Who We Are

Michael has over 30 years of experience in freight and intermodal planning, seaport planning, commercial vehicle operations, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), freight technology applications, and transportation planning. He has helped clients develop and implement freight programs, and has led national research designed to document best practices and provide guidelines for establishing successful freight programs. His work has included regional and state freight plans, truck parking studies, economic impacts of freight, seaport access and seaport planning, preparation of discretionary grant applications, freight technology testing and evaluation, commodity flow analysis, public and private section stakeholder engagement strategies and more. Throughout his career he has helped his clients tackle an every changing and evolving set of freight transportation challenges.

Ms. Ni joined Cambridge Systematics in 2019 as a Travel Demand Modeler with diverse range of skills and interests in travel demand modeling, big data analytics, transportation and land use, and transportation policies.

Interests & Hobbies

Xuenan likes soccer and boxing (pre-covid).

Ms. Charly Gutierrez is a Junior Associate of Cambridge Systematics (CS) with 2 years of experience in transportation safety planning, transportation policy planning, regional multimodal transportation and transit planning, urban planning, land use planning. Charly also has experience in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and its applications to perform spatial analysis, data manipulation, and map production. 

Interests & Hobbies

In her free time, Charly enjoys boating, biking, and making homemade pasta. She lives in Tampa, Florida with her high energetic Australian Shepherd name Zara. 

Sha’Von R. Terrell is an Analyst Jr. II (Senior Professional) with Cambridge Systematics, Inc. (CS) who holds seven years of industry experience and a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Morgan State University. Sha’Von has technical skills in project management, fundraising, grant-writing, geographic information systems (GIS), and public speaking and presentations. Sha’Von also brings a variety of competencies such as fostering community partnerships, creating engaging alliances within the historically marginalized communities as well as building and preserving relationships across sectors of nonprofit, Government, and faith institutions.

Interests & Hobbies

Sha'Von enjoys gardening, exploring local trails, and traveling. 

Rich has more than 22 years of experience in transportation planning at the Federal, state, and local levels. He provides strategic planning, policy analysis, and management advice to address complex transportation challenges, with a focus on metropolitan planning and performance-based planning and programming. He has worked with Metropolitan Planning Organizations and their planning partners across the country as staff, consultant, and association representative. He has expertise in developing and applying objective analytical methods to assess and select effective approaches to a range of transportation issue areas.

Interests & Hobbies

In his free time, Rich enjoys making cocktails for family and friends and spending time outdoors.

Dan Haake leverages 15+ years of experience to help clients navigate infrastructure and policy challenges to improve their quality-of-life and competitiveness in today’s global marketplace. He has advised public and private organizations in 25 states and four countries on a wide range of transportation issues, including: goods movement, mobility, funding/financing, policy and electrification.

A national leader, Dan serves as the chair of TRB’s Trucking Industry Research Committee and past chair of ITE’s Urban Goods Movement Committee. He is an active member of APA’s national Legislative and Policy Committee and TRB’s Intermodal Freight Transport Committee. Dan has written over 25 publications, developed training courses and conferences, and served as an adjunct professor. He has been on the record for CQ Roll Call, NPR and Bloomberg.

Ishraque is a transportation specialist with expertise in big data analytics, cloud computing, algorithm design, travel and freight demand modeling, network development, statistical modeling, and spatial analysis. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and a Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering from Virginia Tech, USA.

Interests & Hobbies

In his free time, Ishraque enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, listening to music, and watching movies.

Leah Mooney is a Senior Project Manager (Sr. Associate) with close to 20 years public sector experience and over 15 years in strategic transportation and transit planning and project financing. With a background in infrastructure and operations, she has supported large scale planning efforts, including oversight of preliminary engineering, NEPA and FTA approvals. Leah has overseen significant visionary projects, including the CTA’s path to ADA accessibility: the All Stations Accessibility Program (ASAP) and the Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (ETOD) plans. She also provides tactical, hands-on support for securing grants and funding, with successful submissions for Capital Investment Grants, including Full-Funding Grant Agreements (FFGA), Federal, state, and local competitive grants, as well as value capture funding, such as Chicago’s Tax-Increment Financing program (TIF).

Interests & Hobbies

Leah is a gardener, a hiker, a biker, a baker, a reader of mysteries, and (together with her better half) is the parent of two children and two dogs.

Scott focuses on market and operations analysis of transit and shared mobility systems around the US. He is motivated by historic inequity, a changing climate, and the need to build strong and resilient communities. Pulling together cutting-edge data analytics and context-sensitive stakeholder engagement into a cohesive and innovative planning approach, Scott works with his colleagues to help clients plan, fund, and operate the next generation of mobility options.

Interests & Hobbies

Originally from North Carolina, Scott resides in Austin, TX where he rides his bicycle, plays steel guitar in an alt-country band, and survives on a steady diet of pollo asado and Lone Star Light.

Alex is a transportation analyst with 15 years of experience in transportation planning and big data. Prior to joining CS in 2023, he worked in the Division of Operations Planning for MTA New York City Transit for seven years. Alex brings expertise in transit operations, technology, data, and analytics.

Interests & Hobbies

Outside of work, Alex is usually watching RuPaul's Drag Race or playing with kitchen gadgets. He lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Suseel Indrakanti, AICP is a Principal and the Practice Lead for Resilience and Sustainability at CS. Over his 16 years of experience, Suseel has provided leadership and expertise on projects pertaining to transportation resilience, climate action planning, and climate finance. He has worked on major practice-leading climate resilience and greenhouse gas mitigating projects in various settings, including local, State, regional, and international efforts and for a variety of clients. His extensive experience involves conducting climate change vulnerability and risk assessments, including the design of tools that support the integration of adaptation planning into broader transportation project life-cycle and development processes. He supported several FHWA resilience pilots over the years. He has led various efforts on mainstreaming climate change considerations into transportation policy-making and enabling agencies to create frameworks for making climate-resilient transport investments.

Interests & Hobbies

Suseel loves music and likes to spend time with family.

Dr. Serigos is an infrastructure management specialist using his expertise in statistical analysis and modeling asset performance and traffic data to support transportation asset management and system performance improvement. He has extensive experience developing databases and analyzing infrastructure asset data to develop performance models, interactive tools, and visualizations to conduct the scenario analyses for the performance target setting process and investment strategies development.

Flora Castillo has over 20 years of experience as an accomplished and nationally recognized healthcare executive and a mobility and public transportation thought leader. Castillo is the President of Pivot Strategies, LLC, a consulting firm serving the infrastructure, aviation, healthcare and insurance industries. Her executive leadership in healthcare has led to transformative customer engagement, acquisition and health promotion strategies for the nation’s leading healthcare companies, including UnitedHealthcare and AmeriHealth Caritas. As former Vice President of Transportation for UnitedHealth Group, Castillo led innovative pilots to address social determinants of health barriers and spearheaded a medical transportation services program. Castillo also brings decades of experience as a former member of the board for multiple non-profit equity, transit and media organizations including National Urban Fellows, Rail-Volution, WHYY and others. In addition, Castillo was the first Latina and sixth woman elected chair to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). In this role, Castillo represented APTA as an industry spokesperson in the U.S., Canada and other international associations. Serving as a senior policymaker and board member of New Jersey Transit between 1999 and 2019, Castillo was a champion for equity and affordability for transit-dependent riders and an advocate for service expansions and emerging technologies. Castillo holds a B.S. in Management Business Administration from Long Island University.

Feng Liu, Ph.D., is a Principal at Cambridge Systematics, Inc. (CS), serving as National Practice Lead in Model Application and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Manager for travel demand forecasting. Dr. Liu had more than 25 years of experience in both public and private sectors, including a wide spectrum of planning and modeling issues at local, metropolitan, and state levels. He has proven strong technical expertise in a variety of state-of-practice and state-of-art modeling techniques and methods, including model development in small urbanized areas, medium and large metropolitan areas, and at the statewide level, and a proven record of successfully applying a variety of models to a wide range of planning issues, such as regional, corridor, and sub-area planning, transit and highway planning, alternatives analysis, FTA New Start projects, traffic and revenue forecasting, Smart Growth, long-range transportation planning, and environmental justice analysis. He has a proven track record of managing complex and challenging projects.

Interests & Hobbies

In his free time, Feng enjoys classical music, travel, and outdoor activities.

Roan Bennett, a Vice President of Cambridge Systematics, has over 20 years of experience leading public-sector transportation agencies and providing value-added consulting services to clients. Roan has designed, implemented, and/or executed statewide and agency-level performance-based planning programs to ensure that customers are receiving the services that they need, agency priorities are being met and aligned with state-wide and federal goals, objectives and priorities, and public funds are being maximized. Roan also has been personally engaged in outreach and engagement activities to ensure that his agencies fully appreciate the needs of its customers. An experienced consultant, Roan’s areas of expertise includes: capital program management for large state agencies; performance measures and management; outreach and engagement; capital planning; strategic planning, multimodal transportation planning; operations management analysis; and standards oversight.

Interests & Hobbies

In my free time I love to travel with my family, attending all my kids extra curricular activities, playing golf and rooting for all my favorite New England sports teams.

Ms. Wakeman has more than 10 years of experience and serves as a Senior Designer. At Cambridge Systematics (CS), she conceives and creates a full range of design products, including infographics, logos, product overviews, brochures, print ads, posters, and cards—integrating new design concepts and themes to meet unique requirements of individual clients. She edits documents for grammar, spelling, punctuation, format, and overall consistency according to the firm’s style sheet or client guidelines. She creates special formats and templates from client specifications and proofreads completed hard copies of documents for revision quality and correct formatting. She is trained in ArcGIS and has developed a range of maps for project deliverables. In addition, she has extensive experience in Section 508 compliance.

Interests & Hobbies

In her free time she enjoys playing ultimate frisbee, hiking, and cooking new dishes.

Danny Shopf is an Associate with Cambridge Systematics, Inc. He has experience in long range policy planning and safety planning. Danny provides support for the development and implementation of Florida's statewide long range plan, the Florida Transportation Plan (FTP) and Florida high-priority transportation network with the Strategic Intermodal System (SIS) Policy Plan. Danny has also developed Strategic Highway Safety Plans (SHSPs) for multiple states and currently supports multiple traffic safety coalitions focused on SHSP implementation.

David brings 20 years of experience in statewide and regional multimodal transportation planning, policy analysis, performance management, climate change mitigation, and short- and long-range plan project prioritization. Over the last decade, he has managed or supported a diversity of statewide and regional, high-profile planning and policy projects, including multiple examples throughout the mid-Atlantic region, including West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia, as well as in the southeast throughout North Carolina and Georgia.

Interests & Hobbies

David enjoys spending time with his family, including coaching youth sports teams, hiking, and mountain biking.

Rachel Copperman has expertise in developing and applying travel demand models. Her focus areas include developing advanced and innovative models and intercity passenger rail and urban transit ridership forecasting. She is a leading expert in incorporating uncertainty and risk analysis within the travel forecasting process.

Joey brings over 23 years of experience working in the IT space, managing all aspects of IT strategy for various high-growth, multi-location on-prem and fully-remote companies. He takes a human/user-centric approach to IT, evaluating the benefits of technology to corporate goals, but also focusing on how the user experience can be improved, improving productivity as well as comfort for those interacting with technology.

Interests & Hobbies

In his free time, Joey is a songwriter and pianist. He is also an avid bowler, and is one strike away from a perfect 300.

Levon Mikaelian specializes in spatial and network analysis using GIS and scripting tools, as well as transportation safety analysis, performance measurement, and data visualization. His previous research includes spatial statistical analysis of the relationships between multimodal transportation networks and socioeconomic outcomes. For his work at CS, he regularly uses R, Python, and SAS, and has a working knowledge of several other programming languages.

Interests & Hobbies

In his spare time, Levon likes to read, ride his bike, and watch Star Trek. He also enjoys exploring the trails and waterways around Tallahassee.

Karl graduated from UC Berkeley in December 2020 with a Master of City Planning and MS in Transportation Engineering. During his graduate studies, Karl focused his research on micromobility policy and transit use and demand. Prior to that, Karl worked as an energy consultant for clients in New England and graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine.

Interests & Hobbies

Karl enjoys staying active in his free time by hiking, swimming, biking, and playing tennis.

Antoinette is a transportation analyst dedicated to resilience and sustainability planning at CS. She brings strong expertise in research, policy and climate adaptation planning, environmental analysis, and risk assessment to a variety of national, statewide, and MPO studies and long-range plans. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering with a Sustainability focus from Cornell University.

Interests & Hobbies

Outside of work, Antoinette is a huge dog lover who enjoys painting, cooking and playing tennis.

Mr. Stock is a economist, researcher and quantitative analyst experienced in developing and executing innovative methods to collect and analyze information to support client research goals. His clients have included the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and Transport Canada, as well as many regional, state and metropolitan agencies. His 40 years of experience includes regional economic impact assessment, benefit/cost analysis, operations analysis, policy analysis, business case development, grant writing, and research design and management. His focus for the past 27 years has been on determining impacts of programmatic, technological and infrastructure improvements on the profitability, efficiency, safety and security of transportation systems.

Kirk T. Steudle is an independent senior executive advisor and President of the Steudle Executive Group, LLC focused on advancing national transportation policy, executive coaching, and integrating technology into transportation.  His current clients include public agencies, private businesses, and academic institutions.  He is a noted expert in surface transportation and a nationally recognized leader in the integration of technology into transportation and the development of connected vehicle technology.

During his 32-year public employee career, he served as Director of the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) from 2006-2018 directly serving both Democrat Governor Jennifer Granholm and Republican Governor Rick Snyder. Aside from his political, executive and management experience, he is a registered engineer in Michigan and had extensive experience in construction project management with his Civil Engineering degree focused on Construction Engineering. Kirk worked in every aspect of the DOT from Design and Maintenance to Permitting and Operations. He was instrumental in the significant development of the CAV ecosystem in Michigan.

Kirk, recently retired as Sr Vice President from Econolite Systems, an international traffic management and software company headquartered in California, where he ran the software, ITS integration, and field services businesses as well as the consulting services business.

He has led and contributed to significant research work with NCHRP, many with Cambridge Systematics, most recently completing Phase 1 of the National Vision for Transportation and currently starting Phase 2.  Previously he was the Principal Investigator for the development of the AASHTO Strategic plan and numerous asset management and ITS projects.

Mr. Steudle has extensive industry and business contacts developed over his 4-decade career. He served as president to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, AASHTO, chaired the Transportation Research Board, TRB, executive committee and chaired for the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, ITSA, Board of Directors. He is the current President of the Engineering Society of Detroit, a Board Trustee of Lawrence Technological University, serves on the Texas Technology Task Force and previously was a Board member of the Center for Automotive Research and an elected City Council member for the City of Essexville, Michigan.

Mr. Ullah brings experience in transportation planning, travel demand modeling, forecasting and simulation, and several modeling software packages, including VOYAGER, TP+,TransCAD, EMME, VISUM and TRANPLAN. He also has experience in transit planning, freight forecasting, air quality analysis and integration between traffic and simulation models. Registered Professional Engineer in the state of Massachusetts.

Interests & Hobbies

Lives in Boston and enjoys watching movies and sports in his free time.

Heath Lupton joined Cambridge Systematics as a Travel Demand Modeler with experience in data analytics and travel demand modeling practices. Heath also has experience in transportation planning and is proficient in QGIS, ArcGIS, R, and Python.

Brad is the President & CEO of Cambridge Systematics, Inc. Prior to his appointment as CEO in 2011, he founded and led several CS business lines focused on technology planning in transportation, freight transportation, and developing and implementing software solutions for our clients. Before joining CS, Brad worked for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and in Civil Engineering Group at United Parcel Service. He has a B.S., in Business Management from Northeastern University.

Interests & Hobbies

Brad lives outside of Boston with his wife and three sons. In his free time Brad enjoys playing golf and watching his kids play football, hockey and lacrosse. He also enjoys spending time on Long Island, Maine, where he is a member of the Civic Association's Board of Directors.

Over 20 years of experience in facilities and office services management.  Has worked in various industries including banking, financial services and retail technology.

Interests & Hobbies

Enjoys live music, traveling, exercising, horror movies/shows and Persian culture/language/foods.

Lily holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Texas State University in San Marcos, TX as well as a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. Prior to joining CS, Lily worked as a Management and Program Analyst Student Trainee with the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General where she supported the Procurement & Acquisitions auditing team. Prior to this, Lily managed the Alamo Commutes transportation demand management program at the Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization in San Antonio, TX.

Interests & Hobbies

In her spare time, she enjoys all things food - eating it, reviewing it, cooking it, watching it, reading about it, and talking about it. She lives in Ithaca, NY with her fiancé and rescue dog.

I work in traffic operations and I have been with CS for over three and half years. My work areas include transportation system management and operations (TSMO), intelligent transportation systems (ITS), traffic signal design and analysis, travel time analysis, traffic safety studies and transportation data analysis. I have been involved in diverse projects focused on areas such as integrated corridor management, managed lanes operations, connected and autonomous vehicles, DTA simulations etc. My simulation/intersection analysis skills include AIMSUN, VISSIM, TransModeler, VISTRO and SYNCHRO, spatial analysis skills include QGIS and ArcGIS, and my programming and analytical skills include Python, MATLAB, R Studio, Tableau and JMP.

Interests & Hobbies

My hobbies include playing and watching cricket and soccer; photography; watching movies; and travelling. I am a fun loving person and I like to make new friends.

Ms. Stockton is a Transportation Analyst with expertise in long-range multimodal transportation planning, active transportation planning and safety, public health, and report writing. With Masters degrees in city and regional planning and public health, in addition to professional experience, Ms. Stockton is skilled at analyzing and synthesizing quantitative and qualitative data.

Interests & Hobbies

In her free time, Emma enjoys reading and taking long walks in nature and around the city. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two orange cats.

Latasha has 20 years of marketing experience, serving in various roles as a customer loyalty marketing manager, marketing coordinator, and bid analyst. In these roles, Latasha led or co-led conference and event planning; participated in tradeshows around the country; crafted marketing communication, including company newsletters, mailers, brochures, and website content; and partnered with numerous sales teams in the coordination and development of proposals. At CS, Latasha leverages her extensive proposal experience as Marketing Manager, leading a team of high-performing proposal specialists who partner with consultant teams for the pursuit of new business.

Interests & Hobbies

Latasha lives in metropolitan Atlanta with her husband and son, and enjoys reading and attending outdoor events. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Florida State University and is a member of APMP, the Association for Proposal Management Professionals.

Brian has extensive operations and planning experience in both the public and private sector of the transportation profession.  In the public sector, Brian has worked for FHWA and in Las Vegas.  In the private sector, Brian has been a consultant and led business development for traffic technology vendors.  Brian began his career as an officer in the Navy Civil Engineering Corp with active and reserve duty assignments, including some with the Construction Battalion (Seabees).  Brian is a registered Professional Engineer in Nevada.

His career highlight, to date, is serving as Director for 10 years at the Las Vegas traffic management center, known as FAST.  FAST is unique across the globe in that it coordinates traffic signals for all the local entities and operates and maintains the freeway ITS assets for Nevada DOT.  The FAST TMC is also the home for the Nevada State Police Southern Command, and the direct relationship between FAST and law enforcement has been recognized across the globe as a leading example.

Brian has led national and international training sessions and made presentations throughout the US and in Europe, Australia, the Middle East, China, SE Asia, and the Caribbean.  In May of 2024, on behalf of the International Road Federation, Brian conducted 34 hours of online and in-person training for the Road Transport Authority (RTA) of Dubai on the topics of Cooperative ITS and using ITS to mitigate Climate Change.

Prior to working for FAST, Brian was responsible for the Las Vegas MPO travel demand forecasting model and provided training and technical assistance on modeling for FHWA during the early years of his career.

Interests & Hobbies

Brian and his wife Kendra have four children and one granddaughter.  They enjoy time at the Lifetime Gym in Henderson, NV as well as US and international travel--Brian has visited all 50 states and over 50 countries.  Brian played backgammon at the 2021 World Championship tournament in Monte Carlo and is always open for a high-stakes match ;) 

Scott Meeks has more than 30 years of software experience and has served as Architect, Technical Lead, and Principal Engineer on a wide variety of software projects for transportation agencies.

Interests & Hobbies

In his free time, Scott enjoys reading, playing board games, camping, hiking, and attending science fiction conventions.

Kaveh is a recognized national expert in freight data and modeling. He has published books and numerous peer reviewed papers in prestigious journals and academic conferences. Kaveh is an active member of the TRB’s Freight Transportation Data (AED70), Freight Transportation Planning (AT015), and Freight Modeling (AT015-1) committees. He has led national, statewide, and regional freight modeling projects with various agencies such as Federal (FHWA, TRB), State DOTs (such as California, Florida, New York, Michigan, Oregon, and Utah), and regional (such as SANDAG, SCAG, MTC, CMAP, and SEMCOG). He has published an ACRP Report (2017) which synthesizes and estimates truck trip generation rates for airport air cargo activities. He has also published an FHWA Report (2019) which evaluates the handful of behavioral/agent-based supply chain freight models in the U.S.

Interests & Hobbies

Kaveh lives in San Diego, California and enjoys outdoor activities and playing competitive sports (soccer, volleyball, table tennis, foosball, chess, swimming, etc.) all year round. He loves board games, eating Persian food, and traveling with his wife in his free time. Kaveh has a strong passion for riddles and mathematics.

Throughout his career at CS, Joe Zissman has sought creative, innovative solutions to transportation problems. He takes pride in a track record of engaging products that are attractive, communicate with clarity, and reflect well on clients. He has substantial experience working with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation on a diverse slate of projects: asset management, capital planning, freight and multimodal planning, shared travel, and congestion management. He has supported public sector clients across the United States in all of these fields as well, and has been a substantial contributor to Federal research on performance, asset, and risk management, communication, and data visualization.

Interests & Hobbies

Joe has had the wonderful luck to apply his passion for Boston's urban and development history in so much of his professional work. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dan is a senior freight project manager with 19 years of experience in transportation planning and 18 years in public relations, outreach, and marketing. In addition to managing regional and state freight plans, recently he has led numerous truck parking studies. Dan has also served as PM or planning lead for long-range planning studies; multi-state corridor studies and coalitions; bicycle and pedestrian master plans; and other transportation planning projects. He has a bachelor's degree in International Relations from Brigham Young University, and master’s degree in Environmental Management and Policy from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Dan is assigned to our Los Angeles office but works from his home in Henderson, NV.

Interests & Hobbies

Dan's loves playing with his grandkids, canyoneering, and researching his family's history. Don't ask him about any of these unless you have time to spare.

Richard is a Junior Analyst at Cambridge Systematics (CS) and has been a team member since 2018. In his 3 years with CS he has worked in various planning related capacities including congestion management, transit planning, long range plans, safety studies, resilience planning and other technical and non-technical capacities. Prior to his joining CS, he worked with the Mobility Policy Research team at the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) at the University of South Florida for 4 years where he conducted Florida travel behavior research that informed Florida Department of Transportation Central Office decision making. Throughout his time at CUTR he earned his Bachelor and Masters degrees in Transportation Engineering, held office with the University’s Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) chapter, was the captain and champion of the ITE National Traffic Bowl competition, and was the recipient of the United States Department of Transportation National Center for Transit Research Outstanding Student of the Year Award 2017. He is currently located in the CS Denver office where he works closely with the Colorado DOT Freight Advisory Council and the Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure.

Interests & Hobbies

Richard's interests include playing and watching sports of all kinds, hiking, swimming, exploring local restaurants and challenging himself to try new things.

Steve has spent the bulk of his career working to use technology to improve commercial vehicle safety and mobility. He has helped over two dozen states plan and/or implement their Intelligent Transportation Systems programs and has worked extensively with USDOT. While still working with some clients, Steve now spends most of this time overseeing CS' Operations as our Chief Operating Officer.

Interests & Hobbies

In his free time, Steve loves to spend time with his family and enjoys traveling. He anxiously awaits his family's annual vacation to Cape Cod (Cape Week!) and spends most long weekends during the summer with family on Saratoga Lake in upstate New York. An avid sports fan, Steve loves all New England sports teams and can often be heard talking about the latest results from his daughter's swim meets. Regardless of the time, you are apt to find Steve with a Cold Brew Nitro in hand as he looks to take on the next challenge of the day.

Mike Carter has degrees in applied mathematics and data science from American University. Before joining CS, he worked with the United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) as a Data Research Fellow. His work has focused on freight movements at the national level, including building small-area estimation models and tracking the movements of marine shipping chassis.

Interests & Hobbies

Outside of work, Mike likes baseball, weightlifting, and hanging out with his cat. Originally from the DC area, he lives in Brooklyn.

Russ has over 15 years of experience in traffic safety, public policy, advocacy, communications, strategic planning, and association program, meeting, and training management. He is a national expert on behavioral aspects of traffic safety. Prior to joining CS, Russ was Senior Director of Policy and Government Relations at the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), where he represented GHSA's state and territorial highway safety office members on the national level and supported the implementation of impactful state and local traffic safety programs. Russ also served at AAA National where he helped AAA's network of motor clubs advocate to improve state traffic safety laws and initiatives. Throughout his career, Russ has partnered with a constellation of policymakers, advocates, government agencies, insurers, automakers, tech companies, criminal justice and public health authorities, researchers, engineers, and other stakeholders to improve transportation for all and prevent crashes, deaths and injuries on our roads.

Interests & Hobbies

Russ lives in Northern Virginia and enjoys listening to and making music, visiting bookstores, cooking at home, and spending time with family.

Mark is a Senior Assoicate at Cambridge Systematics with expertise in Travel Demand Model application and development, transit ridership forecasting, discrete choice models, and toll road studies. Mark has been involved in a wide variety of projects since he began his transporation planning career in 2005, many of them utilizing his background in applied math and statistics.

Interests & Hobbies

In his free time, Mark enjoys playing his electric and acoustic guitars, running, hiking, playing board games, and spending time with his 12-year-old daughter Allison (with two Ls) and his partner Alison (with one L).

Dalia has 15 years of experience planning for the future of multimodal mobility. Her work focuses on transit planning and analysis, travel demand forecasting, and planning for emerging transportation technologies and their impacts on travel behavior and the built environment. Dalia has worked extensively for agencies across the country, particularly around the Washington DC metropolitan region. She uses her unique expertise to combine the technical areas of modeling, planning, and engineering to distill highly technical analysis to decision-makers and the public in a way that is understandable and useful. Dalia was named a Top Young Professional by ENR Mid-Atlantic in 2019.

Interests & Hobbies

Dalia lives in Washington, DC and enjoys exploring restaurants and theaters in and around the District. She is an avid traveler and is currently planning more trips than she will ever actually get to take.

Wendy has more than 19 years of experience coordinating and developing strategic proposals for state and local transportation agencies. She supports the firm's new business activities in the Western region.

Interests & Hobbies

In her free time, Wendy coaches her daughters softball team and enjoys watching her kids play baseball, hockey, soccer, and softball.

Jyoti works as a Transportation Analyst Jr I and supports Florida DOT District 4 contracts held by CS, including Level of Service reporting for the Planning office and transit corridor analysis for the Modal Development office as well as resilience projects across Florida.

Interests & Hobbies

In his spare time, Jyoti likes to play soccer, and tennis. Jyoti also enjoys hiking, watching movies, and trying different cuisines.

Analyzed and reviewed RFPs from various US public sector entities, including government agencies and educational institutions.  Created well-structured and compliant written responses to public sector RFPs, addressing all mandatory requirements, technical specifications, and evaluation criteria.

Interests & Hobbies

In her free time, Cynthia enjoys playing pickleball, hiking, cooking, and watching documentaries.

David Ferreira has more than 30 years of corporate and consulting experience across a wide range of industries, companies and business cycles. He has held senior positions at GE, KPMG, and Beneficial; founded Back Bay Consulting; and most recently served as Chief Administrative Officer for Abt Associates. His primary focus has been helping companies grow and improve performance through roles in business strategy and planning, organizational assessment and talent management. Earlier in his career Mr. Ferreira worked as a Prosecutor for the Massachusetts Attorney General and a Public Defender for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Social Venture Partners and is a past board member of the Harvard Medical School Bio-Medical Science Career Program, the American Financial Services Association, and the Somerville New Jersey Home for Temporarily Displaced Children. Mr. Ferreira received a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Michigan, a Master’s in Law from the University of Amsterdam, a Juris Doctorate from New England Law, and a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University.

Isabel is a Principal at Cambridge Systematics (CS) with 25 years of experience in benefit-cost and economic impact analyses of existing and proposed transportation infrastructure and services for passenger and goods movement; statewide, regional, and urban freight planning; freight corridor analysis; supply chain and commodity flow analysis; freight performance metrics; and road safety analysis. Isabel has used both quantitative models and qualitative methods to estimate the full range of benefits from transportation improvements and related economic growth. Isabel has also led several benefit-cost analyses in support of successful grant applications for highway, freight, transit, and active transportation projects. Isabel is the Vice-Chair and Paper Review Coordinator of the TRB International Trade and Transportation Committee (AT020) and a Member of the TRB Agriculture and Food Transportation Committee (AT030).

Interests & Hobbies

I enjoy hiking, visiting museums, eating food from other countries, and drinking my morning and afternoon coffee.

Sha’Von R. Terrell is an Analyst Jr. II (Senior Professional) with Cambridge Systematics, Inc. (CS) who holds seven years of industry experience and a master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Morgan State University. Sha’Von has technical skills in project management, fundraising, grant-writing, geographic information systems (GIS), and public speaking and presentations. Sha’Von also brings a variety of competencies such as fostering community partnerships, creating engaging alliances within the historically marginalized communities as well as building and preserving relationships across sectors of nonprofit, Government, and faith institutions.

Interests & Hobbies

Sha'Von enjoys gardening, exploring local trails, and traveling.