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Transportation planning, engineering, and analysis

Profile Summary

Dr. Anne Dunning has built her expertise in transportation systems, advocating for a sustainable multimodal balance of pragmatic engineering and idealistic planning for the movement of people and goods. She has investigated the specific workings of all modes from airlines to pedestrians, including the multimodal integration needed for a resilient regional or global transportation system. Her work has delved into project evaluation, project economics, freight systems, rural transit, privacy, equity, resilience from incidents and disasters, and sustainability. She has conducted projects for federal, state, local, and private-sector sponsors. She has also contributed in multiple international research groups, including the Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research (NECTAR). She has explored transportation in a number of scales and contexts, such as nationwide personal transportation in relation to land use, pedestrian trip chaining in small commercial neighborhoods, the forces and trends shaping the global airline industry, and ecologically sensitive transportation for the unique context of national parks and their surrounding communities. She served as an in-residence transportation scholar for the National Park Foundation, which included contributing to the environmental impact statement for the rehabilitation of the alpine Going-to-the-Sun Road, a National Civil Engineering Historic Landmark. She also conducted research in house at Port Houston for more than a year, advancing the smooth flow of industrial freight from docks to distribution centers. Methodologically speaking, she developed particular expertise as a practitioner and teacher of advanced research design, refining research objectives and determining the best methodology to address a question at hand. She has managed and conducted major research projects using database theory, geographic information systems, statistics, surveys, and interviews. She worked closely with the big-data firm StreetLight Data to develop a statistically valid approach to using big data to identify truck origins and destinations along their routes. She has also worked closely with colleagues proffering expertise in traffic simulation and urban design. Dr. Dunning earned her doctorate in civil engineering in 2005 under Michael Meyer at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She earned tenure in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at Clemson University and continued her academic career at the University of Kansas. She made a career change toward industry in 2017 to spend more than a year at Port Houston. She now acts as a freelance researcher from her farmstead outside Houston. Prior to engaging transportation planning and engineering, Anne earned a triple major from Cornell University in Russian, English, and comparative literature. Living and working in Saint Petersburg, she helped establish the first western youth hostel in Russia. Returning to America, she worked in project management for a computer systems integrator. She spent a year teaching English in Pusan, South Korea before beginning her graduate studies.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Online Privacy
• ☆ Database Management
• ☆ Engineering Economics
• ☆ Civil Engineering
• ☆ Urban Planning & Development
• ☆ Transportation
• ☆ Traffic Engineering
• ☆ Geographic Information Systems
• ☆ Regional Planning & Development
• ☆ Social Science & Humanities
• ☆ Public Policy & Administration
• ☆ Land Use Planning
• ☆ Social Ethics
• ☆ Rural Development
• ☆ Research
• ☆ Research Methodology
• ☆ Sustainable Development
• ☆ Socioeconomics

Services

• Research
• Data & AI

Research Fact Checking, Systematic Literature Review

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization

Work Experience

Manager of Modeling and Analytics

Port Houston

February 2017 - June 2018

Associate Professor

University of Kansas

August 2011 - January 2017

Associate Professsor

Clemson University

June 2004 - August 2011

Education

Ph.D. (Civil Engineering)

Georgia Institute of Technology

- May 2005

Master of City Planning (City Planning)

Georgia Institute of Technology

- 1998

Master of Science (Civil Engineering)

Georgia Institute of Technology

- 1998

BA / triple major (English, Russian, and Comparative Literature)

Cornell University

- 1992

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Dunning, A., Dey, K.C., Chowdhury, M.(2016). Review of state DOTs policies for overweight truck fees and relevant stakeholders' perspectives. Journal of Infrastructure Systems. 22. (3).

Dey, K.C., Chowdhury, M., Wiecek, M.M., Dunning, A.(2015). Infrastructure damage-cost-recovery fee for overweight trucks: Tradeoff analysis framework. Journal of Transportation Engineering. 141. (7). p. 04015008.

Fries, R., Chowdhury, M., Dunning, A.(2012). Applying dynamic traffic assignment in modeling permit-restricted parking utilizing microscopic traffic simulation . SIMULATION. 88. (8). p. 936-947.

Fries, R.N., Dunning, A.E., Chowdhury, M.A.(2011). University traveler value of potential real-time transit information . Journal of Public Transportation. 14. (2). p. 29-50.

Moreland, K., Ogle, J., Chowdhury, M.R., Dunning, A.(2011). Transit-system evaluation process: From planning to realization . ITE Journal (Institute of Transportation Engineers). 81. (10). p. 33-39.

Sturm, J., Chowdhury, M., Dunning, A., Ogle, J.(2011). Analysis of cost estimation disclosure in environmental impact statements for surface transportation projects . Transportation. 38. (3). p. 525-544.

Fries, R., Chowdhury, M., Dunning, A.(2008). Transportation security framework for a medium-sized city . European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research. 8. (1). p. 1-16.

BOOK

Dunning, A.(2015). Helping gateway communities embrace alternative transportation . Sustainable Transportation in Natural and Protected Areas. p. 261-274.

O'Brien, J., Dunning, A.(2014). Community rideshare for a small city: Preliminary results for the Lawrence, Kansas, OnBoard prototype program . Transportation Research Record. 2469. p. 32-40.

Myers, J.S., Dunning, A.(2011). The relationship between megaregions and megapolitans: Transportation planning for the two scales . Transportation and Economic Development Challenges. p. 16-40.

Larkins, K.E., Dunning, A.E., Ridout, J.S.(2011). Accessible transportation and the built environment on college campuses . Transportation Research Record. (2218). p. 88-97.

Fries, R., Chowdhury, M., Dunning, A., Gahrooei, M.R.(2010). Evaluation of real-time parking information . Transportation Research Record. (2189). p. 1-7.

Dunning, A.E., Oswalt, J.L.(2007). Train wreck and chlorine spill in Graniteville, South Carolina transportation effects and lessons in small-town capacity for no-notice evacuation . Transportation Research Record. (2009). p. 130-135.

Mattox III, J.H., Sarasua, W.A., Ogle, J.H., Eckenrode, R.T., Dunning, A.(2007). Development and evaluation of speed-activated sign to reduce speeds in work zones . Transportation Research Record. (2015). p. 3-11.

Boyles, B., Brinton, E., Dunning, A., Mathias, A., Sorrell, M.(2006). Native American transit current practices, needs, and barriers . Transportation Research Record. (1956). p. 103-110.

Dunning, A.E.(2005). Impacts of transit in national parks and gateway communities . Transportation Research Record. (1931). p. 129-136.

CONFERENCE PAPER

Fries, R.F., Dunning, A., Chowdhury, M., Robinson, G.(2008). Path to its architecture for a rural university campus . 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and ITS America Annual Meeting 2008. 7. p. 4728-4740.

Mattox III, J.H., Sarasua, W.A., Ogle, J.H., Eckenrode, R.T., Dunning, A.E.(2007). Development and evaluation of a speed-activated sign to reduce speeds in work zones . Institute of Transportation Engineers Annual Meeting and Exhibit 2007. 2. p. 1152-1170.