TRB Volunteer Profile: Patricia S. Hu
Patricia S. Hu, Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) at the U.S. Department of Transportation, is a featured volunteer in the
TR News. Ms. Hu trained as a statistician and shifted her career into transportation more than 35 years ago. As BTS's director, she has steered the agency toward enhancing the relevance, quality, timeliness, coverage, accessibility, and availability of transportation decisions. Ms. Hu has also directed the BTS's focus on alternative data sources, collection techniques to fill long-term data gaps, and visual analytics to distill massive amounts of data.
Prior to her work at BTS, Ms. Hu was director of the Center for Transportation Analysis at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Here, she developed policy studies and scalable system solutions to address a wide range of transportation issues. For the past three decades, Ms. Hu has led numerous research projects in the areas of travel behavior, traffic operations, transportation safety and security, data models, and visualization. She has also served on three National Research Council Committees -- the National Tire Efficiency Study; the Committee on Planning for Catastrophe: A Blueprint for Improving Geospatial Data, Tools, and Infrastructure; and and the Long-Term Pavement Performance Committee.
At TRB, Ms. Hu has overseen two reliability projects through the SHRP-2 program, and has been a member of more than 30 standing committees and NCHRP project panels. She also currently serves as a cochair of the Review Advisory Board of the
Transportation Research Record.
The TR News is a bimonthly publication of TRB that features articles on innovative and timely research and development activities in all modes of transportation.
This Summary Last Modified On: 8/13/2019