She teaches ITS Systems Engineering to transportation professionals, and has supported the development of the National Automated Highway System, the Orange County Intelligent Vehicle/Highway System, and the Southern California Priority Corridor. She has earned the reputation of an expert in developing and evaluating complex systems of systems during a career spanning more than 30 years.

Experience:

Dr. Carol Jacoby teaches Systems Engineering for Intelligent Transportation Systems. She has taught a class offered to transportation professionals throughout the country through the Federal Highway Administration's National Highway Institute and the University of Tennessee. She has also taught Systems Engineering for the University of California, Irvine, Extension and UCLA's Technical Management Program. She co-taught an intensive eight-month Experiential Systems Engineering course at Raytheon.

She coauthored the Systems Engineering Guidebook for Caltrans (California Department of Transportation) (http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/cadiv/segb/), which is now being used throughout the country. Her emphasis is on the critical early steps of the process. This guidebook focuses on the application of the systems engineering process to the development of intelligent transportation systems. The audience is state, regional, and local transportation agencies.

She supported gap analysis and concepts of operation. She teamed with TransCore in the Corridor-Wide Advanced Traveler Information System study for the Southern California Priority Corridor. This effort assessed the diverse long-term needs and the existing capabilities throughout the Corridor, then identified and prioritized potential projects to fill the gap, balancing relative difficulty with depth and breadth of the needs. She also supported the specifications and sample agreements.

Dr. Jacoby was a key member of the National Automated Highway System (AHS) Consortium. She led the Concept Down-Select Team to synthesize, evaluate and recommend the most promising system architectures for the future automated highway system. She also led the Mixed Traffic Critical Issues team in defining requirements for fully automated vehicles designed to operate in normal traffic. She has presented papers at all major ITS conferences, led stakeholder discussions of AHS, and supported Demo97 as a mentor.

She served as the Architect and Technical Director for the Hughes Team on the Phase I National Intelligent Transportation System Architecture Program for FHWA. In this role and as the study leader of a prior Hughes-sponsored IVHS Architecture Study, she led a multi-industry team of technical experts and analysts in the top-down development of a nation-wide ITS architecture. She provided the vision, oversight and synthesis for the architecture. She was a spokesperson for the Hughes Team's Architecture to the customer and many diverse stakeholder groups. She oversaw production and delivery of 14 documents that describe this architecture, including detailed physical and logical architecture description.

Dr. Jacoby was the system architect for the Orange County (California) Intelligent Vehicle/Highway System Study. She developed the multi-modal architectural concept to support the diverse needs of the communities, Caltrans, and the traveling public. This was the first study of its kind and it has been a model for subsequent architecture studies.

During more than 30 years as an architecture development and effectiveness analyst, Dr. Jacoby has assessed stakeholder needs and synthesized candidate architectures to meet those needs. She has developed and applied simulations and other techniques for assessing the overall effectiveness of various large systems. As Manager of Mission Analysis, she oversaw all mission analysis activities for Raytheon Electronics Systems within California.

Employment:

Jacoby Consulting 2001-present
Hughes Aircraft Company/Raytheon Electronic Systems 1978 - 2001
Rockwell International, Autonetics 1973 - 1978
Mathematics Instructor 1970 - 1973

Education:

Ph.D. (Mathematics), University of California, Irvine 1980
MS (Mathematics), Northeastern University 1969
BA (Mathematics), UCLA 1968

Honors:

Hughes/Raytheon Achievement Awards 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 2000
YWCA Women in Industry award 1980
Hughes Doctoral Fellowship 1978-1980
Phi Beta Kappa 1968

Presentations and Publications:

Carol Jacoby, Simple Spreadsheets for Hard Decisions, 2008

"Simulation-Based Engineering for Complex Systems." University of California, Irvine, Extension, Engrece X429.2 (team teaching), 2006

Systems Engineering Guidebook for ITS. California Department of Transportation Division of Research and Innovation, prepared by Siemens ITS, ASE Consulting LLC, in association with J and J Project Consultant, Jacoby Consulting, February 14, 2005

"Foundations of the Systems Engineering Process." University of California, Irvine, Extension, Engrece X491.81 (team teaching), various locations and dates, 2003

"Systems Requirement Analysis." University of California, Irvine, Extension, Engrece X491.71 (team teaching), various locations and dates, 2003

"An Overview of Systems Engineering." National Highway Institute course No. 137024 (team teaching), through the University of Tennessee, various locations and dates, 2002

Nancy Rantowich, Mike Krueger, Carol Jacoby, "Southern California Priority Corridor 'Corridor-Wide Advanced Traveler Information System' (CW-ATIS) Study." ITS2001, Intelligent Transportation Society of America Eleventh Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, June 4-7, 2001

Carol Jacoby, Steven Schuster, "Analysis of Obstacles on Interstate Highways with Implications for AHS." Intelligent Transportation Society of America Eighth Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, May 4-7, 1998

Carol Jacoby, Steven Schuster, "Issues of Automated Vehicles Operating in Mixed Traffic." IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Boston, MA, November 9-12, 1997

Carol Jacoby, Steve Schuster, "Designing for Safety: Crash Causes." SAE International Future Transportation Technology Conference and Exposition, San Diego, CA, August 6-9, 1997

Carol C. Jacoby, "The Key Attributes that Distinguish Automated Highway System Concepts." Intelligent Transportation Society of America Seventh Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, June 2-5, 1997

Carol C. Jacoby, Jim Lewis, "Issues for an Automated Highway System that Supports Mixed Automated and Manual Traffic." Intelligent Transportation Society of America Seventh Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, June 2-5, 1997

Steven Schuster, Dr. Carol Jacoby, "An AHS Concept Based on Maximum Adaptability." Third Annual World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, Orlando, FL, October 14-18, 1996

Carol Jacoby, Nancy Rantowich, Thomas McKendree, Steven Schuster, "The Automated Highway: Concepts for Development." ITS Quarterly, A Publication of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, 1996 Summer Issue, Vol IV, Number 3

Carol Jacoby, Thomas McKendree, Steven Schuster, Nancy Rantowich, and Lawrence Klein, "Allocation of Intelligence Between the Vehicle and the Infrastructure in the Automated Highway System." Intelligent Transportation Society of America Sixth Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, April 15-18, 1996

Carol Jacoby, "The Hughes Team's Architecture." Regional IVHS Architecture Forum, sponsored by USDOT and ITS America, Denver, CO, November 8, 1994; Atlanta, GA, November 10, 1994; College Station, TX, November 15, 1994; Kansas City, MO, November 17, 1994; Chicago, IL, November 18, 1994

Lawrence A. Klein, Nancy A. Rantowich, Carol C. Jacoby and Joe Mingrone, "IVHS Architecture Development and Evaluation Process." IVHS Journal, 1993, Vol.1 (1), pp. 13-34

Lawrence Klein, Nancy Rantowich, Carol Jacoby and Joe Mingrone, "IVHS Architecture Development and Evaluation Process." Regional Science Association International 40th North American Meetings, Houston, TX, November 12-14, 1993