Research Staff
CV/Biosketch
Oscar Franzese
Ph.D., Transportation Engineering
(T) 865.946.1304
(F) 865.946.1314
franzeseo@ornl.gov
Specialty Research Areas:
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Modeling and Simulation
- Operations
- Planning and Systems Analysis
- Emergency Evacuations
- Multicriteria Evaluations
- Remote Sensing Applications in Transportation
Current or Recent Work:
- FMCSA Decision Support Systems
- Modeling of Temporary Loss of Capacity
- Integration of Remote Sensing Information into Emergency Evacuation Models
- Development of GUIs for traffic simulation models
Significant Publications:
A. Siekmann, G. Capps, O. Franzese, and M.B. Lascurain, Smart Infrared Inspection System Field Operational Test, ORNL/TM-2011/98, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN (2011).
T. LaClair, H.E. Knee, O. Franzese, M. Arant, R. Hathaway, M. Keil, D. Pape and D. Rhoda, Heavy Truck Rollover Characterization (Phase-C) Final Report, NTRCI (2010).
G.J. Capps, O. Franzese, H.E. Knee, M.B. Lascurain and P. Otaduy,Class-8 Heavy Truck Duty Cycle Project Final Report,ORNL/TM-2008/122,Oak Ridge National Laboratory,Oak Ridge,TN (2008).
Chin, S.M., Franzese, O., Greene, D.L., Hwang, H.L., Gibson, R.C. November 2004. Temporary Losses of Highway Capacity and Impacts on Performance: Phase 2. Report No. ORNL/TM-2004/209. View report in html format.
Franzese, O. and S. Joshi, 2002, Traffic Simulation Application to Plan Real-Time Distribution Routes, accepted for Presentation and Publication in the Proceedings of the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference E. Yucesan, C.-H. Chen, J. L. Snowdon, and J. M. Charnes, Editors. San Diego, CA, December 8-11, 2002.
Franzese, O., 2002, FMCSA Decision Support System: Needs, Expectations, Requirements, and Recommendations. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Forthcoming.
Chin, S.M., O. Franzese, D.L. Greene, H.L. Hwang and R.C. Gibson, 2002. Temporary Losses of Highway Capacity and Impacts on Performance, ORNL/TM-202/3, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, May 2002.
Franzese, O. and M. McCord, 2001. Empirical Comparison of Lottery- and Rating-based Preference Assessment, in Aiding Decisions with Multiple Criteria: Essays in Honor of Bernard Roy, D. Bouyssou, E. Jacquet-Lagreze, P. Perny, R. Slowinski, D. Vanderpooten, and P. Vincke, Editors. Kluwer Academic Publihers, Norwell, Massachusetts.
Franzese, O., 2001. ITRAF 4.0: Software and User's Guide. Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Franzese, O. and D. Xiong, 2001, Emergency Evacuation Plans and Remote Sensing Information: A Demonstration Project for the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant in Hamilton Co., TN. Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Han, L and O. Franzese, 2001, Modeling Mass-evacuation Traffic Operations Due to Hurricanes, accepted for Presentation and Publication at ITE 2001 Annual Meeting and Exhibit, Chicago, Su. 2001.
Franzese, O. and L. Han, 2001, A Methodology for the Assessment of Traffic Management Strategies for Large-Scale Emergency Evacuations, accepted for Presentation and Publication at the 11th Annual Meeting of ITS America, Miami, Sp. 2001.
Franzese, O. and D. Xiong, 2001, Maintaining Large-Scale Emergency Evacuation Traffic Networks Using Remote Sensing and GIS, Presented and Publication at the GIS-T 2001 Conference, Virginia, April 2001.
