Abstract
 Intermodal Transportation Network Custom Evaluators for Environmental Policy Analysis Track: Environmental Management Author(s): Scott Hawker, Karl Korfmacher, James Winebrake, Aaron Falzarano, Sai Ketha, Steve Zilora We are leveraging the power of GIS-based transportation network analysis to provide tools for public policy analysts to understand the environmental impact trade-offs of intermodal transportation networks that integrate truck, rail, and inter-coastal waterway modes of transportation. We will describe the environmental policy analysis problem, the intermodal network model, and the creation of environmental network attributes and custom attribute evaluators. We will describe what drove our choice to use C## and the Microsoft .NET framework to design and develop evaluators that access external data from relational databases and that have their own evaluator configuration user interfaces. We will conclude with a description of possible next steps, including evaluator access of environmental data from external Web services, a way for policy analysts to create new attributes and custom evaluators without any programming skills, and porting the desktop-based system to a Web and server-based system for broad deployment. Scott Hawker Rochester Institute of Technology Software Engineering 134 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester , NY 14623-5608 US Phone: 585-475-2705 E-mail: hawker@se.rit.edu Karl Korfmacher Rochester Institute of Technology Environmental Science 85 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester , NY 14623-5603 US Phone: +1 585-475-5554 E-mail: kfkscl@rit.edu James Winebrake Rochester Institute of Technology STS/Public Policy 92 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester , NY 14623-5604 US Phone: +1 585 475-4648 E-mail: jjwgpt@rit.edu Aaron Falzarano Rochester Institute of Technology STS/Public Policy 92 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester , NY 14623-5604 US Phone: +1 585 475-5291 E-mail: amf8539@rit.edu Sai Ketha Rochester Institute of Technology Information Technology 102 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester , NY 14628-5608 US Phone: +1 585 475-7643 E-mail: ssk3995@it.rit.edu Steve Zilora Rochester Institute of Technology Information Technology 102 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester , NY 14628-5608 US Phone: +1 585 475-7643 E-mail: sjz@it.rit.edu |
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