Dr. List is a professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at NC State University. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University (BSEE, 1971), the University of Delaware (MEE, 1976), and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., CE, 1984). Dr. List is a systems engineer with more than 40 years experience in the control and design of transportation systems. His interests are diverse from the ethics of AI-based control to the coupling between infrastructure investment and economic growth. His recent projects focus on travel time reliability, system performance enhancement using connected and autonomous vehicles, and guidelines for simulation-based transportation system modeling. In 2007 he was a co-recipient of the ITS-America “Best of ITS” award in Research and Innovation and in 1999 he was a Finalist in the Edelman Prize Competition (INFORMS). He is a past chair of the TRB Joint Traffic Simulation Subcommittee (SimSub and the TRB Traffic Flow Theory Committee, a former member of the Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee, and a former member and chair of the Intermodal Freight Transportation Committee. Dr. List is a Fellow of ASCE, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ITE and INFORMS.

Dr. Abbas is a Professor in the Transportation Infrastructure and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering from Purdue University (2001). Dr. Abbas was the Corridor Management Team Leader at Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) before joining Virginia Tech. He was in research assignments (sabbatical) to UC-Berkeley in 2012 and to TU-Delft in 2019. Dr. Abbas has been awarded over 35 grants at Virginia Tech and Texas A&M Transportation Institute, totaling about $4 million in personal share and $5.5 million in VT share. He has developed and implemented more than ten systems in the areas of traffic operation, design, and safety, as well as infrastructure assessment and optimization. His areas of expertise include traffic control, traffic flow theory, driver behavior, transportation safety, and applications of artificial intelligence and agent-based modeling in transportation. He is a recipient of the Oak Ridge National Lab Associated Universities (ORAU) Ralf E. Powe Faculty Enhancement Award and the G. V. Loganathan Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Civil Engineering Education. He is also a recipient of the TTI/Trinity New Researcher Award for his significant contributions to the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Traffic Operations.

Dr. Young is the Mobility Systems team lead for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Center for Integrated Mobility Science. He currently serves as the DOE technologist in city for the Columbus Smart City program, led the Urban Science pillar lead for the DOE Systems and Modeling for Accelerated Research in Transportation initiative, and is currently coordinating the DOE’s Transportation Systems COVID-19 Rapid Response for Safe and Efficient Mobility for Return to Operations. Dr. Young is a graduate of Kansas State University, served in the United States Peace Corps, and was previously on staff at the University of Maryland Center for Advanced Transportation Technology, the Kansas Department of Transportation, and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Zhitong received his PhD degree in the field of Civil Engineering from Mississippi State University in 2016. He has 15 years of research experience and conducted over 30 research projects in the field of transportation engineering. His main focus is on transportation simulation and modeling, connected and automated vehicle (CAV) systems, and traffic operation and management. Zhitong has participated and leaded multiple reach projects related to CAV simulation and modeling.

Rachel James is a Research Civil Engineer at the Federal Highway Administration, where she manages the FHWA Connected and Automated Vehicles Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation Research Program. Her research interests include data analytics, driver behavior, and model calibration. She is the technical manager of the Traffic Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation Pooled Fund Study and a member of the TRB Standing Committee on Traffic Simulation. Rachel received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from West Virginia University in 2014 and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2016 and 2019, respectively.