Research Staff
CV/Biosketch
Frank Southworth
Ph.D., Geography
(T) 865.946.1246
(F) 865.946.1314
southworthf@ornl.gov
Specialty Research Areas:
- Travel Behavior
- Transportation Planning and Systems Analysis
- Freight Transportation
- Sustainable Cities
Current or Recent Work:
- US Commodity Flow Analysis
- Evacuation Planning
- Land Use, Urban Form and Energy Consumption
Significant Publications:
F. Southworth (2010) Freight Flow Models. Chapter 14 in Intermodal Transportation: Moving Freight in a Global Economy. ENO Foundation, Washington, D.C. In Press.
F. Southworth and Garrow, L.A. (2010) Travel Demand Modeling. Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. In Press.
F. Southworth and A. Sonnenberg (2010) A Set of Comparable Carbon Footprints for Highway Travel in Metropolitan America. ASCE Transportation Engineering Journal. Forthcoming.
B. A. Weigel, F. Southworth and M. D. Meyer (2010) Calculators for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from public transit agency vehicle fleet operations. Transportation Research Record 2143:125-133.
M.A. Brown, F. Southworth and A. Sarzynski (2010) Transitioning to a low-carbon climate-smart metropolitan America. Chapter 8 in Energy Security: Economics, Politics, Strategies, and Implications, C.Pascual and J. Elkind (Eds). Brookings Institution Press.
F. Southworth (2009) Freight Flow Models. Chapter 5 in Intermodal Transportation: Moving Freight in a Global Economy. ENO Foundation, Washington, D.C. In Press.
M.A. Brown, F. Southworth and A. Sarzynski (2008) The geography of metropolitan carbon footprints. Policy and Society 23: 1-20.
F. Southworth (2008) Multi-Criteria sensor placement for emergency response. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 1.1 : 37-58.
M.A. Brown and F. Southworth (2008) Mitigating climate change through green buildings and smart growth. Environment and Planning A 40 :653-675.
M.A. Brown, F. Southworth and A. Sarzynski (2008) Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America.The Brooking Institution, Washington, D.C.
F. Southworth and M.R. Wigan (2008) Movement of goods, services and people: entanglements with sustainability implications. Chapter 9 in Building Blocks for Sustainable Transport: Obstacles, Trends, Solutions. A. Perrels,V. Himanen and M. Lee-Gosselin (Eds.).
F. Southworth, B.E. Peterson and B.P. Lambert (2007) Development of a regional routing model for strategic waterway analysis. Transportation Research Record 1993: 109-116.
F. Southworth (2006) Filling gaps in the U.S. commodity flow picture: using the CFS with other datasources. Resource Paper. Commodity Flow Survey Conference. Transportation Research Circular E-2088: 29-46. January 2006. http://www.trb.org/publications/circulars/ec088.pdf .
M.A. Brown, F. Southworth and T. Stovall (2005) Towards a Climate Friendly Built Environment. Pew Center on Global Climate Change Arlington, VA.
F. Southworth, D.P. Vogt and T. R. Curlee (2005) Rural transit systems benefits in Tennessee: methodology and an empirical study. Environment & Planning 37A: 861-875
M.R. Wigan and F. Southworth (2005) What’s wrong with freight models? European Transport Conference, Strasbourg, France. October 2005. Proceedings, Association of European Transport.
F. Southworth, D.P. Vogt and T.R. Curlee (2004) Estimation of statewide urban public transit benefits Tennessee. Transportation Research Record 1887:83-91.
F. Southworth (2004) Multi-Criteria Sensor Placement. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830.
T.R. Culree, K. Busch, M.R. Hilliard, G. Oladosu, F. Southworth, and D.P. Vogt (2003) The economic foundations of the Ohio River Navigation Investment Model (ORNIM) Transportation Research Record 1871: 13-23.
J. Xu, K.L. Hancock and F. Southworth (2003) Simulation of regional freight movement with trade & transportation multi-networks. Transportation Research Record 1854:152-161.
F. Southworth (2003) Freight transportation planning: models and methods. Chapter 4 of Transportation Systems Planning: Methods and Applications. K. G. Goulias. (Ed). CRC Press.
A. Nagurney, K. Ke, J. Cruz, K,. Hancock and F. Southworth (2002) Dynamics of supply chains: a multilevel (logistical/information/financial) network perspective. Environment and Planning 29B: 795-818.
F. Southworth (2001) On the potential impacts of land use change policies on automobile vehicle miles of travel. Energy Policy Journal 29: 1271-1283.
F. Southworth and B.E. Peterson (2000) Intermodal and international freight network modeling. Transportation Research 8C:147-166.
H. Cohen and F. Southworth (1999) On the measurement and valuation of travel time variability due to incidents on freeways. Journal of Transportation and Statistics 2.2: 123-132.
M. Summers and F. Southworth (1998) Design of a testbed to assess alternative traveler behavior models within an intelligent transportation system architecture. Geographical Systems 5: 91-115.
R.S. Solanki, J.K. Gorti and F. Southworth (1998) Using decomposition in large scale highway network design within a quasi-optimization heuristic. Transportation Research 32B: 127-140.
M. S. Bronzini, R. Curlee, P.N. Leiby, F. Southworth, and M. Summers (1997) Ohio River navigation investment model. Requirements and model design. Transportation Research Record 1620: 17-26.
F. Southworth (1995) A Technical Review of Urban Land Use-Transportation Models As Tools For Evaluating Vehicle Travel Reduction Strategies. ORNL-6881. (http://tmip.fhwa.dot.gov/clearinghouse/docs/landuse/compendium/)
V.H Dale, R.V. O'Neill, F. Southworth and M. Pedlowski (1994) Modeling effects of land management in Brazilian Amazonian settlement of Rondonia. Conservation Biology 8.1: 196-206.
V.H. Dale, F. Southworth, R.V. O'Neill, A Rosen and R. Frohn (1993) Simulating spatial patterns of land use change in Rondonia, Brazil. Lectures on Mathematics in The Life Sciences 23: 29-55.
V.H. Dale, R.V. O'Neill, M. Pedlowski and F. Southworth (1993) Causes and effects of land use change in Central Rondonia, Brazil. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 59.1: 997-1005.
B.N. Janson and F. Southworth (1992) Estimating departure times from traffic counts using dynamic assignment. Transportation Research 26B: 3-16.
R.S. Solanki and F. Southworth (1992) An execution planning algorithm for military airlift. Interfaces 21: 121-131.
V.H. Dale, R.V. O'Neill, F. Southworth and F. Loureiro (1992) Analyzing simulated patterns of land use change. American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. Volume 5 - Resource Technology 92.
S.S. Stevens, B.E. Tonn and F. Southworth (1992) A study of the potential for cooperation between models and modelers. Social Science Computer Review 12:2: 231-241.
F. Southworth (1991) Regional Evacuation Modeling in the United States: A State of the Art Review. ORNL-TM/11740. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
