Chaushie Chu is the director of systems analysis at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro), a position he has held for over 15 years. While there he has developed and implemented comprehensive transit modeling capabilities for the LA region that have been used to support eight successful New Starts investments, support of regional transit planning, and service planning. Chaushie also has modeled and published several papers on the use of discrete choice models of housing price, residential location choice, and its relationship to work travel. Chaushie earned his PhD from Northwestern University in 1981, and is an active member of the Transportation Research Board.
Keith Lawton is an independent consultant, recently retired from Portland Metro. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of travel demand modeling, having been the first agency to adopt interactive planning software in the 1980s, prototype tour-based models for pricing analyses in the 1990s, and TRANSIMS early deployment in 2004-07. He is an emeritus (distinguished) member of TRB's Travel Demand Forecasting Committee, where he served for over 20 years, including as chairman. He is presently involved in the development of new survey and modeling methods for the Oregon DOT, and has played a key role in several dozen peer reviews across North America.
Eric Miller is a professor of civil engineering at the University of Toronto, and chair of TRB's Subcommittee on Integrated Land Use-Transportation Modeling. He has over 20 years of experience pioneering the integration of these models, to include a highly successful microsimulation model of land use for Toronto. He is one of the few experts in this realm who are not also developers and proponents of their own software, giving him greater flexibility in defining the range of possibilities open to SEMCOG. Eric is also a distinguished emeritus member of TRB's Travel Demand Forecasting Committee.
Kermit Wies, Deputy Executive Director for Research and Analysis, CMAP, has over 24 years' experience in urban systems modeling and planning and is the principal author of the 2030 Regional Transportation Plan for the Chicago metropolitan area. Kermit recently served as project manager for the Chicago regional household travel and activity inventory which involves detailed interviewing and tracking travel of over 10,000 households. He is now leading CMAP's evolution from traditional travel demand modeling to an advanced practice framework including land use integration, activity-based travel demand estimation and microsimulation. Kermit has overall responsibility for CMAP's research, analysis and evaluation work program in support of developing the Chicago region's 2040 comprehensive land use and transportation plan.
Johanna Zmud is a former chair of TRB's Travel Survey Methods Committee and a widely respected expert in travel data programs. She is currently working at the RAND Corporation, where she is continuing research into travel behavior and transportation policies. Prior to that she was the President of NuStats, one of the largest market research firms specializing in travel data collection. In her role there, she directed scores of large-scale surveys, and pioneered the use of GPS in travel data collection.
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