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Pan Lu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Transportation and Supply Chain
North Dakota State University
Fargo, North Dakota, United States

The United States has invested billions of dollars constructing, maintaining, and improving systems to provide safe, durable, and serviceable transportation infrastructures for auto and truck travel. Ye, no matter how much money we spend, congestion, road conditions and crashes seem to get no improvement. Smarter vehicles, infrastructures, and transportation operations through technologies and data science may be able to fill the gap and to develop next-generation resilient and smart transportation system addressing the challenges of today and tomorrow. To align with the U.S. DOT top three transportation strategic goals, Dr. Lu’s research has focused on all strategic aspects of smart transportation including innovative solutions for transportation safety improvement, maintaining and improving existing transportation infrastructures through innovative practice and technologies, and coordinating data collection, analysis and sharing across systems through integrated data platforms to make better decisions and align decision and dollars.

In 2010, Dr. Lu became a Research Analyst with Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute focusing in the area of asset management, freight transportation, smart transportation, rail transportation, and transportation safety. She became an assistant professor of transportation in 2015 and has been promoted as associate professor since 2017. In addition to her research activities, she has successfully taught several graduate courses including Highway Planning and Logistics, Transportation System II, Logistic Decision Analysis.

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