Dr. Andrew Kwasniak combines transportation engineering, forensic analysis, drone-based data collection, photogrammetry, and engineering visualization to document and analyze roadway, transportation, and crash environments.
Andrew Kwasniak is a transportation safety and forensic engineer with nearly two decades of experience in transportation engineering, roadway safety, crash analysis, and engineering investigation. His work has included projects and assignments across more than 35 U.S. states.
His use of unmanned aircraft systems extends beyond conventional aerial photography. Drone-based data collection can provide detailed documentation of roadway geometry, transportation facilities, crash locations, work zones, intersections, pedestrian and bicycle environments, and other sites where accurate spatial information is important to engineering analysis.
The resulting aerial information can be integrated with photographs, measurements, roadway information, crash records, and other engineering evidence to support analysis and visualization of transportation environments.
Drone-based documentation of roadways, intersections, crash locations, transportation facilities, work zones, and surrounding environments provides an efficient method for recording site conditions from multiple perspectives.
High-resolution aerial imagery can be processed using photogrammetric methods to develop measurable representations of roadway and site geometry for engineering evaluation.
Drone imagery and spatial data can support development of two-dimensional and three-dimensional models used to document transportation facilities and communicate engineering conditions.
Aerial data can supplement traditional forensic investigation by documenting roadway alignment, traffic-control features, surrounding conditions, vehicle paths, visibility considerations, and relevant physical evidence.
Drone data can assist in evaluating intersections, roadway segments, pedestrian and bicycle facilities, roadside environments, access points, and other transportation-system features.
Aerial imagery, site measurements, photographs, and engineering data can be combined to create clear visual representations of complex roadway and transportation conditions.
The value of drone data depends on how the information is interpreted. Dr. Kwasniak's work combines aerial data collection with transportation engineering principles and forensic analysis.
His engineering experience includes roadway and intersection safety, roadway geometric design, sight distance, traffic control devices, pedestrian and bicycle facilities, work zones, crash reconstruction, driver perception and human factors, and data-driven transportation safety analysis.
He has also worked extensively with Highway Safety Manual methodologies, Safety Performance Functions, crash-data analysis, network screening, and transportation safety technology.
Drone technology can provide a detailed spatial record of a site, but the collection itself is only one part of the engineering process.
For transportation and forensic applications, aerial information may be evaluated together with roadway geometry, traffic-control devices, photographs, measurements, vehicle evidence, crash documentation, sight-distance considerations, and other available data.
This combination of field documentation and engineering analysis allows complex transportation environments to be examined using a consistent spatial framework and communicated through photographs, plans, diagrams, photogrammetric products, and three-dimensional representations.
Additional information about Andrew Kwasniak's transportation safety, forensic engineering, research, and technology work is available through the following professional resources.