March 14th Speaker - Katie Kam

At our meeting of March 14, Dr. Katie Kam from the University of Texas' Center for Transportation Research will speak to us about transportation issues. Join us at noon. Monday, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, I35 and 290.

Dr. Kam earned a Ph.D. in civil engineering, with a transportation emphasis, in 2012 with a dissertation examining with dynamic traffic assignment the feasibility of transitioning to low speed vehicles (LSVs, also called neighborhood electric vehicles) for intra-city travel. She holds master’s degrees in civil engineering and Community & Regional Planning, and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, all from The University of Texas at Austin. She also has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Texas A&M. Her research shares the common focus of evaluating corridors and networks for transportation and economic performance, with an emphasis on using GIS (Geographic Information Systems), TransCAD, and the DTA (dynamic traffic assignment) program VISTA (Visual Interactive System for Transportation Algorithms). She is a co-author of the book “The Economics of Transportation Systems: A Reference for Practitioners,” (with Dr. Kara Kockelman, T. Donna Chen, and Brice Nichols) published in spring 2013, and the primary developer of the book’s chapters on costs and benefits of transportation, economic impact analysis of transportation investments and policies, and econometrics for data analysis.