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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