PATRICIA LYON MOKHTARIAN
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Chair, Transportation Technology and
Policy Graduate Program, and
Associate Director for Education, Institute of Transportation Studies
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

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Patricia Mokhtarian is a Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering,
the Associate Director for Education of the Institute
of Transportation Studies, and
Chair
of the interdisciplinary graduate program in Transportation
Technology and Policy. Dr. Mokhtarian has specialized in the
application of rigorous quantitative methods to the study of travel
behavior
for more than 30 years, authoring or co-authoring more than 160
refereed
journal articles, technical reports, and other publications.
A key
research
interest has been the impact of telecommunications technology on travel
behavior, with additional interests in land use and transportation
interactions (especially the influence of the built environment on
travel behavior, after accounting for self-selection), attitudes
toward travel itself, congestion-response behavior,
travel time
budgets, induced demand, and the transportation/air quality impacts of
transportation demand management measures.
Dr. Mokhtarian is the founding chair of both the International
Telework Association and Council and the Committee on
Telecommunications
and Travel Behavior of the Transportation
Research Board. She is an emeritus member of the latter
committee, as well as of the TRB Committee on
Traveler
Behavior and Values. She is North American co-editor of Transportation, and on the
editorial
boards of the Transportation
Research Part A, Transport
Policy, and
Transportation Letters
journals.
She has served on several National
Academy of
Sciences and Transportation Research Board study committees, most
recently the TRB Study Committee on the Relationships
among Development Patterns, Vehicle-miles Traveled, and Energy
Consumption; and the TRB/Institute of Medicine Study Committee on Physical
Activity, Health, Transportation, and Land Use.
Dr. Mokhtarian joined UC Davis in 1990, after nine years in regional
planning and consulting in Southern California. She obtained her
Ph.D. in Operations Research from Northwestern
University in 1981, and an M.S. in OR from Northwestern in
1977.
Her undergraduate degree (summa cum laude) is in Mathematics, from Florida
State University.
(530) 752-7062
Fax: (530) 752-7872
plmokhtarian@ucdavis.edu
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