Active Transportation Committee

MEET THE CHAIR

Cong Chen, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE

Dr. Cong Chen is a research associate with ITS, Traffic Operations and Safety Program at the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) of the University of South Florida, and also works as General Manager of the Florida Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Center. His research focuses on pedestrian and bicycle safety, traffic safety and crash analysis, access management, transportation geospatial and temporal analysis, ITS and incident management, and training and workforce development. He has more than 30 peer-reviewed journal publications as well as numerous presentations at international, national, and regional conferences. He currently serves as a member for Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Safety Performance Analysis (ACS20} and Standing Committee on Bicycle Transportation (ACH20}, and a panel member for NCHRP 17-71A Proposed MSHTO Highway Safety Manual, 2nd Edition. He served as an appointed younger member of FY20-21 Board of Governors of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE} Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI} and the Chair of T&DI Younger Member Committee. He is registered professional engineer (PE) in the State of Florida, and a registered Road Safety Professional Level 1. Dr. Chen holds a bachelor's degree in Transportation Engineering and a master's degree in Highway and Railway Engineering from Tongji University, and a doctorate degree in Civil Engineering from the University of New Mexico.