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, Sandy Straus is an engineer, dual-li�contractor, and an international authority and inventor of numerous
automation and transportation designs and devices. She held engineering positions in the academic, municipal, and
private sectors. She taught university -level geology, mathematics, and aerospace engineering classes.
SANDY H. STRAUS
B.S., M.S., G.C.
Ms. Straus has designed the first automated transportation license test system, the ESRA Dynamic Assessment for
Transportation TM or ESRA DAT. She has developed and invented one of the largest lines of computerized products,
packages, and systems that relate to all areas of transportation and, in particular, the automated screening of vision,
cognition, knowledge, sign recognition, and/ or driving skills of individuals who may use touch screen technology,
driving simulators, kiosks, or other devices. These unmatched and patents -pending designs apply to transportation
agencies, medical facilities, educational institutes, and military installations and may save millions of dollars and
numerous lives in the sectors of aviation, agriculture, rail, maritime, motorcycles, hazardous materials, commercial
driver's licenses, and Homeland Security. Her authoritative text, New. Improved. Comprehensive and Automated
Driver's License Test and Vision Screening System, and research note have has been widely acclaimed and
recognized by driver's license bureaus in the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. These
publications have also been incorporated into neuropsychology courses at the University of Hawaii. Her recent
presentation, A Call for New Transportation License Test Reforms, is published on the United States Department of
Transportation website.
Straus has also co -invented the Automatic Clock Drawing Test TM, the first online, rapid, computerized, and validated
Clock Drawing Test, in both standard and international time (military time) versions. These cognition tools have been
designed to rapidly and objectively screen for cognitive impairment, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, brain injuries,
psychiatric conditions, and patient pathology, among other applications. In addition to published articles in prestigious
journals, the patents -pending Automatic Clock Drawing Test has recently been featured in a session on dementia at the
9th European Conference for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe, AAATE 2007, in San Sebastian
Spain. Straus has also co -designed several patents -pending static and dynamic visual acuity screening tests to
automate the process of vision testing online unlike any before. Her numerous new automated testing systems and
methods are designed to improve safety and to save lives, especially within the transportation infrastructure, and to
advance medicine in densely populated and remote clinical settings. Straus also has developed new patents -pending
truck lanes, mathematical models, and software, the Straus Pavement Damage Estimation TM, or ESRA SPDE, to
estimate pavement damage due to overweight trucks. The Straus Pavement Damage Estimations have been
successfully tested and adopted in several Departments of Transportation across the USA. Straus has also acted as
primary author of a recent Arizona Department of Transportation report and Transportation Research Board paper on
overweight vehicles that has resulted in improvements to international and intrastate border security. It has been
presented at and disseminated by the National Academy of Science. These publications are available through the
United States Department of Transportation, United States Department of Commerce National Technical Information
Service. and ESRA. Other reports are currently pending publication.
In addition to being an internationally recognized expert in automated driver's license test design and vision screening
test development, Ms. Straus is also a distinguished author of reports on risk analysis, perception, and simulation
associated with visual acuity, older driver assessment, dementia driver analysis, teen driver aptitude, road and highway
safety, driver license testing, driver's license policy, human factors, overweight vehicles, and transportation
engineering. She has had a personal lifelong commitment to traffic safety and collision prevention. Simulation
development and analyses have completely spanned Ms. Straus' entire academic and professional careers.
As a traffic engineering and safety expert, Straus has also developed several fully automated and autonomous patents -
pending road traffic sign tests based on the her computational analyses of millions of road collisions, the driving
behaviors of millions of drivers, as well as her experiences advising governments where to actually install traffic control
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devices.
Additionally, Ms. Straus has demonstrated outstanding proficiency in risk analysis and nuclear waste disposal through
significant authorship, experience, refereeing, computation, lectureship, certification, and education. She has authored,
along with Dr. lan Farmer, six books, pending publication, on the subjects of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP),
Yucca Mountain, the United States Department of Energy waste generator -host sites, mine safety, and international
approaches to nuclear waste disposal.
Ms. Straus has proven her extensive expertise in the areas of geology, nuclear engineering, seismology, and
volcanology and how these relate to probabilistic risk assessment of geologic nuclear waste repositories, through
refereeing posts for a prestigious international journal. She has also refereed papers on flood risks, mitigation, and
phenomena. Ms. Straus is also an expert in risk perception and risk analysis of the impacts of transuranic nuclear
waste transportation through the American Indian tribal lands of New Mexico. In a recent Transportation Research
Board presentation and paper, Ms. Straus has demonstrated that traffic risks, in addition to radiological risks, require
further study along current and future waste transportation routes. She has worked with every pueblo and reservation
in New Mexico to accomplish this aptitude. She has developed and implemented national and international risk
communication and assessment programs. Ms. Straus also has strong computing and coding skills in UNIX, Mac, and
PC platforms. Ms. Straus has successfully generated two- and three-dimensional magnetic field maps of the lunar crust
using Lunar Prospector data through a NASA -funded grant. She has also worked on OS/2 -Warp at IBM.
Ms. Straus also has proficiency in environmental impact assessments, Environmental Impact Statements (EIS), land
development, regulatory permitting, contamination, failure analyses, exposure assessment, probabilistic exposure
assessments, hazards and risks evaluation, transportation route analyses, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
compliance, mining, petroleum and gas probabilistic assessments, hydrogeologic characterization, safety engineering,
residential and commercial construction, and overweight vehicle impacts on pavement damage.
Ms. Straus is also educated in the storage, transportation, safety, and legal aspects of explosives and explosive
devices. She holds a certificate of Hazardous Materials Incident Response: Awareness through the University of
Missouri- Columbia. She is also certified in Radiological Emergency Management, Radiological Emergency
Response, Building for the Earthquakes: Complying with Executive Order 12699, Engineering Principles and Practices
for Retrofitting Flood -Prone Residential Structures, IS-100 Incident Command System, and IS-700 National Incident
Management System (NIMS) through the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Ms. Straus is currently a member of the Society for Risk Analysis. She is a past member of the Society of Women
Engineers and the Society of Mining Engineers. Ms. Straus is also a friend of several Transportation Research Board
Committees (TRB) of the National Academy of Sciences, including the TRB Motor Vehicle Size and Weight Committee
(AT055) , the TRB Committee on Transportation of Hazardous Materials (AT040), and Simulation and Measurement of
Vehicle and Operator Performance (AND30).
Ms. Straus has recently participated in the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual
Meeting. She also has been an ongoing member of the Multi -Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) Group of the Society
for Risk Analysis Workshop, "Comparative Risk Assessment and Multi -Criteria Decision Analysis: A Framework for
Managing Contaminated Sediments". Her recent work in the area of Homeland Security has been published in Risk
Analysis. Her invention of one of many transportation license testing systems has been nominated by the Department
of Transportation for a prestigious award through the Federal Highway Administration.
Ms. Straus has a dual contractor's license in blasting (explosives engineering). She is one of a few women in the
U.S.A. who has earned this certification. Ms. Straus is developer and co-owner of patents pending and copyrights on
the devices, methods, and materials for preparation, education, and delivery of an explosives engineering / blasting
contractor's license test system.
Ms. Straus is founder of ESRA Consulting Corporation. As an expert on numerous transportation and engineering
topics, Straus is often featured in the media. Her reports on overweight trucks and impacts on roads and structures are
headline news on MSNBC, Yahoo News, The Arizona Republic, and The Arizona Daily Star, among others. She also
provides expert witness testimony in cases involving traffic, security, transportation, explosives, mining, and hazardous
materials.
Sandy H. Straus holds a Bachelor of Science in Geological Engineering from the University of Minnesota and a Master
of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Florida International University. The title of her thesis was "Viscous
Laminar Fluid Flow in a Curved Annular Confocal Pipe of Elliptical Cross -Section". Her Ph.D. studies in Mechanical
Engineering focused on fluid mechanics, heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, parallel computing, and complex
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Publications after 2003
Straus, S. H. 2007. "Standardization and Computerization of the Clock Drawing Test." Proceedings of the 9th European
Conference for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe, AAATE 2007, 3- 5 October 2007, San Sebastian,
Spain.
Straus, S. 2007. Use of the Automatic Clock Drawing Test to rapidly screen for cognitive impairment in older adults,
drivers, and the physically challenged. Joumal of the American Geriatrics Society, Volume 55, Issue 2: 310-311. doi:
10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01055.x
Straus, S. 2007. "New online tool detects brain impairment, cuts older driver deaths," in Senior Driving Issues, ABA
Senior Lawyers Division, elderLAW a -NEWS, American Bar Association, March 2007.
Straus, S. 2007. Use of the Automatic Clock Drawing Test to rapidly screen for cognitive impairment in older adults
drivers, and the physically challenged. Joumal of the American Geriatrics Society, Volume 55, Issue 2: 310-311. doi:
10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01055.x NIH
Straus, S. 2007. "Senior driver program unfair," San Luis Obispo Tribune, 31 January 2007.
Straus, S. 2007. "After September 11, 2001: Risk Perception and Risk Assessment of American Indian Pueblos and
Tribes of New Mexico on the Impacts of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and Its Transuranic Nuclear Waste Transportation
Routes (07-3268)," TRB 86th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM, Transportation Research Board 865th
Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
Straus, S. 2006. "Improving Medical Care and Knowledge Through New and Rapid Automated Cognitive Impairment
Screening Tools," Annals of Family Medicine, Electronic letter, Dec 2006.
Straus, S. and J. Semmens. 2006. "Estimating the Cost of Overweight Vehicle Travel on Arizona Highways," Arizona
Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration, FHWA-AZ-05-528.
Straus, S. and J. Semmens. 2006. "Estimating the Cost of Overweight Vehicle Travel on Arizona Highways," TRB 85th
Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM, Transportation Research Board 85th Annual Meeting, Washington
DC, 20060122 — 20060126.
Straus, S. and J. Semmens. 2006. "Estimating the Cost of Overweight Vehicle Travel on Arizona Highways," Arizona
Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration, FHWA-AZ-05-528, Research Note.
Straus, S. 2005. "Awareness programs are needed," Sun -Sentinel (Tribune). 12 December 2005.
Straus, S. 2005. "New, Improved. Comprehensive and Automated Driver's License Test and Vision Screening System",
Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration FHWA-AZ-04-559(1). HTML. Sections.
Straus, S. 2005. "New, Improved, Comprehensive and Automated Driver's License Test and Vision Screening System",
Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration. FHWA-AZ-04-559(1). Research Note.
Straus, S. 2005. "Driving Simulation Implications for Use in Transportation License Testing Applications." Proceedings
of Driving Simulator Conference North America 2005, Orlando, Florida, November 30- December 2, 2005.
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Straus, S. and Gu, X. 2005. "Florida Drivers: Manners of Collisions and Risks" Proceedings of the Society For Risk
Analysis Annual Meeting 2005, Orlando, Florida.
Straus, S. 2004. "Review of Risk Analysis in Engineering and Economics", Risk Analysis, 24:2, pp. 510- 511.
State of Nevada Office of the Governor, Agency for Nuclear Projects Nuclear Waste Project Office website.
(http://www.state.nv.us/nucwaste/socio.htm) April 28, 2003. ("Survey Results of Environmental Representatives of all
New Mexico Native American Pueblos and Reservations on the Risks Associated with the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
(WIPP) and its Transuranic Nuclear Waste Transportation Routes.")
Presentations after 2003
Straus, S. H. 2007. "Standardization and Computerization of the Clock Drawing Test: The Automatic Clock Drawing
Test". Presentation at the dementia session of the 9th European Conference for the Advancement of Assistive
Technology in Europe AAATE 2007, 3- 5 October 2007, San Sebastian, Spain.
Straus, S. 2007. "Vacation of Alley in Connection with the Development of a Residential Tower," City of Miami, Florida.
Straus, S. 2007. 'The Future is Now: Improving Road Safety and Security with New and Automated Truck -only Lanes".
Presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Transportation Logistics fT-Loq 2007), 4- 6 July 2007, Tsinghua
University, Shenzhen China.
Straus, S. 2007. "After September 11. 2001: Risk Perception and Risk Assessment of American Indian Pueblos and
Tribes of New Mexico on the Impacts of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and Its Transuranic Nuclear Waste Transportation
Routes," Presentation at the 86th Annual TRB Meeting, Transportation Research Board of the National
Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, January 2007. Schedule. Synopsis.
Straus, S. and J. Semmens. 2006. "Estimating the Cost of Overweight Vehicle Travel on Arizona Highways," presented
at the 85th Annual TRB Meeting, Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC,
January 2006. Schedule. Synopsis.
Straus, S. 2005. "A Call for Transportation License Reforms". Presented to the United States Department of
Transportation, Washington DC, 28 September 2005. PDF
Straus, S. 2005. "New, Improved, Comprehensive and Automated Driver's License Test and Vision Screening System",
Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration, FHWA-AZ-04-559(1). Presented to Arizona
Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division.
Straus, S. and J. Semmens. 2005. "Estimating the Cost of Overweight Vehicle Travel on Arizona Highways,"
Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration, FHWA-AZ-05-528. Presented to Arizona
Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division.
Straus, S. 2005. "Driving Simulation Implications for Use in Transportation License Testing Applications." To be
presented at the Driving Simulator Conference North America 2005, Orlando, Florida, November 30- December 2, 2005.
Straus, S. and Gu, X. 2005. "Florida Drivers: Manners of Collisions and Risks", Presented at the SRA, Society For Risk
Analysis Annual Meeting 2005, Transportation Systems Risk Session, Orlando, Florida.
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Testimonials I Notable Projects I FHWA-AZ-06-528 report I Driver's License Test I License Test Reforms I Driver's License Test Reports) Brochure I FHWA-
AZ-04-559(1) report 1 4-page Summary I HTML, Sections I Automated license tests 1 Pavement Software I New truck lane designs I Photos Visual Acuity
Tests I Dynamic Visual Acuity I Automatic Clock Drawing Test"' - Military I Jobs I Catalogs I Disclaimer I Credits I Contact Us I E-mail
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