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06/25/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/25/2024 08:16
Jennifer Dill of Portland State University Named Editor in Chief of the Transportation Research Record
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Jennifer Dill of Portland State University Named Editor-in-Chief of the Transportation Research Record
News Release| June 25, 2024
WASHINGTON - The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Transportation Research Board (TRB) announced today the appointment of Jennifer Dill as editor-in-chief of its flagship journal, the Transportation Research Record (TRR). Dill will begin on July 15, 2024.
Dill is a professor in the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning and director of the Transportation Research and Education Center at Portland State University. She has served as a handling editor for the TRR since 2019 and is a current member of TRB's standing technical committee on women and gender in transportation. She previously chaired the standing technical committee on bicycle transportation, and was a member of committees on transportation demand management and innovative mobility services. Dill has also served on several cooperative research program panels and TRB conference planning committees.
Dill received her B.S. in environmental policy analysis and planning from UC Davis and a M.A. in urban planning from UCLA. Her Ph.D. was earned at UC Berkeley in city and regional planning. Her research has focused on decision-making at both the individual and institutional levels, with a particular interest in multimodal and active transportation and the impacts of these choices on health, equity, infrastructure, and the environment. Prior to entering academia, she worked as an environmental and transportation planner at the federal and regional levels.
Jennifer Dill
"The appointment of the first TRR editor-in-chief is a significant milestone for our journal," said Ann Brach, director of technical activities at TRB. "The TRR underwent significant modernizations in terms of its workflow and online discoverability in 2018. The review structure of the journal content was also changed in 2019 with the creation of a brand-new editorial board of which Dill was an inaugural member."
"TRB and TRR have played integral roles in my academic and professional life for over 25 years, so I am thrilled to take on this important position of editor-in-chief," said Dill. "I have always valued the role TRR plays in bridging research and practice - something central to my career - and look forward to collaborating with the TRR team and TRB volunteers to enhance the journal's role in improving our transportation system through high-quality research."
The Transportation Research Board is a program unit of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - private, nonprofit institutions that provide independent, objective analysis and advice to the nation to solve complex problems and inform public policy decisions related to science, engineering, and medicine. They operate under an 1863 congressional charter to the National Academy of Sciences, signed by President Lincoln.
Contact:
Paul Mackie, Director of Communications/Media
Transportation Research Board
202-334-2378; email [email protected]
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