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Robert F. Douglas, P.E.
Professional Engineer
340 Golden Shore
Suite 400
Long Beach CA 90802
USA
phone: 800-675-7667
fax: 877-494-7667
Offices in Long Beach, San Diego & Riverside, CA; Las Vegas, NV & El Paso, TX

Robert Douglas, Operations Manager,
former State Forensic Engineer, Registered in California and Arizona, over 35 years of experience in the Accident Reconstruction & Traffic / Transportation / Civil Engineering field. Has provided testimony in 300+ depositions and 30+ trials. Has qualified in Superior Court on Accident Reconstruction; Traffic Engineering; Roadway, Roadside, and Rail Crossing Design and Construction; Off Road Safety; Human Factors; Roadway/Roadside Design, Construction and Maintenance; Wet Weather Accidents, Low Light and Photo / Video / Computer Animations. A member of ASCE, TRB, National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices , ASTM Committees on Vehicle Pavement Systems, 3D Imaging Systems & Pedestrian walkway Safety, Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (HFES), ATSSA, SAE, IEEE (& life member of ITE & Association for Psychological Science), certified: Federal Highway Administration-Work Zone Traffic Control. Providing accredited surveys in both high definition laser surveys & total station surveys, providing exact models constructed from laser "point clouds" (see www.FieldAndTestEngineering.com web site - & Robert Douglas' cv for complete resume & details).

Areas of Expertise
  • Accident Reconstruction
  • Traffic & Road Design & Engineering
  • Human Factors

Accident Reconstruction Specialists - Field & Test Engineering, Inc. A Forensic Engineering firm specializing in Accidents on Freeways, Highways, Roads and Streets: Provides services in the following areas:
  • Accident Reconstruction, Investigation & Analysis
  • Road Design, Construction & Maintenance
  • Traffic Engineering, Traffic Control
  • Design Immunity
  • Human Factors
  • Highway Rail Crossings
  • Construction Defects
  • Surveys: Total Station & Laser Surveying - Site & Vehicle Surveys
  • Wet Pavement Accidents - Skid Resistance
  • Slips, Trips, Falls on Parking Lots, Sidewalks and Roadways
  • Asphalt
  • Animation
  • Civil Engineering
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Albert Ferrari, P.E., C.S.P.
Principal
1000 Elbert Street
Oakland CA 94602
USA
phone: (510) 530-4777
fax: (510) 531-3675
Albert
Albert Ferrari, P.E., C.S.P. is a Mechanical Engineer and Safety Professional experienced in both the micro and in the macro focus. Mr. Ferrari is particularly sensitive to reliability, safety, and function. His Forensic Engineering experience includes 25 years in Accident Reconstruction, Causal Analysis, Failure Analysis, Codes, Standards and Regulations, Consulting and Testimony.

Mr. Ferrari provides Expert Witness Consulting and Testimony services to Defense attorneys, Plaintiff attorneys, Claims adjusters and Insurance companies.

Engineering Work Includes:
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Pedestrian Facilities
  • Machine Design
  • Thermal and Mechanical Energy Analysis
  • Structural Load and Stress Analysis
  • Piping and Tanks
  • System Safety and Human Factors Analysis for Design of Hazardous Equipment
  • Evaluations Include
  • Cause of Injury, Loss and Damage
  • Adequacy of Products, System, Materials
  • Standard of Care of Design, Use, Repair
  • Cause and Origin of Fires; Arson
  • Services Include:
  • Investigation and Consultation
  • Diagnostics, Testing and Analysis
  • Technical Photography and Video
  • Literature and Standards Studies
  • Codes and Regulations Analysis
  • Reports and Testimony
  • Evaluations
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    Steven R. Thomas, P.E.
    Multiple Addresses (See Below)
    NJ NH ME MA VT RI CT NY PA DE USA
    phone: 877-267-7855
    fax: 973-401-0056 or 603-293-4142
    Steven R.
    New Jersey Office:
    PMB 4066
    55 Madison Avenue - Ste 400
    Morristown, NJ 07960
    T: (973) 401-0010
    F: (973) 401-0056
    New Hampshire Office:
    Analytic Engineering
    105 Juniper Ridge Road
    Gilford, NH 03249
    T: (603) 293-4477
    F: (603) 293-4142


    Analytic Engineering combines Professional Engineering with Effective Communication. We offer Technical Analysis and Services in the Engineering field and provide experienced Expert Testimony to communicate the conclusions reached.

    Engineering Services:
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Safety Engineering
  • Vehicular Accident Reconstruction
  • Failure Analysis
  • Computer Animation
  • Premises Liability
  • Patent Claim Analysis
  • Product Design & Liabilty
  • Product & Equipment
  • Design Engineering Services

  • Steven R. Thomas, PE, the Principal Engineer at Analytic Engineering, earned his Bachelor of Science - Engineering (Mechanical and Electrical) at Widener University, Chester, PA in 1979 and a Master of Science in Engineering Science (Safety Engineering and Human Factors) at The New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1997.

    Professional Experience: Steven R. Thomas, P.E. has worked for such organizations as General Motors, Thomas & Betts, General Cable and Breed Automotive Corporation. He has worked in the engineering fields of Research and Development, Product Design, Machine Design, Manufacturing, Industrial, Tooling, Safety, Facility Design, Failure Analysis and Accident Reconstruction. Since 1991 Mr. Thomas has worked as an Engineering Consultant in the Forensic field and has testified in numerous jurisdictions.
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    Ralph Aronberg
    P.E., President
    1304 SW 160th Avenue, Suite 220
    Ft. Lauderdale FL 33326
    USA
    phone: (954) 236-6605
    fax: (954) 236-3327
    Ralph Aronberg, P.E., has reconstructed over 1,500 accidents and has testified in over 150 jury trials, since founding the firm in 1983. He provides Expert Witness services in the areas of:
  • Traffic accident reconstruction (cars, trucks, motorcycles and pedestrians).
  • Vehicle occupant kinematics (seatbelts)
  • Biomechanics
  • Traffic engineering design (geometrics, signing, markings, signals and lighting)
  • Sight distance analysis
  • Hazardous roadway conditions
  • Work Zone Traffic Control evaluation
  • Evaluation of roadway curvature
  • Traffic signal operations
  • Pedestrian safety
  • Computerized accident reconstruction and simulation
  • Vehicle "black box" data retrieval (certified>
  • Mr. Aronberg is published in the fields of pedestrian / bicycle / motorcycle accident reconstructions, and 3 Dimensional Animations and Scientific Visualizations through the Society of Automotive Engineers. Mr. Aronberg is a Fellow member of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers, and certified as a Diplomat in forensic Engineering.
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    Chris Bloomberg
    President
    P.O. Box 336
    Gulf Breeze FL 32562
    USA
    phone: 850-932-7613
    fax: 850-932-7719
    Bloomberg Consulting, Inc. has several engineers on staff who have considerable experience in reconstructing vehicle accidents of all types. We have a Biomechanics Expert that has the rare combination of being a licensed physician and a PhD level engineer. This allows him to handle the complex engineering and medical aspects of a seat belt or a biomechanics case. We use the following equipment to evaluate our cases:

    “Black Box” Data Retrieval Equipment – Used to download vehicle impact speeds, seat belt usage, braking information, and throttle information from passenger vehicles and tractor-trailers.

    3-Dimensional Accident Simulation Software – Used to accurately reconstruct an accident to determine vehicle speed, occupant movement, and seat belt effectiveness.
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    Dr. Jeffrey Buckholz
    Ph.D., PE, PTOE
    3585 Kori Road
    Jacksonville FL 32257
    USA
    phone: (904) 886-2171
    fax: (904) 886-2170
    Dr. Jeffrey Buckholz is a practicing design engineer with 30 years of experience in Traffic Engineering, Traffic Signal Timing, Signal Design and Signal Construction. He is also proficient in Pavement Marking Design, Roadway Signing, and Work Zone Traffic Control. Dr. Buckholz has authored 3 national training manuals in signal design, construction and inspection. He is a PE in 6 states: FL, GA, CA, MA, MI, OH and is a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer. Dr. Buckholz has been chief engineer of his engineering company for 20 years and has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Florida since 2005. He has served as an expert witness in about 50 cases.

    Past Project Experience:
  • Traffic Studies
  • Traffic Signal and ITS Design
  • Traffic Signal Timing
  • Roadway Lighting
  • Signing and Pavement Marking Design
  • Work Zone Traffic Control Design
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    Dennis Wylie
    P.O. Box 60836
    Santa Barbara CA 93160
    USA
    phone: 805-681-9289
    fax: 805-681-9299
    Dennis
    Dennis Wylie is an internationally recognized Human Factors Expert on driver error; inattention and improper lookout; driver fatigue; car, truck and bus driver skill and knowledge requirements; driver and motor carrier standards of care; hours of service violations; circadian rhythms; sleep debt; impaired vigilance, alertness, decision making, reaction time, and control responses.

    Mr. Wylie directed the largest study of driver fatigue and alertness conducted in North America, a seven-year multimillion dollar international project that was the main factor in major revision of the federal and state rules governing working hours for commercial automobile, truck, and bus drivers, including an increase in required off-duty time of 25%.

    Mr. Wylie and his colleagues also developed the national commercial driver licensing system. He is the principal author of the Commercial Driver's Manual used by all state licensing agencies for licensing commercial automobile, truck, and bus drivers. The information in the Commercial Driver's Manual defines the skill, knowledge and standard-of-care requirements for commercial drivers and is the basis of the commercial driver license (CDL) tests. Mr. Wylie and his colleagues trained the first CDL Examiners in each state, who went on to train the others. All commercial drivers in the United States – more than 20,000,000 so far – have been licensed under the CDL system, which is set out in the Code of Federal Regulations at 49 CFR 383 "Commercial Driver's License Standards."
    10/24/2011 · Human Factors
    Sleep, Science, and Policy Change
    Policies can be very difficult to change, and advocates of change who claim a logical or scientific foundation need valid, reliable, and convincing data. An example of the process is the policy of regulating truck drivers' hours of service in order to reduce motor vehicle crashes.

    Dennis Wylie (Contributing Author)
    Dennis Wylie authored the Chapter on Commercial Motor Vehicle Collisions (Ch. 17). In general, this book provides a comprehensive reference that provides the tools necessary for the preparation, analysis, and presentation of forensic evidence. Compiled by experienced, internationally respected authors, this handbook represents the state-of-the-art in the application of ergonomics to forensic investigation.
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    RCS Performance Systems, Inc
    4455 Genesee St., P.O. Box 400
    Buffalo NY 14225
    USA
    phone: (716) 634-8016
    Dr. Robert C. Sugarman, P.E. , provides expert testimony in criminal and personal injury trials (both defense and plaintiff) with a unique combination of expertise in Physics and Human Factors Psychology.

    Personal injury analyst with 40 years in human factors R&D; teaching; trial testimony and accident simulation and mockups; development of industrial operations, environmental health & safety, and maintenance industrial training for light to heavy industry; worked "in the trenches". Fellow of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society; staff at SUNY/Buffalo; contributor to ANSI design standard.

    BA, MS, SM, PhD; physics, psychology; Purdue, MIT, SUNY/Buffalo

    Areas of Expertise:
  • Product and Equipment Design
  • Medical Equipment Errors
  • Perception and Vision
  • Instructions and Procedures
  • Warnings and Labels
  • Individual Differences
  • Training
  • Human Factors
  • Industrial Accidents
  • Vehicle Accidents
  • Construction Accidents
  • Slip and Fall
  • Ergonomics and Workplace Layout
  • Physics and Optics
  • 6/4/2009 · Human Factors
    Human Factors Experts: A Case Study
    It was a dark and lonely night – as your client, a middle aged man, drove along an unfamiliar country road, watching out for deer that often jump out in front of cars at that time of year. Soon after the road curved to the right he realized that a disabled car with no lights on was angled across the road in front of him.

    6/4/2009 · Human Factors
    Human Factors Experts: An Introduction
    Back in graduate school, the Psychology Department chair at MIT liked to tell his classes about the three Laws of Nature: the Law of Falling Bricks, the Law of Falling Cats, and the Law of Falling People. Physicists have formulated the precise laws that describe how a brick falls from a table to the floor. Biologists have discovered how cats fall differently from bricks, twisting reflexively to always land on their feet. But what laws completely describe a person falling from a roof? This is the challenge of behavioral scientists.

    6/4/2009 · Human Factors
    Human Factors Experts: To Err Is Human; To Design Is Divine
    To err is human; to design is divine. Forensic Human Factors specialists help lawyers analyze the root cause of an accident by determining who erred and why. Human factors applies research from a number of fields to design and evaluate things that people use in work and everyday activities

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    H. Harvey Cohen
    Ph.D., CPE
    5173 Waring Road,
    Suite 157
    San Diego CA 92120
    USA
    phone: (619) 464-4427
    H. Harvey
    H. Harvey Cohen, Ph.D., CPE – Dr. Cohen is the Senior Partner of EAI. He has over 35 years of professional experience in Human Factors and Safety. A former Federal government research scientist, Dr. Cohen has over 150 refereed publications, including 8 books and book chapters, has investigated over 7,500 injury accidents, has given over 1,250 depositions and has testified in court on over 350 occasions, equally for plaintiff and defense, in 38 states, territories and Canadian provinces.

    Specializations:
  • Human Factors
  • Slips & Falls
  • Warnings
  • Premises
  • Products
  • Workplace
  • Motor & Commercial Vehicles
  • Pedestrians
  • Perception-Reaction
  • Visibility/Lighting
  • Safety Standards of Care
  • Melvin H. Rudov, PhD, H. Harvey Cohen, PhD CPE
    This book teaches about the role of the forensic human factors/ergonomics practice and related safety professions in investigation and trial including the main liability areas and aspects of work practice such as interviews, reports, gathering evidence, site visits, statements, depositions, testimony, and more. Both plaintiff and defense case examples are used extensively throughout the book. Appendices give examples of reports, depositions, fee agreements and more.
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    Dr. Daniel W. Vomhof, Ph.D.
    Certified Accident Reconstruction Specialist
    8387 University Avenue
    La Mesa CA 91941
    USA
    phone: (619) 464-3477
    fax: (619) 464-2206
    Dr. Daniel W.
    Dr. Daniel W. Vomhof, Ph.D. is a Certified Accident Reconstruction Specialist with specialized knowledge in Traffic Signal Timing. Dr. Vomhof has been a full time reconstructionist since 1992. He has been engaged in over 20 cases to determine the signal sequencing in “who had the green?” cases.

    Dr. Vomhof has reconstructed over 3,000 accidents and appeared in over 500 trials as a testifying expert witness.

    Areas of Expertise:
  • Traffic Signal Timing related to Vehicle, Pedestrian, and Motorcycle Accidents
  • Reconstruction of Vehicle, Pedestrian, and Motorcycle Accidents
  • Pedestrian / Facility / Walking Surface Interactions
  • Measurement and Evaluation of Lighting as it Affects Perception of Hazards
  • Measurement and Evaluation of Sound Levels
  • Documentation of Vehicle Evidence and Scene Conditions through Photography and Measurements
  • Preparation of Scale Scene Diagrams / Exhibits for Use in Depositions, Arbitration Hearing, Trial
  • Reanalysis of Blood and Urine Samples for Alcohol, Typing of Blood Samples
  • Review of DUI Arrest Reports for Determination of Driving Behavior



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