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CLTT Advisory Council Member, Michael F. Salvetti, DML, Presented 2016 the Logistics Education Field Award
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In a surprise ceremony earlier this quarter, the management of Huntington-Ingalls/Ingalls Shipbuilding (Pascagoula, Mississippi) presented the SOLE's 2016 Logistics Education Field Award to Michael (Mike) F. Salvetti, DML, in recognition of his many contributions to logistics education.
Shortly after Salvetti joining SOLE in 2013 he approached SOLE Headquarters about his development and conduct of a life cycle logistics body-of-knowledge hybrid/distance learning course. The course - Logistics as a Life Cycle Discipline - has been a success from the start: in its seventh offering, it has become a solid platform for those individuals preparing for both the Certified Master Logistician (CML) and Certified Professional Logistician (CPL) examinations. In addition, it has proven to provide a basis for the graduates to gain exposure to elements of the logistics enterprise that their experience was missing. Further, his service to SOLE as its liaison with academia - Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College and the University of Southern Mississippi (specifically the Center for Logistics Trade and Transportation) - made it possible to provide Demonstrated Logistician recognition to their students such that there is a path to professional development and credentialing at all levels of degree. Finally, his work as Chapter Chair of the Gulf Coast Chapter (2005-2008) has brought a new enthusiasm for logistics to the Gulf Coast. His commitment to providing technical programs - like the recent (April) chapter program featuring Lee Smithson, Executive Director of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency - for the area's military and commercial logisticians is a great credit not only to SOLE, but also to Huntington-Ingalls/Ingalls Shipbuilding. Congratulations, Mike!
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Research Examines the Impact of Fracking on Highway Infrastructure
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Vanderbilt University, in collaboration with the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Alabama at Huntsville completed a report for the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) that reviewed logistical, safety and infrastructure challenges associated with evaluating the impact of domestic oil and gas production in the U.S.; and identifying data sources available to profile the level of past, current and anticipated fracking activity in various geographical regions. Utilizing this information, a methodology to assess the impacts to highway infrastructure was developed and applied in a case study using the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale Oil Play in Mississippi.
The report developed several recommendations for Mississippi including improved water management practices, pipeline sufficiency analysis
, monitoring and simulation of the shale production related traffic flow, and a long term synergistic multi-modal infrastructure plan.
The project was funded thru the National Center for Freight & Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE), a consortium of University Transportation Centers.
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Preliminary Results from A Systemic Safety Analysis for 2015 Fatal Crashes in Mississippi
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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)'s report titled "Traffic Safety Facts 2015 Data," there were 677 traffic fatalities in Mississippi, ranking it the 20th most dangerous state for road users. But considering the impact of the safety exposure by ranking by fatality rate per vehicle miles traveled, Mississippi becomes the No. 3 most dangerous state with a high rate of 8 persons killed for every 100 million miles traveled. The figure shows the distribution of the fatal crashes in Mississippi based on the data from the
Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) for 2015.
A matrix-based systemic safety analysis method developed by Drs. Offer Grembek and Yuanyuan Zhang was applied to the 2015 fatal crashes. The results show that 70% of the fatal crashes were concentrated on rural roadways, leaving 15% on urban roadways, 11% rural intersections, and only 4% urban intersections.
Among the fatal crashes on rural roadways, 71% were not a collision with motor vehicle in transport, but driving off the road or encountering pedestrians or animals. These crashes mostly happened on the roadways with good vision, straight line, leveled, without any traffic control, two-way, not divided, high speed limit (higher or equal to 50 mph), and at the same time narrow (no more than 3 lanes). Similarly, on urban roadways, most of the fatal crashes happened on two-way, high speed limit roadways divided without a physical median and wide.
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