Dr Richard J. Hanowski

Affiliation:
Director- Division of Freight, Transit, and Heavy Vehicle Safety

Organization:
Virginia Tech Transportation Institute

Education:
Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech. (2000)

Email:
hanowski@vtti.vt.edu

Short Biography:

Dr. Richard Hanowski is a Senior Research Scientist at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) and serves as the Director of VTTI’s Division of Freight, Transit, and Heavy Vehicle Safety. He has been involved in transportation human factors research since 1991, when he was a graduate student working at the National Center for Advanced Transportation Technology at the University of Idaho. His career has included an internship at General Motors and three years as a Research Scientist at Battelle in Seattle. His experience includes transportation human factors with both heavy & light vehicles, laboratory & field testing, simulation, advanced system development & testing, naturalistic driving, design guideline development, and human performance evaluation. He is skilled in all phases of research including conceptual framing, research design, data collection/synthesis/analysis, assessment of results, and presentation of findings. Dr. Hanowski has served as the principal Investigator or Co-PI on numerous projects that have resulted in over 300 publications including journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, and technical reports. His research has impacted national transportation policy including truck driver hours of service and driver distraction/texting. He has received a number of awards for his research including the 2011 SAE International’s L. Ray Buckendale Lecture award. Dr. Hanowski received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering in 2000 from Virginia Tech.