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DSRC COMMITTEE CHAIR, VICE CHAIR, LEAD AWARD-WINNING PROJECT
A project spearheaded by two members of SAE International's
DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication) Committee has
been recognized with a "Best of ITS" Award, presented by the
Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America).
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. and Honda R&D Americas,
Inc. received the award for "Best New Innovative Practice -
Research, Design and Innovation" for their project "Honda and
Qualcomm DSRC-based Vehicle-to-Pedestrian (V2P) and Other
Vulnerable Road User Safety Project."
DSRC Committee Chair James A. Misener, Director of
Technical Standards at Qualcomm Technologies Inc., and DSRC
Vice Chair Sue Bai, Principal Engineer at Honda R&D Americas
Inc. received the award, which honors the most innovative,
effective, and influential achievements in the Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS) industry.
The project, a unique collaboration between a leading vehicle
manufacturer and a leading smartphone chipset supplier,

focused on how the smartphone could be used positively
in a safety equation that involves vehicles and DSRC. The
project was the first time a real commercial smartphone was
enabled by DSRC, and it opens the door to pedestrian safety
applications that can talk and listen to cars, and allow cars to
talk and listen to pedestrians.
Through the work of Misener and Bai on SAE's DSRC committee,
Honda and Qualcomm are leading efforts to standardize the
communication message to protect vulnerable road users (such
as road workers, bicyclists and wheelchair users).
The DSRC committee currently has six documents in
development, including the J2945© series of documents
which will specify the minimum communication performance
requirements of the DSRC message sets, and the associated
data frames and data elements defined in SAE J2735™ (DSRC
Message Set Dictionary). Each section of the document series
will describe a specific message set's requirements.

2015 JAMES M. CRAWFORD TECHNICAL STANDARDS BOARD OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD RECIPIENTS
The award recognizes individuals for outstanding service in
the technical committee activities of the Society. This includes
valuable contributions to the work of SAE International technical
committees, unusual leadership in the activities of an SAE
International technical committee, significant contributions as a
representative of the Society to the accomplishments of technical
committees of other organizations or of government agencies,
and outstanding contributions to SAE International technical
committee work in the form of research, test methods and
procedures, and/or development of standards.
The James M. Crawford Fund was established in 1953 and honors
James Crawford, who was SAE International President in 1945.
In 2013, the award previously known as the Technical Standards
Board Outstanding Achievement Award, was renamed the
James M. Crawford Technical Standards Board Outstanding
Achievement Award.

2015 award winners include:
Construction, Agriculture & Off-Road Council
Rick L. Weires, Manager - Product Safety Standards, Deere
and Company
Motor Vehicle Council
Richard J. Boyer, EMC Technical Manager, Delphi Packard
Electric
Roger W. Reini, Senior Engineer, Ford Motor Company
Jesse Michael Schneider, Manager, Fuel Cell, Electric Vehicle
Development, BMW Xiaobo Yang, Senior Chief Principal
Engineer, Global Technology Center, Oshkosh Corporation
Truck & Bus Council
James D. Green, Safety Engineer, National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
Paul Johnston, Consultant
Marion G. Pottinger, Professional Engineer, M'gineering, LLC

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