Steve Jackson
Senior Statistician
Steve manages, manipulates, and analyzes data from a variety of sources including driving simulators, instrumented roadways, the Fatality and Analysis Reporting System, and naturalistic driving experiments. He earned his master’s degree in Statistics from Texas A&M in 2012 and has since applied his skills to forecasting infrastructure requirements for the US Army, uncovering trends in innovation for the US Patent and Trademark Office, and investigating human factors and safety issues for the Federal Highway Administration and National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. As a certified Six Sigma Green Belt, he employs a systematic approach to experimental design and statistical analysis. Steve is also a Certified Graduate Statistician, an SAS Certified Statistical Business Analyst, and a SAS Certified Base Programmer. He has authored or co-authored a growing number of research papers on connected vehicles, vehicle automation, collision avoidance technologies, human factors psychology and vulnerable road user safety. His attention to detail, strong analytic skills and ability to visualize and communicate complex statistical findings makes him a valuable asset to the toXcel team.
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Subject Matter Areas:
- Transportation Safety
- Pedestrians and Bicyclists
- Innovative Data Use
Creator of rfars, the R package that helps researchers use FARS and related datasets
Featured Publications
- Jackson, S., Raymond, P., & Taylor, S. (2023). Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Research Project. Idaho Transportation Department. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/72652
- Jackson, S., Barlow, A., Kryschtal, P., & Benson, A. (In Press). Bicyclist Stop-as-Yield Law Analysis. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
- Jackson, S., Miller, S., Goughnour, E., Boller, N., Johnson, K., Kehoe, N., & Symoun, J. (2022, August). Pedestrian/bicyclist safety in numbers program evaluation (Report No. DOT HS 813 342). National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
- Katz, B., Jackson, S., Kissner, E., & Rigdon, H. (2023, July). Examining instrumented roadways for speed-related problems (Report No. DOT HS 813 467). National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/67982