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Ram M. Pendyala, n/a (he/him/his)

Professor
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona, United States

Professor Ram Pendyala teaches and conducts research in transportation systems engineering, design, modeling and simulation, travel behavior analysis, multimodal transport policy analysis, freight and passenger travel demand forecasting, travel survey methods and transportation economics and finance. Pendyala directs TOMNET (Teaching Old Models New Tricks), a Tier 1 University Transportation Center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The center focuses on advancing transportation system operations and mobility of people and goods by striving to harness data analytics and behavioral science to understand, explain and forecast how people travel and make mobility choices under different conditions. The goal is to develop transportation forecasting models for the next generation of transportation infrastructure systems, new mobility services and automated transportation technologies.

Pendyala is on the editorial boards of leading transportation journals and has conducted more than $15 million in sponsored research, published more than 200 articles, and been a consultant for several transportation industry organizations. He has received a service recognition award for his work as the chair of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) Planning and Environment Group, Travel Analysis Methods Section, and Traveler Behavior and Values Committee. He served in these three leadership roles over a span from 2003 to 2018. Pendyala has served on several advisory panels for federal, state and local transportation agencies around the country. In addition to his leadership roles with TRB, Pendyala has held leadership positions in professional associations such as the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR) and the American Society of Civil Engineers. In particular, he has served as the Board Member, Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary/Treasurer of the IATBR between 2004 and 2014. Pendyala has won the American Road & Transportation Builders Association S.S. Steinberg Award recognizing outstanding contributions to transportation research and education, and has shared with his co-authors the Transportation Research Board’s Pyke Johnson Award for the best publication in the Planning and Environment domain on three occasions.

Pendyala first joined ASU in 2006 after serving 12 years on the faculty of the University of South Florida in Tampa. Between 2014 and 2016 he served as the Frederick R. Dickerson Chair Professor of Transportation in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. He has his PhD and MS in Civil Engineering with a focus in transportation systems from the University of California at Davis, and his BTech in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras in Chennai, India.

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