Susan A. Shaheen
Honda Distinguished Scholar in Transportation
Policy & Behavioral Research, Program Manager,
California’s Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH)
Innovative Mobility Research Group, Director
(510) 231-9409
sashaheen@path.berkeley.edu
sashaheen@ucdavis.edu
http://www.its.berkeley.edu/sustainabilitycenter/people/susanshaheen.html
Ph.D., 1999, University of California, Davis
Susan Shaheen holds a joint research faculty appointment at California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH), headquartered at the University of California (UC) Berkeley, and at UC Davis’ Institute of Transportation Studies. In August 2003, Susan became the Policy & Behavioral Research Program Leader at California PATH. She also directs the Innovative Mobility Research group—housed at the California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT). In addition, she has served as a Special Assistant to the Director’s Office of the California Department of Transportation for over two years. In November 2000, she was honored as the first Honda Distinguished Scholar in Transportation.
Susan's interest in environmentally- and socially-beneficial technology applications led her to focus her doctoral dissertation on "smart" carsharing, linked to transit in the mid-1990s. She designed and tested the CarLink I and II pilot programs, using advanced technologies to support a commuter carsharing service from 1997 to 2002. In addition, she has maintained an extensive database on carsharing and station car trends in North America over the last five years. An internationally recognized leader in innovative mobility research, she continues to focus on carsharing, as well as several new areas, including: smart parking management, smart growth/development, fuel cell vehicles, and the Segway Human Transporter.
She has a Ph.D. in ecology, focusing on technology management and the environmental aspects of transportation, from UC Davis (1999); an MS in public policy analysis from the University of Rochester (1990); and a BA in political science and English (writing concentration) from Nazareth College (1988). She also has a French Proficiency Certificate from the University of Paris, Sorbonne (1990), and a Graduate Certificate in Constitutional History from the University of Oxford (1988), sponsored by the English Speaking Union’s Eisenhower scholarship. She completed her post-doctoral studies on advanced public transportation systems at UC Berkeley in 2001. She has over twelve years of professional experience in transportation and environmental policy.
While a doctoral candidate, she received a variety of awards, including the University of California’s Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year, the Dwight David Eisenhower Fellowship (ranked 3rd in nation), a National Science Foundation Award, an Eno Leadership Fellowship, and a National Air and Waste Management Association Scholarship (ranked 2nd among all applicants). She has co-authored one book, twelve journal articles, and over twenty-five reports and proceedings articles. Recently, she wrote the introduction to Cool Careers for Girls as Environmentalists (2002). She is also the founding chair of the Carsharing/Station Car Subcommittee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and an active member of TRB’s Committee on New Transportation Systems and Technologies.
Shaheen, Susan A., Mollyanne Meyn, and Kamill Wipyewski. "U.S. Shared-Use Vehicle Survey Findings: Opportunities and Obstacles for Carsharing and Station Car Growth," Transportation Research Record (2003)
Shaheen, Susan A. Introduction. Cool Careers for Girls as Environmentalists. By Ceel Pasternak. Manassas Park, VA: Impact Publications (2002)
Shaheen, Susan A., John Wright, and Daniel Sperling. "California's Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate-Linking Clean Fuel Cars, Carsharing, and Station Car Strategies," Transportation Research Record. No. 1791, pp. 113-120 (2002)