Current Position and Research:
Concurrent with the formation of Transecurity, Mr. Petersen is the director of the Center for Technology Development at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI). This Center is charged with developing new technologies that will advance the field of Human Factors and safety related warning systems. Here he develops new data acquisition systems, analysis software, sensors, real-time software. To this end he manages a group of hardware engineers, technicians, and software specialists. He has experience with real time data acquisition hardware, software, and firmware, machine vision programming, algorithmic programming, control and automation, and has been involved in a wide variety of human factors studies at VTTI and is an expert at covert installation of video surveillance, data collection hardware, and in-vehicle displays.
Relevant Experience:
Prior to joining the VTTI, Mr. Petersen was the Hardware Group Leader for the Iowa Driving Simulator at the Center for Computer Aided Design. His responsibilities included designing hardware and software for the Iowa Driving Simulator. Mr. Petersen was a Principle and Co-Principle Investigator on simulation studies, a system developer, and managed the hardware group of engineers and technicians. He was the subsystem designer of 3 out of the 10 subsystems making up the Iowa Driving Simulator (the Control Loading, Instrumentation, and Experimental State Control subsystems).
Additionally, in 1988, Mr. Petersen became an entrepreneur with Petersen Technology in Iowa City, Iowa. He has performed custom digital and analog circuit design, circuit board layout design, and software development including a complete materials requirement planning system, and developmental software for education. Mr. Petersen developed an original instrumented vehicle hardware design and implemented this design into a Ford Taurus wagon. He also developed real-time data collection, user interface, data analysis, and display software to support the instrumented vehicle.
Education:
B. S. Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University, IA 1991
Relevant Publications:
Dingus, T. A., Klauer, S. G., Neale, V. L., Petersen, A., Lee, S. E., Sudweeks, J., Perez, M. A., Hankey, J., Ramsey, D., Gupta, S., Bucher, C., Doerzaph, Z. R., Jermeland, J., and Knipling, R.R. (2005). The 100-Car Naturalistic Driving Study: Phase II - Results of the 100-Car Field Experiment. (Interim Project Report for DTNH22-00-C-07007, Task Order 6; Report No. TBD). Washington, D.C.: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Neale, V. L., Klauer, S. G., Knipling, R. R., Dingus, T. A., Holbrook, G. T., Petersen, A. D. (2002). The 100 car naturalistic driving study: Phase I - experimental design (DOT HS 809 536). Washington, D. C.: US Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration.
Robinson, G.S., Neale, V.L., Petersen, A., Belz, S.M., Cooper, L.M., Casali, J.G., and Dingus, T.A. (1999). On-road measurement of long-haul driver fatigue and performance using a critical incident-based computer-controlled data acquisition system. Proceedings of the Second International Truck and Bus Safety Symposium (pp.65-76). Knoxville, TN: UTTC..
Robinson, G.S., Belz, S.M., Neale, V.L., Cooper, L.M., Dingus, T.A., Petersen, A., Bryson, J., Pace-Schott, E. F., Stickgold, R., Casali, J. G. (1999, December). Impact of sleeper berth usage on driver fatigue: Task 4 & 5, calibration and validation of data collection hardware & data collection hardware installation. (Federal Highway Administration Contract No. DTFH61-96-C-00068). Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, CTR.
Gellatly, A.W., Petersen, A., Ahmadian, M., and Dingus, T.A. (1997). The Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research Smart Truck - An Instrumented Heavy Vehicle for Evaluation of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings of the 1997 SAE International Truck and Bus Meeting and Exposition, Cleveland, OH, November 1997.
Rizzo, M., McGehee, D.V., Dingus, T.A., and Petersen, A.D. (1996). The development of an unobtrusively instrumented field research vehicle for the objective assessment of driving performance. Proceedings of the International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology, Spain.