PANELIST

Date and Time: Wednesday, April 12: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: Keck 100

Presentation Description

Speaker Biography

Patricia (Pat) Hu is the Director of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) since 2011. Prior to that appointment, she was the Director of the Center for Transportation Analysis at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At the Center, she led a multidisciplinary team of researchers to tackle transportation challenges ranging from developing tools to inform long-term infrastructure investment decisions to applying nano technology to track commodity flow. As BTS Director, she serves as US DOT’s Secretary’s senior advisor on data and statistics, and is responsible for directing a federal statistical agency to enhance the relevance, quality, timeliness, accessibility, and availability of transportation statistics and information to inform transportation decisions. The Foundation for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 designated Ms. Hu as US DOT’s Statistical Official.
For the past four decades, Ms. Hu has led numerous research projects, and published extensively, in the areas of travel behavior, traffic operations, transportation safety and security, data models, and visualization. Ms. Hu is active at the National Research Council’s Transportation Research Board (TRB), and at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s International Transport Forum (ITF) in Paris, France. Currently, she co-chairs TRB’s Transportation Research Record Advisory Board, serves on other TRB committees; and chairs ITF’s Annual International Transport Statistics meeting. She served on the editorial advisory board of the international journal Accident Analysis & Prevention from 1996 to 1999, and on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Transportation and Statistics from 1998 to 2005. Pat Hu received her B.S. in Statistics from the Chengchi University in Taiwan, and an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Guelph at Canada.

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