{"73839":{"#nid":"73839","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Fulbright Fellow to Study E.U. Transportation Issue","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EInspiration can be found in many places, but sometimes it is the last place that anyone would expect.  Georgia Tech Fulbright Fellow and Civil Engineering Ph.D. student John Crocker found his inspiration in the transportation system problems of Atlanta.  Crocker was trying to identify the problems that led to Atlanta\u0027s current traffic issues when he discovered they could be the result of crossing borders.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Transportation officials had infrastructure plans designed to meet that population demand of the area,\u0022 said Crocker.  \u0022When I looked to find out why it wasn\u0027t built, I found out that it was the projects that crossed county borders that weren\u0027t constructed.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECrocker said he believes many of the transportation projects weren\u0027t accomplished because of problems that occurred in the cooperation between counties in the area.  Further research showed  that similar problems occurred when projects crossed state lines and even international boundaries.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I kept reading about the European Union and wondered whether they were dealing with the same types of issues only on a much larger scale,\u0022 said Crocker.  \u0022They have several projects that cross international borders and need to have the cooperation of several governments.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor part of his Fulbright Fellowship, Crocker will be researching several major European Union transportation projects that cross member state lines, such as the Trans-Alpine tunnel between France and Italy. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECrocker decided that he\u0027d like to find a way to study how the European Union dealt with its transportation issues and see if those lessons could help solve some of the issues here in Atlanta and the United States.  \u0022Knowing what types of organizations help facilitate infrastructure construction will become increasingly important, so that\u0027s why I\u0027m interested in it,\u0022 he said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECrocker believes that the growing population will only increase the demand for better transportation systems and he hopes his work can help solve the issues facing the Atlanta area.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Fulbright Fellowship program was created in 1946 with legislation sponsored by Senator J. William Fulbright, who reasoned that nations would be less likely to go to war against each other if people could study abroad and learn about each other\u0027s cultures.  Each year, the U.S. component of the international program awards about 900 grants for American students to pursue international research.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Crocker will study transportation projects that cross European Union member borders"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"Inspiration can be found in many places, but sometimes it is the last place that anyone would expect.  Georgia Tech Fulbright Fellow and Civil Engineering Ph.D. student John Crocker found his inspiration in the transportation system problems of Atlanta.  Crocker was trying to identify the problems that led to Atlanta\u0027s current traffic issues when he discovered they could be the result of crossing borders.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Fulbright fellow will study transportataion issues"}],"uid":"27304","created_gmt":"2005-09-09 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:27","author":"Matthew Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73840":{"id":"73840","type":"image","title":"John Crocker","body":null,"created":"1449178020","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:00","changed":"1475894681","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:41"}},"media_ids":["73840"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.iie.org\/TemplateFulbright.cfm?section=Fulbright1","title":"Fulbright Fellowship Program"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["matthew.nagel@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}