TTI Gets Grant For Traffic Study
A U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
contract for development of an
automatic freeway traffic-merg
ing control system has been
awarded the Texas Transporta
tion Institute of Texas A&M an
nounced Engineering Dean Fred
J. Benson.
The $ 497,800 contract was
awarded through the A&M Re
search Foundation of which Ben
son is foundation director.
The proposed control system
will measure gaps between free
way vehicles and, through elec
tronic apparatus, signal cars or
trucks waiting on entrance ramps
| into the traffic opening.
A simplified experimental mod
el of the proposed system is now
in operation on the Telephone
Road interchange entrance ramp
of the Gulf Freeway. It was
developed by researchers on a
previous contract.
TTI Executive Officer Charles
J. Keese said Dr. Donald R. Drew
will be principal investigator and
project director. Dr. Johann H.
Buhr was named co-principal in
vestigator. Drew heads TTI’s
highway design and traffic engi
neering department and is a civil
and industrial engineering profes
sor. Buhr is an assistant re
search engineer and civil engi
neering professor.
“A merging control system is
possible through existing elec
tronic technology,” Drew stated.
“To improve freeway conditions,
the driver must be supplied infor
mation to time and space his en
trance to the acceleration lane,
coordinate his speed change and
point of merge.”
Gulf Freeway equipment con
sists basically of detection ap
paratus measuring gaps between
freeway vehicles upstream of the
merge area, a traffic signal on
the ramp 200 feet from the merge
area and a controller.
“When a desirable freeway
opening is detected, it is projected
downstream by delay circuit to a
point where a waiting vehicle on
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THE BATTALION
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College Station, Texas
Page 3
the ramp can pull into the gap,”
Drew explained.
He said the project will re
search three activities concurrent
ly. Ramp operation will be stud
ied for data at several problem
locations across the U. S. A test
track with a freeway-type merg
ing area will be constructed at
the A&M Research Annex to test
systems under controlled condi
tions.
An IBM 1800 digital computer
will be installed at the TTI Sur
veillance Center in Houston to
simulate different forms of merg
ing control under actual condi
tions.
3 Aggies Attend
Nuclear Science
Meet Saturday
Edwin Sensintaffar, S. Ram-
chandran, and William Woodruff,
all from Texas A&M were among
200 students and faculty members
in nuclear engineering and re
lated fields such as physics and
mathematics from 18 colleges and
universities across the nation who
participated in the fifth annual
student conference of the Amer
ican Nuclear Society held on the
University of Wisconsin campus
at Madison Friday and Saturday,
April 14-15.
All sessions of the conference
were held in the Wisconsin Cen
ter on the University’s Madison
campus. The conference program
included tours of the Wisconsin
campus and the University’s Nu
clear Reactor Laboratory, Plasma
Physics Laboratory, and Elec
tron Accelerator Laboratory, and
a banquet and presentation of
awards.
Papers were presented at the
conference in such areas as nu
clear reactor physics, nuclear re
actor engineering, plasma physics,
nuclear instrumental, nuclear
physics, radiation interactions,
nuclear rocket propulsion, fast
reactor technology, and thermo
nuclear energy.
Students presenting papers at
the conference were William
Woodruff, “Critical Flow Velo
cities for collapse in Concentric
Cylinder Assemblies; Sensintaf
far, “The Short Term Response
of the Peripheral Lymphacyte to
Ionizing Radiation”; and Ram-
chandran, “Determination of the
Properties of Nuclear Energy
Levels by the Resonance Floure-
scense of Neutron Capture Gam
ma Rays.
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING WINS AWARD
The Department of Industrial Engineering- dustrial Engineering Department is David
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■Council Career Day Open House Award, of the American Institute of Industrial En-
Receiving the award on behalf of the In- gineers.
Aggie Joins Research Tour
A Texas A&M oceanographer
collecting Antarctic marine life
for university and Smithsonian
Institute scientists to study, rode
the National Science Foundation
research ship Eltanin’s maiden
trip into McMurdo Sound.
McMurdo is less than 12 de
grees from the South Pole and
inaccessible to ships nine months
each year.
George H. Weissberg, 38, a
graduate research assistant of
A&M’s Oceanography Depart
ment, was party chief for a two-
month cruise in the Pacific sec
tor of the Antarctic Sea.
The A&M doctoral student was
responsible for instrumentation
and data collection for primary
productivity research conducted
by Dr. Sayed Z. El-Sayed.
A&M scientists have partici
pated in Antarctic cruises two
years, measuring data to coordin
ate various physical and chemical
parameters affecting oceanic pri
mary productivity.
The tiny marine life, known as
diatoms, is the first step of a
chain of sea organisms that
change inorganic matter to or
ganic.
Distribution of food fish and
other sea life in world oceans
hinges on location of life-support
ing amounts of phytoplankton and
zooplankton.
Weissberg, a native of Ger
mantown, Pa., is one of several
A&M scientists who have oper
ated equipment, nets and sample
bottles over the Eltanin’s gun
wales.
He operated a submarine pho
tometer to measure light pene
tration, a Secchi disk to approxi
mate transparency of polar wa
ters and took samples to 3,000
meters deep. The majority of
productivity specimens taken by
Weissberg were from 40 to 80
meters, the depth of one per cent
light penetration. Deeper sam
ples were taken for the Smith
sonian Institute.
His Eltanin studies also in
cluded carbon uptake by radio
active measurement and pigment
analysis for chlorophyl.
The 1966 A&M graduate in
zoology said the Antarctic “sum
mer” was warm. The mean air
temperature on the Ross Sea was
minus five degrees Centigrade.
Lowest water temperature rec
orded was minus three degrees.
“We didn’t run into much pack
ice, usually found in McMurdo
this time of year,” Weissberg
said. “Sampling conditions were
excellent.”
He added that the cruise off the
Ross ice shelf produced a large
collection of brachiopods.
Weissberg said the Eltanin en
countered numerous icebergs,
sighted “quite a few” whales and
visited Antarctic Island penguin
rookeries.
The two-month cruise included
legs to McMurdo, site of an ato
mic reactor-powered U. S. An
tarctic Research Program station,
and Australia with visits at Bal-
leny, Macquarie and King Is
lands.
“I obtained about 300 color
slides,” the former Westinghouse
sales representative said. “But
strong ultraviolet light caused
improper movie film exposure.”
The Eltanin sighted three ships
in the Ross Sea, two Russian
whaling trawlers and a process
ing ship.
Weissberg was party chief of
a two-man unit including A&M
technicians Aquiles de Romedi
and Roberto Robina of Argentina.
They were among 70 aboard the
266-foot Eltanin.
George and his wife Sue have
two sons, Carl 10 and Bryan 8.
She accepts the cruises as a way
of life.
He will make a 10-day Gulf
of Mexico cruise to Veracruz this
month. Weissberg also will make
an Eltanin cruise next August to
Australia, Japan and the sub-
Arctic.
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