Canada

Laetitia Dablanc is a senior researcher at the French Institute of science and technology for transport, development and networks (IFSTTAR). Her areas of research are freight transport, freight and environment, sustainable transport, urban logistics, rail freight, freight transport policies.Laetitia is a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California/METRANS during 2011-2012 academic year.

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East U.S.

Jonathan L. Gifford is Associate Dean for Research in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, and the director of the Master's in Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics program . Dr. Gifford's primary area of expertise is transportation and public policy, with a particular focus on transportation and land use. His recent research investigates transportation finance and the role of public private partnerships, and behavioral considerations in transportation planning.

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West U.S.

Samer Madanat is the Xenel Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and the Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.

His research and teaching interests are in the area of Transportation and Infrastructure Management, with an emphasis on modeling facility performance, the development of optimal management policies under uncertainty, and the integration of sustainability considerations in the transportation management process. He has published extensively in refereed archival journals and conference proceedings.

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