Roy Anderson provides consulting services as an expert in crash investigation, and in road standards and practices in the fields of highway and traffic planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance. Such issues draw upon his expertise in engineering, litigation, and his knowledge in human factors.

He has been retained by both plaintiffs and defendants to investigate, analyze, and provide opinions and often testifies on a wide variety of issues involving injuries and fatalities. Some of the issues he has addressed include:

• Road geometrics:

  - curvature and banking adequacy
  - commercial facility and driveway location

• Intersections:

  - signing and traffic control
  - sight distance

• Surface drainage and pavement skid resistance
• Pedestrian behavior and protection
• Driver needs in low visibility conditions
• Roadside clear recovery zone adequacy:

  - guardrail and median barriers
  - fixed objects, excavations and edge dropoffs

• Work zones:

  - work zone planning and operation
  - traffic control plan adequacy and compliance
  - contract requirements & administration
  - driver response to traffic control devices
  - parking equipment & storing materials on the roadside
  - worker protection from traffic and work equipment
  - portable traffic signals
  - haul roads crossing highways
  - flagger safety
  - pavement edge dropoffs
  - sight distance obstructions and driver behavior

Roy W. Anderson, P.E.

Roy W. Anderson, P.E., the president of TranSafety, Inc., is an internationally known consultant and expert witness in the areas of highway design, construction, operation, and safety. Mr. Anderson holds licenses as a professional civil and traffic engineer. He has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Texas Tech University, an M.S. in Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Certificate for Multidisciplinary Highway Collision Investigation Training from the University of Southern California. As a member of the Transportation Research Board Study Committee, Roy Anderson helped develop Safer Roads--Practices for Resurfacing, Restoration, and Rehabilitation. He co-authored sections of the national standard for work zones published in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.

Before establishing his own training, publishing, and consulting firm, Mr. Anderson was Director of Safety Studies at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Washington D.C. He also served as that agency's Traffic Engineer and as crash investigator. His contributions to highway safety earned him that agency's Special Achievement Award. Prior to joining NTSB, he served as a traffic safety and field construction engineer with the California Department of Transportation.

Currently Mr. Anderson is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc., the National Association of Accident Reconstruction Specialists, Inc., and the Transportation Research Board.

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