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Dear Graduate School Officer,This document is to clarify some contents in my dissertation that may be involved withcopyright issue. I have addressed them as follows.1. Chapter 2 of my dissertation is a paper I published in the Journal of Accident Analysis& Prevention in 2013 (with very minor revision). I have gained written permission fromthe publisher for the inclusion of my published article in the dissertation. In fact, theinclusion of paper in the author’s dissertation is part of Author’s Rights granted by thepublisher. Here I provide the email conversations and publisher’s relevant policy in page2 and 3.2. The real data I used in Chapter 2, 3 and 5 are from government projects andgovernment reports. I was coached by my PhD advisor and worked as RA at VTTI, so Iwas involved these government-sponsored projects conducted by VTTI. The data andprojects are already published in the form of government reports by VTTI and otherinstitutes, so I think they belong to public domain. On the other hand, I consulted mycommittee members (Feng Guo and Sheila Klauer) who are working on these projects atVTTI. They believed that the use of these real data in my dissertation should be OK.If you have any other question, please let me know. Thank you very much!Youjia FangOctober 7, 2014

Youjia Fang youjia@vt.edu RE: Elsevier.com permissions queryPermissions Helpdesk permissionshelpdesk@elsevier.com To: "youjia@vt.edu" youjia@vt.edu Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:39 PMDear Youjia,Thank you for your e-mail.Permission is covered by the rights you retain as an Elsevier journal author as outlined ights-and-responsibilities, which include Inclusion in a thesisor dissertation, provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication. Shouldyou require any further clarification, please let me know.Best of luck with your dissertation.LauraLaura StingelinPermissions Helpdesk AssociateElsevier1600 John F. Kennedy BoulevardSuite 1800Philadelphia, PA 19103-2899T: (215) 239-3867F: (215) 239-3805E: l.stingelin@elsevier.comQuestions about obtaining permission: whom to contact? What rights to request?When is permission required? Contact the Permissions Helpdesk at: 1-800-523-4069 x 3808permissionshelpdesk@elsevier.com.Customer By Web Form (Youjia Fang) - 06/10/2014 07.47 PMDear AAP journal officer, this is Youjia Fang, a graduate student in Statistics Department at Virginia Tech(VT).My PhD advisor (Feng Guo) and I published a paper in Accident Analysis & Prevention, Vol. 61, pp 3-9. Now Ihave passed my PhD oral defense and am preparing to submit my dissertation to graduate school at VT. Inmy dissertation I plan to include the published paper as a chapter (my advisor agreed with this), and basedon copyright policies I need a permission from your AAP journal to do so. So could you please help with this

case and grant me the permission to include my published paper in my dissertation? Thank you so much foryour help! If you need any further information or supporting materials, please let me know. Thanks a lot!.

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