Cindy Cornell Martinez

Cindy Cornell Martinez is the head of Chaparral's research group. She is highly skilled in statistical analysis, software testing, and database maintenance. In addition to her research duties, she provides customer support for Chaparral's TRADAS customers. She has worked primarily on the Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) research project, providing project management, traffic data analysis, software support and training documentation, and research on data quality control.

Her extensive traffic data research experience began as a graduate student at New Mexico State University, where she performed analyses of weigh in motion (WIM) data. After joining Chaparral, she was lead statistician on the Strategic Highway Research Program's (SHRP) LTPP project, where she performed numerous analyses of the WIM and vehicle classification data from the SHRP sites. She analyzed vehicle length as a predictor of axle-based vehicle classification as background research for the latest Traffic Monitoring Guide. Most recently, at the 2006 North American Travel Monitoring and Exposition (NATMEC), she presented a paper describing a procedure for establishing length categories for optimal length classification.

Ms. Cornell Martinez has written and co-authored numerous papers, including Computational Procedures for LTPP Traffic Data Annual Summaries in the Researcher's Guide to the Long-Term Pavement Performance Traffic Data (June 1996), LTPP Traffic Monitoring Equipment Survey and Result (1996), Empirical Analysis of Alternative Data Collection Sampling Plans for Estimating Annual Vehicle Loads at LTPP Test Sites (1995), and Use of Vehicle Length Data for Classification Purposes: The Research and a Suggested Procedure (NATMEC, 2006).