Event
MTI Distinguished Seminar Series: Patricia Hu
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
A.J. Clark Forum, Room 1101, Clark Hall
Robert Herschbach
301 405 2057
rherschb@umd.edu
https://mti.umd.edu/news/story/mti-distinguished-seminar-series-patricia-hu
Patricia (Pat) Hu, director of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics will present an overview of the bureau, detailing its mandates, its major data programs and applications, challenges faced by the bureau, and initiatives taken by BTS to overcome those challenges and create opportunities.
Hu’s seminar is part of the Distinguished Seminar Series hosted by the Maryland Transportation Institute, a UMD-based hub bringing together interdisciplinary research from across Maryland universities. The event will take place from 2:30-3:30 pm at the A.J. Clark Forum (Room 1101) at Clark Hall, University of Maryland.
Hu has served as director of BTS since 2011. Prior to that appointment, she was the Director of the Center for Transportation Analysis at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she led a multidisciplinary team of researchers in tackling a variety of transportation challenges, from developing tools to applying nanotechnology to track commodity flow. As BTS Director, she serves as the US DOT’s Secretary’s senior advisor on data and statistics, and is responsible for directing a federal statistical agency to enhance the relevance, quality, timeliness, accessibility, and availability of transportation statistics and information to inform transportation decisions.
Hu is co-chair of TRB’s Transportation Research Record Review Board, serves on other TRB committees, and chairs the International Transport Forum’s Annual International Transport Statistics meeting, as well as ITF’s Transport Satellite Accounts Working Group. She served on the editorial advisory board of the international journal Accident Analysis & Prevention from 1996 to 1999, and on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Transportation and Statistics from 1998 to 2005. Hu received her B.S. in Statistics from the Chengchi University in Taiwan, and an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Guelph at Canada.
