a design engineer for multiple bicyclist safety, pedestrian safety, and traffic calming projects. She began her career as a staff engineer with TechLaw Inc. working on hazardous material remediation projects. Ms. Carpenter is a past member of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB’s) Committee on Bicycle Transportation and a current member of TRB’s Committee on Transportation Safety Management Systems. She earned the Caltrans Superior Accomplishment Award in recognition of her nationally leading work on safety-related research. She was awarded the University of California, Davis, Institute of Transportation Studies Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award and presented her research at the 2010 and 2011 TRB Annual Meetings in Washington, DC. Ms. Carpenter holds a bachelor’s degree and an M.S. in civil engineering (and a minor in music) and she is a licensed professional civil engineer in California. She volunteers as a city of Sacramento Active Transportation Commission member because she believes in the importance of being engaged in the community where she lives.

Grady T. Carrick is a retired Florida highway patrol chief who distinguished himself as a champion for traffic operations and safety during his 30 years with the agency. Since his retirement in 2012, Dr. Carrick has worked with local, state, and federal agencies to advance a safe and efficient transportation system in a consulting role as founder of Enforcement Engineering, Inc. Dr. Carrick is passionate about traffic safety and he has a national reputation as an advocate for traffic incident management. Having an advanced degree in transportation engineering, Dr. Carrick is comfortable in academic, engineering, and public safety interactions where he often builds bridges between those disciplines. Dr. Carrick is the chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Traffic Law Enforcement Committee, ACS30, and he has served on National Cooperative Highway Research Program and Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program panels.

Janice Daniel is a professor in the John A. Reif, Jr. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering in the Newark College of Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). She has been a professor at NJIT since 1999 teaching courses in traffic control and capacity analysis and performing research in the areas of traffic operations and transportation safety. Dr. Daniel began her career working in the Traffic Engineering Division of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. She has also worked as a transportation engineer for a transportation consulting firm. She began her academic career at the Georgia Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Daniel’s research is focused in the areas of transportation safety and operations and has been sponsored by several agencies including the National Science Foundation, the Federal Highway Administration, and the

New Jersey Department of Transportation. Her research has focused on freight movement, as well as on roadway safety, specifically within the areas of vehicle–occupant, pedestrian, bicyclists, and truck safety. Dr. Daniel has been a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee (AHB40), the Task Force on Arterials and Public Health (ADD55T), and the Operational Effects of Geometrics Committee (AHB65).

Paul P. Jovanis is professor emeritus at The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to retirement, Dr. Jovanis held faculty and transportation research appointments at the University of California, Davis, and Northwestern University. He conducted research for more 35 years in road safety, intelligent transportation systems, and traffic engineering. Dr. Jovanis’s areas of particular interest were the development and implementation of statistical models using state-level road crash data and detailed truck driver hours of service records. He is recognized for his innovative research using time-dependent probabilistic models and incorporating spatial dependence in the estimation of road crash frequency. During his service to the Transportation Research Board, he was the committee, section, and group chair all in the area of road safety. He was the co-chair for more than 10 years of the Safety Policy Special Interest Group of the World Conference on Transportation Research. Dr. Jovanis has twice testified before U.S. Congress committees concerning road safety research. His M.S. and Ph.D. advisees hold senior positions in road safety at universities, governments, and private companies throughout the world.

Franz Loewenherz is the mobility planning and solutions manager for the City of Bellevue, Washington. Previously, Mr. Loewenherz was with Community Transit in Everett, Washington, as the high-capacity transit planner. In his current position, he leads a team that advances transportation policies, programs, and projects. Mr. Loewenherz has oversight responsibilities for the City of Bellevue’s Vision Zero road safety, pedestrian, and bicycle infrastructure implementation, municipal–transit collaborations, advancement of emerging mobility technologies, and data collection and analysis systems. Mr. Loewenherz has a demonstrated track record of success establishing and managing partnerships with technology companies and researchers to develop proactive road safety solutions that leverage video and Lidar, artificial intelligence, and cloud/edge compute systems. Mr. Loewenherz’s work advancing safety solutions has been recognized with a 2021 Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) National Roadway Safety Award, 2017 Institute of Transportation Engineers Transportation Achievement Award for Safety, 2016 U.S. Department of Transportation Safer People, Safer Streets Award, and a 2012 FHWA Transportation Planning

Excellence Award. Mr. Loewenherz holds a Master of Urban Planning degree from the University of Washington.

Jeevanjot Singh is the section chief, engineering, for the New Jersey Department of Transportation’s (NJDOT’s) Bureau of Safety, Bicycle and Pedestrian Programs. The Bureau is responsible for the management of the federal Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) and provides safety subject-matter expertise on a wide variety of analyses, programs, projects, and initiatives. Ms. Singh holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from India, a master’s degree in environmental engineering and a master’s degree in highway engineering from India, a third master’s degree in transportation engineering from Rutgers University, and a master’s Certificate in Project Management from the Project Management Institute. She started as a structural engineer, moving on to highway design, information technology, traffic engineering, transportation systems management and operations, information technology systems, and project management prior to her role as section chief. She has 26 years of experience, including 13 years with NJDOT. She is also a graduate of the Freight Operations Academy and Regional Operations Forum. Ms. Singh holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) license. She is an active participant in the Intelligent Transportation Society of New Jersey, the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and WTS. She has represented NJDOT as a National Cooperative Highway Research Program panel member, at the Connected Vehicle Pooled Fund Study, and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Subcommittees and Working Groups for Connected & Autonomous Vehicles and Safety, in addition to being on technical paper review committees for the Transportation Research Board.

Betty Smoot-Madison is the deputy commissioner of strategy and planning with the City of Atlanta Department of Transportation. Ms. Smoot-Madison holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Southern Connecticut State University and a master’s degree in city and regional planning from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. She is also a 2017 graduate of the WTS Mentoring Program and a 2020 Leadership National Association of City Transportation Officials fellow. Ms. Smoot-Madison began her planning career in Prince George’s County, Maryland, one of the nation’s wealthiest predominantly African American counties, located just outside of the nation’s capital, where she gained experience in transit-oriented development, implementation strategies, neighborhood revitalization, and university-oriented development, among other planning principles. While working in Prince George’s County, Ms. Smoot-Madison led the Pedestrian Safety Workgroup, which was established by the Prince George’s County Healthcare Action Coalition to create policies and strategies for improving

pedestrian and bicycle safety in the built environment. She worked in Prince George’s County for 5 years, then moved on to work for the Baltimore City Department of Transportation, where she advanced in several roles, including senior transportation planner, Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator, and ombudsman for the automated traffic violation enforcement system, for which she was a part of the management team for the city’s speed, red light, and illegal truck enforcement cameras. While working in Baltimore, she initiated and led the city’s first roadway safety program, Toward Zero Baltimore, and secured multiple federal grant awards to fund major critical infrastructure projects.

Robert C. Wunderlich is a senior research engineer and the director of the Center for Transportation Safety at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). Previously, Mr. Wunderlich worked for three different municipalities in Texas and a consulting firm after beginning his career at TTI in 1982. Mr. Wunderlich is responsible for leading the Center for Transportation Safety’s efforts in traffic safety research, policy analysis, education, and outreach. Over the past few years, much of Mr. Wunderlich’s work has focused on understanding the factors associated with traffic fatalities and injuries at the state and national levels, finding ways to lower them, and developing tools that allow practitioners to perform effective safety analyses. In 2019, Mr. Wunderlich received the Burton W. Marsh award for distinguished service to the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Public Service Award for his dedication to saving lives on U.S. highways by championing data-driven traffic safety initiatives. Mr. Wunderlich is a past president of ITE and was elected as an Honorary Member, ITE’s highest honor, in 2021. He is a licensed professional engineer in Texas, a member of the Transportation Research Board’s Transportation Safety Management Committee and helps edit the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ Policy on the Geometric Design of Streets and Highways (the Green Book) as a member of the Technical Committee on Geometric Design. Mr. Wunderlich earned a B.S. and an M.S. in civil engineering from the University of Tennessee in 1980 and 1982, respectively.

C.Y. David Yang is the executive director of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. He oversees the day-to-day operations of this non-profit research and education organization. Previously, he was with the Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. Dr. Yang has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and government reports on subjects related to vehicle technologies and automation, traffic safety, operations, and planning. An Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) journal article he co-authored won ITE’s 2015

Traffic Engineering Council Best Paper Award. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations and a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology. Dr. Yang serves as an advisory board member on a number of university transportation research centers. Previously, Dr. Yang served as the Transportation Research Board’s Users Performance Section chair (2016–2019) and User Information Systems Committee chair (2010–2016). Dr. Yang attended Purdue University and received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in civil engineering. In 2018, he was honored with the Civil Engineering Alumni Achievement Award from Purdue University.

Jingzhen (Ginger) Yang is a principal investigator (PI) at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. She is also a tenured professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at The Ohio State University. Dr. Yang’s primary research interest is injury prevention with an emphasis on injuries to children and adolescents. Much of her current research focuses on teen driving safety. Throughout her academic career, she has been the PI or a co-investigator on more than 50 grants and contracts. She currently leads three National Institutes of Health–funded R01s, with two focused on improving safe driving practices among teenagers with traffic citations and one on driving performance after concussion. Dr. Yang has served as a board member, on the executive committee, and as the treasurer of the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) and co-led SAVIR’s Training and Infrastructure Committee. She was appointed to the Major League Baseball Injury Research Committee in 2010–2015. She received the American Public Health Association Injury Control and Emergency Health Services section’s Excellence in Science Award. Dr. Yang grew up in China and received her M.P.H. from Indiana University Bloomington and Ph.D. in health behavior and health education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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