Freight & Logistics Committee

Purpose:

To address all types of intermodal freight transportation, including rail-water, rail-highway, highway- water, and highway-air modal combinations. All aspects that impact freight movement, such as rates, routes, services, transfer facilities, and containers are considered. The purpose of the committee is to advance the art and science of civil engineering by: (1) promoting the civil engineer's leading role in intermodal transportation, (2) disseminating information regarding state of the art technology as applicable to intermodal transportation, (3) fostering education and research in intermodal matters, and (4) collaborating with other technical committees of the Society and with multimodal committees of other organizations.

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Meet the chair

Sushant Sharma, Aff.M.ASCE

Dr. Sushant Sharma is a Asst. Program Manager and Research Scientist in the Multimodal Freight Program of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), Texas A&M University, College Station, USA. He has 17 years of experience and expertise in freight mobility, planning, modeling, network modeling, travel demand modeling, big-data analysis, and traffic operations.

At Texas A&M Transportation Institute, he is responsible for the in assisting with direction and management of the Multimodal Freight Program, which includes the supervision, planning, administration, evaluation, and implementation of the program's research functions. These duties include project and program management.

Dr. Sharma has led or worked on numerous research and consulting projects sponsored by Federal Highway Administration, National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), USDOT's University Transportation Centers, and State DOTs in the US. He closely assists state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) with their specific applied research needs and works on numerous state and federal research projects.

Dr. Sharma has published a book chapter, more than 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, and 27 technical/research reports on topics such as freight modeling, safety, real-time traffic operations, network modeling, travel forecasting, evacuation, GIS data integration, and transit asset management.

Dr. Sharma is an Associate Editor of Transportation Research Records and serves as a reviewer and subject matter expert for nearly all transportation research-related journals.

Dr. Sharma is a recognized expert in freight planning and logistics at both the national and international levels. Nationally, he serves as Chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Freight and Logistics Planning and Modeling Committee (AT012). From 2020 to 2025, he chaired the TRB Freight Transportation Planning and Logistics Committee (AT015) and contributed as a member to several other TRB committees. Internationally, he leads the Freight Transport Modeling Group within the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS).

Under his leadership, the TRB committee received consecutive Blue Ribbon Awards in 2023 and 2024 for advancing research into practice and broadening committee representation. In recognition of his contributions, Dr. Sharma was also honored with the Best Researcher Award from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) in 2023.