Honorable Robert L. Sumwalt  Keynote Remarks of Robert L.
Sumwalt Board Member National Transportation Safety Board Human
Factors Workshop - Safety Data Transportation Research Board
Annual Meeting Washington, DC January 13, 2013  Good morning.
The Transportation Research Board (TRB) asked me if I would mind
being involved with two workshops today. I eagerly agreed. What
they didn't tell was that both workshops are at the same time.
Steve Popkin said it's not a problem - they would just split me
in half. My wife objected to that - she said I was short enough
as it was. So, as a compromise, I will be here to charge the
group with a few challenges and then head to a workshop on
automation, and then come back here in the afternoon to hear
what you are reporting out of your breakout groups.  Yesterday
afternoon I returned from New York City where NTSB is
investigating a ferry boat accident that happened Wednesday
morning. As the vessel Seastreak Wall Street was approaching
Pier 11 in lower Manhattan, the captain