaluation of the Virginia Department of Transportation’s I-81 ITS Program
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| Staunton District ITS Concept of Operations |
| Dates: 2000 |
Role: PI |
Award: $125,000 |
| Sponsor: Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) |
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Conducted analysis and created report outlining the functions of the integrated regional ITS, the agencies involved in operating and managing the ITS, and each agency's roles and responsibilities.
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| I-81 Intelligent Transportation Systems Task Force |
| Dates: 2000-2001 |
Role: PI |
Award: $275,000 |
| Sponsor: Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) |
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Directed an effort to plan for Intelligent Transportation Systems deployment in the I-81 corridor in Virginia. This includes overseeing and participating in 6 technical working groups, including: Corridor Concept of Operation; Public Information & Marketing; Incident Response and Clearance; ITS Design Guidelines; Data Requirements; and, Traveler Information Services. This task force has the standing responsibility of recommending to VDOT the ITS projects that should be funded for each coming fiscal year.
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| Activity Measurement |
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Regional Pedestrian Activity Measurement
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| Dates: 2006 |
Role: PI |
Award: |
| Sponsor: USDOT Center for ITS Implementation Research |
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The goal of this project was to develop a detailed understanding of what would be required to undertake a
wearable-technology pedestrian survey and to establish, as a foundation, the next step of technology
prototyping. Over the long term, the goal would be to develop and deploy a wearable-technology
pedestrian survey using wireless technologies, Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, and clothingintegrated
accelerometers. Such a deployment would benefit researchers in multiple domains including:
human health and medicine, civic planning, and transportation.
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Report: Regional pedestrian activity measurement
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