Archive for the ‘Armstrong Forensic Engineers’ Category

Teenage highway deaths jumped in 2012

Monday, March 25th, 2013

The Washington Post reports on the jumped of teenage highway death in 2012

Teenagers are dying in car crashes at a much higher rate, particularly 16- and 17-year-olds. Their death rate jumped 19 percent nationwide, with 240 killed in the first six months of last year, according to a report by the .Read more...

Armstrong Expands Into Fire Investigation and Thermal Analysis

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Armstrong Forensic Engineers (Armstrong) today announced the addition of fire investigation and thermal analysis to its forensic engineering services and the hiring of Senior Consultant Charles O. Funk, Ph.D., P.E., CFEI, CVFI and Lead Research Specialist Jody Ewers, J.D., M.L.I.S. in its office in Detroit, Michigan.

“We are pleased to .Read more...

Armstrong Forensic Continues Expansion, Adds Christian R. Sax, P.E.

Monday, November 12th, 2012

TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 7, 2012 / /PRNewswire/ – Armstrong Forensic Engineers (Armstrong) today announced the appointment of Christian R. Sax, P.E., as a forensic engineering consultant serving governmental, legal, and insurance clients across Texas and the Southwest.

Based in Austin, Texas, Mr. Sax’s practice focuses on forensic engineering and litigation support in cases involving vehicular collisions. .Read more...

Armstrong Forensic Engineers Opens Salt Lake City Office

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Armstrong Forensic Engineers (Armstrong) today announced the opening of a new office in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the hiring of respected forensic engineer Alan F. Asay, P.E., M.S. Armstrong’s presence in Utah complements the firm’s offices in Florida, Illinois, Michigan, and Texas and rounds out its platform for providing Rapid Response inspection services .Read more...

Connected Cars: Tweeting, Posting, Texting, O My!

Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

The Wall Street Journal looks at the increasing presence of technology inside the car.

With Americans increasingly glued to devices and their constant flow of information, the auto makers are rolling out what they call the “connected car.” These vehicles can do everything from book a restaurant to delivering Twitter feeds—all at 65 .Read more...

How Slow is Too Slow? Discussing Minimum Speed Limits

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Guest Post by Mark Perkins, Perkins and Associates

While there are statutory maximum speed limits, there are no statutory minimum speed limits in Louisiana. In recent years there have been attempts to institute minimum speed limits but no law has ever been passed setting a minimum speed limit.

The closest thing to a .Read more...

What Next? Public Parking Auctions

Monday, January 9th, 2012

Wired’s Autopia looks at a new app that auctions public parking spaces.

Parking Auction launched earlier this week on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The matchmaking service is beta-testing, and the folks behind it hope to expand worldwide, creating communities of relaxed, smartphone-armed parkers.

“If I’m parked on the street and wouldn’t mind moving .Read more...

NASCAR Right Turns?

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

Freakonomics looks at innovation in NASCAR.

With the exception of a few road course races, most of the NASCAR races are held on ovals. The cars always race counter-clockwise on the ovals, meaning the cars only turn left.

Given all the attention that learning and expertise has been getting, I’m deeply curious .Read more...

Cutting Edge Transportation Technology from MIT

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Mashable writes about the Future Urban Mobility project from M.I.T. and Singapore looking at new tools available to address transportation concerns in our growing world. One software is called Live Singapore! and is considered “a convergence of art, digital media and information technology”. Another traffic congestion software is called DynaMIT.

So what does .Read more...

Armstrong Featured by Gannett News

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Brian T. Weaver, P.E. and Steve A. Rundell, Ph.D., P.E., featured in a Gannett news article regarding the new Detroit Office.

This engineering application known as “injury causation analysis” can be explained in simple terms, said Weaver: “In order to understand the injury, you have to understand the event.”

Yet there’s no denying the complexity .Read more...

CBS Detroit Radio mentions Armstrong Forensic Engineers

Monday, September 26th, 2011

A CBS Radio news report highlighted Armstrong’s new Detroit Office in Milford, MI.

New York Unveils Adaptive Traffic Signals

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

Mayor Bloomberg unveiled New York’s new ‘Midtown in Motion’ traffic system. More from Fast Company:

Midtown in Motion, a $1.6 million real-time traffic management system from NYC’s Department of Transportation, prevents gridlock with a network of sensors and cameras that allows operators to adjust traffic signal patterns on the fly.

Midtown in .Read more...