Stephen S. Roop, Ph.D.

Roop, Steve

Assistant Agency Director

Freight Mobility - Gilchrist, Room 336
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
The Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX -
ph. (979) 845-8536 Ext. 58536 · fax (979) 862-2708
s-roop@tamu.edu

Short Biography

Dr. Roop is an Assistant Agency Director for the Transportation Safety Center and the Multimodal Freight Transportation Programs; Rail, AAR Affiliated Lab, Center for Ports and Waterways, National Pipeline Safety Center, at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). He is responsible for guiding transportation safety research, rail, ports and waterways, intermodal trucking, and pipeline related activities at TTI with the goal of establishing these areas as a national focal point in Texas for innovative research. Dr. Roop has served as the director of Texas A&M's Association of American Railroads Affiliated Laboratory since its establishment in 1995, working closely with A&M's College of Engineering to identify research of interest to the railroad industry. He is a chairman of the bi-annual National Conference on Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety, sponsored by TTI.

Education

  • Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1981.
  • M.S., Experimental Psychology, Texas A&M University, 1976.
  • B.S., Psychology, Texas A&M University, 1974.

Experience

  • Assistant Agency Director, Freight Mobility, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, November 2003 - Present.
  • Head, Multimodal Freight Transportation Program, Multimodal Freight Transportation, Texas Transportation Institute, April 1995 - November 2003.
  • Research Scientist, Texas Transportation Institute, February 1994 - March 1995.
  • Associate Research Scientist, Texas Transportation Institute, January 1991 - January 1994.
  • Principal, A.T. Kearney, Inc., 1989 - February 1991.
  • President, First Interstate Resource Management, 1983 - January 1989.

Affiliations

  • Member, National Science Foundation High-Speed Rail IDEA Committee.
  • Member, Institute of Industrial Engineers.
  • Member, Transportation Research Board Committee on Intermodal Freight Transport (AT045).
  • Affiliate, American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association.
  • Affiliate, Transportation Research Forum.
  • Affiliate, Association of American Railroads.

Honors & Awards

Centennial Distinguished Graduate Student Award, Texas A&M University, 1976.

Selected Publications

W. Arthur, T.B. Kyte, A.J. Villado, C.A. Morgan, S.S. Roop. Introducing a Subject Matter Expert-Based Utility Analysis Approach to Assessing the Utility of Organizational Interventions Such as Crew Resource Management Training. International Journal of Aviation Psychology, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2011, pp. 191-215.