Framing the Future for Women in Transport through Collaborative Research, Patricia Hu

Presenter: Patricia Hu

Bio: 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.

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 Review Board, serves on other TRB committees; and chairs ITF’s Annual International Transport Statistics meeting, and ITF’s Transport Satellite Accounts Working Group. 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.