Patricia Mokhtarian

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Patricia Lyon Mokhtarian is an American civil engineer and transport economist, the Clifford and William Greene, Jr. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech, [1] and professor emerita of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Davis. [2] Her research focuses on travel behavior, and the effects of land use and telecommuting on personal travel choices. [1]

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Education and career

Mokhtarian completed a Ph.D. in 1981 at Northwestern University. Her dissertation, Time-Dependent Structural Equations Modeling of the Relationship between Attitudes and Discrete Choice Behavior of Transportation Consumers, was supervised by Frank Koppelman. [3]

She was a regional planner and consultant in Southern California before taking a faculty position at the University of California, Davis in 1990. In 2013 she retired as professor emerita, and moved to Georgia Tech. [4] She was the Susan G. and Christopher D. Pappas Professor at Georgia Tech for five years, beginning in 2016, [5] before being named as the Clifford and William Greene, Jr. Professor in 2021. [4]

Recognition

In 2021, the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research gave Mokhtarian their Lifetime Achievement Award. [4] Mokhtarian was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024, "for improved transportation systems planning and practice through quantifying human behavior". [6]

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References

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  2. "Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Ph.D.", People, UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, retrieved 2024-02-17
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