Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Chambers Hall | Evanston, IL
The Northwestern University Transportation Center (NUTC) is one of the world’s leading interdisciplinary education and research institutions, serving industry, government and the public sectors. Founded in 1954 to generate substantive and enduring contributions for the better movement of materials, people, energy, and information, NUTC stands at the forefront of transportation research and education. NUTC brings together academic researchers, students and business transportation policy, management and technological developments with the goal of making transportation and supply chain operations
Welcome to the 2025 class of Transportation Center Fellows
The Northwestern University Transportation Center Fellows program recognizes impactful contributions to the transportation profession in research, policy, practice or education, and special connections to the Transportation Center and Northwestern University.
and values embodied in this special recognition .
Chandra Bhat
For outstanding contributions to transportation scholarship, education and professional leadership on a global scale
For national leadership in operations planning and urban mobility in America’s largest transit agencies
Susan Hanson
For pioneering contributions to the geography of transportation, to the quality of transportation research, and to interdisciplinary collaboration
Kimon Prossaloglou
For bringing both science and ethical responsibility to the practice of travel demand forecasting across a variety of modes
Paul Schneider
For leadership in the logistics industry and dedication to the mission of Northwestern and the Transportation Center
Transportation Center Fellows
Chandra Bhat
Engineering, University Distinguished
Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Transportation Systems at Northwestern in systems analysis and transportation planning. He also has served there as the Associate Chairman of the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, and the Director of the Center for Transportation Research. He is currently serving as the Director of the US Department of Transportation’s National University Transportation Center on Travel Behavior and Demand. Dr. Bhat is areas of travel behavior analysis and travel demand modeling. His methodological works in statistics and econometrics are widely referenced in multiple disciplinary fields, and have been included
of many awards, including, most recently, the 2024 W.N. Carey, Jr. Distinguished Service Award from the Transportation Research Board (TRB). His former students are now leaders in the travel modeling field, and many have received national-level dissertation/thesis awards under Dr. Bhat’s tutelage. Dr. Bhat currently serves as the
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)
rail and bus system in the DC region. He codirects Metro’s Better Bus Network Redesign (to be implemented this June). The first region-wide bus system rethink in decades, it improves service to
customers without adding agency resources and builds upon recent efforts to improve key bus and rail frequencies to win back ridership.
subways and buses. He directed the planning and environmental studies for the Second Avenue Subway (the first new rail line built benchmarking relationships, leveraging them to introduce modern training program to engage, develop and retain talented newer
Clark University
Clark University, is an urban geographer with interests in transportation, gender and economy, local labor markets, and the relationship between the urban built environment and people’s to opportunity, and how gender affects access, have been paramount. Her publications include Ten Geographic Ideas that Changed the
of the Association of American Geographers, Urban Geography, and Economic Geography and has been the geography editor of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1st and 2nd editions. She has led the School of Geography at Clark, served as president of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), and is a former Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of the Honors Award and of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the AAG and 2000 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Susan Hanson
Kimon Proussaloglou
Systematics
Systematics (CS) where he currently serves
University where he worked with Frank Koppelman on research for commuter rail
Kimon led the CS Modeling and Analytics business line for over 12 years designing and implementing customized data and pragmatic analysis methods. During his tenure at CS, he pioneered innovations in modeling, data and analytics solutions, and customer-driven market research. Kimon has estimated, interpreted, and applied models of traveler choice to measure and forecast urban, regional, and intercity travel patterns for planning agencies, transit operators, high speed rail agencies, and airlines. His work reflects a balance between best practice and state-of-theart methods adapted to the needs of public sector transportation agencies and private transportation companies. His research work for FHWA, TRB and the National Academy of Sciences has helped bridge the gap between academia and industry leading to the adoption of best-practice methodologies at CS and our industry.
Paul J. Schneider Managing Director, Schneider
partnerships, mergers & acquisitions, and corporate finance activities for venture capital fund investments and various
business and venture capital career, he was a corporate finance analyst for global investment banking leader Morgan Stanley & Co. Schneider has an in information systems from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh,
serves on the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University. He also serves on the corporate board of directors of Schneider, TrafficCast
