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p area. Her involvement in this project is to help identify transportation deficiencies in the study area,evaluate and select roadway corridors for rapid transit applications,evaluate the applicability of available transit technologies to the selected corridors,analyze the alignments of the selected rapid transit alternatives and utilize the regional model to predict ridership estimates for the selected transit alignments/technologies. Noise and Air Quality Analysis Ms.Parthasarathi's responsibilities in noise projects involve the use of the Federal Highway Administration's TNM and STAMINA noise models. Her work involves preparing the noise sections for Environmental Assessments and Noise Exemption Applications. Ms. Parthasarathi's experience in air quality analysis includes working with the US Environmental Protection Agency's SCREEN3 model. Some of her representative noise projects include I35W/Lake Street Access Project,MN,Environmental Assessment;I-94,MN,Noise Exemption;TH14/52,Rochester,MN,Noise Exemption;I-35E/I-694 ("Unweave the Weave"),Little Canada and Vadnais Heights,MN, Environmental Assessment&Noise Exemption;I-70,MO, Environmental Assessment;Empire Township Sand and Gravel Mining Impact Studies project,MN;FedEx Mahtomedi Facility Expansion Traffic and Noise Study,MN;I-70 Mississippi River Bridge (proposed) between Illinois and Missouri,Environmental Study. Her latest noise modeling experience involved conducting the Noise Exemption Study for a 4.2-mile design-build reconstruction of Trunk Highway 52 in the City of Oronoco,MN. She was also involved in conducting a noise study in support of the Missouri Route 45 Environmental Document looking at the expansion of a 4.6-mile section of State Highway 45 in Missouri. Transportation Research While pursuing graduate studies at the University of Minnesota,Ms. Parthasarathi worked on different research projects. Her work involved data collection,analysis,interpretation and report preparation. Her master's thesis on the Induced Demand hypothesis was published in the Journal of Urban Studies and was also presented at the Transportation Research Board 834 Annual Meeting. Her research on Freeway Service Patrols, for California PATH,was presented at The 4th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Transportation Research Board 82nd Annual Meeting and has been included as a chapter in the book"Assessing the Benefits and Costs of ITS" (Kluwer Academic Publishers). She has also worked with academic faculty in evaluating course assignments and preparing course material for transportation planning courses. 2