Work
-
Puget Sound Trends — Equity Data Program
Founded and led a regional equity data trend program at PSRC, integrating demographic, economic, transportation, and equity indicators into accessible public dashboards. Created a repeatable framework for tracking how outcomes change over time across communities in the 4-county Puget Sound region.
-
psrccensus — Open-Source R Package for Census Data
R package enabling planners with basic coding skills to independently access ACS, Decennial, and PUMS Census datasets. Built at PSRC; used across government and academia in the Puget Sound region.
-
COVID, Work, and Travel: Impacts on VMT and Mode
Presentation to the PSRC Transportation Demand Management committee on COVID-era impacts on work patterns, vehicle miles traveled, transit ridership, and what the data tells us about the durability of behavioral change.
-
PSRC Household Travel Survey Program
Managed a $2M+ multi-year household travel survey program for the 4-county Seattle metro: RFP development, address-based sampling design, smartphone-based travel tracking, weighting, confidentiality protocols, and public microdata release. Products used across government and academia.
-
Towards Human-Scale Transport Metrics
Conference paper and presentation arguing for experience-based measurement of transportation systems — asking whether people can reach the activities that matter to them, rather than optimizing for system-level proxies. Best Presentation Award, TRB Annual Meeting 2020.
-
SoundCast — Puget Sound Activity-Based Travel Model
Led development and application of the Puget Sound region's activity-based travel model. Outputs directly defined transit route alignments and stop placements for hundreds of thousands of daily riders. Informed Washington State road user charge legislation.
-
Using an Activity-Based Model to Explore the Potential Impacts of Automated Vehicles
Peer-reviewed paper in Transportation Research Record developing evaluation methodology for AV scenarios before historical data existed. Developed novel frameworks for assessing model behavior under fundamentally changed operating conditions. 54 citations.
-
Travel Model Two — MTC Bay Area Activity-Based Model
Defined requirements for and delivered Travel Model Two (TM2), the San Francisco Bay Area's next-generation regional activity-based model supporting Plan Bay Area 2050 long-range planning and CEQA environmental review.