Appendix C

Study Committee Biographical Information

B. Starr McMullen (Chair) is a professor emeritus at Oregon State University where she was a professor of economics, serving twice as the department chair. Her research centered on competition, pricing, and deregulation of the airline, rail, trucking, and inland waterway industries. Her research on the trucking industry included studying rates paid to trucking companies operating fleets and owner-operators. Her research on the socioeconomics impacts of changing from a highway fuel tax to a mileage-based user fee earned her the researcher of the year award from Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium. She served on the Oregon Department of Transportation’s highway cost allocation study panel and the Oregon Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors. She is a past president of the Transportation Research Forum and the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the American Economic Association. She was previously a member of the Transportation Research Board committee studying funding of the inland waterways. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Yemisi A. Bolumole is the Ryder Endowed Professor of Supply Chain Management at the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee. Her research has focused on transportation investment policy and its implications for business-to-government interactions and supply chain efficiency. Her research has received several awards, including the LaLonde Prize for Best Paper in the Journal of Business Logistics, and attracted attention during the pandemic, culminating in an invited multi-part series of papers published in the Supply Chain Management Review Journal. She is

a regular speaker at supply chain events and has served on several public task forces, including as a member of the advisory board of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority/Florida Department of Transportation Regional Transportation Agency Study. She earned her Ph.D. in logistics and supply chain management from Cranfield University in the United Kingdom.

Stephen V. Burks is a professor of economics and management at the University of Minnesota Morris, where he has taught since 1999. His research has centered on the trucking industry labor market. He is a former long-distance truck driver, which spurred his interest in labor economics. He co-founded the Truckers and Turnover Project in 2005, earning honors for project papers in multiple years and project research, both conventional and experimental. He has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Quantitative Economics, Experimental Economics, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and Monthly Labor Review. He was a member and the chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Standing Technical Committee on Trucking Industry Research. He was awarded the University of Minnesota Morris Distinguished Faculty Research Award in 2014. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Alicia L. Carriquiry (NAM) is a distinguished professor of liberal arts and sciences and the president’s chair in statistics with the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University. Her main research interest is the development and implementation of statistical methods and their principled application in public policy. Much of her work has focused on measurement error problems, the analysis of data arising from complex surveys, and Bayesian methods. She is the director of the Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence, a National Institute of Standards and Technology Center of Excellence. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the International Statistical Institute. She earned a Ph.D. in statistics and animal science from Iowa State University.

Feng Guo is a professor of statistics at the Virginia Polytechnical Institute State University with a joint appointment with the Virginia Transportation Institute. His primary research interests are traffic safety, driver behavior assessment, naturalistic driving study modeling, automated driving systems evaluation, and Bayesian methods. He has served as the principal investigator for multiple research projects on truck safety, driver fatigue, hours of service, and truck driver health sponsored by the Federal Motor Carrier

Safety Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. He has served as the chair of the Transportation Statistics Interest Group of the American Statistical Association. He has served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Research Methodologies and Statistical Approaches to Understanding Driver Fatigue Factors in Motor Carrier Safety and Driver Health. He earned a Ph.D. in statistics and transportation engineering from the University of Connecticut.

Brenda M. Lantz is the associate director of North Dakota State University’s Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute and the program director for the Commercial Vehicle Safety Center. The Center serves as a point of contact for universities, law enforcement, and other agencies seeking assistance to establish partnerships to improve commercial vehicle safety in the Western region of the United States. She has more than 30 years of experience in transportation research and has worked extensively with both government agencies and private industry. She was the chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Committee for Truck and Bus Safety and a member of the study committee for a Review of U.S. Department of Transportation Truck Size and Weight Study. She earned a Ph.D. in business administration from The Pennsylvania State University.

Caroline Mays is the director of planning and modal programs at the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). She has held multiple positions at TxDOT, including statewide freight coordinator, freight planning branch manager, director of freight and international trade/border section, and director of freight, trade, and connectivity. She is now responsible for directing and overseeing the Aviation, Maritime, Public Transportation, Rail, and Transportation Planning and Programming Divisions. She is a member of the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Certified Planners. She serves as the vice-chair of the Special Committee on Freight of the Association of American State Highway Transportation and is a member of the Transportation Research Board Planning and Logistics Committee. She earned a master’s degree of planning from the University of Toronto.

Jason W. Miller is an associate professor of supply chain management and the interim chair of the Department of Supply Chain Management at the Michigan State University Eli Broad College of Business. His research focus is on motor carrier operations and his body of work consists of dozens of peer-reviewed academic journal articles on carrier safety compliance, productivity, driver turnover, freight market dynamics, and service diversification. He has given presentations at numerous transportation and supply

chain conferences. His research has won or been nominated for best paper awards in major academic journals and at conferences, and he has been cited extensively by numerous media outlets. He earned a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.

Clinton V. Oster, Jr., is a professor emeritus and the former associate dean for the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. His research has centered on aviation safety, airline economics and competition policy, energy policy, and environmental and natural resource policy. He has chaired and served on numerous National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees, including as the chair of the Committee for the Study of Traffic Safety Lessons from Benchmark Nations, the Committee on the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, and the Committee on the Effects of Commuting on Pilot Fatigue. He was a member of the Committee for Guidance on Setting and Enforcing Speed Limits, the Committee for a Study on Air Passenger Service and Safety Since Deregulation, and the Committee on the Intercity Passenger Travel. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

Allen L. Schirm retired from Mathematica Policy Research where he held numerous positions, including vice president, director of human services research, director of methods, and senior fellow. He has extensive experience designing and conducting experimental and non-experimental evaluations; collecting survey data; and performing statistical analyses and deriving statistical estimates pertaining to federal and state programs. In 2016, he was designated a National Associate of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine after having served on numerous study committees as a member and chair. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the former chair of the ASA Social Statistics Section. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.