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Krista Nordback
Krista Nordback
Committee Chair
Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina
Krista Nordback is a senior research associated with over a decade of experience in bicycle and pedestrian traffic monitoring, primarily for safety studies. She holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado and has spent 3.5 years as a post-doctoral research associate at Portland State University. Since 2016, she has served as a senior researcher at University of North Carolina where she works on projects from safety analysis to using multiple data types for measuring pedestrian and bicycle traffic on road and path networks. She previously served on TRB’s Highway Traffic Monitoring and as chair for the Bicycle and Pedestrian Data Joint Subcommittee.
Sirisha Kothuri
Sirisha Kothuri
Assistant Committee Chair
Portland State University
Sirisha Kothuri is a senior research associate with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Portland State University. She works on a variety of projects related to multimodal operations, safety, and data monitoring of active transportation modes. She holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from Portland State University. She is a current member on TRB's Pedestrians Committee and a former member of TRB's Traffic Signal Systems Committee.
http://trec.pdx.edu/research/researcher/Kothuri/5158
Phil Lasley
Phil Lasley
Secretary
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Dr. Phil Lasley is an Assistant Research Scientist at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute working 8 years in the Mobility Analyis program and is a licensed city planner. His research within bicycle and pedestrian transportation include non-motorized monitoring, data collection, data quality assurance and control, and planning methods. Additionally, Dr. Lasley's interests include multimodal performance measurement, housing location choice, transportation policy, strategic management and planning, and data visualization methods. He also serves as an adjunct professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University.
(512) 407-1133 x12113
Alican Karaer
Alican Karaer
Communications Coordinator
Iteris, Inc.
Alican (A-li-john) recently graduated from Florida State University with a PhD degree in Civil Engineering emphasizing transportation, and started working as an Associate Data Scientist in the Applications & Cloud Solutions team of Iteris, Inc. During his PhD, he has been involved in multiple state, federal, and internationally funded research projects with a primary focus on pedestrian and bicycle safety and led the efforts on the generation of the statewide crosswalk inventory geodatabase from aerial images using deep learning. While this database is still been used to decide where to implement the most appropriate safety countermeasures and install new crosswalks in Florida, in his new role at Iteris, Alican is involved in research and development using mixed road user trajectory and event data to create and test applications for the ClearMobility products.
(904) 236-2608
Tony Hull
Tony Hull
"Conversations with Colleagues" organizer
Tony Hull is a freelance Nonmotorized Transportation Consultant with over two decades of experience in planning, designing and evaluating active transportation projects. Tony’s nationally recognized work includes leading planning and research studies, facilitating workshops and trainings, and providing technical expertise for wide-ranging active transportation projects. This expertise includes pedestrian and bicycle facility design, accessibility, safety analysis, data collection and evaluation, traffic calming, community engagement, and social equity. Tony is a graduate of the Ohio State University, served three terms on the TRB Committee on Pedestrians and is a long time member of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP).
tony@civilstreet.com
Nathan Hicks
Nathan Hicks
"Conversations with Colleagues" organizer
HDR Inc
Nathan Hicks is a Multimodal Transportation Planner at HDR a. He has worked on a variety of planning projects, including non-motorized transportation research and bicycle and pedestrian master plans. He received his Master’s of Science in Planning from Florida State University and specialized in Land Use and Transportation Planning.
William Rogers
William Rogers
"Conversations with Colleagues" organizer
Will's passion for bicycling and walking as a means of transportation has taken many forms. From teaching kids bicycle safety in Texas and in the Republic of Liberia to managing bike shops in four states, Will is keen on getting more people on bikes, but there are few places to bike safely and comfortably. Working for the City of Cincinnati, earning his masters degree in Community Planning, co-authoring peer-reviewed studies, working at Tennessee DOT, and now the Greater Nashville Regional Council (GNRC)/Nashville MPO as a Senior Planner are ways Will has sought to design safer roads for biking, walking, and public transit. Data-driven decision making is key to saving lives and creating comfortable places to live.
wrogers@gnrc.org
Rachael Thompson Panik
Rachael Thompson Panik
Research Coordinator
Georgia Institute of Technology
Rachael Thompson Panik, AICP, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. Rachael holds degrees in transportation engineering and urban planning from Clemson University (M.C.R.P) and Georgia Tech (Ph.D.). She has also worked as a transportation engineering and planning consultant, helping communities across the U.S. implement safe infrastructure for bicyclists and pedestrians. Rachael works on an interdisciplinary program of research on transportation safety. Her most recent work focuses on “upstream” safety — latent and understudied causes of traffic crashes that currently prohibit safe systems.
rtpanik@gatech.edu
Aditi Misra
Aditi Misra
Active Member
University of Colorado Denver
Aditi Misra is a research faculty at University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. Her primary research interests are in travel behavior, predictive modelling and data analytics for safety, with particular focus on bicyclists and pedestrians. She is currently involved in multiple projects on bicyclist safety using naturalistic driving data and is also developing a bicyclist education program using game-based-learning environment. Aditi holds her PhD in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech with her dissertation focused on identifying and modelling route choice of bicyclists using GPS enabled smartphone based data.
Sarah O'Brien
Sarah O'Brien
Prior Chair
Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina
Ms. O’Brien managed the bicycle and pedestrian program at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education. She has over 10 years of experience in non-motorized planning, education, policy, design, and research. She is experienced in collecting data in the field such as volume, speed, and user profile data, and has conducted controlled and naturalistic observational studies. O’Brien offers technical assistance and conducts trainings on a broad range of non-motorized transportation topics. Currently, O'Brien is PI on a North Carolina Department of Transportation project to establish and expand their Non-Motorized Volume Data Program.
919-843-1845
Elizabeth Stolz
Elizabeth Stolz
Member Emeritus
SRF Consulting
Ms. Stolz is one of the Nation's leading experts in bicycle and pedestrian count program development and implementation. With an extensive background in FHWA's Travel Monitoring Program, she has managed two state DOTs' traffic monitoring programs and recently helped lead Colorado DOT's groundbreaking bicycle and pedestrian count program. Ms. Stolz guides and advises many MPO and other regional agencies' growing bike and ped count initiatives; with her background in Exercise Science she is helping health care agencies and institutions pioneer active living programs for both individual and community levels.
763.249.6729
Greg Lindsey
Greg Lindsey
Member Emeritus
University of Minnesota
Lindsey specializes in environmental planning, policy, and management. His current research involves non-motorized transportation systems, including bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and studies of relationships between the built environment and active transportation and physical activity.
linds301@umn.edu
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